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#84 - 21 November 1997
A parable of politics and race in America. The story of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, told two decades after his death. Washington died on November 25, 1987.
#83 - 14 November 1997
Stories of outsiders who want to be insiders, and vice versa.
#82 - 31 October 1997
Stories of people who are haunted, not by ghosts or phantoms, but by other people.
#81 - 24 October 1997
Americans who love their guns...and the Americans who love them.
#80 - 17 October 1997
Stories of people engaged in a battle with nature — a battle they don't stand much chance of winning. Most of the show is Scott Carrier's story of trying for twelve years to chase down and catch an antelope by foot.
#79 - 10 October 1997
People stuck in the wrong decade — or simply carrying a lot of the props from another decade. NOTE: This episode originally included a story by reporter Stephen Glass (no relation to Ira), which we have removed because of questions about its truthfulness. This story is included in the transcript only for reference.
#78 - 3 October 1997
How bad is bad enough to count? To go to hell?
#77 - 26 September 1997
Can the secular world and the religious world understand each other?
#76 - 19 September 1997
The mob as portrayed in movies, and as it is in real life. And its hold over us.
#75 - 12 September 1997
Stories of the kindness of strangers and where it leads. Also, the unkindness of strangers and where that can lead. All of today's stories take place in the city most people think of as the least kind city in America: New York.
