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March 30, 2007

U.K. Detainee Appears on Iranian Video

We’ll have the latest on the standoff between Britain and Iran. Iran released a video tape today showing one of the captured British sailors.

Living with Urban Violence

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Reporter David Boeri moves into an apartment in one of the most violence plagued areas of Boston.

“Killadelphia”

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At the end of last year 406 people had been murdered in Philadelphia, a rate that the city it is on track to surpass by the end of this year.

Last Letters Home

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Newsweek publishes some of the last letters home from soldiers killed in Iraq.

College Hoops

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It is down to the last few couples on the dance floor in the men’s and women’s Final Four in college basketball this weekend. Only A Game’s Bill Littlefield gives us his take.

“Mortified”

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Producer Kevin Sullivan attends a production where people read the letters and journal entries they wrote when they were teenager.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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