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This week: "The Cruelty of Children." Stories about kids being mean to each other. David Sedaris is the loudest and meanest until he goes to summer camp. Author and kindergarten teacher Vivian Paley tells the story of an experiment she conducted in her classroom to make children less cruel. And a fictional story from Ira Sher.
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This American Life David Sedaris DJs a set on KCRW's Guest DJ Project -- tunes, show download and transcript at their site:
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Author and This American Life contributor David Sedaris has a deep emotional connection with the music he listens to, often imagining himself in the role of
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This week: "Going Big." Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.
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This week: "Arms Trader 2009." The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping a man named Hemant Lakhani, whom they suspected of being an illegal arms dealer. In the end, they got Lakhani, red-handed, delivering a missile to a terrorist in New Jersey. The only problem was, nothing in the sting was wh...at it appeared to be. Including the missile.
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This week: Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter — and sets out to prove it. This and other stories about the pitfalls of making snap judgments about others.
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The This American Life crew, once again proving that they can cover any topic they want better than anyone else in the media,* has a segment in this weekend’s episode on rescission of health insurance ...
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This week: Stories where reading the fine print—and obeying it—changes everything, whether you read it or not.
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This week: "Pro Se." It's tempting to act as your own lawyer, to argue your own cause. Who better to defend your position than you? This week, stories of pro se defenses: some brilliant, some disastrous.
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