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Oh faithless and perverse generation? How long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?—Matthew 17.
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Our annual program about turkeys, chickens, fowl of all types, and their mysterious hold over our imaginations.
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People struggle to invent words adequate to cope with death.
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Have mandatory minimum sentences gone too far?
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We hear the story of one African-American single mother who recorded her family's life over the course of seven months.
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Stories of people who are trying to make invisible worlds visible.
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What happens when the tension of family dynamics collides with the pressure of capitalist market forces.
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Stories of people drawn to some idea, some picture, some "thing" that they just want to be.
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We want to believe our lives can be changed by a set of ideas contained in a book.
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Through our crimes, we express who we are.
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It turns out that not falling in love, not doing our jobs, not spending time with our families is every bit as vivid and complicated an experience as doing something.
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A former pimp tells how he and three childhood friends became pimps in the 1970s in Oakland, California.
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Two do-gooders try to change things in their hometown for the better. But the more they try, the more people resent them.
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What happens if you're too good at throwing everything out and starting over?
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Stories of the lives of prisoners in the United States, and the lives of their families.