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A rising star in the evangelical movement casts aside the idea of hell.
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Stories about the lengths we go to make things right, and about what money can and cannot fix.
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Stories about people and places that have come back to life after everything seemed lost.
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Stories from the largest mass resettlement that America has seen since the Civil War, as over 400,000 people—victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Surprising stories from survivors in New Orleans.
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The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping an Indian man named Hemant Lakhani.
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Stories about getting back together with your parent, your spouse, your ... Brahman bull.
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Sons and daughters get to find out the one thing they've always wanted to know about their father.
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Stories about how easy it is for communication to go awry, and what the consequences can be after it does.
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Stories about people who end up making choices they'd rather not make, when their options begin to run out.
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Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves way in over their heads.
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An LA prosecutor thought he'd make a name for himself by taking the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys to court for obscenity.
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After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself.
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Sometimes, getting your big break isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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What life is like for American soldiers in Iraq.