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March 30, 2007
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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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