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This Week's Show:

Remember Me

Stories about people who are remembered very differently than they'd wished.
"Walter"

The ghost of a kindly, distinguished philanthropist supposedly plays pranks on guests at a Ramada hotel in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. A dying mother makes a tape for her retarded daughter, hoping she'll watch it someday, knowing she might not. Broadcast the weekend of February 25-27 in most places, or available via RealAudio next week.

Pictured: Philanthropist Walter Schroeder: would he really bother haunting a Ramada he didn't even like that much?

 

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Charles Monroe-Kane

People return to the scene of the crime where they should have spoken clearly, plainly, forcefully ... to review what the hell went wrong, and in a few cases, to fix it. Jonathan Goldstein tries to stop time. Charles Monroe tries to figure out how to teach a lesson to the President of the United States.

Pictured: Charles Monroe-Kane as a young, idealistic rabble-rouser who thought he could change the President of the United States' mind with one little question: Do you love whales?

 
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