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Comparing Trayvon Martin, O.J. Simpson Cases

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Originally published on Sun April 22, 2012 8:23 pm

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GUY RAZ, HOST:

On Friday, TV audiences got their first taste of the media frenzy that could come with a televised Trayvon Martin trial when a Florida judge granted bail to George Zimmerman. That decision, whether to televise or not, has yet to be made.

Writer John McWhorter thinks it would be a very good thing. And in the latest issue of The New Republic, he argues that it could become a bookend to another famous and racially charged trial: the O.J. Simpson case.

3:02 pm

Sun April 22, 2012

France's Sarkozy Faces Election Runoff

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Originally published on Sun April 22, 2012 8:23 pm

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GUY RAZ, HOST:

It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist rival Francois Hollande were the top vote-getters in the first round of the French presidential election today. They'll head to a runoff on May 6. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley in Paris sent us this report.

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12:21 pm

Sun April 22, 2012

India: A Country In The Midst Of Change

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Akash Kapur has written for such publications as The Atlantic, The Economist and The New Yorker. He also penned the "Letter from India" column for the International Herald Tribune.

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Originally published on Sun April 22, 2012 8:23 pm

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Akash Kapur is the son of an Indian father and an American mother. In 2003, after working professionally in New York City for more than a decade, he decided to return to India. As he writes in his book, India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India, he arrived in a place he hardly recognized.

5:21 pm

Sat April 21, 2012

What's Hot On The Billboard Latin Charts

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Brazilian superstar Michel Teló is burning up Billboard's Latin Songs chart with "Ai Se Eu Te Pego."

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Originally published on Sun April 22, 2012 8:23 pm

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3:00 pm

Sat April 21, 2012

Pop Culture's 40-Year Itch

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Writer Adam Gopnik describes the idea of his latest piece in the New Yorker: that the prime source of nostalgia in popular culture is usually the period 40 years beforehand.

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