In this 1998 interview, Berman said public education and the GI bill allowed a child of New York immigrants to become one of Minnesota's most fondly remembered professors.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro hosts a one-hour special examining the current science of climate change, how much time scientists say there is to address it, the political and economic challenges nations will face during the meeting in Paris, and what solutions might come from the United Nations summit on climate change.
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Highlights from Dan Olson's "Minnesota Sounds and Voices" series.
Included in this special are: forest ecologist AmberBeth Van Ningen, dancer Nancy Raddatz, Kathy Dummer of Blue Mounds State Park, educator Jamal Abdur Salaam, Dakota educator Sisoka Duta, jazz man Butch Thompson, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes and piper Dick Hensold with members of Messiah's Men.
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Rabbi Harold Kushner says "the longer you see yourself as a victim, the more you see other people as the enemy." He is a best-selling author and one of America's best-known religious leaders. Kushner told the audience at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis to "hold onto your integrity, no matter what it deprives you of."
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As conflict intensifies throughout the Middle East and around the world, the search continues for ways to foster greater understanding among people of different religions. You'll hear about people who are building bridges in some of the most conflict-ridden places in the world.
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Does the US criminal justice system secure equal justice for all? The latest debate motion from the Intelligence Squared series is: US prosecutors have too much power. YES: Paul Butler and Nancy Gertner. NO: David Hoffman and Reid Schar.
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BBC special broadcast from Brussels, Belgium called "World Questions: Europe After Paris." The terrorist attacks in Paris have created a new crisis on top of the ongoing mass movement of migrants. Many Europeans -- and Americans-- are linking immigration to terrorism, and are debating how refugees should be handled.
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