NYU President John Sexton, Training Navy SEALs, and Education in America

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 8, 2013

John Sexton, president of NYU, explains why baseball is more than a game.  Lieutenant Commander Rorke Denver talks about training Navy SEALs. Jamie Quatro discusses her debut collection of stories, in I Want to Show You More. And Sarah Carr discusses education in 21st-century America and in New Orleans.

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