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Professor Lenni Benson specializes in immigration law and political asylum and is nationally recognized in the field. In 2008 she was honored with other members of the Safe Passage Project[…]

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New York Law Professor Lenni Benson relates the anxieties of a workaholic.

Question: What keeps you up at night?

Lenni Benson: You know, I'm a workaholic, so when I stay up at night I can't say I'm worried about world peace or the global warming. I'm actually worried how am I going to get that next project off my desk. So I'm a big addict of books on tape and/or audio books, and that's when I put the audio book on and I disappear, particularly into science fiction.

Recorded on: August 31, 2009

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