Longtime late night producer Peter Lassally tells Scott Simon that being interviewed for NPR is a "big, frightening experience." "I'm not a performer," he says. "I'm a quiet person who doesn't like to blow his own horn."
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Getnet Marsha, a shoeshiner in Charlotte, N.C., fled Ethiopia on foot when he was 14. He began shining shoes after coming to the U.S. as a political refugee in 1992.
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