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...linguistics professor Noam Chomsky expressed his views on relations between Israelis and Palestinians as well as the role of the United States in the Middle East last night to an overflowing audience at Harvard's Yenching Library...
...main event of the evening was the premiere of a new saxophone sonata by Harbison, performed by Ian Carroll '97, with Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies. The sonata, titled "San Antonio," was the most attractive of the three works performed, incorporating Latin dance rhythms and some of the jazz effects usually associated with the saxophone; as Harbison's program notes indicate, the three-movement work recalls an actual dance party upon which the composer stumbled while in San Antonio...
What is more surprising is that Dennett alsotakes on eminent scientists like Steven Jay Gould,Noam Chomsky and Roger Penrose, each of whomattempts to introduce some kind of skyhook thatwill put a halt to the evolutionary explanation ofhuman capabilities. The nature of Dennett'sdisagreement with his foes is often obscure, andthere is such a flurry of names and citations thatthe inattentive reader will probably begin to justtake Dennett's word for it. What it all comes downto is that Dennett sees Darwin's dangerousidea--that everything from consciousness to ethicscan be explained by the function of naturalselection over time...
...anti-Semitic. After 10 years, I am still vilified as a bigoted Italian, though neither of my parents came form that country. It shows the extent of deceptions employed by Foxman and his though police. For a lengthy description of these and other tactics to discredit critics, see Prof. Noam Chomsky's Fateful triangle. Roy Bercaw Cambridge...
...Federal spending and subsidies that qualify as corporate welfare, yet Republicans focus on reducing entitlement spending. An analysis of tax breaks granted to major corporations provides further evidence that the Federal Government's worst sin is not bankrolling a welfare state for the poor. Rather, as M.I.T. Professor Noam Chomsky points out, the Federal Government maintains a "nanny state" for the rich--providing public subsidies to fund private profits throughout the economy, from the defense industry to agribusiness...