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Although historically some anarchists have advocated terrorism to achieve their ends, many have rejected violent means. "I don't think anybody in their right minds advocates violence," Noam Chomsky, a renowned linguist and an anarchist himself, says. "I think what you achieve non-violently should be defended. Of course, some people feel that the redistribution of the country's wealth is a form of violence," he adds...
Some observers disagreed. "The prize is based on an extreme interpretation of 'justice'," Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT said yesterday. The Mideast negotiations "are cutting out the rights of the Palestinians. It seems facical to award it to Begin and Sadat," he said...
Through the use of sign language and push-button computers, apes have shown they can use symbols to generalize, pose questions and express moods. These experiments contest the claims made by thinkers from Descartes to Noam Chomsky that man's uniqueness can be found in his unusual ability to think and talk in abstract terms. What is it, then, Leakey asks the reader, that makes man different? What special quality does the human brain possess...
...Professor] Noam Chomsky's equation of "thought-control" in the United States with that of the Soviet Union is only an illustration of a man whose paranoia about this country has become so acute that it has pushed his judgment over the edge of rational boundaries...
...Thought-control" is as widespread in the United States as in the Soviet Union, Noam Chomsky, a world-famous linguistic theorist, told an audience of 60 freshmen at the Union yesterday evening...