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...recent article, "Watergate: A Skeptical View," radical scholar Noam Chomsky convincingly argues that Watergate is one of Nixon's lesser crimes. The affair, he maintains, has attracted extraordinary attention only because its victims were members of the powerful liberal establishment...
...Noam Chomsky, L.H.D., linguist. Shirley (Mrs. W.E.B.) DuBois, L.H.D., author...
Then there are the extraordinary costs. Many of the 30 defense witnesses have had to be flown to Los Angeles and housed, some of them two or three times (including M.I.T.'s Noam Chomsky and Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy) because courtroom delays pushed back their testimony. Though some pay their own way, as Bundy did, most cost an average...
Mead subsequently modified her views, and other anthropologists and linguists came along with different notions. Noam Chomsky contends that the way people learn languages and the structure of those languages are basically the same the world over. Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French structuralist, gathered thousands of myths from different cultures and demonstrated that beyond their great diversity were even greater similarities. At the deepest level, believes Lévi-Strauss, there is an implacable pattern ingrained in the human intellect and this pattern has not changed since primitive times...
...Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT, said last night that the role of academic scholarship in the U.S. is "to legitimize the interests of the ruling class...