[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >For myself, noting and agreeing with the assertion of the general function of >institutions like MIT in capitalist society and as instruments of expanded >reproduction of that system, a few like Noam Chomsky do slip through and >manage to survive. It was explained to me once that at MIT, Chomsky is thought of as the Einstein of linguistics, a scientific giant. His politics are marginal to that reputation - just a personality quirk I guess. Doug