Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:28:28 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
From: Stephen Chilton <schilton-AT-d.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: HAB: How relevant is the German context to America?


Before I take seriously someone making such sweeping statements
about Germans, Americans, Habermas, Chrysler, and so on, I would
like to know a bit more about that person than the initial "E".

Sincerely yours,

Steve Chilton

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|   strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but 
|   allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even 
|   encourage the more critical and dissident views.  That 
|   gives people the sense that there's free thinking going 
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|   are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of 
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|        - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and 
|           foreign policy critic (passed along by Seneca 
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|           _Manufacturing Consent_)
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