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thank Noam Chomsky, as well as some of the people most intimately
familiar with his milieu, notably Sam Abramovitch, Norman Epstein,
Edward S. Herman, Seymour Melman, and Carlos P. Otero. Their
willingness to share their insights and experiences is further
testament to their unfailing commitment to the "good society." Marc
Angenot, Robert Freiden, Denise Helly, Martin Kreiswirth, Yzabelle
Martineau, Michel Meyer, and George Szanto have contributed to
broadening the scope and the value of this book. Lisa Travis and
Robert Lecker provided me with the long-awaited opportunity to discuss
the ideas it contains. Mark Achbar, Jeremy Allaire, Elaine
Brière, Jim Kelman, and Derek Rodger generously assisted me
with the difficult task of assembling the photographs. Benjamin and
Tristan offer constant inspiration. The Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada funded two years of research and writing in
the form of a postdoctoral fellowship, for which I am very
grateful. Amy Pierce of the MIT Press and Mary
Williams of ECW
PRESS undertook a careful and thoughtful edit of the
manuscript. The electronic version of this text owes its existence to a group of people who have taken the original text version of Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent and transformed it into appropriately coded bytes which withstand the test of interface and transmission across time and space. The idea was supported by MIT Press and initiated by Amy Pierce. Marney Smyth, Electronic Productions Editor at the Press's Digital Projects Lab, brought the project to life working with Ben Williams, of Blue Period. They have taken this dense text into a space which allows it to breath and to signify in deceptively clear and concrete ways. The University of Western Ontario has been generous in providing the resources required to develop the evolving laboratory to which this site is linked, and which will serve as the space within which a new project on Zellig Harris is being elaborated. Lastly, my thanks to Terry Ehling, Manager of the Digital Projects Lab at the MIT Press, who has afforded the site, and its development team, a comfortable and spacious electronic home. For this, I am most grateful.
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