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<p><a name=chomsky></a><b><u><font size=2 color=red face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:red;font-weight:bold'>UPDATE</span></font></u></b><b><font
size=2 color=red face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:red;font-weight:bold'>: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>A minute of
silence will be observed in memory of late PM Rafic Hariri. Please attend and
show your support. A cross-institutional meeting will follow to discuss larger-scale
response to assassination incident.</span></i></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><u><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";font-weight:bold'>February 15th<font color="#cc3300"><span
style='color:#CC3300'> | </span></font>Prof Noam Chomsky</span></font></u></b><b><font
size=2 color="#cc3300" face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#CC3300;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><font
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<b><i><font color="#cc3300"><span style='color:#CC3300;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria</span></font></i></b></span></font><b><i><font size=1 color="#cc3300"
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
color:#CC3300;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'><br>
</span></font></i></b><b><i><font size=1 color="#cc3300" face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:#CC3300;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'><br>
</span></font></i></b><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Professor Chomsky will explore the objectives
and ramifications of the US presence in the Middle East: oil, Iraq, global planning, and more. A central point of discussion will be the recent US-Syrian
confrontations. He will also comment on developments on the Palestinian-Israeli
front. A 45-minutes Q&A session will follow. The whole session is estimated
to last 90 minutes.</span></font></p>
<p><img width=130 height=163 src="cid:image004.jpg@01C5130A.7C4EB1E0"
align=left hspace=8 vspace=5><i><font size=1 color=gray face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:gray;font-style:italic'>Avram
Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an Institute Professor of linguistics
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creator of the Chomsky
hierarchy, a classification of formal languages. His works in generative
linguistics contributed significantly to the decline of behaviorism and led to
the advancement of the cognitive sciences. Outside of his linguistic work,
Chomsky is also widely known for his radical left-wing political views and his
criticism of the foreign policy of U.S. governments. Chomsky describes himself
as a libertarian socialist and a supporter of anarcho-syndicalism. The term
Chomskyan has come to be used to refer to his ideas; however, Chomsky has
described such words (Chomskyan, Marxist, Freudian...) as making "no sense
in any science" and belonging "to the history of organized
religion".<br>
</span></font></i><font size=1 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/external.html?http://www.chomsky.info"
target="_blank">More about Noam Chomsky</a> (<img border=0 width=22 height=11
src="cid:image005.gif@01C5130A.7C4EB1E0"
alt="Links to external pages will open in a new browser window"
title="Links to external pages will open in a new browser window"
align=absMiddle>)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The Lebanese Club @ MIT would like
to invite you to a <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Lecture Series on
Lebanese-Syrian Relations & Recent Developments in the Middle East</span></i>
to be held throughout February at the new Stata Center, MIT:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color=silver
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:silver'>Tuesday,
FEBRUARY 8, 2004, 7:00pm, at 32-141 (<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go"><font
color=silver><span style='color:silver'>map</span></font></a>)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
72.0pt'><b><font size=2 color=silver face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana;color:silver;font-weight:bold'><br>
“How To Understand Contemporary Syria: One Historian’s
Perspective” – <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Philip S. Khoury</span></i>,
</span></font></b><font size=2 color=silver face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:silver'>Kenan Sahin Dean of
the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Tuesday, FEBRUARY 15, 2004, at
7:00pm, at 32-123 (<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go">map</a>)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'><br>
“The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria” – <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Noam Chomsky,</span></i></span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>
Institute Professor of Linguistics at MIT</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
Tuesday, FEBRUARY 22, 2004, at 7:00pm, at 32-141 (<a
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32&Buildings=go">map</a>)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'><br>
“Lebanese-Syrian Relations: An Insider's Perspective” – <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Adib Farha,</span></i></span></font></b><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'> Advisor of late
Lebanese PM Rafic Hariri and Professor of Economics at LAU, Lebanon</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
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Due to limited seating capacity, please plan to arrive around 15 minutes early.
Attendance is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.<br>
<br>
For more information about the event (lecture abstracts, speaker bios, &
venue location), please visit:<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/events/upcoming.html">http://web.mit.edu/lebanon/www/events/upcoming.html</a><br>
<br>
We apologize if you receive this email in error more than once; expect a
reminder before each talk with the speaker’s bio and lecture abstract.<br>
<br>
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Hope to see you there!<br>
Lebanese Club @ MIT</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><br>
<b><u><font color=red><span style='color:red;font-weight:bold'>UPDATE</span></font></u><font
color=red><span style='color:red'>: <i><span style='font-style:italic'>A minute
of silence will be observed in memory of late PM Rafic Hariri. Please attend
and show your support. A cross-institutional meeting will follow to discuss
large-scale response to assassination incident.</span></i></span></font></b></span></font></p>
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