Honor, sympathy and solidarity.

Submitted by Cliff Alles-Curie in Owashtinong-Aajigaaning,
on 12/21/2008

Blessings to you and your family as you have bestowed blessings upon us. I understand you have also lost your compan~era and it is with teary-eyed sympathy that I send our condolences and best wishes. The Odawa have taught me that the spirit has a four day journey to the next lands and it is, of course, a time for honored remembrance, life and future life. Carol and you have actively worked to ensure a better and more sustainable future and we honor both of you and - as Cynthia Peters put it about the East Timorese - will learn that we are all leaders with experiences, insights who know what we have to do. My children know of you as an honored elder. I am happy to know we/I am going where we will all end up going: in this life and in 77 generations.

(Kent County, Michigan)
Turtle Island

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In 1949, he married linguist Carol Schatz. They remained married for 59 years until her death from cancer in December 2008. The couple had two daughters, Aviva (b. 1957) and Diane (b. 1960), and a son, Harry (b. 1967).

Chomsky received his PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He conducted part of his doctoral research during four years at Harvard University as a Harvard Junior Fellow. In his doctoral thesis, he began to develop some of his linguistic ideas, elaborating on them in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures, his best-known work in linguistics dallas homes for sale.

Chomsky joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1955 and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy). From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and in 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor. As of 2008, Chomsky has taught at MIT continuously for 53 years.

We can show him honor not
02/15/2010 — meryleu089

We can show him honor not sympathy. Excellent post.

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