Chomsky, Noam
<p>Dec 06, 2012 06:08 PM</p>
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age 83 !!! (read Atlantic article) born Dec 7 1928. and still cranking it out!</p>
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world's top public intellectual in 2005. (this is NOT endorsement by me of Noam's politics;
he is an old-school leftie (but the best expositor of that stance.)</p>