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...country has suffered through 30 years of war, although the alleged participation of his brother in the Kandahar-province opium trade and the utter corruption of the Afghan civil service don't help his reputation much. Zardari has no excuse at all: his country has a brilliant, educated intelligentsia and governing class, but it has been entirely unable to provide the rudiments of civil society to the Pakistani masses, a remarkable indictment. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...alleged high-impact players involved in violent gang activity. This is important because of the potential for the work of the council to violate the civil rights of young people the overwhelming majority of whom will Black and poor. It is crucial that Harvard’s Black intelligentsia no longer permit the usual suspects of the criminal justice industry to control the policy discourse on questions of public safety that so disproportionately affect poor Black people. The Boston Foundation’s current twenty-six million dollar Street Safe initiative, led by Robert Lewis Jr., presents an excellent opportunity...
...conservative intelligentsia are speaking up now about reforming the party on a national scale,” Bolduc says. “Republicans are going to have to think about ‘How do we win back people who work with their brains...
...elite education, Deresiewicz wrote in the article, are that it makes students incapable of interacting with people unlike them, and that it instills a false sense of self-worth in them. He wrote that the biggest failure of elite education is that it is self-perpetuating, preventing the American intelligentsia from evolving. Despite being promoted as a debate, after briefly introducing themselves, the two undergraduates—Elise X. Liu ’11 and Jeffrey J. Phaneuf ’10—ceded the floor to Deresiewicz, who spoke for around 40 minutes on the shortcomings of elite...
...involved giraffes, which made their production quite expensive. The ringmaster of the London Circus—that weaselly little degenerate!—drove a hard bargain. He felt, however, that the leopard allowed for a much higher degree of metaphorical coherence. London’s aristocratic intelligentsia would fall to their knees at the unveiling. It would be his masterpiece.On the pedestal, The Stable Boy stifled his boredom. It was the fifth modeling he had done since the Viscount and Viscounta wess had left for Italy, leaving him in a rage of frustration and financial desperation. In order...