Word: intelligentsiae
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...Iraqi refugees and lost talent Most of those who have the means or the ability to leave the country have left. By that I mean the entire intelligentsia of the country ? doctors, architects, engineers, businessmen, people with money or with university degrees that they can use or with family connections. You had an exodus of real capital because people have left with their life savings, all of which are now sitting in banks in Jordan and Syria. And you also have a drain of intellectual capital, which is a much bigger problem. The people who've left...
...well at a newspaper in, say, the U.S., where reporters are expected to see both sides. Here reporters are expected not so much to unearth news as to find information that corroborates what everyone in the newsroom already believes: the Kremlin is bad; the security apparatus is bad; the intelligentsia is good; the Westernizers and liberals are right...
...Within our intelligentsia in the black community, you have more gay men and women,” he said. “The black community cannot do without us. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two elected mayors are black, gay, and lesbian...
Kennedy School Lecturer Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, who spoke to The Crimson on his way to campaign for Barack Obama in New Hampshire, said it was not surprising to find a liberal bias among the intelligentsia...
...resistance to the inertia of contentment is far from a flaw. Where we may seem more doubtful than other countries hides a deeper, stubborn idealism. Even among the intelligentsia, very few are willing to man the barricades of revolution when disillusioned, or even to pack up and leave. Even amid widespread grumbling and malcontent, we observe levels of flag-waving usually only seen in the personality cult of a dictator. And while we constantly revise our views of our own Founding Fathers, mourning their unfortunate vices (such as slave-holding), they are still almost deified in our schools...