An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane, and pursues the obscure.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

The Habre case is more worrying for African leaders as it is more universal in its implications. They will find it a very difficult decision.

The ATM news scenario, ... could complement computerized radio stations. The government, corporations, and public relations types will be able to deposit or withdraw news anytime day or night in a slot at the front of the building. In the back, consumers could punch up whatever they fancied. There would be no need for human beings inside the building -- if you consider reporters human beings.

All of them told me they were asked to destroy certain records. And they did.

It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.