Now China is one of the bank's top borrowers, and in December it became a donor, on a small scale.China may soon make a big contribution to the bank's intellectual ranks.
His findings, an intellectual's list of who's in and who's out, has been keeping the natterati busy -- especially the already notorious Table 5.3, a list of the top 100 public intellectuals, ranked by media mentions.
New York, the nation's intellectual capital, ranked a mediocre 29th and Los Angeles an even worse 37th.
Training related to 'Advancing children's physical and intellectual development' ranked the third highest for number of courses (N = 24) and the second highest in number of course hours (N = 34) (see Table 3).
Without hyperbole, no postwar intellectual of the first rank has done more good for more people – above all, many of the world's poorest - than Amartya Sen. The first Asian to head an Oxbridge college, he served as Master of Trinity from 1998 – the year he won the Nobel Prize in economics - until 2004.
In BusinessWeek's Best International B-Schools Of 2008, Desautels was ranked among the top 16 international business schools, ranking fourth in intellectual capital with a selectivity of 32%.
That work assured Kūkai a leading rank among the intellectual figures of Japanese Buddhism.
So for that reason writers in Russia were the front rank of an intellectual class.
But it may also be that a man who was brave enough to point his Swift Boat into enemy fire is, in intellectual terms, unwilling to break ranks.
For starters, it would have exalted the very notion of an independent filmmaker as a process-oriented filmmaker, of a political filmmaker as a personal filmmaker — and of a black filmmaker as a sophisticated aesthete and a master of complexity, as an intellectual artist of the first rank.
