He asked, "What about tomorrow night?" Mr. Kulin had what he calls a "five- to seven-point checklist" that included sociability, looks, intelligence, culture and background.
The disregard of the Belgian political world for intelligence and the lack of an intelligence culture have allowed terrorist groups to proliferate.
Defending his office against critics, some of them senior lawmakers, Mr. Negroponte said the intelligence reforms had not been an "exercise in bureaucratic bloat" but an effort to create an intelligence culture that "closes the breach in our defenses" that were revealed by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Whatever philosophy one might think has guided Big Three admissions (WASP legacies, jocks, intelligence, culture or character, and I am sure that they all play a role), it is comforting to know that ability to pay has not been a factor for many years.
Henry Siegman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who has promoted peace between Israelis and Arabs for almost four decades, said today, "When I hear a woman of Suha Arafat's intelligence, culture and standing in the Palestinian community condone suicide attacks, I fear that for Israelis and Palestinians the goal is no longer security or the creation of a state, but vengeance".
By letting NSA show DHS the ropes, the government is taking the risk that NSA will import too much of that intelligence culture along with its security expertise.
We loved his humor, his stories, his intelligence, his culture.
News organizations throughout the world must join hands in seeking justice for Saleem and ending the intelligence agencies' culture of impunity.
They are wines that require intelligence, experience, culture, patience and time, all elements so different from the simple, fast appreciation of wine today".
If intelligence and culture are by-products of increasing complexity in organisms, this raises the interesting question of what other forms of comedy have evolved out there.
If you say you don't like it, that means you don't understand it; your intelligence and culture are called into question.
