Elias Khoury is an intellectual and writer of global renown, whose work has touched women and men across the world.

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Castro has always courted the famous -- the intellectual, the writer.

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Uriel is an intellectual star, a writer of popular books.

NEWYORKER: Learning on the Job

David Frum is a Republican intellectual and a former speech writer to President George W Bush.

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Their literary choices created trust between writer and reader, an intellectual and emotional closeness that is one of the accidental and unexpected gifts of grief.

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Another is just how in demand he was as a writer, speaker and all-around public intellectual.

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As a British, Catholic, gay writer with HIV who has morphed from a conservative intellectual to an Obama-boosting intellectual, Sullivan crosses lots of lines and has an unusually passionate following.

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