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...Chinese women. They had seen that a different style of life is possible. In an oblique way, he's saying he's changed his perspective of what is possible in Chinese society. This is the new world, multiple channels of interaction with the outside world, their students in universities abroad, businessmen scouting for opportunities abroad, tourists and businessmen coming to China...
...there remains a feeling that it has come at a price. Lee's methods - which despite a deliberate attempt to soften the image of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) remain at the core of his successors' approach to governing - have found plenty of critics at home and abroad. The reaction of ordinary Singaporeans when questioned about politics or Lee and his family is telling. Without them quite knowing it, there is often an instinctive lowering of the voice and a glance over the shoulder. "People are still too frightened to talk about the taboo subjects," Catherine Lim wrote...
...what would happen if we left Iraq before the new government was ready to take over all the duties we now perform. Would the Middle East situation worsen or not? Would the U.S. be seen as weak and thereby become more vulnerable to attack both at home and abroad? We must see our mission through in Iraq. And I say this as a father whose son will be entering the Army in 2007 and could go to Iraq before the war is over. We are making progress, despite what the spineless members of both parties in Congress want to acknowledge...
...effect of Liu's writing brought him two huge waves of popularity, once in 1956 and again in the early 1980s. But his truth-telling cost him dearly. He lived 22 of his 80 years (1957-1979) in domestic exile, and another 17 years (1988-2005) in forced exile abroad. Chinese leaders ignored his requests to come home during his waning years. Why did he opt for such a life? In a 1979 speech, Liu said, "I have awoken to a hard fact: in today's China, if one speaks or writes and does not incur somebody's opposition...
...last few years of his life, teaching and traveling abroad became absolutely central to his life,” Miller said. “He would teach short courses in Germany, South America, Turkey...He was enjoying that part of his later years. It was a sad thing when his illness got to be so severe that he had to stop traveling...