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...Minister. Goh's continued presence may reassure some Singaporeans that the changes he initiated won't be rolled back. In fact, says Cherian George, author of the book Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation, those who are worried that they could lose relatively new freedoms such as the right to chew gum, watch risqu? movies or dance on bar tops are missing the point. Although Goh did make some concessions allowing Singaporeans greater freedom in their private and public lives, says George, the space for political discourse?for example, the influence of opposition parliamentarians?has if anything dwindled. "Individual Singaporeans...
...Booth learns how to eat boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on 'hungry ghosts' day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese
...temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment, a dentist whose recollections of wartime internment are so gruesome that Booth endures the drill without novocaine or complaint. He learns how to eat boiled beetles, chew sugarcane stalks, polish ancestral bones on "hungry ghosts" day, and speak rudimentary Cantonese. He spends long afternoons wandering around what was then a quiet city of green hills and mysterious alleys, catching geckos and digging up spent bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching...
Here are a few numbers to chew on with 14 weeks to go in the presidential campaign: a thin plurality of Americans, 49%, thinks the U.S. was wrong to go to war with Iraq. A slightly larger group, 52%, believes the country is on "the wrong track." And, by a tiny fraction more (53%), Americans have decided it's "time for someone else to be President." But despite all that, only 46% of Americans are ready to hand the job to John Kerry...
...must say that's insulting to the voters. That's like saying the voters can't walk and chew gum at the same time. They can't read about the past and draw any conclusions about the presidential elections until they digest my book. I mean, come on. I don't buy that...