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...most villagers are hiding at home because they are frightened by the heavy riot-police presence outside. "We know that if we try to fight, it will just end in more tragedy." Meanwhile Lin's fiancee, who had been filling out paperwork for her marriage just days before the clash, doesn't quite understand why she must sequester herself from the police: "Why are they treating us like enemies when all we want is justice...
...TIME: But the U.S. is a very non-Singaporean society. It's messy and noisy, and it has turmoil. LEE: You must have contention, a clash of ideas. If Galileo had not challenged the Pope, we would still believe the world is flat, right? And Christopher Columbus might never have discovered America...
...Those who wish Asia well will hope that Singapore does so. This is not just because modern Singaporeans deserve the chance to show that they are sufficiently talented to hold their own in any clash of ideas and ideologies (which they most certainly are.) It is because Singapore's achievements, and Lee's influence, extend far beyond the shores of an island of just 700 sq km and 4 million people. Lee's little nation is a testimony to what hard work and discipline can do to improve lives. That, perhaps, is legacy enough. But what a place in history...
It’s culture-clash weekend at the box office! Wildly different movies open on the same weekend all the time, but this particular mid-holiday frame’s lineup is just plain bizarre. Obviously, a vast conspiracy is at work—a bunch of Hollywood suits sat down over a bottle of Coppola Wine and decided that Americans needed a good dose of hot-button issues. In Shakespearean tragic tones, here’s what you’ve got coming: “Something’s rotten in the State of the Middle East?...
...until the vocals jump back in halfway through and take the entire song down a deranged stream of consciousness (including sing-spat references to “the nape of my neck” and “my nipple and breast”) ending in yet another clash between the rhythm and lead sections...