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...Singapore's history when it was helmed by Lee senior. Singapore then had some of the world's highest economic-growth rates, but critics of the elder Lee claimed that he tried to control virtually every aspect of life in Singapore and was intolerant of even the mildest political dissent...
...public lives, says George, the space for political discourse?for example, the influence of opposition parliamentarians?has if anything dwindled. "Individual Singaporeans are far more vocal and are getting their views across to the government much more. But the minute they appear to represent some kind of organized dissent, then it's back to the old days...
...think he’s got a very steep path up the hill because the three judges who decided this case for us were unanimous,” he said. “There wasn’t a dissent or wasn’t a concurrent opinion...
...Given the acrimony, the U.N.'s decision to delay the conference may turn out to be farsighted. And while Iraqis have a long way to go before they see the actual fruits of democracy, there is in all the jostling, jockeying and dissent the stirrings of political change. Though some Iraqi officials criticized the delay?"It is time for the U.N. to get off its goddam high horse," groused one?others saw the chaos and confusion as a positive sign. "I don't consider the delay a failure, but a success," says Sayyid Ayaad Jumaluddin...
...that may not last. A senior Thompson adviser, Donald Henderson--who ran the World Health Organization program that eradicated smallpox worldwide in the 1970s--told TIME last week that civilian inoculations are no longer necessary. "We don't need to vaccinate the first responders," he said. Top-level dissent could be the beginning of the end for the controversial program...