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...future, of reverting back to the bad old days." Those "bad old days" were, of course, the first 25 years of 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...
...elder Lee remains in his son's Cabinet with the newly invented post of Minister Mentor. The grand old man himself recognizes that Singapore has to change, repeatedly stressing the need for a more open, risk-friendly environment to encourage entrepreneurship. "We need a cultural change and it can't be bureaucratized," he told TIME last year, or else "we'll come a cropper." Meanwhile, ex-PM Goh will take over Lee's former title (and No. 2 position in protocol) of Senior Minister. Goh's continued presence may reassure some Singaporeans that the changes he initiated...
...close relatives were nearby the nursing home when your aunt died, a will might not have been previously found. "Someone had to know there was a will," says Steve Burkett, an attorney in elder law and estate planning in Cherry Hill, N.J., who believes many such wills never surface...
...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 a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities. Yet the innocent idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates...
...elder two girls knew the show by heart. As the curtain rose slightly, revealing three dozen pairs of shapely legs and happy feet, Diana whispered to Mary, ?Julian Marsh is putting on a show!? - the play?s first line. As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors? gestures. At intermission, Diana strode into the aisle and did an expert tap routine - no small accomplishment, considering that she was barefoot. The theatergoers applauded her as vigorously as Mary and I had at home. A star was born...