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...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 in a lengthy essay published in the Straits Times in May. There is no effective political opposition to the PAP, and few voices prepared to speak out in favor of wider democratic debate. "I think [Lee] taught us fear," says theater director Ong Keng Sen. Lim argues that the stress on order and discipline...
...Search for Respect In his essay "What the Uprising Generation Wants," Charles Krauthammer wrote about the alienated young Arabs in France and their prospects for assimilation and success [Nov. 21]. I was startled by his assertion that France needs "to undertake the kind of self-reformation that America did in the 1960s, when it finally began welcoming African Americans into mainstream society." Is he forgetting the 1960s riots, led by unemployed and disenfranchised blacks, that engulfed the U.S.? I don't call that self-reformation. When black people took to American streets, they finally got a little respect. I suspect...
...medicines, even at the risk of her own life. It is good for her to be recognized as the Global Health hero she truly is. I appreciate her efforts and those of all the others fighting hard to eradicate dangerous diseases. Uche Iwuamadi Lagos Bono's expectant and optimistic essay on how to fight disease in poor countries set just the right tone. In the '80s and '90s, TV commercials depicting dirty, hungry children were detrimental to aid work abroad. Instead of rousing Americans into action, such images made them feel powerless. Work on improving health in the developing world...
...Marissa’s all like “Oh no…I can’t go to college…I shot someone,” Ryan and Johnny tell her that she should go see a counselor, she sees the counselor, she writes a college essay, she throws it away, Johnny changes his mind and confirms Marissa’s plan to not go to college, he gets hit by a car and Ryan’s sort of to blame, Marissa gets mad at Ryan, and then Marissa decides to go to college again...
Inside the magazine, there are 64 glossy color pages, six ads, and a sprawling, 12-page fashion spread. One article is titled “Not Quite Currier: The Living Space of Nathan Gunawan.” It’s a photo essay of sorts, depicting a boy who lives in Boston’s Ritz Carlton. “Most Harvard students go home to deteriorating buildings, marginal heating, and oftentimes haywire plumbing,” the intro text reads. “The Phoenix Club’s Nathan Gunawan drives home to his pad in none...