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...sustained economic miracle the modern world has seen. But Koizumi's legacy now hangs in the balance. If the same self-confidence, the same belief in his own rightness that helped turn the economy around, ends up alienating Japan's neighbors for a generation, he will not easily be forgiven. And Japan will yearn once more for a political life of the stately dullness...
...forgiven for lifting his eyes to the horizon. Once the subject of withering criticism from human-rights groups for his authoritarian ways and intolerance of dissent, he is now widely acknowledged as Asia's most respected senior statesman. Others may pen lengthy memoirs and seek to use their years on the world stage to tout their punditry and powers of prediction. Some can even lay claim to having guided far larger countries or served as leaders for longer than Lee. But Lee is unique. It is not just that his cold-eyed, totally nonideological analysis has set him apart from...
...best restaurants in the world. After decades of strong economic growth, per-capita income last year was $24,220, about the same as Italy. As they trip around Asia, popping off to Bali or Perth for the weekend while dressed in Prada and Gucci, wealthier Singaporeans could be forgiven for pitying their former European masters, whose day in the sun - they will sometimes tell you - is now all but over...
...Chinese kids can be forgiven for thinking Japan is a nation of "devils," a slur used without embarrassment in polite Chinese society. They were raised to feel that way, and not just through cartoons. Starting in elementary school children learn reading, writing and the "Education in National Humiliation." This last curriculum teaches that Japanese "bandits" brutalized China throughout the 1930s and would do so today given half a chance. Although European colonial powers receive their share of censure, the main goal is keeping memories of Japanese conquest fresh. Thousands of students each day, for instance, take class trips...
Treating the candidate’s answers as mere interludes to their next opportunity to speak, Banerji and Lee could perhaps be forgiven if somewhere in the midst of the circus, they had asked illuminating questions. Instead, they welcomed us to what they dubbed “the no-bullshit zone” by asking Gadgil, “Why do you want to be vice-president?” Unsatisfied with the response elicited by Banerji, Lee shot forth subsequently, “Why are you playing second-fiddle?” As if Gadgil didn?...