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...Steve Mason is ready for death. Since last December, the 65-year-old writer has kept four small bottles of clear liquid Nembutal-- a lethal dose of barbiturates--in his Ashland, Ore., condominium. And at some point in the next few months, when terminal lung cancer has spread to his liver or brain, when his breath is short and he feels too sick to eat or sleep, he will pick a day to gather close friends and family about him. He will give away his belongings and say his goodbyes. "It will be a celebration of life," Mason predicts...
Tsang, who participated in KSG’s Mason Fellows Program, is said to espouse both economic values and Confucian ideals...
...took all the number-crunching courses, macroeconomics, microeconomics...the important thing was to improve life in a material sense,” said former classmate and Mason Fellow, Mohan Guruswamy. “He valued communitarian values more than individual freedoms...he used to tell me that the Indian system spent too much time on individual liberties, that it needed more discipline...
According to the KSG website, the Mason Fellows Program “is designed to prepare demonstrated leaders from developing, newly industrialized, and transitional countries to address the world’s most compelling development challenges,” and it includes an impressive lists of alums...
...Former Mason Fellows include Elbegdori Tsakhia, Prime Minister of Mongolia, LeeHsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore, Frank Chikane, executive head of the presidency and secretary of the Cabinet in South Africa, as well as leaders within development banks, humanitarian aid programs, ministry departments, embassies, national assemblies, state bureaus, and other organizations which facilitate growth...