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...summit may not live up to its hype; few such gatherings do. But it is not unreasonable to see the meeting in Kuala Lumpur as a punctuation mark in the 60-year-long progress of Asia. The leaders of the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet together with those of Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand - and China. The U.S will not be present. Some of the more breathless commentary on the summit sees parallels to the meeting of European leaders in Messina in 1955, which laid the foundations for what has become...
...past, Lee has not been shy about singling out those nations (the Philippines has been a favorite target) in which an excess of democracy's messiness - as he might put it - has tempered steady economic progress and the betterment of the life chances of ordinary folk. But the strength of his argument does not rest only on other nations' failures. Above all, it is bolstered by Singapore's success. For as any visitor can attest, the scale of what Lee and his colleagues have achieved by applying his principles - in what Singaporean academic and fiction writer Catherine Lim has described...
...Memoirs of a Geisha may be a good film [Nov. 21], but any culture that uses women in a patronizing way deserves to be criticized. Societies that respect women will progress; the rest will degenerate. Krishna Raman Chennai, India...
...Shall Live? In the article about a new method of screening fetuses for Down syndrome in the first trimester [Nov. 21], TIME asked, "Is a life with the syndrome worth living?" Perhaps we should think again about what Americans value. We pride ourselves on our tolerance and progress against discrimination. Yet encouragement to terminate less-than-perfect pregnancies will surely lead to more discrimination against the living handicapped. Can we praise ourselves as a nondiscriminatory society when we question whether people who are not the most highly functioning are worth saving, let alone worth tolerating or protecting? Megan Smylie Vernon...
...Representative Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, encouraged a group of students at Harvard Law School (HLS) to get involved with his progressive political vision for Ohio and the rest of the nation Saturday afternoon. The informal speech and discussion—which was hosted by the HLS Democrats and drew about 20 students—came as part of Brown’s primary campaign for a U.S. Senate race in Ohio 2006. Brown identified himself as an unapologetic progressive “ready to run a populist campaign and progressive agenda” and focused on the themes of economic...