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...Face magazine, writing his first 100-word article in 1988 on newly fashionable Kickers shoes. After graduating, he parlayed his freelancing into a staff position and then, at 28, the editorship of Arena, The Face's sister magazine. On top of his current responsibilities, writing for the New Statesman, and working on a documentary for the bbc, he's also an editor of a fashion and ideas magazine, Tank, and a founding member of a consortium called Bug that keeps corporate clients like Sony PlayStation up to date on the latest trends. The eclectic schedule, he says, keeps him stimulated...
TIME Are you the statesman to take the initiative and break out of the cold war with...
...Singapore's Downside The TIME 100 profile of Singapore's senior statesman Lee Kuan Yew [April 18] left no doubt that he has designed and developed a modern city-state that is a role model for Asian economies. There are, however, side effects to his social engineering. The new generation of this extremely orderly city has almost forgotten human values and social obligations. Young people can't even plan to get married because of the extremely high cost of living. If married, they dare not start a family, owing to the cost of bringing up a child. The university produces...
...inform the world that even though the political and economic steps of development are still being choreographed, Africa has the intellectual ability to promote the peaceful and economic fortunes of its people. Daniel A. Owujie Port Harcourt, Nigeria Singapore's Downside The Time 100 profile of Singapore's senior statesman Lee Kuan Yew [April 18] left no doubt that he has designed and developed a modern city?state that is a role model for Asian economies. Your story unambiguously described the power of this "philosopher king" in shaping Singapore's well-organized system of administration and boarding-school culture...
...DIED. WEE KIM WEE, 89, well-loved Singaporean statesman who as President from 1985 to 1993 used his common touch to increase the accessibility of the office; in Singapore. A former journalist who scored an international exclusive with an interview of then General Suharto following Indonesia's bloody coup of 1966, Wee went into politics in 1973 and served as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to South Korea and Japan before being tapped to become the city-state's fourth President. Wee "took to diplomacy like a duck to water," said Deputy Prime Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar, and was eulogized...