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Archive for September 19th, 2009

Weekly Roundup: Week 38

“I really begin to wonder if my very own country whom I had sworn to protect when I was 18 is really worthy of my protection.”
J

“..if CPF Board can cherry pick who to insure and who to reject, then what makes it different from any profit-oriented private insurance company?”
Gerald Giam

“The fact that government officials are rewarded economically, through salaries and bonuses…for delivering GDP growth, may also lead to ‘growth fetishism’… and thus to preference for the easiest route to growth, which is through the addition of inputs of foreign capital, labour and skills.”
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Professors Lee Soo Ann and Linda Lim


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You Will Not Be Forgotten
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam
5 Jan 1926 - 30 Sep 2008

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.


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