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November 16, 2006

Sunday I drove through the rain and downtown Washington, DC to the Building Museum for a volunteer event. On the way I listened to CSPAN and a lecture by Lee Kuan Kew, the former prime minister of Singapore, the first PM, thirty years service. I'm told he is the biggest ego to hit Asia since Mao died. That puts a spin on things ....

His talk, which he had given on October 19 —as the leaves turned in the Shenandoah— was one from the Tate Lecture series, sponsored by SMU in Dallas.

The subject was global and timely, centering on and in fact titled opportunities in Asia, challenges in Middle East. I was, ego or no ego, entranced. I'm no longer sure why. Admittedly commonsensical, much of it. O well.

SMU had no transcript. CSPAN had no transcript. The Singapore embassy—I learned today—did. Now I do.

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