> Reading the report of his making a 5 minute talk from the hospital
> bed, the word that came to mind was "pathetic." Was he afraid that he
> would be forgotten quickly, and brushed into the dust of history?  The
> reference to the leader of North Korea made it only worse.  According
> to the latest copy of Time magazine, the world, in particular USA, is
> bracing themselves for a change of leadership in that country. But
> Singapore? Nobody gives a damn if the old man kicked the bucket
> tomorrow, and his bumbling retard of a son can follow him for all they
> care.  Only his lawyers will miss the juicy defamation suits that made
> the country's judicial system the butt of jokes. Sad, that once a
> great man can fall so far. But he should have learned from the
> mistakes of Suharto, and not let own his sons, through follies of
> their own,  desecrate his place in history.