Friday, August 13, 2004
Just after Singapore's new Prime Minister was sworn in last night, one of my former students boarded a flight for New York, optimistically determined never to come back (unless, as he put it, he's deported for, say, gang violence or simply irritating the living hell out of everybody over there).Doesn't that sound like the opening to a really good book?
posted by Tym at 5:29 PM
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At 8/14/2004 9:00 AM
Packrat said... Definitely a book that I'd read. :)
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