The founding father. He died monday at age 91. President obama said he valued lis wisdom. Li served as singapores Prime Minister for more than 30 years ushering the city state from colonial hub to vibrant economic power. He later worked as an elder statesman throughout asia. Jonathan mann on his life and legacy. Reporter a gleaming modern city state a city with a reputation for a Clean Environment with a wealthy population. This is the legacy ofly ku of lee kuan you yew. It is his son who rules today. What is it im trying to do . Im trying to create in a third world situation a first world oasis. Reporter born in singapore in 1923 lee of fourth generation ethnic chinese. After studying law at Cambridge University in england, he rushed returned home and entered politics. In the 1960s he led his small island from its status as a british colony to brief uniop and qck independence. Overcoming pressures at home and communist instability among neighbors, the city state underwent a remarkable
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I am often asked whether I would identify the United States as a âChristian nation.â  I suspect that was the underlying concern when a friend, a 95-year-old World War II veteran, asked if I thought our church should place an American flag along with the Christian flag in our sanctuary.  (He wears an American flag in his lapel; I have one on my license plate.)  I answered his question with stories from teaching law in Vietnam and China. Â
A Story from Vietnam
In preparation for teaching a course on âReligion and Law in the USâ in Vietnam, I asked a Christian friend who lives in Vietnam what Vietnamese people think of Christianity.  He responded: âThey see Jesus as Americaâs Ho Chi Minh.â You may recall that Ho Chi Minh was the Communist military leader and poet who defeated the existing Vietnamese governments and drove out the French and Americans in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.  In
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