Stingo and Sophie Flee to the South

It took me much longer to fall asleep but it seems it was not yet morning when I did so.

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Höss did not keep his word. No Jan for Sophie. … And in Brooklyn, her intelligent, loving, cruel, abusive boyfriend, Nathan, was a paranoid schizophrenic, his older brother, Larry, told Stingo. Nathan’s boast about his research at Pfizer was a complete fake. Now he was more dangerous than ever. Stingo and Sophie flee to his birthplace, Southampton, Virginia.

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“Shared Responsibility and Unshared Power” is informative even with a few typos and annoying “as such” and “all said” and even though it is arguable whether each chapter'analysis is deep enough. I have wanted to have a look at the Constitution of this country. The book cites Article 14 of the law that is eye-opening, even surprising, to those who have not read it.

Article 14:
(a) Every citizen of Singapore has the right to freedom of speech and expression;
(b) All citizens of Singapore have the right to assemble peaceably and without arms, and;
(c) All citizens of Singapore have the right to form associations.

And about the judicial independence, the author refers to this comment: “… it was not in the country’s interest to have it said that its judges were compliant or corrupt as this would eventually destroy its reputation as a good place to do business and invest.” This view from a perennial defamation-lawsuit winner was published in The Strait Times of 3 November 1995.