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		<title>Editorial</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2009/06/editorial-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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This is the third issue of s/pores, and we appear to be still stuck in the 1950s, and on history rather than other modes of inquiry. In the inauguration issue we did state that it is perhaps no accident that this period tends to attract most interest when it comes to attempts at reassessing Singapore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: 100 Greatest: Singapore 60s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Tham
Various Artistes. 100 Greatest: Singapore 60s – The Definitive Collection. Universal Music Singapore, 2009. 5-CD box set.

1960s have always been a heady decade for many around the world &#8211; In the USA, the people were fighting for the rights of the Afro-Americans, the military presence of the Americans in Vietnam, the corseted conservative moral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore in Mid-twentieth Century: The Deep Divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://s-pores.com/?p=233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CN Chen

It is usual not to expect too much of a glossy and beautifully bound book destined to decorate the top of a coffee table but the National University of Singapore centennial celebration publication Imagination, Openness and Courage was an exception. Its lead article was a masterly dissertation by Professor Wang Gungwu on the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Marshall: A Bittersweet Remembrance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel PS Goh

I wrote this piece for my now-defunct blog a year ago, almost to the day, on a sleepless night when time was suspended by the eternal flight of introspection. I was going through the week&#8217;s newspapers trying to write a regular column for another blog but got stopped in my tracks by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aggression in Asia (1954)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[M.K. Rajakumar and Poh Soo Kai
Originally published in FAJAR: ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY SOCIALIST CLUB, Issue No. 7, Monday, 10th May 1954. Transcribed by Karen Goh

Looming large in Asia once again is the threat of Western aggression. The West has been the aggressor in modern history and Asia has suffered bitterly from Western barbarity. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speech at the Memorial Gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poh Soo Kai
Speech at the memorial gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar held at Dewan Canselor, University of Malaya on the 4th January 2009.

I came to know Rajakumar in 1951 when we were in our first year of our medical studies. He was quiet and studious, witty and humorous, sincere and kind. A very compassionate person, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M.K. Rajakumar: A Life Well Lived</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tan Jing Quee

M.K. Rajakumar is a genuine Malaysian hero, a socialist and a patriot. He belongs to that generation who had initiated the struggle for national independence from colonial rule. Quite appropriately perhaps, he was born and grew up in Malacca, the birthplace of modern Malaysia. He completed his secondary education in Malacca High School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That He Shall Not Die a Second Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edgar Liao
Photographs by Isrizal
Memorial Gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar in Singapore, 14 February 2009.

On a serene, warm Valentine’s Day, over fifty individuals gathered in the Manasseh Mayer Seminar Room in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS to commemorate Dr. M.K. Rajakumar (Rajkumar), who passed away on 22 November 2008, aged 76. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hankering for National Heroes</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2009/02/heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Lysa 

Heroic celebrations, 2008
‘This year, we celebrate the heroes of Singapore’, declared the Singapore HeritageFest which had its anchor exhibition at Suntec City entitled, ‘Who’s Your Hero?’ (12-27 Jul 2008). The activities were not only confined to the popular shopping mall, but also fanned out to sites such as the popular disco, Zouk for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Enigma of A. Samad Ismail</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2009/02/enigma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s/pores</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://s-pores.com/?p=202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tan Jing Quee

Part 1 (written in November 1999)
Samad Ismail&#8217;s career spans three countries over half a century, the breadth and durability of which is stunning. The scope of his activities covers diverse fields as politics, journalism and literature. If it is politics that forms the core of these activities, then journalism has woven them into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Making of the Singapore History Gallery: Some Personal Reflections</title>
		<link>http://s-pores.com/2009/02/history-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>s/pores</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://s-pores.com/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Ravinder Frost

Ordinarily research scholars seem to ignore the fact that the past is of interest to us only in so far as it was living and that unless they discover it for us in such a way as to make us feel its life, we may admire them for their patience and industry but [...]]]></description>
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