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Friday, October 24, 2008

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Among the first things Tun Dr Mahathir told the foreign media upon becoming Prime Minister 27 years ago was that in Malaysia, everyone had to be a bit unhappy. Should anyone be too happy, someone else would be too unhappy. Social stability as a function of equitable unhappiness was as brutally frank a diagnosis as he ever made. He declared himself a failure in his effort to change the“mindset” of the Malays, but what he could do, he did with a single-minded vengeance the like of which we are unlikely ever to see again.

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