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May 13, 2008
Starting a Party, and Hoping to Crash Singapore’s Parliament Again
New York Times said:
Mr. Jeyaretnam rose quickly in the legal establishment, serving as a magistrate, district judge, prosecuting counsel, registrar of the Supreme Court and chief of the Subordinate Judiciary, a position of status and influence.He resigned in 1963 at the age of 37 and went into private practice because, he said, “I was disillusioned, completely.” In 1971, he made the first of his many unsuccessful runs for Parliament.
At the news conference he was asked the question that lies at the heart of people’s fascination with him: why he continues after all these years of what seems like futility.
“I am concerned with reform and with people’s thinking about the real values in life,” he said. “Why are we here? What is the purpose of our being?”
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