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To: Stitch who wrote (2767)	3/27/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Thread, A night to remember in K.L. Last night my wife surprised me with tickets to the K.L. Symphony Orchestra. It was our first visit to the symphony and my wife is just starting to learn to enjoy classical western music. She had arranged for Bernie Tate (who is off to Kulim by car today) to join us with his scandously young and pretty Malay girlfriend. What a great evening. The troupe is a small 32 piece orchestra that play in a building designed and built under the personal auspices of Mahatir, specifically for experimental theatre. So not exactly a concert hall, but our roll away bleecher seats were just a few feet from the musicians and it put us in the middle of the action. The real treat of the evening was the solo performance of a ten year old prodigy. her name was Sylvia Loh. This young and exuberant Chinese girl played Mozart as if she had been doing so for years, her tiny hands barley able to cover an octave. I fully expect to buy her CD's one day and tell the story of seeing her at the age of 10. Fantastic! Western arts are alive and well in K.L.! best, Stitch

To: Stitch who wrote (2767)	3/28/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: Ramsey Su	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9980

Stitch, regarding your new hero. I read that SCMP article last night and frankly, it made my blood boil. Arrogant SOBs like him are the cause of poor international relations that the US has with other countries. I am sorry to say that I consider your new hero "a white supremist leftover from colonialistic regimes of the dark ages of human history". "The Asian economies will have to play by the same rules as the rest of the world. This is the only fair way to do things," he said, adding that he wanted to deliver "a strong warning that next time out it cannot be business as usual". Which "the rest of the world" is he talking about? Whose rules are he talking about? Who decided on these "rules"? He is the modern Jardine and Matheson - buy my opium because you have to play by my rules. He is the modern Matthew Perry - who took a few gun ships into Tokyo Bay in 1850s, and "opened" Japan to foreign trade. We are living in a modern world that has no place for his style of might is right/gunboat diplomacy. As a US citizen, I am ashamed that complete racists like him, with total disrespect for other cultures, are chosen to represent me in international affairs. Stitch, having read your postings before, I think you probably just overlooked some of Holbrooke's insensitivities before you drew your opinion of your "new hero". Ramsey