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Dear Dr Balakrishnan, I refer to your comments on the YOG as reported by Straits Times on 16 Sept 2010. You said the permanent legacy of being the Games' first host country would ensure that we remain on the international radar screen. But not many people remember where the first World Cup or where the first Grand Prix was held.... 

Dear Dr George, I refer to the 11 Sept 2010 Straits Times report of your comments on the book "Divercity Singapore". You said a sense of history is missing from the hot topic of immigration as though it will fundamentally change our perspectives. It will not. But that's not because we ignore history but because history shows... 

Dear Straits Times, I refer to your 12 Sept 2010 editorial. You said the government successfully turned Singapore from third world to first world in a breathtakingly short time. Lim Kim San sat on the SPH chair for as long as anyone could remember. Did Lim Kim San take Straits Times from a third world newspaper to a first world...