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A lady friend of mine recently broke up with a boyfriend and was heartbroken. She kept saying, “I’m so pretty, how could he break up with me.” After a while, she confessed that her behavior towards him wasn’t exactly angelic and I didn’t know how to tell her that being pretty was only good for attracting the guy (heaven... 

Photo: Today and AFP Joseph Schooling, the young man who won our first ever gold medal at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 has failed to defend his Olympic crown. Mr. Schooling finished last in the 100-meter butterfly heats and did not even qualify for the finals. Mr. Schooling has received a few nasty comments online... 

NUS associate professor Daniel Goh notes three groups to which the bases of xenophobia are linked in many advanced economies: the working classes for whom globalisation has had adverse effects; the middle classes who have not benefited as much as others; and "the politicising of a narrow, extremist nationalism", with the idea...