Lee Kuan Yew leaves the impression of someone constrained, like a large man in a tight suit. As Prime Minister of Singapore, he has built a rich little city-state where everything seems to hum like a well-oiled machine: orderly, efficiently and above all predictably, with no room for noisome dissent. Although Lee, 81, stepped down as Prime Minister, he can still fine-tune his social model as Senior Minister. The quality of his "digits," as he once called citizens of his city-state, might yet be improved through social engineering: careful marriages, good breeding, cultivated deference to the most shining digits. Lee has...
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