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Funeral Sunday for Singaporean Leader Who Others Tried to Emulate

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Dozens of world leaders, including the prime ministers of Australia, India and Japan, the president of South Korea, and as yet unnamed “government leaders” from China, will be in Singapore on Sunday for the state funeral of the small country's first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee served as a role model for Asian politicians hoping to reproduce the magic that took Singapore from a colonial backwater to one of the world's most prosperous and efficient nations. Lee died Monday...

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