A great leader departs, Lee Kuan Yew dies; and then what? One hopes: an empty seat.

The world acknowledges Lee's greatness as the builder of Singapore: he laid the foundations that made his country, the tiny former British colony with no natural resources, manage over the last ten years to overtake the United States in prosperity.

But perhaps Lee was worried about this. He saw himself as part of an exceptional group of peopleand he was probably not