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Singapore
Singapore cuts into Bartlet's diagnosis of American decline as a stark benchmark of success: its infant mortality rates plunge far below U.S. figures, transforming education rankings into a life-and-death crisis. From the President's private study, this efficient city-state's statistics sharpen the air with urgency, contrasting national failures in math, science, and public health while fueling moral outrage over preventable child deaths.
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S4E11
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Holy Night
From Rankings to Lives: Bartlet Frames an Education Emergency
Singapore is invoked as a benchmark for low infant mortality; Bartlet contrasts it with the U.S. to convert educational statistics into life‑and‑death policy stakes.
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Referential, serving as an implied standard of administrative competence.
Functional Role
Comparative benchmark to dramatize the moral urgency of saving children's lives.
Symbolic Significance
Represents efficient governance and the measurable human payoff of policy competence.
Cited alongside specific mortality ratios
Used to sharpen Bartlet's moral indictment of domestic policy
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