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Arthur Rankin Jr’s name will forever be synonymous with Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Bermudian producer and director’s evergreen 1964 TV special based on the popular song launched his career and introduced his trademark story arcs about non-co...
DATE: Jul 19, 2014
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Politicians the world over have a singular talent for identifying old grievances which can be depended on to yield occasional rewards in the form of popular support and votes. Whether this gift owes more to a vulture’s nose than an eagle’s eye is lar...
DATE: Jul 17, 2014
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Like most island communities, Bermuda takes a gradualist, exceedingly cautious approach to the flotsam and jetsam of new-fangled ideas and notions from the outside world which wash up on our shores from time to time.
Anything which even remotely thre...
DATE: Jul 12, 2014
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There was nothing remotely glamorous about Bermuda at the end of World War One. This was not yet the Bermuda of “beautiful estates and yachts, of stingers at noon and gin and tonics in the evening” as American journalist and columnist Jim Bishop was ...
DATE: Jul 09, 2014
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William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies is that genuine rarity, an assigned book in secondary schools which is not just read but positively devoured by most teenagers.
The 1954 novel inspires a visceral and almost universal identification among many youn...
DATE: Jul 07, 2014
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“Thirty years ago there stood, a few doors short of the church of Saint George, in the borough of Southwark, on the left-hand side of the way going southward, the Marshalsea Prison, (a) close and confined prison for debtors … It had stood there many ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2014
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“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us … All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their time.” — Ecclesiasticus
Those who attain an undeserved standing in any society never really overshadow those who...
DATE: Jun 23, 2014
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Karl Rove certainly didn’t invent the polarising hardball tactics which so define the modern political landscape (that dubious distinction belongs to the very first elected official who successfully circumvented the logical faculties of some of the ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2014
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Throughout our long history most Bermudians have had an intuitive understanding of the fact that if you protect the land and water around you, the land and water will return the favour.
In fact, Bermuda has always been something of a trailblazer when...
DATE: Jun 17, 2014
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“Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon,
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scattered in the bottom of the sea.”
—William Shakespeare
“He was born ...
DATE: Jun 12, 2014
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