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Defamation is defined as the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group, government, religion or nation as well as other various kinds of defamation that retaliate against groundless...
DATE: Jul 10, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
Everyone loves a winner. We are no different in Bermuda as past masters in the art of backing a sure thing.
Such can be gleaned from an infamous quote by a supposed football supporter that was heard not so long ago: “I left West Ham and went to Chels...
DATE: Jul 08, 2015
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The one-time wife of one member of Hollywood royalty, the mother of another and the mother-in-law of a third, in 1992 Bermuda-born actress Diana Douglas published a characteristically elegant memoir called In The Wings.
The title was a play on the th...
DATE: Jul 07, 2015
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For any new era to be given a chance to thrive, it requires the support staff to be in good working order. The Bermuda Government requires it, private enterprise requires it, and so, too, do the myriad organisations that make up working life in this ...
DATE: Jul 06, 2015
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It was as remarkable and powerful a piece of presidential oratory as many of us have witnessed in our lifetimes, a transcendent moment in a profoundly transformational period in modern history.
Barack Obama, coming off a watershed week in his preside...
DATE: Jul 01, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
As America observed the centenary of the outbreak of its Civil War in 1961, the Bermuda Historical Monuments Trust — predecessor to the National Trust — opened The Confederate Museum in St George’s Globe Hotel.
The Island, because of geography, hist...
DATE: Jun 26, 2015
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The opening shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter outside Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861 when troops of the secessionist Confederacy bombarded Union defenders.
When the centenary of the outbreak of this fratricidal conflict —...
DATE: Jun 25, 2015
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Death, admonished the poet John Donne, be not proud.
“Mighty and dreadful” though it is considered to be, death’s power is ultimately an illusion. The souls and memories of those it claims live on; the consequences of their actions continue to reverb...
DATE: Jun 23, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion
The thunder of gunfire in a historic Charleston church is echoing throughout Bermuda today. So are the howls of anguish and grief and disbelief.
On Wednesday night, a heavily armed white supremacist opened fire on the congregation at that South Carol...
DATE: Jun 19, 2015
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Given the right tools and the proper determination, individuals can accomplish even the most seemingly impossible tasks.
“Give me a place to stand,” said one of the most legendary figures of classical antiquity, “and I will move the world.”
The men ...
DATE: Jun 18, 2015
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RG: In our Opinion