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Harry Potter, it seems, has worked a kind of practical magic on his worldwide readership.
It’s been seven years since the last volume in the bestselling literary series of all time, the estimable Harry Potter & The Deathly Hollows, appeared and autho...
DATE: Sep 20, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
A succession of recent tragedies cannot help but bring to mind another summer 75 years past when, as the poet said, “waves of anger and fear” spread around the world and “the unmentionable odour of death offends the September night.”
In the Near Eas...
DATE: Sep 17, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
It’s one of Bermuda’s dirtiest — and worst kept — little secrets.
Domestic abuse is an increasingly ugly reality on the Island. But it is a subject which is all too talked around rather than talked about in polite company.
Despite commendable efforts...
DATE: Sep 09, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
Parliament will reconvene shortly, and if the past six months are any indicator, there is little reason to hope that the backbiting, divisiveness, and playground-level politics that have become the Island’s hallmark will change any time soon.
Sensibl...
DATE: Sep 04, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
It is hard to believe that the majority of people living in today’s Bermuda have any real appreciation for what true censorship entails.
There are places in the world where thoughts, beliefs, speech, and daily lives, right down to the clothes people ...
DATE: Aug 30, 2014
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This is the seventh in a mulipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
For generations Bermudians were familiarised almost from birth with the benefits the whole Island derived from the tourism industry.
Our welcoming nature and graciousne...
DATE: Aug 28, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
This is the sixth in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
By the beginning of the 21st century the traditional Bermudian way of life was coming to an end. This did not occur overnight but with the implacable, steadily accumulati...
DATE: Aug 23, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
The fifth in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
The 9/11 terror attacks on the United States had an instantaneous, twofold impact on Bermuda.
The global tourism industry sustained catastrophic collateral damage when hijackers...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
The fourth in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
Bermuda began to absorb successive tidal wave impacts of new re/insurance incorporations and newly arrived people beginning in the late 1980s.
Such was the enormity of the ongoi...
DATE: Aug 16, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
The third in a multipart series on sustainable development in Bermuda.
The only thing more frightening than rapid change is a stagnant status quo.
And the reality is by the early 1980s Bermuda was confronting stagnation. Our routine way of doing ...
DATE: Aug 14, 2014
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RG: In our Opinion
