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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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RG: In our Opinion
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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A multicoloured collection of national flags fluttering from car windows, attached to trucks and pinned to motorbikes is a sure sign that what is commonly referred to as “the greatest show on earth” is about to begin.
Over the next month, the bars wi...
DATE: Jun 11, 2014
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Friday, June 6, 2014, marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the date of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe and the hinge upon which all of the rest of modern history swings.
German Field Marshal Erwin Marshal Erwin Rommel, overall commander...
DATE: Jun 09, 2014
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Scientific populariser and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, a longtime friend of Bermuda who regularly lectured on the nature of things at local astronomical events in the ‘70s and ‘80s, had a famously limited tolerance for all forms of quackery....
DATE: Jun 06, 2014
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David Wingate began to change the world, or at least a tiny speck of it at the easternmost end of Bermuda, when he was just a 15-year-old schoolboy.
Teased by his classmates because of both his prominent, beaklike nose and equally pronounced love of ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2014
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Mark Twain openly marvelled at the restorative powers of Bermuda, saying a visit to the Island did him more good than any dozen doctors.
Of course, this was Victorian Bermuda, a largely stress-free environment where there was “no rush, no hurry, no m...
DATE: Jun 02, 2014
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In recent years the America’s Cup has gone from exemplifying sailing as the ritzy Sport of Kings to becoming one of the kings of televised sporting events.
Traditional notions of yachts and yachtsmen — ketches so very elegant they seem to belong to t...
DATE: May 30, 2014
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Inspired in part by the 1609 Sea Venture wreck and related events which led to Bermuda’s permanent settlement, the William Shakespeare play The Tem- pest could arguably be described as the best-pedigreed real estate prospectus in history.
Aside from ...
DATE: May 28, 2014
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