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THE only thing missing, Mr. Editor, was the black glove - although on reflection perhaps a clenched-fist salute might have also added a little more flourish for a grand finish. Otherwise, and in every other way, the Premier's performance was, well, s...
DATE: Dec 05, 2008
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Timothy Hutton is unshaven, uncombed and dressed down in a T-shirt and sweat pants, but he can be forgiven the grooming and fashion violations.
He's in character to shoot the TNT drama "Leverage", in which he plays the leader of a ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2008
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — A group of doctors said yesterday that President Robert Mugabe's government is to blame for a cholera epidemic sweeping Zimbabwe and that the disease's spread there is being dramatically under-reported.
About 160 peo...
DATE: Nov 25, 2008
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BERMUDA is a rumour mongering country and I think gossip is probably our number one national pastime. I don't think that too many people will disagree with this statement. But there are problems associated with all of these half-truths that are passe...
DATE: Oct 31, 2008
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RECENTLY in the Mid-Ocean News I used the example of a larger-than-life statue of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah as a fitting example of why Bermudian freedom fighter Sarah (Sally) Bassett should be commemomarated with an epic piece of statuary. I wen...
DATE: Oct 24, 2008
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MORAL courage, the willingness to brave rejection, opposition and opprobrium, has never been a common virtue. Not in Bermuda. Not in the world at large. Which is why it's generally regarded as the acid test for heroism - that ability to maintain what...
DATE: Oct 17, 2008
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Bermuda ushered in the observance of its first National Heroes' Day holiday with an impressive celebration of the life of Dame Lois Browne Evans, attended by hundreds at the National Sports Centre.
The event was marked by eloquent speechmaking, soul-...
DATE: Oct 17, 2008
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FROM time to time I have posed the question, "What is it that I, as a black Bermudian, have in common with my fellow white Bermudians?" The recent criticisms of the former Corporation of Hamilton Councilor Graeme Outerbridge concerning the scale and ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2008
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Dear Annie: For at least five years, my mother-in-law has been receiving nasty harassing telephone calls from my sister-in-law, "Cruella." These calls usually pertain to Cruella's distorted belief that Mom doesn't accept her as a worthy daughter-in-l...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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'France has no permanent friends; only permanent interests' Charles de Gaulle, president of the fourth Republic of France.
Charles de Gaulle may have been the only head of state to voice the above sentiment. But it is the guiding principle of all hea...
DATE: Oct 03, 2008
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