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HAS a sense of national Bermudian identity been awakened as a result of the Bermuda national football squad's heroic efforts to qualify for the World Cup? We have seen this type of reaction before, when the whole country has grown excited and giddy a...
DATE: Jun 27, 2008
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(Bloomberg) — Robert Mugabe began life as a shy, bookish boy whose deeply Catholic mother said he was bound for greatness after his two older brothers died and his father, a carpenter, abandoned the family.
Armed with steely self-discipline, Mugabe e...
DATE: Jun 25, 2008
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Yes, it really is a paradise, but somehow when you live in British Columbia, you tend to not even think about that tiny island — all 21 miles of it — lying out there in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Known well to east-coasters as a 'honeymoon isl...
DATE: Jun 24, 2008
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WHEN my American son-in-law expressed the opinion that Barack Obama was going to become the first black President of the United States in the aftermath of his opening round caucus victory Iowa, the full weight of history bore down on me. I expressed ...
DATE: Jun 13, 2008
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PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Having nearly tripled its audience and added about 20,000 new applications over the past year, Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout is about to undergo a housecleaning.
Visitors who can't stand the clutter that's been pilin...
DATE: May 23, 2008
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Surrounded by the colourful and often dramatic installations at the Bermuda National Gallery's ongoing Barcardi Biennial, an enthusiastic audience of nearly 50 local artists, collectors and residents from the Caribbean Diaspora were led on a "Journey...
DATE: May 15, 2008
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DEAR DR. GOTT: I'm a 53-year-old retired male. I was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease about eight years ago, for which I take five medications. Since day one, my symptoms have been very mild. I have a resting hand tremor. Most people are unaware th...
DATE: Apr 14, 2008
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@$:[AT]bylinefrank:By Daniel SoridAssociated Press Writer[AT]bodyfrank:CALCUTTA, India (AP) No doubt the Taj Mahal steals the breath away. But as a repeat visitor to India, I have often arrived at its gates too exhausted to have much breath left to s...
DATE: Apr 12, 2008
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Playing America's second president in HBO's "John Adams" was quite the hands-on experience for Paul Giamatti.
On a break from his governmental duties at his Massachusetts farm, Adams shows his son, John Quincy, the finer points of ...
DATE: Mar 13, 2008
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NEW YORK — If you drive six miles southwest of Anniston, Alabama, you'll pass the spot where a bus was bombed in 1961 and the passengers - civil rights activists known as Freedom Riders - were beaten by a mob.
There's no marker there, but it is one o...
DATE: Feb 06, 2008
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