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La Vie en Rose — Edith Piaf lived fast and died young, but she didn’t exactly leave a good-looking corpse. At 47, she looked closer to 67, her tiny body ravaged by the effects of long-time alcohol abuse, morphine addiction and, eventually, cancer. Th...
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IN 2008 it will be 400 years since Samuel de Champlain raised the French flag over a small settlement on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.Following instructions of explorer Jacques Cartier, it was intended to become a major centre for the fur trad...
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THE growth of the insurance industry on the island is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the City of Hamilton, where parking spaces can be more difficult to come by than $100 bills, development seems never ending and dirt ever increasing. The man c...
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Jesus Out to Sea
(Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 291 pages)
by James Lee Burke WHEN a tragedy as monstrous as Hurricane Katrina befalls us, journalism can tell us what happened, and occasionally it can even explain why. But it cannot take us to that q...
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Does Nicole Richie think she's next?Paris Hilton's good buddy told David Letterman during a taping for his talk show on Wednesday that she's worried about landing in the pokey, too.
"I'm just keeping my fingers crossed, and, you know, of course, I'm ...
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The Island's first sustainable water plant was officially opened yesterday — but it has already delivered 2.8 million gallons of water since its launch in late February.
The North Shore Reverse Osmosis Plant and Truckers' Outlet, north of Tynes Bay I...
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FORMER and current members of the Bermuda Regiment are now eligible for benefits from the Royal British Legion, an international charity based out of London.The Legion has provided financial, social and emotional support to persons who have served or...
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CHIEF Justice Richard Ground invited all members of the judiciary, magistry, and the Bermuda Bar to join him yesterday, in a special sitting of the Supreme Court honouring the memory of Dame Lois Marie Browne Evans.Regrettably, I was unable to attend...
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BERMUDIANS have been covering their bets from the earliest days of settlement, almost 400 years ago. After a few days or weeks hanging out on Smith’s Island, just inside the only channel into the easternmost harbour at Bermuda, the settlers moved acr...
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ON Tuesday, a national holiday, Bermuda laid to rest Dame Lois Browne Evans.All Bermuda took time away from their daily routine to bid her a final farewell. Even the early morning sun failed to shine and there was a fog over the whole island for seve...
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