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If the dean of Columbia University needs evidence to support his theory that journalism schools ought to give their students a broader education, he need look no farther than the reporting being generated by the war in Iraq.
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DATE: Mar 31, 2003
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February 25, 2003
Dear Sir,
What I'd like to know is where are the weapons of mass destruction? If Saddam Hussein is so evil, why hasn't he used his weapons of mass destruction? How many more Iraqi children need to be burned, killed, and orphaned bef...
DATE: Mar 28, 2003
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Race does not rule the day
March 15, 2003
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This letter is directed at all those people who may have voted for the PLP in 1998 - for the first time. Remember why you voted for them? Part of the reason was that the UBP didn't look so great in ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2003
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Since I must write this article some days before it is published, I am not in the best position to be making predictions about something that will be moving quite as rapidly as the war in Iraq. However, I think I can make two claims quite safely.
Fir...
DATE: Mar 24, 2003
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Recently, Mr. Derrick Burgess suggested that all immigrants be tested for HIV and/or AIDS.
Notwithstanding Mr. Burgess' claims that persons entering Bermuda with HIV can pose a severe strain on our taxpayers and the health-care system, there are a nu...
DATE: Mar 13, 2003
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On Martin Luther King's birthday in January, New York's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, stood in front of the New York Urban League and declared a kind of war on the “disgraceful” state of education in the City of New York.
In some middle schools, he said,...
DATE: Mar 11, 2003
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Road Safety Council chairman Dr. Joseph Froncioni, in an opinion on this page, has listed some of the major reasons for Bermuda's continuing toll of deaths and serious injuries on the roads.
He correctly states, as did Clarence Tucker, the grandfathe...
DATE: Mar 10, 2003
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When the United Bermuda Party was in power some years ago, full-throated criticism of its handling of government was common. It was almost a rite of passage for bank managers, for example, to make a speech, or publish a letter to shareholders, that w...
DATE: Mar 03, 2003
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One year ago, in the 2002 Budget Statement, Finance Minister Eugene Cox announced that Government would look into launching an unemployment insurance scheme and had set aside $1 million for the purpose.
A year later, little has changed except that th...
DATE: Feb 20, 2003
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Slowly but surely, things are starting to go right in education.
For the past two weeks, The Royal Gazette has been publishing stories based on an interview with Minister Paula Cox on some of the new initiatives underway in public schools.
And much o...
DATE: Feb 20, 2003
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