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WASHINGTON — How to proceed in Afghanistan will be among the most difficult and fateful decisions that President Obama ever makes. But he's the one who has to decide, not his generals. The men with the stars on their shoulders — and I say this with e...
DATE: Oct 07, 2009
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No wonder our beleaguered seniors are confused about FutureCare and the status of health insurance. So are the rest of us. The good news is that common sense is beginning to surface in the knowledge that this scheme is unsustainable.
The bad news is ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2009
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BOSTON — My favourite moment so far in the health care debate was when Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl argued against mandating maternity benefits as part of a basic insurance coverage. "I don't need maternity care," he blurted out. At which point, Michigan's D...
DATE: Oct 05, 2009
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Obfuscation or deception?
October 1 2009
Dear Sir,
Re: Bermuda Employers' Council – No Discrimination
Your article of September 30, 2009 concerning the position of the Bermuda Employers' Council with respect to discrimination in employment of blacks ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2009
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WASHINGTON — It's hard to read Gen. Stanley McChrystal's assessment of the Afghanistan War without hearing one of those horror-movie voices that seem to come from everywhere and nowhere, a voice that grows louder and more insistent with every page: "...
DATE: Sep 24, 2009
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BOSTON — For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn't the speech before Congress or Wall Street.
It was in the Virginia schoolhouse when a ninth-grader asked him a question that had nothing and everything to do with his presidency...
DATE: Sep 21, 2009
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Embrace colonialism
September 14, 2009
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I think Government and the Department of Tourism should embrace colonialism and use it to their advantage. It could draw a lot of tourists. Americans have long come to Bermuda because of our colonial ...
DATE: Sep 18, 2009
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WASHINGTON — Torture is a delicate business. The aim is to injure but not incapacitate — to inflict precisely enough pain and terror to break a subject's will, but no more.
To calibrate the proper degree of abuse, the torturer must have an accurate s...
DATE: Sep 05, 2009
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Larry was a giant
August 28, 2009
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Your report in the August 27 Royal Gazette on the retirement of Larry Dennis as Auditor General was spot on. In a time when too many civil servants are drones, incompetent or just corrupt, Larry was a supe...
DATE: Sep 04, 2009
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Take $ out of drugs
August 27, 2009
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Today's Royal Gazette reported on an individual who had been spared a jail sentence for impaired driving …and causing severe injuries to another road user the morning of August 16, 2009 at 3 a.m.
The Jud...
DATE: Sep 02, 2009
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