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On my recent travels I have been fortunate enough to find myself sharing the company of several very successful people. I realize ‘successful’ lies in the eye of the beholder. These are individuals who I admire for finding great pleasure in doing wha...
DATE: Aug 27, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
By Al Seymour
It will be fifty years ago this November, when an assassins bullet shook the world with the death of the then-President of the United States, John F Kennedy, while on a visit to Texas. Not only America, but much of the world was in deep...
DATE: Aug 27, 2013
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
By Martha Myron
Murder has been committed for it, in the worst of human tragedies due to selfishness, total greed, and vicious disregard for the human suffering of the victim(s).
Suicide has been enacted in the name of “caring for the remaining famil...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Football is back in England and football fans will be pleased that the season has started with one or two surprise results, especially the Arsenal and Aston Villa result.
Most betting people would have put their money on Arsenal but Villa obviously ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clyde Best
Education has been a controversial issue in Bermuda for quite some time, and despite input from overseas experts, along with home grown expertise, it remains a complex subject with numerous challenges that unresolved, could hamper efforts to provide ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Slowly but surely the sceptics who have doubted Nahki Wells’ ability rise above the lower leagues in England, have had to think again.
The former Dandy Town player hasn’t got there yet but it’s difficult to believe he won’t one day be mentioned in th...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Adrian Robson
Drug testing to detect and refer for treatment is a good thing; drug testing simply to catch and expose users not so good. While a combination of the two may not be so bad, to focus exclusively on drug testing is to sidestep a wider debate that needs...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
As the cricket season dwindles out slowly there is very little to get excited about. With the final weekend coming up in the 50-over league — unless a miracle takes place — St David’s will be the champions for the 2013 cricket season.
The Belco Cup...
DATE: Aug 23, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
There are four new exhibits opening on Friday, August 30 at the Bermuda Society of Arts (BSoA) in City Hall. The Onions Gallery will be exhibiting the annual TrashArt Show, Litter-Arti 2013, where featured artists will use discarded trash to create t...
DATE: Aug 22, 2013
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Nothing to do in Bermuda?
Willard Van Orman Quine was a philosopher of the analytic tradition (meaning he applied empirical logic — science — to his thinking). Quine was associated with Harvard University, first as a student and then as faculty in philosophy. He wrote several...
DATE: Aug 20, 2013
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
