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Belle is on her way to walking, clutching our hands as she wobbles around the living room. The catch is that she’ll only walk sideways, so she looks like a little crab. Perhaps she’s watched ‘The Little Mermaid’ one too many times with her sister. In...
DATE: Aug 26, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
This week my pet peeve is people’s attitudes towards, and abuse of, sick leave. I am sick and tired of people being out sick, taking too many sick days, thinking it is no big deal if they take several sick days, thinking they’re entitled to their eig...
DATE: Aug 26, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
DJLT
The Internet, social media and the mass sharing of content online has opened up a range of issues on who owns what and who has permission to republish. The debate has implications for those who post on social media and also for businesses, which migh...
DATE: Aug 24, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
Debating important national issues takes on an additional layer of complexity in small societies like Bermuda: the space between opinion leaders and the public is a lot smaller. This lack of distance creates a more intimate environment for interactio...
DATE: Aug 24, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
WASHINGTON - In theory, Democrats should be nervous about Texas Gov Rick Perry's decision to enter the presidential race. In practice, though, it's Republicans who have zoomed up the anxiety ladder into freak-out mode.
To clarify, not all Republicans...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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I wrote another book. I say “another” because I had one published in 2010. This new one had been in the works and under contract for over a year, but I had writer's block with it for almost the entire time. Only within a handful of weeks before the b...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Philip Brownell
In the game of chess, one wrong move at a critical stage can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
No political thermometer is needed to determine that election fever is rising as political exchanges gain momentum, in an atmosphere of doubt and con...
DATE: Aug 22, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Risk, volatility, and perceptions of strength. Another long tiresome week in capital markets where investors had to witness severe swings of positive and negative values. Volatility in capital markets is tracked by the Volatility Index.
The VIX, as ...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
If you haven’t made a run offshore, it is getting to be high time to do so. The Bermuda-Azores high currently in place will keep the cold fronts away, for a while at least. Then we can expect a continuing deterioration of the weather and even the mos...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
The first Premier League weekend supported a lot of what I said last week in regards to the title contenders and those who will fight it out for the remaining places in the table.
The likes of Manchester United and Manchester City are both up and run...
DATE: Aug 20, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clyde Best
