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After reading The Royal Gazette article this past Monday regarding the Chris Douglas announcement of withdrawing from the national squad, I couldn't resist probing into the matter further.
This news has personally left me distraught and a bit panic-...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
Happy Holidays Bermuda! I still cannot believe that we've reached the end of 2010! Already! Where did this year go? I haven't a clue but when we reflect on the myriad occurrences, both good and bad, we can see that we have definitely lived through a ...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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DJLT
“Cheer up, the worst is yet to come” Philander Chase Johnson (Yes, a real person, an American journalist and humourist, now deceased).
There’s no need for me to pile on, Mr. Editor, but let’s just say that I am not at a loss for words over the rec...
DATE: Dec 10, 2010
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John Barritt
WikiLeaks has lost its way. Its raison d'être was a noble undertaking to expose corruption and abuse of power by governments and big business so that they might mend their ways. Releasing more than 250,000 US government documents, including thous...
DATE: Dec 08, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Walton Brown
As Bermuda along with many countries approach perhaps the biggest festive season of the Christian calendar, which we all know as Christmas, it might be an appropriate time to re examine our value system which largely determines our quality of life.
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DATE: Dec 07, 2010
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
My late grandfather often told us as kids to never complain about something unless you have spent the time developing a solution. I have received a lot of feedback on my recent article about the Bermuda economy (“Recovering from recession? No, it...
DATE: Dec 06, 2010
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Nathan Kowalski
It is the time of year when sport fishing takes a back seat to just about everything else. The holiday cocktail parties, dinners, lunches, shopping, house sprucing up will all take precedence over something as mundane and unimportant as fishing. Even...
DATE: Dec 04, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Tight Lines
All I can say is wow, what a performance Barcelona put on against Real Madrid.
Barcelona were simply fantastic, that was by far the best game of football I have seen in in many years. If teams can learn how to play like that the football will be back...
DATE: Dec 04, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
We Bermudians tend to suffer from the extremes of a bipolar social syndrome. At times, we've committed the national sin of arrogance and self-confidence beyond the realm of financial reality. At other times, the collective we still spend inordinate a...
DATE: Dec 04, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Martha Harris Myron
Post baby Belle, having just experimented with my first pair of Spanx, I'm feeling a little depressed. Spanx might be amazing at flattening down your extra inches but the excess does have to go somewhere. So whilst right now I have an impossibly flat...
DATE: Dec 03, 2010
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns