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There is a wonderful story midway through Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, Jimmy Breslin’s 1963 book about the delightfully awful first season of the New York Mets. In the midst of a spectacular loss, with one pitcher after another being shellacke...
DATE: Mar 21, 2017
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Stephen L. Carter
A decade ago, few outside the academy would have noticed Jonathan Brown’s lecture on slavery. A Washington native who looks a good bit younger than his 39 years, Brown is now a professor of Islamic studies at Georgetown University, where he directs t...
DATE: Mar 20, 2017
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It would be entirely remiss not to comment on the recent parting of Mark Pettingill from the ruling One Bermuda Alliance. The House stands at 17-17 with two independents, while the OBA holds the reins of government for the rest of this term. It is a ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
The relationship of cannabis use to public health is one of the most confounding topics in science. As soon as one study is published making a claim about the safety of the drug, another is often published warning of the opposite.
Take, for instance,...
DATE: Mar 17, 2017
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One Bermuda Alliance politicians beating their chests and boasting over the latest tourism numbers while tourism jobs continue to fall truly reinforces the reality that there are two Bermudas; one for the wealthy and privileged, and one for the rest ...
DATE: Mar 17, 2017
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They say politics makes strange bedfellows, and it is being made even stranger every day by the recent manoeuvrings of Russia in the Middle East. During the 1970s, if America was considered evil by Muslims, the Soviet Union would have been considered...
DATE: Mar 17, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
This past Saturday, at the Bermuda Industrial Union’s International Women’s Day tea, I heard immense words of wisdom from the speakers. One would imagine that such knowledge and insight would come from decades of personal experience in the Bermuda of...
DATE: Mar 16, 2017
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Donald Trump talks a lot about murder rates. He is wrong that homicides are the highest in 47 years; in fact, the national rate in America is still near the historic lows of 2014. But in the past two years, the rate has begun rising. The increase has...
DATE: Mar 16, 2017
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Interesting how that maxim “Be careful what you ask for, you may get it” sure is playing out in the healthcare fiasco in the United States. We can remember the “Repeal Obamacare” chants during the election. Did they know at the time what they actuall...
DATE: Mar 15, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
In 1992, when the Bermuda National Gallery first opened its doors to the public, it was not only the island’s first designated art museum, it was also the culmination of a longstanding dream for a local art museum. It was an idea that probably goes b...
DATE: Mar 15, 2017
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