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As long as we have had the word “empathy”, it has been seen as an essentially positive thing, like kindness. It is the idea of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes — intuiting the thoughts and feelings of another person and attempting to do somet...
DATE: Dec 16, 2016
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In the past five years, Syria has become many things: a refugee crisis, a regional quagmire, a Western nightmare, a terrorist haven, a Russian power play and the core of Iran’s ambitions. To the international community, however, it’s a civil war.
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DATE: Dec 15, 2016
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The nature of Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia is the most obscure and disturbing aspect of his coming presidency. Trump’s unwavering defence of Vladimir Putin’s regime against all criticism, and his breezy dismissals of a CIA finding that Mos...
DATE: Dec 14, 2016
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More than six years after a brigade of United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal introduced cholera in Haiti, triggering an epidemic that has killed at least 10,000 and sickened many more, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has finally uttered the word “s...
DATE: Dec 14, 2016
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Soul crushing are the only words I have,” Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton’s campaign communications director, tweeted about the revelations concerning Russia’s effort to make certain that Donald Trump was elected.
One can understand the Clinton te...
DATE: Dec 13, 2016
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Jennifer Rubin
The Bermuda Road Safety Council would like to wish everyone a very safe and joyous Christmas and all the best for the new year.
We would also like for everyone to read and think about the following message:
It is the season to be merry, but how ma...
DATE: Dec 13, 2016
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In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama was welcomed in Berlin by an ecstatic crowd of 200,000 people eager to listen to the new “American messiah”, as the German magazine Der Spiegel dubbed him. Obama descended to the Continent just like John K...
DATE: Dec 12, 2016
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The decision by the British Supreme Court to reject the appeal by Prime Minister Theresa May to set aside the ruling that requires the Brexit vote to gain its approval from a vote in Parliament has set the British Government on its heels.
We can reca...
DATE: Dec 10, 2016
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Khalid Wasi
Great news: Joscelyn Gardner’s Mary Prince multimedia installation at the Bermuda National Gallery is being held over until next Thursday. So, for those who have not already seen it, there is still opportunity to do so. For those who want to see it a...
DATE: Dec 09, 2016
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We are dismayed by the events that occurred last Friday and are shocked that orders were given to deploy the riot police against non-violent, unarmed individuals. We further deplore the indiscriminate use of pepper spray, the first time in our histor...
DATE: Dec 08, 2016
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