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It has been exactly two months since Britain voted to quit the European Union. Since then, the silence on how the divorce proceedings will be conducted has been deafening. It is an impasse that helps neither side and, once Europe’s August holiday sea...
DATE: Aug 24, 2016
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One of the key arguments often given for why it is important to increase the diversity of America’s teaching force is that students of colour do better academically when they have teachers of colour.
A 2010 study titled Diversifying the Teaching For...
DATE: Aug 23, 2016
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Mr Editor, your Opinion article of July 20, 2016, titled “Bermuda’s recent history of violence”, was spot on.
Our research shows that Bermuda is following the United States trend of gang warfare and violence. In accord with a study released in Febru...
DATE: Aug 23, 2016
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Children and teenagers in the world’s developed countries have a more than 50 per cent chance of living past 100. By the early 2100s, in other words, “being a centenarian will no longer be a rarity. In fact, it will be the norm”.
That from Lynda Grat...
DATE: Aug 23, 2016
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Justin Fox
Congratulations to Flora Duffy and to all the Olympians. Her third Olympics, coming in ranked No 1 in the world, then finishing two minutes behind the gold medal-winner after a gruelling 1hr 58min was in itself a significant achievement, placing her ...
DATE: Aug 23, 2016
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Khalid Wasi
National Public Radio made a big announcement in the middle of last week: it is ending its users’ ability to offer comments at the bottom of each story posted on its site.
“We’ve reached the point where we’ve realised that there are other, better way...
DATE: Aug 23, 2016
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On August 13, 1996, Leonard Frederick Wade, the leader of the Progressive Labour Party suddenly passed away while he prepared to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the 42nd Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference.
His passing saddened an...
DATE: Aug 22, 2016
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Walter Roban
Rio 2016 been filled with #BlackGirlMagic: the 28 million people on average who watched daily in prime time and the tens of millions who streamed the Games online saw our screens and Twitter timelines filled with stellar moments of achievement by Afr...
DATE: Aug 19, 2016
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A few weeks ago, I started to think that I had mistakenly walked into the men’s locker room. Wrong: as it turns out, I had merely arrived at the national security conference at which I was scheduled to speak, and my fellow panellists — all men — were...
DATE: Aug 18, 2016
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The phrase, “all politics is local” is a common phrase in US politics. The former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tip O’Neill is most closely associated with this phrase — Wikipedia.com
If one wishes to be involved in politics i...
DATE: Aug 18, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
