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Being told that he has bone marrow cancer and may have only months to live has forced PATRICK BEAN, the former Royal Gazette journalist, to take stock of his life and a dark path travelled that he now warns against
“Yea though I walk through the val...
DATE: Jun 07, 2016
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Muhammad Ali, the legend of all sports legends, is gone. His quiet, excruciating, decades-long descent into Parkinson’s disease is over. If there is a champions’ wing in heaven, may he stand peacefully in the middle of it, arms raised, and speak with...
DATE: Jun 06, 2016
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Jerry Brewer
Colby Coash can point to the moment that his evolution in thinking about the death penalty began.
It was September 3, 1994, and Coash — now a conservative senator in the Nebraska legislature but then a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln —...
DATE: Jun 04, 2016
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There is an important, but quiet debate in the economics profession about what leads to big recessions: wealth or debt.
Almost everyone agrees, at this point, that the “Great Recession” of 2007 to 2009 was caused by the financial system. But that lea...
DATE: Jun 03, 2016
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The 2008 global recession. Who would have thought when it started that Bermuda in 2016 would still be feeling the economic effects of it? Why is this? And why did other countries such as the United States come out of recession so quickly by compariso...
DATE: Jun 02, 2016
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No community likes being a minority. In Bermuda, the majority of the population is non-white. For the sake of simplicity, let’s call the non-white population black. This has given the black community a sense of security, even though the economic mach...
DATE: Jun 02, 2016
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Any discussion about the problems in American education — and what is to blame for these problems — will likely include one or all of the usual suspects: inadequate and unequal funding, a lack of resources, underpaid and overworked teachers, over-tes...
DATE: Jun 01, 2016
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College football coaches generally know that as long as their teams win, bringing acclaim and money to their school, their high-paying jobs will be secure. So it was refreshing to see Baylor University live up to the principles it is supposed to teac...
DATE: May 31, 2016
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The Islamic republic of Iran held another Holocaust cartoon festival this month, inviting the usual despicable cast of characters. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif assured the New Yorker that although the event would proceed, Iran would ensure t...
DATE: May 31, 2016
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He was a buccaneering holdover from an earlier era, a figure from the island’s maritime past when it was said “every Bermudian, being born within a mile of the water, was bred amphibious ... white or black, they were all sailors and seafaring to a ma...
DATE: May 31, 2016
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