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“If you want to test a man’s character, give him power”
These cautionary words, attributed to President Abraham Lincoln in 1883, still hold true today. And history is scarred with similar warnings.
Power is a responsibility not to be taken lightly....
DATE: Mar 13, 2020
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On Monday afternoon, Amherst College notified every student that they had one week to pack up and leave campus, with the expectation that they would not be back until next school year. Anyone who wanted to stay could fill out a petition, but there wa...
DATE: Mar 12, 2020
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Among the key skills required in politics are a capacity to master a brief and the art of sounding competent in uttering its chief points.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has neither skill, which is a matter of concern because his country, alon...
DATE: Mar 11, 2020
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If you want a capsule — a vision, really — of the cosmic incoherence of the American gun movement, the appearance last month of an 11-year-old girl before the Idaho state legislature is tough to beat. Bailey Nielsen accompanied her grandfather, Charl...
DATE: Mar 09, 2020
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For too long politics has played too big a role in education, a situation that must change if our youth are to achieve their potential and reach the educational heights needed in today’s world.
With that in mind, it is now clear that we desperately n...
DATE: Mar 07, 2020
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In celebration of International Women’s Day on Sunday, we summarise the accomplishments of five women who helped make a difference to Bermuda in the 20th century.
Adele Tucker was born in 1868 in Warwick and became a teacher after training at the Col...
DATE: Mar 06, 2020
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Votes are still being counted on Super Tuesday and they will continue to be counted for several days, especially in California and Colorado. The details of the final results will matter. But from what is in now and what good projections suggest, it i...
DATE: Mar 05, 2020
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I extended my hand to the woman with whom I’d been chatting for the past few minutes. “I’m Virginia,” I said. To my surprise, she responded not with a handshake, but with a closed fist. A white woman of a certain age, she was incongruously going for ...
DATE: Mar 04, 2020
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With the end of February comes the end of the early delegate-selection events, which are dominated by spin and stories and knocking out candidates. Now we come to the events, beginning with Super Tuesday today, in which what matters more than anythin...
DATE: Mar 03, 2020
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Pandemics come and pandemics go. In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling.
Over the coming months, it’s likely that a significant share of the world’s population will exper...
DATE: Mar 02, 2020
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