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It’s most poignant that Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter. During his prodigious basketball career, that flying vehicle became a symbol of his persistent greatness and the urgency he always felt.
He didn’t have much time for traffic or any other limit...
DATE: Jan 28, 2020
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Some 25 years ago, a debate was raging in America about the power of words. The argument was this: do words matter?
William Raspberry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at The Washington Post whose articles occasionally appeared in The Royal Gazet...
DATE: Jan 27, 2020
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Scott Pearman
What’s the medical breakthrough that could save the most lives over the next ten years? In the 2020s, medical research will likely inch forward when it comes to major killers such as heart disease and cancer. But the biggest potential to save lives c...
DATE: Jan 27, 2020
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Faye Flam
Harry S. Truman, the US president between 1945 and 1953, once said: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
Too often we are focused on who is solving a problem and who gets the credit.
The global climate crisi...
DATE: Jan 23, 2020
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“Party like a Russian — end of discussion,” go the lyrics to a song Robbie Williams was asked not to sing at the opening of the 2018 World Cup in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting out the line: just five days after he announced a maj...
DATE: Jan 23, 2020
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May I respond to Jan-Ann Martin who critiqued, in The Royal Gazette of January 13, my overlong comments on the proposed government health reforms?
First, it is worth noting and recording that Bermuda does come out reasonably well by comparison with o...
DATE: Jan 22, 2020
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The Britain-European Union trade talks have not started officially, but both sides are testing out negotiating lines. Britain is already colouring some of them red, setting up a fight this year that will encompass the three Fs: fish, financial servic...
DATE: Jan 22, 2020
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Therese Raphael
The World Economic Forum, the most concentrated gathering of wealth and power on the planet, will begin once again amid a natural fortress of snow and ice in the Swiss Alps. President Donald Trump is jetting in for a scheduled address. Dozens of othe...
DATE: Jan 21, 2020
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On November 14, 2019, The Royal Gazette published a column titled “A new vision of prosperity is needed”, which was written by Khalid Wasi.
Mr Wasi has informed The Royal Gazette that in that column he did not accurately portray Robert Pires’s comme...
DATE: Jan 20, 2020
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In light of the news regarding Bermuda’s 2020 Rhodes Scholar, I am forced to consider the legacy of Cecil Rhodes and whether it is reconcilable to accept an opportunity founded upon a legacy of genocide and colonialism. I post these thoughts not in d...
DATE: Jan 17, 2020
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