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Schoolyard fights are rarely front page news in Bermuda or anywhere else.
But the controversy that has surrounded this newspaper's reporting of a fight in Hamilton between a Berkeley Institute student and her counterpart from Warwick Academy, while a...
DATE: Feb 27, 2009
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Recently while walking toward the main bus depot next to the City Hall in Hamilton, I noticed a group of students led by a girl, who seemed rather agitated. The group went past me and as they did so, some of the language being used would have made a ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2009
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Tough questions
February 20, 2009
Dear Sir,
Considering the lack of influence that I have on segregationists in Bermuda, my own country, a (Christian?) democracy (?), what makes Uncommon Sense (Royal Gazette, February 18) think that it would be worth...
DATE: Feb 26, 2009
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BOSTON — I am not one of these people who stay chirpily focused on the silver lining when the clouds gather over my head. So I have been vaguely put off by all those peppy articles lauding the upside of the down economy.
You know the ones I mean. You...
DATE: Feb 26, 2009
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The following opinion piece by Yale Law School professor and novelist Stephen L. Carter appeared in yesterday's New York Times. We republish it in full here:
Just weeks before taking the oath of office in 1861, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd in Pi...
DATE: Feb 26, 2009
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CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's referendum win puts him closer to his goal of ruling for another decade or more, but he has to tackle economic woes and violent crime before speeding up his socialist revolution.
As the tumbling ...
DATE: Feb 26, 2009
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WASHINGTON — It's reaching the point where desperate measures — brutal honesty and complete transparency — may be the only way to bring the economy out of its kamikaze dive. If so, this won't be pretty.
A certain amount of legerdemain is designed int...
DATE: Feb 25, 2009
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So far, this newspaper has been fairly critical of the 2009 Budget, both for the breaches of some of the "golden rules" of Bermuda Budgets and for Government's failure to rein in spending. This newspaper continues to maintain that dipping into the Si...
DATE: Feb 25, 2009
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Cycle parking dilemma
February 19, 2009
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I am writing to express my extreme dismay over how little the powers that be care about Bermudians. Every time construction occurs, bike parking seems to be the first to disappear. The buzzword of the...
DATE: Feb 25, 2009
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Today in Bermuda's history
In 2004, HSBC, one of the world's largest banks, announced it was buying the Bank of Bermuda for $1.3 billion.
DATE: Feb 25, 2009
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