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Suspect in the extreme
December 14, 2008
Dear Sir,
I don't think I have ever been so incensed by what happened in my Parliament on December 12. We hear and read of The Honourable Gentleman. Honourable indeed! What a sham that is.
The speed with which...
DATE: Dec 30, 2008
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Time for a fresh start
December 23, 2008
Dear Sir,
As the New Year approaches, many of us are making plans for our 'fresh starts'. I would just like to encourage Bermuda as a whole to also approach 2009 with a new outlook. Our island has had its ups ...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
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BOSTON — I was doing fine until I saw the rocking chairs. My attacks of Bush-bashing were in remission. I told myself it was time to move on, to embrace the change you can believe in and, well, you get the idea.
So when the president — he's still the...
DATE: Dec 29, 2008
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WASHINGTON — Understanding isn't the same as forgiving. The history-be-my-judge interviews that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been giving recently help me understand why they acted with such contempt for our Constitution and our value...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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Install speed traps
December 23, 2008
Dear Sir,
It still amazes me that every time I read your paper it usually involves a cyclist's death or serious accident.
In the USA I live on an island similar in length to Bermuda. One of our "parishes" decided...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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Think of the homeless
December 9, 2008
Dear Sir,
"... Sir, can I have a quarter, just 25 cents so I can buy a cup of coffee?"
"I had nothing to eat, just a coffee!"
"You got some change to spare? Please, for a sandwich, some change you can spare?"
Pl...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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She gave all she had
December 15, 2008
Dear Sir,
In Mark 12:44, Jesus said of the widow's two mites: "She of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living."
On Friday, November 21 and Saturday, November 22, 2008, the Matilda Smith Willia...
DATE: Dec 27, 2008
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December 18, 2008
LOTS of money available for the Premier's Christmas cards, little money for pensions. Why am I shocked but not surprised?
PENSIONER
December 20, 2008
I ASSUME the only reason your newspaper continues to carry Alvin Williams' Commen...
DATE: Dec 26, 2008
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LIKE Henry David Thoreau, the sage of Walden Pond and the prototype naturalist he so deeply admired, Dennis Sherwin heard a different drummer. And like Thoreau he walked in step with this distant music, charting a highly individualistic course throug...
DATE: Dec 26, 2008
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It is an editorial tradition at this time of year to remind the public of some of the Bible's most profound and selfless lessons, notably the golden rule – do unto others as you would have them do unto you – and that we are our brother's keeper.
Ther...
DATE: Dec 24, 2008
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