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“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers” African Proverb
In a perfect world, Bermuda’s leaders could sit down, work together and focus on the best interests of our people. And sometimes that is what happens: we find common ground and we ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2019
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Michael Weeks
Michael Weeks, in a recent opinion, accused the One Bermuda Alliance of being revisionist. I thought it was a wonderful piece of deflection — the Progressive Labour Party’s usual modus operandi, which ordinarily is not worth the time it takes to read...
DATE: Apr 22, 2019
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“A classic in its own right.” “Changed the game.” “Flawless.” That is just some of the effusive enthusiasm that greeted Beyoncé’s cover of Before I Let Go. The song is a bonus track on her live album, Homecoming, which was released — unexpectedly — w...
DATE: Apr 22, 2019
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I was in the car, scrolling through the radio for news on Sunday when I learnt that the fist-pumping Tiger Woods of old had returned, winning his fifth Masters to wild applause from the crowd at Augusta National. I could envision him in his familiar ...
DATE: Apr 18, 2019
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Can a single edifice define a city? Notre Dame cathedral may well be the one truly definitive monument in the world.
Even as images of the devastating fire began to circulate, commentators were pointing out that Notre Dame stands at the dead centre o...
DATE: Apr 17, 2019
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Early Friday morning, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled that Alabama could execute Christopher Lee Price. In dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer took an unusual step: he criticised his colleagues for not meeting in person before resolving the appeal,...
DATE: Apr 16, 2019
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Of all Julian Assange’s undoubted talents, maybe his greatest gift is the ability to make enemies. He trusts, likes and respects almost no one. He falls out with his friends and disgusts his opponents. Now that he has been dragged kicking and shoutin...
DATE: Apr 15, 2019
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Maria Benn was a larger-than-life personality best known for her charity fundraisers and for the block parties she staged for the children in her back-of-town neighbourhood.
A self-made businesswoman, she had overcome a tough childhood, but had no ch...
DATE: Apr 15, 2019
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We have seen what we thought was unseeable,” the astronomer said, like someone who knows history’s ear is pressed against the door. He stood in the hushed attention of the room in Washington as he called up the image on the screen behind him.
You kn...
DATE: Apr 13, 2019
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Julian Assange was marched out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London yesterday, videos of his arrest showing what looks like a cranky, beleaguered version of Santa Claus. Or, depending on your perspective, a tired, down-on-his-luck burglar...
DATE: Apr 12, 2019
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