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An article in Thursday’s Lifestyle Bookworm Beat misstated the distance that Carol Grant Sullivan, author of “Fall Line” fell from the Andes Mountains. She fell 2,000 feet. “Fall Line” is now available in Bermuda book stores.
DATE: Jun 30, 2007
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Today in HistoryToday is Saturday, June 30, the 181st day of 2007. There are 184 days left in the year.
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In 1934, during Germany’s “Night of the Long Knives”, Adolf Hitler purged political rivals including stormtrooper leader Ernst Roehm ...
DATE: Jun 30, 2007
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Let's enjoy Celebration
June 29, 2007
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Tomorrow's sold-out US Independence Day Celebration will be at Moresby Plain near Dockyard from 5-10 p.m. We are expecting 5,000 guests. So let me strongly encourage all confirmed guests (and all confi...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Premier Dr. Ewart Brown is taking a lot of stick at the moment, but no one would deny that he has been a successful Minister of Tourism, with 2006 seeing a strong improvement in arrivals and with the first quarter of this year showing double digit pe...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Hector has never been particularly taken with the Premier’s nickname ‘Doc Hollywood’, coined after a little-known Michael J Fox film, and no doubt a play on Dr. Brown’s love of the celebrity trappings of bodyguards, motorcades and constant travel. Bu...
DATE: Jun 29, 2007
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Silence please, Dr. Brown
June 9, 2007
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Dr. Brown 'Premier" is getting to sound 'sillier and sillier'. Every time he opens his mouth he puts his foot in it and lets the PLP members down. I thought he was a well educated man and I am sorry f...
DATE: Jun 28, 2007
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Tony Blair’s long goodbye as British Prime Minister ended yesterday as he formally resigned and turned over power to Gordon Brown.
An enormous amount has been written about his decade-long tenure at No. 10 Downing Street, and historians will no doubt...
DATE: Jun 28, 2007
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Challenges facing blacks
June 22, 2007
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I am not running for Parliament so I am not looking for votes. No one in the PLP has done me any favours so I am not about party politics. I have one concern and owe my allegiance only to the black com...
DATE: Jun 27, 2007
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It's not often that this newspaper comments on sports on the editorial page, but the Bermuda Hogges' first ever victory on Monday night against the New Hampshire Phantoms at the National Sports Centre deserves attention.
The team's first season in th...
DATE: Jun 27, 2007
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Works Minister Dennis Lister deserves a great deal of credit for his response to allegations from a former Kindley Air Force Base worker who claims that he buried and burned Vietnam War-era defoliant Agent Orange and other chemicals at the Base in th...
DATE: Jun 27, 2007
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