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The choice of Angela Merkel as the first easterner to serve as chancellor marks a major milestone in Germany’s 15-year struggle to overcome the challenges of unifying the nation at the end of the Cold War.
But her victory has not been reflected in th...
DATE: Oct 12, 2005
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WASHINGTON — I talk to Sylvia Hewlett about her research on corporate underappreciation of black executives and my mind goes back to the 1934 film version of Fannie Hurst’s “Imitation of Life”.Not the part where “Miss Bea” (Claudette Colbert) markets...
DATE: Oct 11, 2005
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Racist then, racist now
October 5, 2005
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During the 1960s, the late Eugene Cox told me that after he got an engineering degree from McGill University, he applied for a job at the Public Works Department and was refused.
He asked why and was ...
DATE: Oct 11, 2005
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Some characters have short shelf lives. Jeeves, the affable-looking butler associated with the Ask Jeeves search engine, will soon be given his walking papers. Trench Coat Guy, who for six years graced our television screens as the low-key spokesman ...
DATE: Oct 11, 2005
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Respect must be earnedOctober 8, 2005
Dear Sir,Let me explain something to Alex Scott. Respect is something that can only be earned. No one owes anyone else respect automatically, it must be earned and justified. No office is automatically deserving ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2005
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Respect must be earned
October 8, 2005
Dear Sir,
Let me explain something to Alex Scott. Respect is something that can only be earned. No one owes anyone else respect automatically, it must be earned and justified. No office is automatically deservin...
DATE: Oct 10, 2005
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These are excerpts from editorials in newspapers from around the world:
Financial Times, London, on Summit of the Americas:
The Summit of the Americas is supposed to reinforce the hemisphere’s commitments to democracy and open markets. It is an oppor...
DATE: Oct 10, 2005
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A quote for the PremierOctober 5, 2005Dear Sir,Please allow me to quote some more Shakespeare to the Premier — “Methinks he doth protest too much”.
JONNY
Somerset
Tired of non-performanceOctober 5, 2005Dear Sir,Last week’s Mid-Ocean News’ article ent...
DATE: Oct 08, 2005
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The story line was a classic: Beauty and the Beast. Remember the Atlanta courthouse shootings a few months ago? Brian Nichols was the ogre whose homicidal rampage led him to the apartment of an attractive young woman named Ashley Smith, who soothed h...
DATE: Oct 08, 2005
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A quote for the Premier
October 5, 2005
Dear Sir,
Please allow me to quote some more Shakespeare to the Premier ? ?Methinks he doth protest too much?.
Tired of non-performance
October 5, 2005
Dear Sir,
Last week?s Mid-Ocean News? article entitled ?I?...
DATE: Oct 08, 2005
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