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The controversy over home schools, which has been extensively covered in The Royal Gazette this week, raises serious questions about how these institutions should be governed.
The rise in home schooling is part of a worldwide trend, caused in large p...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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The wrong signal
May 7, 2002
Dear Sir,
I have spent a week now on your Island and felt I must write to you concerning the need to add a service charge to your restaurant bills without the customer asking for it. I was really concerned when I had lunc...
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Just when you thought the comedy of errors known as Bermuda's TV service couldn't get any worse, it did over this weekend's World Cup coverage.
The issue itself is reasonable clear-cut. the Bermuda Broadcasting Company bought the rights to broadcast ...
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WASHINGTON The prospect of a bloody war, with no prize worth the tens of thousands of American lives it would cost, can make you a little nervous. I’m getting a little nervous.
It isn’t that I doubt the ability of America’s fighting forces to take o...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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Southside is secure
May 17, 2002
Dear Sir,
This is a letter from a friend.
Some years ago, citing security fears in our tiny Island, you moved the offices of the Consulate from central Hamilton to a zoned residential area. Local businesses would not ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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VISITOR’S VIEWThe wrong signal May 7, 2002
Dear Sir,I have spent a week now on your Island and felt I must write to you concerning the need to add a service charge to your restaurant bills without the customer asking for it. I was ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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The extraordinary upsurge in home schooling around the Island is a powerful demonstration of the lack of confidence that many parents have in public education.
So it is not surprising that home school teachers and parents are wary about the alleged p...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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Just when you thought the comedy of errors known as Bermuda’s TV service couldn’t get any worse, it did over this weekend’s World Cup coverage.
The issue itself is reasonable clear-cut. the Bermuda Broadcasting Company bought the rights to broadcast ...
DATE: Jun 04, 2002
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New Yorkers have two questions about pretty much anything. The first is "Does it come in black?" And the second is "How close is it to Midtown?" Maybe it's the answer to the second question that makes the Brooklyn Botanical Garden such a well-kept se...
DATE: Jun 03, 2002
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The Queen today celebrates 50 years on the throne of the United Kingdom and its colonies.
The world today is a completely different one from the one that she entered as a world figure on her ascension to the throne.
The already shrinking empire that ...
DATE: Jun 03, 2002
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