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HEDGE funds are being blamed for just about every ill of the financial markets in 2007.Aggressive, unregulated and secretive, these powerful investment pools employ any strategy they wish to try to make money for high-net-worth individuals unafraid o...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — When a woman I knew wanted to upgrade the air conditioning in her apartment, I had my very own Tocqueville moment.The contractor put in a unit and got an earful: It wasn't cold enough. He put in another and got a temper tantrum...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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The poetry of Jane Downing gets to the very heart of Bermudian-ness, exploring everything from bay grape trees to "ship racks" of the heart.
"There's no rest for the lover of, Cherry Trees in Season" begins one of her eight poems published in the Ber...
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MR Onions pub will go out with a bang tonight as loyal customers pile down to toast their favourite watering hole which is shutting after 23 years in business.Based in Atlantic House, which is earmarked for office development, the pub’s managers Phil...
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SOME time ago, I wrote of the “Nigerian scam”, an unending series of e-mail attempts to extract people’s personal details so that their assets could be stolen. Just this week, a superb example of the genre surfaced, albeit having nothing to do with N...
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The following are editorial opinions from newspapers from around the world which may be of interest to Royal Gazette readers.The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash., on working mothersMommy guilt leads to mommy studies, and a recent one is receiving a colle...
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) — Darrin McMahon still cannot define happiness after spending six years researching and writing a book about it.While that’s been a frustration, the Florida State University history professor said it’s also what gives happin...
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CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — Gabriel Garcia Marquez delighted his language’s guardians — as well as a king and eight current and former presidents — with a classic story about being a starving writer: how he managed to finish what many consider the gre...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange’s main index ended lower as energy and financial issues dropped, due partly to quarter-end profit-taking.The S&P/TSX composite index closed down 92.52 points, or 0.7 percent, at 13,165.50. The benchmark ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Before Wednesday, few could have imagined the names “Oprah Winfrey” and “Cormac McCarthy” appearing in the same sentence.McCarthy, one of the country’s most revered and press-shy authors — a man only slightly more accessible than J.D....
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