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LONDON (Reuters) - Tough new rules for pubs and clubs — including a ban on drinking games like the infamous "dentist's chair" — will be introduced in Britain this year in a bid to curb a heavy drinking culture that costs the country billions of pound...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Is this tradition "nevermore"?
A mysterious visitor who left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on the writer's birthday failed to show early yesterday, breaking with a ritual that began more than 60 years ago...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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The Bermuda Autism Support and Education Society will hold a casino-themed fund-raiser next month. 'Casino Royale: Roll the Dice for Autism' will take place on February 6 at Penno's Wharf, St. George's.
Free cocktails will be served starting at 7 p.m...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett, who committed most of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shares to charity, is speeding the pace at which he reduces his ownership stake with the $26 billion takeover of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
The ...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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The Bermuda Festival for the Performing Arts kicks off tonight with an old favourite, the award winning Soweto Gospel Choir.
Lead singer Sipokazi Nxumalo, 26, told The Royal Gazette that in the four years since the group last visited, they have grown...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Congratulations to:
Kristen Gibbons of Fork Lane, Southampton whose birthday was yesterday.
Lavette Phillips Fuentes of Somerset whose birthday was yesterday.
Nevilena Tucker of Pembroke whose birthday is today.
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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The Progressive Labour Party field will be thrown wide open before the next General Election after changes to party rules got the go-ahead at Alaska Hall.
Any PLP members who meet certain criteria — such as a background in public service — will now b...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Tim Smith
Two overseas experts have congratulated Bermuda's citizens for commenting on a proposed freedom of information law in their hundreds.
The Cabinet Office revealed yesterday that 530 submissions have so far been received from organisations and individu...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Zander and Jesse Kirkland finished 15th at the 2010 North American 49er Championships hosted by the Miami Yacht Club. And now the Bermuda brothers are gearing up for next week's Rolex Miami Olympic Class Regatta which also will be sailed on the water...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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Laura Neuman has travelled the world and seen a lot of transparency laws as part of her job as access to information project manager for the Carter Center in the States.
But she has never known a country respond in the way Bermuda did when asked to c...
DATE: Jan 20, 2010
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AUTHOR:
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