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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Some Bermuda and US commercial insurers may have their ratings outlooks lowered to "negative" by Standard & Poor's in the second half of this year as declining prices threaten to squeeze underwriting profitability,
"Our overrid...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Dutch shipping company negotiated with Somali pirates Tuesday, seeking the release of nine crew members on a freighter that was hijacked in the latest attack on merchant shipping off the coast of Somalia.
Lars Walder, spokesman for...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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HARRISVILLE, Michigan — Every summer, when I tell friends that my family is bailing out of steamy Washington D.C. to head for the beach, they assume we're off to Rehoboth or Dewey in Delaware, or another one of the usual suspects on the Atlantic Ocea...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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Prizes for the the Bermuda Day Half-Marathon Derby will be handed out this Friday evening at the Leopards Club, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
Overall male winners
Overall Time Pace
1 Christopher Estwanik 1 1:08:2 5 5:13 2 Lamont Marshall 2 1:12:31 5:32...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sydney Pollack was remembered yesterday as a generous, unpretentious talent by the elite actors he directed in films such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie" and "Absence of Malice."
Pollack, diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago, ...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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Bermudian Michael Cash has landed his first major role since being hit with a $130,000 fine by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for allegedly taking part in a "sham transaction" to smooth earnings when senior executive of a subsidiary ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Sheen became "fanatic" when his son Charlie was using drugs.
"When a life is at stake and it's your child, you become fearless in a lot of ways. I mean, you just become fanatic," the 67-year-old actor says in the July/August...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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Edward Rance has been named Bermuda's Rhodes Scholar for 2008 by the Bermuda Rhodes Scholarship selection committee.
Mr. Rance, who graduated from Saltus Grammar School in 2003, has gone on to complete the International Baccalaureate at Sevenoaks Sch...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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A trespasser who admitted entering a home to eat food received a three year suspended jail sentence in Magistrates' Court.
Wayne George Tyrell, 34, of no fixed address and an admitted heroin addict, received the sentence, suspended for 24 months, aft...
DATE: May 28, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street advanced in uneven trading yesterday after a drop in oil prices and an unexpected gain in new home sales encouraged investors to put money back into the market.
Stocks picked up momentum late in the session as oil prices d...
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