The Great Man
(Doubleday. 320 pages)
by Kate Christensen
The great man at the center, and in the title, of Kate Christensen's latest novel never appears in a single scene.
He is Oscar Feldman, a New York painter who embodies all the cliches of the ...
NEW YORK (AP) Stocks surged yesterday as solid results in the technology arena and renewed demand for risky debt soothed investors a day after the Federal Reserve said the economy should keep expanding.
However, a late-day plunge and recovery reveale...
Premier Ewart Brown congratulated Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on 45 of years of independence.
In a letter to the Prime Minister he wrote: ""Bermuda and Jamaica have a history of people transplanted from the other's shores.
"Many Jam...
Have you ever wondered why so many adults spend so much time worrying about money? Why do millions of adults get up every morning and go to work for eight or ten hours a day? Why are news shows and newspapers so full of economic news? Why do married ...
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) Rupert Murdoch has enough support to complete his $5 billion purchase of Dow Jones & Co. after Bancroft family members controlling at least 38 percent of the company agreed to a sale, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Shares of D...
July 28
Department of Youth, Sports & Recreation Summer Day Camp 2007 presents Camp-A-Rama
The theme is 'Uniquely Us' at Bernard Park at 6 p.m. Free admission. Refreshments on sale. Rain venue is Whitney Institute Auditorium.
Community of Africans i...
... If the torrent of water was not bad enough, the surge of ignorant speculation as to its causes has added to the misery of the season. Numerous commentators and supposed "experts" have asserted that the flooding is proof of global warming. Much th...
Unfair restrictions
July 20, 2007
Dear Sir,
Thank you for shining light on the unfair restrictions recently imposed on Bermudians with expatriate spouses regarding owning property in Bermuda. The Department of Immigration's sluggish turnaround for l...
Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, on the earthquake:
Monday’s earthquake off the Sea of Japan demonstrated anew the vulnerability of nuclear power plants when nature unleashes its fury. The temblor had an intensity of upper 6 on the Japanese seismic scale of 7.
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Today
Historical Heartbeats Lecture ‘A War Trilogy’ 1776, 1812 and 1861: The Bermuda-America Connection 7 p.m. at St. Peter’s Church Hall. Talk by Andrew Bermingham and James Smith. Short performance by Ms Connie Dey. Free. Light refreshments served....
