Bermuda -- has pleaded with critics of the law not to campaign for a rethink.

---- Page 2 TOURISM EFFORT GETS UNDER WAY TOU Tourism effort gets under way LONDON -- The Island's selling effort in London got off the ground yesterday despite a subway workers' strike which threatened to derail the exhibitors' hopes. ---- Page 3 SOCCER VIOLENCE REARS AGAIN SOC Soccer violence rears again Violence surfaced in football on the weekend with a player attacking his coach in a Commercial League B Division match at Shelly Bay, forcing referee Glynn Gilbert to abandon the match. ---- Sport, Page 21 STAPLES HALTS DIVIDENDS BUC Staples halts dividends In the face of severe financial difficulties, office and medical supply company Staples Holdings has suspended payment of preferred share dividends.

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