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About 20 years ago; wait, was it 30 years ago?
Losing track of time.
About 30 years ago, an elder by the name of Manders Ingham took me under his wing to teach me about motor mechanics.
I guess that was the bait.
What he really ended up teaching me w...
DATE: Nov 06, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
It was 30 years ago that Clarance “Nicky” Saunders set the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth Games alight with his glorious, record-breaking performance in the men’s high jump in Auckland, New Zealand.
Nicky was competition-ready; he was in the best ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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Election Day began with a nation clenching its fist. Trying not to cry; ready to fight.
And desperate to breathe a sigh of relief.
The citizenry was pulled taut across the political divide: the left with their “vote” masks and the right with their MA...
DATE: Nov 05, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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OK, in the context of levelling the playing field for Bermuda politics, let's say the war was won. Now Bermuda must win the peace.
I recall the famous author D.H. Lawrence at the end of the First World War complaining about the horrible tools of war...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Khalid Wasi
Sooner or later, absent some kind of mass-extinction event, humankind will establish itself there: on the Moon. On Mars. Among the asteroids. Someday, even on planets orbiting distant stars.
There isn’t — or at least shouldn’t be — anything controver...
DATE: Nov 03, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Thomas L. Knapp
Societies around the world, including Bermuda, are engaged in a struggle to promote values such as honesty, decency, truth and dignity in the face of distractions on a scale never experienced before.
As if that was not enough, along came a global pa...
DATE: Oct 31, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Joe Biden has argued that President Donald Trump didn't so much build a strong economy as inherit one. It's good line, but it ignores the successes, at least before the pandemic, of Trump's unconventional policy. If Biden is elected president, he sho...
DATE: Oct 30, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Karl W. Smith
A few months ago, while we still were meeting in person, a senior parliamentarian stood to his feet in the House of Assembly and spoke, ever so briefly, on a topic of great importance.
He spoke of the Common Room, which is a rather large room on the ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
The United States has experienced two periods of Reconstruction – in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and during the 1950s and 1960s. During these two eras, the nation attempted to confront a history of racial injustice and exploitation, corr...
DATE: Oct 29, 2020
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
David A. Love
Some sports stars dazzle on the pitch or earn headlines for their after-hours antics. Others lend their names to good causes. But it's unusual for a player in his early prime to take on a government as Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has do...
DATE: Oct 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Therese Raphael
