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7th Feb 1997
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Martine Girault

When I picked this up I didn’t know what I would be presented with, but the word soul really intrigued me. What I got was really quite simply brilliant. An album that refuses to be pigeon-holed, I attempted to fit it to some sort of musical category salsa, latin,

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Grubby Miners on strike as The Slags heap on the humiliation

With the seconds glorious run of two wins stopped dead in its tracks by St Mary’s on Wednesday, the signs looked ominous for our heroes. The opposition were the league leaders, Royal School of Mines, who had won nine out of ten thus far; two of our centre-halves were

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The Weekly Poem

"We will protect you, help you see." "Protect us from what?", said we. "From a world of sin and degradation, Torture sod humiliation, Diseases, hatred, open sores, Look at chew and see them pour Their badness into humankind. They capture them and make them blind

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Sidi Bou Said

I’d always been led to think that Sidi Bou Said were some sort of girl three piece punkette band, destined to gig around London year after year, and yet remain terminally underground in status. So the fact that their third album Obsessive comes with something as gimmicky as a

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Friday 14th February

1pm Hamsoc (Regular) Top Floor, Union Building 1pm Photo Soc (Regular) Southside Lounge 1.10pm Islamic Soc (Regular) Friday Prayer, Southside Gym. (Brothers and Sisters) 1.15pm Labour CLub (Regular) Southside upper Lounge 1.30pm Felix Reviews and Science meeting 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym

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Wednesday 12th February

12.30pm Islamic Society (Regular) Sister’s Circle, Prayer Room, Southside 12.45pm Sporting Motorcycle Club Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Wargames (Regular) Table Tennis Room, Union Building 1pm IC Rifle and Pistol Club (Regular) Join up and shoot. Check on range door for details about safety induction, Sports Centre 1pm

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Sabbatical election season kicks off

The sabbatical election season got off to a slow start this week with only two nominations being posted by the time Felix went to press. Papers for nominations for the sabbatical elections went up outside the Union Office in the Beit Quad Union Building on Monday morning and will remain

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Internet Junkie

This week we turn our eye to film resources on the web. First off is the Internet Movie Database at http://uk.imdb.com/ This heaven for online film-buffs was started as a growing archive of reviews of Hollywood films but has grown into something far superior. According to its

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Built To Spill

The synopsis of Fly Away Home is that of a typical Saturday morning Disney-esque adventure film. Amy, a 13 year old living in New Zealand, is involved in a car crash in which her mother is killed. As a result she is forced to live with her estranged father in

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Glaxo-Wellcome to pull out of research in UK

Glaxo-Wellcome, a major funder of many research projects at UK universities, has signal its intention to shift more of its funding to overseas institutions. The company currently supplies nearly a quarter of all medical research funding in the UK The company blames the poor research facilities at some universities as

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Nu Yorican Soul

It’s interesting to see how fame and success can affect the number of roadies a band has and what they have to do do get set up and then pack up at the end. A band would score points for things like this and we’d get a league

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Thursday 13th February

12pm Amnesty International (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge, e-mail s.trivedi or ns.trasi@ic.ac.uk 12.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) Body Toning (beginners), Southside Gym. All welcome 1pm Consoc Meeting (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Fell Wanderers (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Gliding Club Room 266 Aero. Eng (Follow

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