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Issue 1079

14th Feb 1997
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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 5.30pm Fitness Club (Regular) STEP Aerobics (advanced), Southside Gym 7.30 pm Tamil Society Valentine Special

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Fair fares derailed by Underground privatisation

Speculation that London Underground is to be privatised has intensified this week, following a report that it may be sold whole to a single company. This might lead to fare increases and scotch plans to introduce cheaper fares for students. An article in Monday’s edition of The Independent claims

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Deaths were ‘avoidable’

An official report on last year’s meningitis outbreak at Cardiff University has suggested that the deaths of two 19-year-old students could have been avoided had mass vaccination been implemented, and has suggested a review of national guidelines. Last year, seven students contracted meningitis between October and December.

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The Latest Score

It was third time lucky for England cricketers this week as they trounced the Kiwi’s, there is even the slight possibility we might win an overseas series if things can be wrapped up Christchurch. Atherton seems to have evaded the chop temporarily and will no doubt walk out for

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She's the one

Cunningly timed to be released on Valentine’s Day, She’s the One, is the story of the ‘fighting Fitzpatricks’, an Irish-American family of men wrestling with infidelity and their muddled philosophies on life and love. Mickey (Edward Burns) is content to be a lay-about, care-free bachelor

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Simon Baker - Voice of Reason

Everything seemed fairly quiet on the medical front a few weeks ago. The BMS was rising majestically and on schedule (after a fashion), and little had been heard from St Mary’s. Then news came of a deal struck by the medics to secure direct funding from College to the

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Love lost, race won

Certainly the muddiest course in the London Colleges league, Guildford provided a tough race, especially for Zola Budd who lost her shoe in the ploughed fields. There was also disappointment for Yellow-Arse, whose soap-opera love saga with his ex-girlfriend finally ended when she did not even turn

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Something different this summer?

So, what are you going to do this summer? Get a naff job in your home town? Not very exciting is it? Perhaps you might like to do something different ? Well, last summer I made that choice and I spent three months in America working at an American summer camp.

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Resurgent fourths surge forth

The scoreline does not reflect story behind this game, in which the fourths produced one of the most tremendous comebacks of the modern era to win three-two. This truly was the greatest morale-boosting victory this season, with a script that would have pleased The Bard himself - at the

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Science at the heart of Paris

Five years ago Angela Barr took a ferry to France (there was no Eurostar then) and made her way to the School of Physics and Chemistry in the Latin quarter of Paris. She had come to study physics for a year as part of her degree at Imperial College. Sarah

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Thursday 20th 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 1pm Consoc Meeting (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Fell Wanderers (Regular) Southside Upper Lounge 1pm Gliding Club Room 266 Aero. Eng (Follow signs

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Vicious - Etcetera Theatre

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go and see this play because it didn’t really sound like my kind of thing: "An exploration of contemporary drag and gay culture". I usually go for things like Les Miserables or Sunset Boulevard. The theatre turned out to

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