Articles Archive for October 2011
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Ryan Adams
Ashes & Fire
(Capitol/PAX AM)
“Dirty Rain” and “Ashes & Fire” begin the album with a similarity and difference in their sounds and lyrics. “Dirty Rain” is a song filled with sorrow but gives a motion of moving forward. The tracks continue in a sombre tone that always has an undertone of moving on. “Do I Wait” embodies the album’s soberness in its entirety, while having “Chains of Love” immediately after raises the feeling towards optimism. After the album’s midpoint, the tracks seem to lack intensity and the album drifts from …
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Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21)
Autumn is your time to rule, so get out there and have some fun this Halloween season. A word of caution though: your leader-takes-all personality might get on a few peoples’ nerves. Avoid angry-looking Freddy Kruger types who might be packing a little more than some rubber claws this All Hallows, as situations could devolve into your worst nightmare. If partying is your thing, be careful of one-nighters and random hook-ups, with Mars shining bright in the sky, condoms are definitely advised: it’s your …
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A – is for Antenna. Ours is a piece of shit.
B – is for Board. Mixing board, to be more specific. Our current board is 15 years old. We think.
C – is for CD Players. *Error 200.* ‘Nuff said.
D – is for Diarrhoea. Every Fundrive, we get supplied coffee and other various bits of junk food. It’s a fact of life.
E – is for Evolution. In order for something to develop, it must experience change over time. Because CKXU is as much of an organic entity as any complex living …
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We just wanted to express our disappointment with Zack Moline and the Student’s Council for their inept handling of the U-Pass. We are (or at least most of us) strongly in favour of having a fair U-Pass on our campus but we are disappointed in the poor negotiating done by the Student’s Council. The City of Lethbridge will make close to a million dollars a year from this without any guarantees of service increases, improved bus times or a fair opt out clause. This was an atrociously negotiated deal done …
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Mr. Yeoman’s response is an artfully woven integration of false assertions and misrepresentations that might easily take in anyone who has never studied the case. They might not know that the buildings were designed to withstand even multiple impacts from Boeing 707s, very similar to Boeing 767s, or that most of the jet fuel was consumed in those massive fireballs. The modest fires that remained burned neither hot enough, nor long enough to cause the steel to weaken, much less melt. And if they had, then their effects would have …








