darragh murray

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Archive for August, 2008

Many of the more conservative university students at the University of Queensland celebrated the end of compulsory fees a few years back. When I was a young undergraduate, I would have been celebrating with them – after all, I didn’t use the UQ Union, or the sporting clubs, why should I have to pay?
It [...]

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Arsenal 2008/2009 season - Some thoughts

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

As you may or may not know, I’m quite an Arsenal fan boy, and with the new season about to begin football news and views on how the Gunners will go this season are available in bountiful quantities.
While there are the usual hopes and dreams at the beginning of each season, there have been [...]

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

In the google quotes widget today, I discovered this…

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. - Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal’s TV listing for “The Wizard of Oz”.

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23877.html

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Well, it took me some months but I finally plowed through ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez, the novel which won the Columbian author the Nobel Prize. Touted as one of the greatest reads of the twentieth century, I feel so-so about it. It has to be said that there is some [...]

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