Project Eyeball, 7 May 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball eyebalLasial,com,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Monday, May 7, 2001 80 CENTS
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      489 1 PULP FICTION PROOF OF LIFE Proof copies have replaced hardbacks as the most influential marketing tool in the world of publishing. Clara Chow has the story. See Page 21 DID TITO GECT A GOOD DEAL? American financier Dennis Tito paid US$2O million to be the world’s first space tourist. John
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      112 2 THE love for football truely knows no bounds: A football Fan of the Year award has been given to a guide dog for his faithful support of Arsenal. Gibson won the award, sponsored by phone company One 2 One, after he proved his fanaticism by going barking mad every
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      87 2 IN OUR Friday issue (May 4), we had reported about a bus on fire at Eu Tong Sen Street headlined “Bus driver prevents tragedy”. It stated that the fire engines were caught in a traffic jam and could not get to the bus in time. The Singapore Civil
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      Lock icon Pirates’ under seige
      346 2  -  Mock battle wows crowds at S’pore Navy’s 34th anniversary celebrations BY EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg THE “pirates” didn’t stand a chance. Bearing in from one direction was a missile gun-boat. Closing in from another was a missile corvette. And before the pirates could react to either, elite naval
      Clarence Chan  -  346 words
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      Lock icon People’s main concern is jobs, says NTUC chief
      300 2 C.P.F. RESTORATION COMES SECOND WORKERS are anxious about retrenchment and layoffs, not about CPF restoration, NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng, told the media yesterday. “Reporters keep asking about CPF. But when I talk to workers and union leaders, they’re not talking about
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Singapore third in new ranking index
        86 2 SINGAPORE has been ranked third in a new measure of success. Its score of 1.63 in the Economic Creativity Index (ECI) puts Singapore ahead of countries like Germany and Japan. Taking top place was the US with an index of 2.02, followed by Finland
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        Lock icon New HDB online resale system
        101 2 HDB-RESALE flat-buyers and sellers now have a simpler and cheaper way to submit their applications: Through the new online e-Resale system at http://www.hdb.gov.sg. Applicants need only go online, apply, and pay the fee using either a credit or cash card. The HDB will send them
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        Lock icon PM sends Vesak Day wishes
        18 2 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong sends his Vesak Day greetings to all Buddhists.
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      331 3 Mprinceto^^ Princeton University’s board of trustees named a senior molecular biology professor Shirley Tilghman, 54, as the Ivy League school’s first woman president in its 255year history. Princeton began admitting women to its undergraduate programmes just 32 years ago in 1969. JERUSALEM Defence Minister Binyamin BenEliezer said yesterday
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      Lock icon KL may scrap student quotas based on race
      469 3 Mahathir warns of ‘brain-drain’ if non-Malays are denied higher education Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia may abolish its race-based quota system for public university places to avoid a “brain drain” of ethnic Chinese and Indians, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said
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      Lock icon Baby bonus for Chinese M’sians
      196 3 $1 K PER CHILD AFP KUALA LUMPUR Ethnic Chinese couples in Malaysia are being offered cash incentives to have larger families, to reverse their declining share of the population. Chinese clan associations are also organising motivational talks to trigger a baby boom, the Sun newspaper
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Scared into loneliness
        1215 4  -  The greatest phobia gripping Singaporeans is to be among people, but fear not, it’s curable BY Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg FOR a small group of Singaporeans, our crowded city is a living hell, because the one thing they fear most is everywhere people. Social phobias take top
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Making TV history
        970 5  -  SPH Media Works launches Singapore’s second Mandarin channel in a glitzy affair BY TAN DAWN WEI dawntan@sph.com.sg TV HISTORY was made yesterday with the launch of a brand new channel Singapore’s second Mandarin channel in 38 years. Channel U is the Mandarin arm of Singapore’s second TV
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      • Monday MUSINGS
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          Lock icon Sitting pretty at the top
          1129 6  -  Determination was key to Jesmine Ho winning World Bowling Master title BY UYEN VU uyen@sph.com.sg SHE may be a super champ but she is all too familiar with having butterflies in her stomach. Her face may take on the steely focus that hushes crowds when
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    • The World
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        Lock icon ‘State of rebellion’ lifted
        568 7 Situation under control, says Arroyo AFP MANILA President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday lifted a week-old “state of rebellion” in the Philippine capital despite an explosion which shattered the calm in the wake of an alleged attempt to topple the government. “The chaos has ceased. “While there
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        Lock icon It’s tit for tat: Taiwan
        309 7 TAIPEI YET TO DECIDE ON HOW MUCH TO SPEND AFP TAIPEI Taiwan’s defence minister Wu Shi-wen has defended Taipei’s arms buildup saying a deterrent was needed in the face of an increased military threat from China. “The purpose of buying advanced weapons is to set
        – AFP  -  309 words
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        Lock icon Flotsam and jetsam
        60 8 Students get set for a race in their recycled boats as part of the Tech-X 2001 fair at the Victor Valley Community College in California on Saturday. The duo constructed their canoe of concrete and used paddles made of bucket parts and plastic pipe. The other boat
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        Lock icon London post office bombed for second time in a month
        382 8 REAL I.R.A. SUSPECTED LONDON Prime Minister Tony Blair’s special Cabinet meeting today to plan for the upcoming elections should include a section on campaign security, after unknown terrorists yesterday bombed a London postal sorting office for the second time in
        – AFP  -  382 words
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        Lock icon Chatting away to bankruptcy
        492 8 Aussie kids go broke over cellphones SYDNEY An Australian state minister wants to help bankrupt teens who can’t seem to stop themselves from racking huge mobile phone bills. New South Wales Fair Trading Minister John Watkins said he plans to take over the control of the
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        Lock icon Legendary train robber to return to Britain
        344 8 Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO Ronald Biggs, one of Britain’s most legendary outlaws, was set to fly home yesterday to certain arrest in Britain after more than 35 years on the run, local police and his spokesman said on Saturday. The 71-year-old fugitive, who
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon It's digital, and it’s art
        578 9 US museum mounts show featuring wonders of high-tech creativity AP NEW YORK A seven-year-old boy stands in front of a large screen on a wall at the Whitney Museum, using what appears to be a joystick to navigate through digital images depicting the various areas
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      • Article
        Lock icon Napster in talks with Microsoft for ‘lock’ on music files
        228 9 ONLINE SWOPPING AFP SAN FRANCISCO Executives at Microsoft and Napster are discussing a plan to incorporate Microsoft’s file security software in the music swopping site, a Napster spokesman confirmed on Friday. A report, which first appeared in the Los Angeles
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Ship ahoy!
        58 10 A flotilla of small craft escorting the world’s newest cruise liner, the Golden Princess, through Calshot Split on the Solent, on its way to Southampton on Saturday. The £3OO million (Ss77o million) ship, which can carry 2,600 passengers and is owned by P&O’s Princess Cruises, will set off
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        539 10 Sotheby’s, Christie’s face uncertain future while Phillips hits where it hurts NYT NEW YORK With their sleek new headquarters, glossy catalogues and aggressive advertising campaigns, Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips appear to be pillars of strength and prosperity. But as their twice-yearly evening sales
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        Lock icon Gyms no longer a luxury in New York buildings
        379 10 NYT NEW YORK Health and fitness centres have gone from being an occasional luxury to a standard amenity in most upscale office buildings in the past few years. “In the past several years, new projects with fitness centres have almost become
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      • Personal FINANCE
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          836 11  -  Financial-planning websites help you save for retirement or children’s education BY Fiona Voon eyeball@sph.com.sg FINANCIAL planning may be all the rage these days, what with markets around the world falling like nine pins. And, you don’t have to be numerate or have to tear
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        Lock icon Volatile market sees investors taking it easy
        546 11 WAITING FOR U.S. ECONOMY TO PICK UP SINGAPORE shares are likely to be range-bound in this holidayshortened week as investors try to ride out volatility in overseas markets and wait for further signs that the US economy is reversing a slowdown. “Investors would
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        Lock icon Personality, not brains
        804 14 ‘Mugging for interviews’ (April 30) THEY’VE got the grades and are outstanding in their co-curricular activities. Yet, for the cream-of-the-crop who apply for prestigious scholarships, it all culminates in a single 20-minute, high-pressure ordeal designed to weed out the weak, said Generation Next writer Fiona Voon last
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      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon Leave it to market forces, says IDA
          297 15  -  DULCIE CHAN Senior manager, Corporate Communications, IDA ‘Magix tops broadband survey 9 (May 1) ‘Broadband system should be taken over by IDA 9 (May 3) A LOT has been happening on the broadband front new players emerging, an expected merger between Starhub and
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          Lock icon Next time, ask for the aisle seat
          758 15  -  BY JOHN LUI johnlui@singnet.com.sg AMERICAN financier Dennis Tito paid US$2O million (Ss36 million) to be the first space tourist. Which makes me wonder if he took enough care in choosing his travel agent. I’m thinking this because every time I meet someone on
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      17 2 To catch a video of the mock naval battle by the RSN on Saturday, go to http://eyeball.asial.coin.sg
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      28 2 Qood morning! Showers in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern and eastern Singapore. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 11.13 AM/2.8M 11.01PM/2.8M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      20 4 For a list of all named phobias, check out http://www.phobialist.com/ index.html To read more about phobias, go to www.time.com/time/ magazine/archive
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      43 9 05.07,01 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET POLIG7I wo iA m wot voug. ive UPGRAPBP... SLBBKBP poww a uv economize?. n* •C=s ive Fixer? my bugs, RBFNBP MY PACKAGE. AWf? POCTORSC? MY lUT£RFA££... VOUG, YOU'ftß IWSAWF! Oi s/ '•poue i. i, you'Rg iMSAwer a:
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      315 12 Hi! I'm Charmaine and I love playing in this colourful sea of balls. Get ready! Here comes the ball! 'm We are glad that our little princess is born and is a part of our family, bringing us lots of joy and happiness. Sylvia Tan for A wonderful smile the
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      205 13 Am I the cutest baby you have ever seen? Goh Siew Hua We proudly announce the arrival of Chua Victor. He is always... "Daddy's dream Mama's joy". Mrs Karen Wong <* After 8 great months, I can stand and walk with support, say "mama" and "dada", have two teeth, eat
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        80 16 AP PURCHASE (New York) Utterly disgusted with his team’s first-round loss to Toronto, Latrell Sprewell met with coach Jeff Van Gundy yesterday to vent his frustrations about the shortcomings of his New York Knick teammates. “Something has to be done as far as getting us some size and
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        77 16 Reuters NEW YORK-Dikembe Mutombo was named recipient of this year’s J Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award on Saturday. The award is presented annually by the Professional Basketball Writers Association to honour exemplary community service. Mutombo, a native of Congo, created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation to assist with efforts to
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        Lock icon Second fastest
        70 16 AFP LOUISVILLE Monarchos exploded down the stretch on Saturday to win the 127th Kentucky Derby, leaving a host of strong contenders in his wake and finishing with the second-fastest time in race history. The grey son of Maria’s Mon, who did not even make his racing debut until
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        63 17 AFP LONDON Coventry City lost their Premiership status after succumbing 2-3 to Aston Villa at Villa Park, bringing to an end 34 years in the top drawer. Moroccan Mustapha Hadji scored twice in six first-half minutes to give the visitors a 2-0 half-time lead. But the home
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        Lock icon Real still leads
        70 17 Ap MADRID Barcelona and Espanyol played out a goalless draw at the weekend, while leader Real Madrid slumped earlier to a 3-0 defeat at Celta de Vigo. Valencia overcame a nine-man Real Sociedad 2-1 in San Sebastian. With five matches left, Madrid has 69 points, nine ahead
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        37 17 Reuters PARIS A goal deep into extra time by substitute Patrick Muller gave Lyon a 2-1 victory over Monaco in the French League Cup final over the weekend and their first trophy in 28 years.
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        Lock icon Baggio hat-tricks
        46 17 Reuters ROME Roberto Baggio scored all the goals in a 3-0 win for Brescia at Lecce in the Serie A on Saturday. His first hat-trick for the club took his tally to eight in the last six league matches and 10 for the season.
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        56 17 AFP ROME Italian champions Lazio have selected Ghanian youngster Daniel Ola for today’s home first division match with Bari. Ola will start the match on the bench. But if he takes to the field, he would become the first black player to play for Lazio in six
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      Lock icon China brushes S Korea aside
      331 16 Second seed wins Asia Cup final in less than two hours AFP CHINA was just too good for South Korea in yesterday’s one-sided Asia Cup final. It won the prestigious US$l7O,OOO (*****,000) tournament 2-0 in less than two hours one of the quickest matches of
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      Lock icon Mavericks meet their match
      218 16 SPURS LOSE ANDERSON SAN ANTONIO The San Antonio Spurs opened the Western Conference semi-finals playoff series with a 94-78 win over the Dallas Mavericks, but suffered dearly when Derek Anderson dislocated his right shoulder. The Spurs guard took a hard foul from Juwan Howard just before
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      95 16 FOOTBALL: With thanks to Gerard Houllier, Liverpool is on the way to restore the pride to the Kop. And an element in the revival is reformed bad-boy Danny Murphy. For an interview with Murphy and the latest on Merseyside, check out http://www.liverpoolfc.tv BASKETBALL: Even after losing Derek Anderson
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      Lock icon Leeds could hold edge
      453 17 Liverpool may not finish third in League to qualify for next Champions League MUCH as you would like Liverpool to qualify for the Champions League next season, Leeds United may just have the last laugh. With two more Premiership matches left to play, Liverpool leads Leeds
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      Lock icon Singapore rugby still in the ruck
      422 17 HONG KONG WHIPS ANCHOR REDS IT WAS an uncharacteristically sedate performance by the Singapore Anchor Reds on Saturday, and they were duly punished with a 26-8 loss by Hong Kong SAR in the Standard Chartered International Series over the weekend. Many had expected the
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  • Unwind
    • The Tube
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        Lock icon The U-ltimate lineup
        297 18 The local television scene was given a star-spangled boost as regional celebrities descended upon our universe for last night's Channel U launch show. JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) and TAN DAWN Wial (dawntan@sph.com.sg) hobnobbed with the luminaries over the weekend. CHANNEL U won’t be content with simply churning out
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        415 19 Pictures: Emannuel Khong and Desmond Wee ‘Winning the competition is definitely a feather in the cap, but what’s more important is learning the ropes and branching out into our respective fortes after the show. But right now, I feel rather ashamed of myself because
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      • Eyeballing TELEVISION
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          Lock icon Thank God, it's Monday!
          665 20 Monday nights will never he the same, conchies. Three comedies will show up on the box which ■ir.AWWAPTT! TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) will help get the week off to a good start. PAIR a nimbus-haired collegiate with a loopy lawyer, cross them with a slapstick six-pack of New
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    • Books
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          Lock icon Les Miz scandal
          72 21 BLOCKBUSTER movies inevitably spawn sequels, bait how about literary classics? A sequel to Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables has caused a huge outcry in France. Cosette, or The Time Of Illusions, by Francois Ceresa, resurrects unbending policeman Javert hero Jean Valjean’s hunter and nemesis in Hugo’s novel. People
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          Lock icon Trilogy bought
          42 21 TERRY PRATCHETT’S fantasy Bromeliad Trilogy will be made into animated movies by Dreamworks SKG. The film rights for novels Truckers, Diggers and Wings were sold for a US$l million (Ssl.B million) deal, and Andrew Adamson and Joe Stillman will helm.
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          Lock icon Shortlist leaked
          83 21 THE Griffin Prize for poetry, Canada’s newest and most lucrative award (worth $95,000), is up to a shaky start in its first year. Last month, its shortlist was leaked The Times Literary Supplement printed the names of the four international and three Canadian finalists before the trustees could
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          109 21 NAOMI KLEIN, the poster girl for anti-globalisation, got lambasted during a meet-the-readers webchat last week, reports The London Telegraph. Fans pressed Klein, author of the best-selling book No Logo, on how 7 much she has earned from its publication. The book was pubished by Harper Collins, owned by capitalist
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        Lock icon Proof of the reading
        745 21 When it comes to hooks, it seems first editions are out, and proof copies are in. They’ve also gained clout as effective promotional tools, as early copies of a much-awaited new novel from VS Naipaul shows. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) checks out the trend. EOPLE can be
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        264 22 Six recent releases make apt reading on Vesak Day. BUDDHISMPLAIN SIMPLE Steve Hagen (Broadway) $18.23 THIS one’s an Edward de Bono for Buddhism. Hagen asserts: “Buddhism is about seeing. It’s also about not being afraid to examine anything and everything, including our own personal agendas.” He draws upon
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        Lock icon She’s Sherlock with a pen
        379 22 Her books are heavy on forensics and history, and she is not above digging up bodies in the name of work. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) meets Lynette Ramsay Silver, in town to promote two books. MONG the other interesting morsels one unearths from speaking to effervescent
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        Lock icon BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO...
        189 22 The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass (1959) Who: Literary spokesman for the German generation which grew up during the Nazi era. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. Born in Gdansk, Poland, in 1927 to a grocer family. Member of the Hitler Youth in the
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        Lock icon ‘This is not my life’
        1323 23 ‘This is not my life MOTHERKIND Jayne Anne Phillips (Vintage) $18.34 SALT AND SAFFRON Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury) $18.34 TO COMMEMORATE Mother’s Day on May 13, here are two books that deal with motherhood, grandmother-hood, step-motherhood, aunties and female cousins. One is bitter-sweet without veering into weepy-county; the other is a
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      278 20 Movies American Beauty Saturday 9 pm HBO (Ch 60) A SARDONIC Oscar-winning portrayal of a dysfunctional, suburban American family. Lester Burnham’s (Kevin Spacey) mid-life crisis is set off when he finds himself obsessed with his daughter’s blonde bombshell of a classmate (Mena Suvri). This alienates him from his career-driven wife
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      30 21 See Page 23 for the review of VS Naipul’s Half A Life Are you interested in collecting proofs yourself? Try these websites: http://www.teleport.com/-hawkline/ arc.htm http://home.earthlink.net/-pcccoach/ arcs.html http:// www.ebay .comhttp:// www.sff.net/locus/b3B4.html
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Chats & Mouse
      227 24 Chats Mouse Real newspaper headlines, Part ii New Study Of Obesity Looks For Larger Test Group Astronaut Takes Blame For Gas In Spacecraft Kids Make Nutritious Snacks Chef Throws His Heart Into Helping Needy Arson Suspect Is Held In Massachusetts Fire British Union Finds Dwarves In Short Supply Ban On
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      Lock icon Warhol’s Marilyn, Mao make money
      164 24 TWO rare portfolios of Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse Tung screenprints by pop icon Andy Warhol have sold for nearly half a million dollars at a Sotheby’s auction. The star of the two-day sale was the Marilyn portfolio, one of the artist’s 26 copies. It
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      Lock icon Hollywood writers, studios agree — for now
      259 24 Hollywood writers, studios agree for now VARIETY.COM reports that Hollywood’s screenwriters and studios reached a tentative three-year deal on Sunday worth US$4l million (5573.8 million) more to writers. Negotiators in Los Angeles said both sides had approved the deal unanimously, capping three weeks of intensive negotiations that had operated under
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Actress sued for keeping clothes on
        103 24 ACTRESS Linda Fiorentino (left) will not do the full monty on screen. The Smoking Gun website reports that she is involved in a lawsuit with Artoko, a company that hired her to play artist Georgia O’Keeffe in a movie. The star of The Last
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        Lock icon Meanwhile...
        118 24 provoked media outrage over a revealing picture spread in a German magazine. The shots of former Texas beauty queen Shawne Fielding (right) in Max magazine dominated Swiss front pages and prompted debate about Switzerland’s tradition of staying out of the diplomatic limelight. The magazine had Fielding, 31, wearing a
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