Project Eyeball, 14 May 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball eyebaU,asial,com,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Monday, May 14, 2001 80 CENTS
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      403 1 ON TRACK TO FORMER GLORIES Michael Owen’s two sharply taken goals showed that Liverpool is re-learning one of the habits of champions winning even while playing badly. See Page 17 DEFENDING OIL RIG EARTH NO MILLIONAIRE OR SURVIVOR NYT writer Maureen Dowd has an idea for a sci-fi novel, where,
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      98 2 COPS in Venezuela are getting sick from the very thing they seized from drug smugglers cocaine. Detectives are missing work and complaining of breathing difficulties at their headquarters in Caracas, where cocaine has been piling up after new guidelines in 1999 caused confusion about who was responsible for getting
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      Lock icon Friar Tuck scores with scheduling software
      410 2  -  Start-up wins national prize with programs that ‘can put S’pore on map’ Anderw Chin FRIAR TUCK, a three-man local start-up, ousted 69 teams to clinch the top spot in the second national techno-venture business plan competition, Start-up@Singapore, held on Saturday at the National University
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Laptop theft on the rise
        71 2 MORE than one laptop computer is stolen from a car in Singapore every day. In the first three months of this year, thieves stole 97 laptops from vehicles, police said. As more people use these laptops, the incidence of such thefts has also increased. Last
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        Lock icon Cooking up a storm
        37 2 A treasure hunt at Pulau Ubin, organised by the PA Youth Movement and the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations, saw their youth leaders exploring field cooking in one activity yesterday. Emmanuel Khong
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        93 2 UNITED STATES Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly arrived in Singapore yesterday to discuss President George W Bush’s decision to build a defence against missile attack, a US Embassy spokesman said. Kelly would also talk about “bilateral issues” with Government officials during his two-day
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        Lock icon Molest suspect jumps into river
        79 2 A MAN jumped into the Singapore River in a desperate bid to escape after he allegedly molested a teenage girl at Boat Quay early yesterday. It is not known whether the suspect managed to flee or had drowned, as he is still listed as missing.
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        Lock icon Mercy Relief launched
        61 2 PROVIDING humanitarian aid that transcends racial and religious lines is the objective of the first international humanitarian project set up by a Malay-Muslim organisation in Singapore, Perdaus. Called “Mercy Relief’, the project involves the adoption of 10 orphans from Bangladesh. It was launched by Minister for Community
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      247 3 BERLIN The relatives of most of the German passengers killed in the Concorde crash outside Paris last year have reached a compensation deal with Air France. The details will not be revealed, a lawyer said. ROME Italians turned up in heavy numbers to vote in parliamentary elections pitting
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      Lock icon Crowd tries to ‘free’ reality TV cast
      407 3 Survivor-like show stirs up heated debate in France Wires PARIS Several hundred activists protesting against a titillating French reality TV hit, Loft Story, stormed an industrial zone north of Paris on Saturday to “liberate” its 10 contestants. But they were pushed back by
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      Lock icon The Bard’s new face
      226 3 AFP MONTREAL A rose is a rose is a rose, but a portrait turned over to Canadian experts could be a fraud or the most accurate portrayal of William Shakespeare yet, Canadian newspaper The Globe And Mail reported. Experts have weighed in on the portrait of
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Wait, the queues seem to be shorter
        911 4 Patients divided over success of time-saving project at Skin Centre and SGH EFFORTS to shorten waiting queues at specialist outpatient clinics are inching towards becoming a reality from the looks of it, though there is some distance left to go. Nearly a month-and-a-half
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      Lock icon WHAT’S BEING DONE
      139 4 MEASURES introduced under the pilot programme: At the SGH and the NSC: Ensuring doctors are punctual. Consultants are analysing the clinics’ operations and will recommend changes. At the NSC: Patients pay a $lO booking fee in advance. The fee is refunded if the patient is on time.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Mums should be paid
      434 5  -  It’s a tough job, say those polled By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg THEY work round the clock, have no days off, no pay, and no prospects for promotion. Full-time mothers have arguably one of the toughest jobs around. So, if it were someday recognised as a
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      Lock icon Mother, 48, is Most Beautiful
      382 5  -  By June Wan junewan@sph.com.sg IN THIS pageant, the oldest contestant won. Forty-eight-year-old housewife Sally Poh is Junction B’s Most Beautiful Mother for this year. Poh, who has three children aged 26, 23 and 10, impressed judges like Hotelier of the Year Jennie Chua and cardiologist
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      Lock icon MOTHER’S DAY BANNED HERE
      160 5 EFFORTS to be politically correct seem to have gone overboard in some schools. In the United States, an exclusive New York primary school has banned its students from celebrating Mother’s Day because it believes that highlighting the role of mothers is likely to offend homosexuals and
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    • Monday MUSINGS
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        Lock icon More than just Anwar’s wife
        1622 6  -  Wan Azizah’s quiet strength has made her a rallying point for those seeking reform in Malaysia By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg I CRINGED, but hoped my furrowed eyebrows wouldn’t show. As for her, she didn’t mind the flies sitting on curry puffs and bee hoon. She
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    • The World
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        Lock icon M’sia defends dropping charges against Anwar
        454 8 No reason given but Badawi says it is not an unusual move Wires KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia yesterday defended the move by state prosecutors to drop five criminal charges against jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim. “It is not an unusual move,” Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad
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        Lock icon Death toll rises as Filipinos go to polls
        475 8 CONGRESSMAN, COMPANION KILLED Reuters MANILA After a bloody election campaign, millions of Filipinos are voting today in crucial elections seen as a test of the legitimacy of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s government. An hour before campaigning officially ended at midnight on Saturday,
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        Lock icon Gus Dur warns critics of slander
        266 8 Wires JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid has warned that his opponents could be prosecuted for claiming he is physically and psychologically unfit to govern. But the nearly blind President, 60, who is facing possible impeachment for alleged graft and incompetence, will not initiate the lawsuit
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        Lock icon Star Wars: Shielding Earth from all evil
        627 9  -  Or how to run the world in 2007 By Maureen Dowd NYT WASHINGTON I have an idea for a futuristic political thriller, sci-fi space Western black comedy, with a stylish film noir mood. Since it’s inspired by the Bush administration, there isn’t any
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        Lock icon New files found on McVeigh, but verdict change unlikely
        390 9 FBI UNDER FIRE IN OKLAHOMA BOMBER CASE Wires WASHINGTON Newly discovered FBI files on the Oklahoma City bombing case seems to offer Timothy J McVeigh little legal basis for reviving his appeals or any real hope that his death sentence might
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon Yahoo timed sex backdown
        911 10 It stopped porn content to shore up its popularity AS LEGAL counsel to the rightwing American Family Association (AFA) and as a former child-por-nography prosecutor in the Reagan and Bush Justice Departments, Patrick Trueman had grown accustomed to watching big business cozy up to porn. He
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    • Business
      • Personal FINANCE
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          Lock icon Pay lower interest with revolving credit line
          938 11  -  Flexible cashflow on offer from most banks By Fiona Voon biz@eyeball.com.sg IF YOU need cash urgently and don’t know where to find it, just trot down to your bank and check out its revolving credit facilities. You neither have to face a barrage
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      • Article
        Lock icon Fed rate cuts could boost market here
        350 11 S.T.I. EASED Reuters SINGAPORE shares will take their cue this week from the United States Federal Reserve, with analysts saying aggressive interest rate cuts by the central bank could boost the local market’s recent recovery. The Fed is expected to cut rates by
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      • Generation NEXT
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          Lock icon Like, I’m lost for words in the US of A
          584 14  -  By Victoria Ho teens@eyeball.com.sg I THOUGHT I spoke perfect English until I came to Los Angeles. When I first arrived, my speech supposedly sounded “mangled” because of my strange foreign accent, and I had a Singaporean vocabulary that “didn’t seem
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        Lock icon Love on the Net ain’t no surprise
        258 14 "Tempted by Net into adultery’ (May 11) INTERNET-LINKED extra-marital affairs show a slow but upward trend here. They have led to divorces and marital problems, it seems. Does the Internet make infidelity easier and more attractive? MANY TEMPTATIONS MORE people nowadays are making
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      • Wry TECH
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          682 15  -  By John Lui johnlui@singnet.corn.sg THERE was a lot of upsetting science news this week, the worst of which was that life on earth originated from outer space. This sort of thing just ticks me off. Are scientists saying that our primordial slime was just so
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        Lock icon GO AFTER THE CLUBS
        62 15 YOUNGSTERS are ending up in hospital after mixing drinks and drugs. How can we stop the trend? 28% Fine the clubs if they fail to weed out drugs. 28% No problem it’s just a minority who go too far. 27% Tighten laws on recreational drug use.
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      26 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder in the morning and early afternoon affecting most areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 2.22AM/2.6M 4.41PM/2.1M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/ metsin
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      28 5 They toil in the name of love. But if full-time mums were to get paid, how big should their paychecks be? And why? Tell us at asial.com. sg
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      34 9 m For more on the bombing: http://guardian.co.uk/ mcveigh/story/0,7369,*****1.00.html What the people most affected by Timothy J McVeigh’s crime feel about his execution. http:// www.cnn.com/CNN/ Programs/people/shows mcveigh/timeline.html A look at McVeigh’s life and the bombing
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      94 9 pennState II ’’Liberal Arts A Dynamic Force" Straits Times, 28 Mar 01, on the future of broadbased education in Singapore The first of its kind offered in Singapore, the BA in Liberal Arts is a multidisciplinary online degree programme coming from a US top-50 university. OPEN TO Diploma ITE.O N-levels
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      57 10 05.!4>0l HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET vo you built? ROBOTS, HELEN? &URS. vr% I ENTER 'EM IN ROBOT WARS WHERE THE OBJECT IS TO FLIP OVER THE OTHER BOT. SEEMS KIW£7A POINTLESS MAYBE. BUT IT HAS ITS APPLICATIONS, o f, I TO UP you I WOMT SEN? ANY MORS SPAM!
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      289 12 Announcing to a wonderful world our beautiful new baby girl! Eveiyn Jia Jia Paddock, 9 pounds, 3oz, 21 inches, arrived on Dec 4, 2000, Proud and excited parents are James and Hazeline Paddock. We didn't expect him to turn out to be so handsome, cute, adorable and SO NAUGHTY!!! Ng
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      179 13 Mmm... what’s for dinner? Brandon Ekers Wow I I'm so excited! This is the first time I collect ang pow! Dawn Lua Caden, you are a great bundle of joy to mum daddy. Samantha Alvin My name is Chloe Hui Li Tunstill, I was born on the 11/01/2001.1 love to
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  • EyeSport
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      393 16 FORMULA ONE Six races gone, and a discernible pattern is starting to emerge in Formula One. Eye Sport looks at the teams that are moving up the grid and those that are stuck in neutral. Word on the paddock is that Sauber is one of the best cars
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      Lock icon Montoya blocks Schumacher
      492 16 Ferrari driver furious as Coulthard slips through to win Reuters SPIELBERG (Austria) McLaren’s David Coulthard won the Austrian Grand Prix yesterday to lift his team’s sagging spirits, and pile the pressure on championship leader Michael Schumacher of Ferrari. The Scot’s win had seemed unlikely after his team
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      Lock icon A front tooth for a victory
      377 17 NOWITZKI PROPELS MAVS TO 112-108 WIN AGAINST SPURS AFP DALLAS (Texas) Dirk Nowitzki lost a tooth but teamed with Michael Finley to make sure the Dallas Mavericks didn’t lose the game. Nowitzki scored 30 points, Finley added 25 and the high-scor-ing duo came through
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      Lock icon Two down, two to go
      582 17 Maturing Reds now look to seal Uefa Cup and Champions League spot Reuters CARDIFF Like the great Anfield sides of old, Gerard Houllier’s Liverpool displayed the ability to win when playing badly in Saturday’s FA Cup final, as they continued their remarkable progress on four
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        78 17 AP PARIS Nantes became the French champion for the eighth time on Saturday by beating relegation-bound Saint-Etienne TO. Tahitian striker Marama Vahirua scored in the ninth minute to lift Nantes four points clear of secondplaced Lyon with just one round of matches left to play. It is
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        124 17 AP NEW YORK Boxer Hasim Rahman said he signed with promoter Don King because “he gave me the best deal”. The new International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Council heavyweight champion made the comment during an interview with James Brown on TVKO, at the William Joppy-Felix Trinidad
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        66 17 AP TORONTO Ichiro Suzuki and Edgar Martinez each had four hits as the Seattle Mariners beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-7 on Saturday for their fourth straight win. Suzuki, a seven-time batting champion in Japan, had a triple, a double and two singles. The rookie’s third four-hit
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      41 17 For 80 minutes, Liverpool was pedestrian in this year’s FA Cup final against Arsenal. But Michael Owen’s double strike erased a paltry Reds performance. For the best of the post-action drama, log on to BBC’s Sports Talk at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ sport/hi/english/sports talk/default.stm
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  • Unwind
    • Television
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        1319 18 {fter nine months of backbreaking work the countdown to Singapore’s second English channel has begun. JEANMAREE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) quizzes the stations head chefs on the buffet they have cooked up. > Teo, TV Works’ senior vice-president, confessed she doesn’t want any of her programmes to
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        624 20 Hardcore politics may seem dry, but JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) f inds the shenanigans of The West Wing and Spin City make lobbying and dimpled chads rather entertaining. The west wing creator Aaron Sorkin may have been arrested for drug possession recently, but that won’t tarnish the
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    • Books
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        Lock icon The truth shall get you sales
        1272 21 Exposes on government and big-corporation cover-ups are dominating the best-seller charts these days. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) finds out why readers are so hungry for the truth. QN THE 1997 James Bond instalment, Tomorrow Never Dies, media barons and information conglomerates replaced Cold War Russian
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          Lock icon Douglas Adams dies
          135 22 DOUGLAS ADAMS, the British humour writer whose cult classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy sold more than 14 million copies, died of a heart attack last Friday. He was 49 years old. Adams’ science fiction saga, about a group of galactic travellers who survive the demolition
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          90 22 AT 78, Kurt Vonnegut, writer of Slaughterhouse Five, has taken to giving crabbily humorous lectures at America’s Smith College. For the past year, Vonnegut has been writer-in-residence at the Northampton campus, giving public talks entitled “How to get a job like mine, or a performance with chalk on
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          Lock icon Endorsing Sun Tzu
          110 22  -  Clara Chow TONY SOPRANO, the mafia-boss character in HBO’s cable hit series The Sopranos, is now a book-maker. Not the traditional kind. In an April episode of the show, Tony mentioned that he was reading Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War, and instantly the books started selling
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        Lock icon Not another Graduate
        383 22  -  Reviews: Clara Chow NEW CARDIFF Charles Webb (Little Brown)/355pp $32.86fr0m Kinokuniya IN 1962, Massachusetts-educated Charles Webb burst upon the literary scene with his debut novel, The Graduate. Made into a movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft this tale of an angry young man in an affair
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        Lock icon NO, BUT I SAW THE MOVIE
        220 22 THE GRADUATE is not the only movie version that became more famous than the book: DARK PASSAGE David Goodis (1946) Philadelphia-born Jewish author David Goodis is one of those cult writers whose books are perpetually plundered for movie scripts (Nightfall, starring Aldo Ray and
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        Lock icon Trials and tribulations
        839 23 FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE Joanne Harris (Doubleday)/432pp $29.36fr0m Kinokuniya (below) JOANNE HARRIS is back with her brand of gastro chick-lit. Like Chocolat, her latest novel is set in a small town in France. The recipe is only slightly tweaked: Crepe tarts replace chocolate as the means
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        Lock icon QUICK PICKS
        332 23  -  Clara Chow FORGET Enemy At The Gates, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s more-fiction-than-fact movie depiction of the Battle of Stalingrad. Here’s our essential World War II books to beef up your history knowledge. A HISTORY OF BOMBING Sven Lindqvist (The New Press)/207pp $39.99fr0m Borders SWEDISH author and political activist, Sven Lindqvist,
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      241 20 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS Movies Space Travellers Friday 8 pm W Entertainment (Ch 56) THREE bumbling robbers are trapped in a bank and surrounded by police. They persuade the hostages to help them escape by using an incredible ruse involving an anime series. This farce stars heartthrob Takeshi
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      295 24 Chat Mouse Fast thinking A FELLOW bought a new Mercedes and was out on the expressway for a nice evening drive. The top was down, the breeze was blowing through what was left of his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 120
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      137 24 ESTONIA took home the top prize on Saturday at the 46th Annual Eurovision Song Contest held in Copenhagen, the Danish capital. The white-black duo of Tanel Padar and Dave Benton impressed judges with the song Everybody. Its infectious mix of rhythm and blues and cheesy Europop
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      73 24 GRAMMY winners Steely Dan namely Walter Becker (left) and Donald Fagen received honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music in Boston on Saturday. Fagen studied at Berklee in 1966. Berklee students performed songs from the duo’s Grammywinning album Two Against Nature as well as 1970 s classics
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      Lock icon No longer charmed
      85 24 ACTRESS Shannen Doherty is leaving the cast of Charmed after three seasons, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “We have had a long and prosperous relationship with Shannen and we didn’t want to hold her back from what she wanted to do,” the show’s producer, Spelling TV, said.
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        92 24 WELSH-BORN Hollywood star Catherine Beta-Jones (above) is to produce a movie in her homeland, the Welsh Development Agency said last week. The film, Coming Out, will be produced by Milkwood Films, a company established by Zeta-Jones, 31, and her younger brother, Lyndon Jones. Catherine’s older brother, David Jones,
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        70 24 Wires PERRY COMO (left), the crooning baritone famous for his relaxed vocals, cardigan sweaters and television Christmas specials, died at his home on Saturday after a lengthy illness. He was 87....Oscarwinning actor Kevin Spacey has prevailed over an alleged cybersquatter in a challenge over an Internet domain name. The
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