The New Paper, 18 February 1999

Microfilm: NL21385
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  • THENEWSTODAY
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      Did a mobile phone call cause this plane crash?
      256 2 DID a mobile phone call cause a Thai Airways plane to crash on its third attempt at landing last December, killing 101 people? Do phone signals interfere with Airbus equipment? These are the latest theories crash investigators are pursuing, The Nation
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      Lock icon Pay woes not politics
      361 2 spark street clashes in Surabaya Wire services. THESE Indonesian factory workers did not have reformasi in mind when they took to the streets of Surabaya. Unlike protesting students in Jakarta yesterday, they were more concerned with bread-and-butter issues, such as a pay rise. But their protest,
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      INDONESIA IN BRIEF
      143 2 HABIBIE: The ruling Golkar party has offered four names for the presidency, adding that President B J Habibie was the "strongest candidate". The others are Armed Forces chief Wiranto, Justice Minister Muladi and Finance and Industry Minister Ginandjar Kartasasmita. WAR GAMES: Indonesia and Malaysia plan to cut
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      Lock icon Work first, re-union later
      511 3 On the eve of Chinese New Year, Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister-Without-Portfolio, was at the airport handing out mandarin oranges to workers who had to give up joining their families at the traditional reunion dinner. CRISPIN A ROBERT meets one of them ONE family had dinner
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      Lock icon Bashar elopes with sweetheart
      661 4 SOMEBODY, someday, may make money writing about him. There's so much drama here and love. How's this for the latest in Mr Mohamad Bashar's life? The 26-year-old is now married. To his old flame. Yes, Madam Shelpee Sharmin, 25, a graduate school teacher. The same woman
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      PRECIOUS PICTURE
      102 4 SHE was the main reason he came to Singapore. Mr Mohamad Bashar wanted to marry his high-school sweetheart. But he had no money. So, the oldest of six children took his father's suggestion and came here looking for a job. Her picture, edges frayed, was tucked in his
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      Lock icon Saved from floods
      213 4 DESPITE being wheelchair-bound, Mr Mohamad Bashar escaped the devastating floods which hit his country last September. He was helped to higher ground by family members. About 400 people were killed and 120,000 affected by diarrhoea after eating rotten food and drinking polluted water. Ten people were killed
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Same as in 1988
      240 5 tor OFFICE RENTALS TAKE a look at office rentals now, and you might think you were back in 1988. Office rentals in Raffles Place have slid another 10 per cent so far this year to an average of $5.50 psf per month, reports The Business Times.
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      Lock icon Just a little eclipse News Break
      56 5 •it SMALL GLIMPSE: This what was seen in Singapore at the height of the last eclipse of the century on Tuesday, when only 8 per cent of the sun was covered by the moon. And many who wanted a glimpse of the solar eclipse
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      Solar energy
      60 5 POWER SINGAPORE'S defence ministry will soon run on sun. The first Defence Ministry installation to use the power of the sun on a large scale is expected to be up by 2002. This is the result of a pilot project in which an $80,000 solar power system with
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      'Help bosses'
      56 5 I TRAINING MANAGERS need training as much as low-skilled workers, a major Singapore business group has said. Efficient managers help keep businesses going, and so help keep workers in jobs, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry said. It hoped the Government would provide some money for
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      Flying in 2000
      57 5 MILLENNIUM THE millennium bug can't keep Asian airlines down. About 70 per cent are confident their planes will fly on Jan 1, 2000. Fourteen out of 20 airlines surveyed said they would "definitely" be flying then. Another 20 per cent answered "probably", one said "maybe" and one,
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      Pox alert
      58 5 I^hhealthh MORE chickenpox cases than last year are expected this year in Singapore. Chickenpox cases peak every two to three years, said the Environment Ministry. The last high was in 1996, with about 50,000 cases reported. There were 27,183 cases last year. Children under five were most likely
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      DOW JONES
      27 5 The Dow Jones industrial average fell 101.56 points to close at 9,195.47 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 727 million shares.
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      world Head liners
      61 5 International Herald Tribune: Rubin sees clash in G-7 over German currency plan Berita Harian Malaysia: Many Malay teens involved in crime Philippine Daily Inquirer 'Eraption': Call me 'bobo' but not corrupt BBC news: Security guards protecting the Israeli consulate in Berlin have opened fire on Kurdish demonstrators
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      Watch more TV?
      198 6 F®dus SOCIAL commentators have complained for years that American youths watch too much television. Now, the industry is worried they are not watching enough. The company that charts the ratings of top programmes has found that Americans aged 18-24 watched half an hour less television last year
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      Quote worthy
      62 6 COMPUTER LOVE My wife always tries to get me in bed before midnight. I say: 'Okay but when she is asleep Igo back to my computers... Between midnight and 2 am is my most productive time... My name is Habibie, but I use another name. Indonesian President B
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      EPF pledge
      59 6 BUS MALAYSIA'S pension fund has said it will approve withdrawal applications within two weeks. The Employees Provident Fund said this after a meeting to counter rumours that it has allegedly spent billions to bail out some big ailing companies. An official said the board did not want its
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    • Article
      Record budget
      62 6 I JAPAN THE budget: A record 81.86 trillion yen ($1.2 trillion) for the new financial year, from April 1. Parliament is to approve it tomorrow, after the government and rival parties struck a deal yesterday. Yesterday, details of a Bank of Japan board meeting said officials suggested that
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      'Bad' birdie
      68 6 WILDLIFE THE rainbow lorikeet, a colourful Australian bird, is bad for the well being of native New Zealand birds. So says New Zealand Conservation Minister Nick Smith, who has expelled the species from the Land of the Long White Cloud. Saying that "the lorikeet may look cute but
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      New channel
      57 6 j MEDIA MALAYSIA is set to "tell it like it really is" through a new TV news channel. The channel's aim is to correct what has been described as the international media's "unfair" coverage of Malaysia's economic developments and policies. Sources say the all-news channel is likely to
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      local Head liners
      53 6 The Straits Times: Habibie offered as top Golkar candidate The Business Times: S'pore office rentals back at 1988 levels Lianhe Zaobao: Lee Boon Yang: Development of knowledge-based economy is strategy to deal with crises Berita Harian: More powers for Muis RCS morning news: Reactions to Kurdish inspired
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • Article
    WHY WAS SHE AT WORKSITE?
    432 7  -  SINGAPORETODAY A Thai maid was found slashed to death at a construction site offKingsmead Road near Bukit Timah on Tuesday night. BY Crispina Robert THESE are the facts. She was Thai and worked as a maid. She was found in a container home where Thai
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  • ON THE JOB
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      Lock icon Smooth operators
      289 9  -  BY Yvonne Lim ONE caller has a fault with his new computer and needs technical help. Another calls to pledge money during a phone-in charity drive. A third caller, from Pakistan, orders a child's educational kit he saw advertised on the Discovery Channel. And guess what, in all
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      Welcome to the world of 'Virtual secretaries'
      252 9 SHE was an operator with SingTel's 104 service before moving to the call centre three years ago. "We're trained to do different kinds of things here. It's quite challenging and versatile. There, the work was more monotonous," said Madam Evelyn Goh, 42, who
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      THE JOB
      41 9 Sing Tel Call Centre's requirement*: Minimum qualifications: 0 levels. Must have: Good voice, knack with people. Training provided. Pay: Minimum basic of $1,100. Overtime and incentive pay can make up 10 to 20 per cent of total salary package.
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      GOOD BUSINESS AND JOB PROSPECTS
      100 9 THEIR revenue is about $20 million a year, industry experts say. And this is expected to grow at double-digit rates, providing many more jobs. Call centres form a part of the plan to make Singapore a regional business and telecommunications hub. It is hoped that
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      GOT THE JOB BLUES?
      49 9 OR you have questions about job-hunting. Write in and we'll try to get counsellors to help. You can even help someone else by sharing your own experiences. WRITE TO: On The Job, The New Paper, 390, Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 FAX: 737-5375 E-MAIL: npops@sph.com.sg
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Change your content, Showbuzz
      181 10 Always Pensive (e-mail) SHOWBUZZ ratings not improving? Try changing the content of the show, NOT the faces. The Lawrences, the Laurettas... they are just faces. Have you seen an episode of Showbuzz lately? All they need to do is get Lawrence Chau, Lauretta Alabons and Andrea
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      Buy and win
      66 10 m ui*imn< Mr Ong Poll Um f 74, who was a membor of throe victorious Malayan Thomas Cup teams in theJSSOs, Moves the way to bring the cup back is to buy ptaftfs: It is easier to buy players torn China than to wait for our own
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    • EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TEO CHEE HEAN: Part 2
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        New young
        384 11 She skipped her 0 levels but that's okay with Education Mutator. REMEMBER her? She traded her O levels for gold. Schoolgirl sailor Joan Huang, 16, skipped her examinations last year to make Singapore proud by winning a gold medal at the Asian Games. Education Minister Teo Chee Hean
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        New old
        310 11 The "get-up-and-go" generation BY the year 2020, they will make up one out of every four Singaporeans. They are the new old. Senior citizens who would have led much more active working lives than the senior citizens of the past. Who would have had many intellectually challenging pursuits.
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        New civic citizen
        329 11 a wufiowiisi cwoii f anyone cm iocvi WHAT kind of landscaping do you want in your precinct? Tall or short shrubs? Do you want a senior citizens' corner? Singaporeans today, especially younger ones, want to get involved in making such decisions, says Rear-Adm Teo. "When you get
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        New Singaporean
        309 11 They love teh tarik and Ah Meng, too LOOK at him. Get used to not thinking of such a face as "foreign". Because in future, you could see many more like him, as genuine, fellow Singaporean citizens. Of the foreign talent who come here looking for economic opportunities,
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Search goes on for missing plane
    323 12 THENEWSTODAY Bernama A PLANE carrying two people bound for Seletar Airport went missing yesterday while flying over Malaysia. The single-engine Beechcraft BE-36 aircraft had taken off from Phuket, Thailand. It was was flying at 456 m above ground level when it lost radio contact
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      542 13 ADVERTISEMENT HATR-TjOSS: Find out what's wrong, and what you can do about it THE ANSWERS TO all your questions. Some of Singapore's most experienced, professionally-qualified and V JVs certified trichologists arc at the Svenson Hair Centres, where your hair and scalp arc in expert hands. If you arc troubled by
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  • WORLDTOOAY
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      Lock icon Rebel put on show
      447 14 Capture of Kurds' S Yasser Arafat TO Kurds, he is like Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. A freedom fighter. But to Turks, he's the "Baby Killer", the nickname they have pinned on Kurdish guerilla leader Abdullah Ocalan. They said he slaughtered thousands of civilians in his long
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      The Kurd hero
      128 14 KURDISH rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, 51, inspires a fierce loyalty among Kurds. Was born into a peasant family with six children in Omerli on the Syrian border. Became a left-wing militant while at university in Ankara studying politics. He founded the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in 1974.
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      Lock icon Hunger strike
      89 14 Reuters. ABOUT 90 Kurds are on a hunger strike inside the Greek embassy in London. They are protesting the capture by Turkey of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. If police storm the building, they will set themselves on fire, they said. There are several hundred other protesters in the
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      Anything but THAT
      44 15 muifmuif A ftafeaaPUtoriM Preside* JaatpliEiMa, f rtspoadlag to a Manila Times report wMdi Naked 1 hha to the rigstag of a hydro-eiectrlc deal: Call me bobo (stupid), kalbo (bald), ignoramus, or any other name. But don't call me a thief, k
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      Lock icon Supermodel: I was never sober
      302 15 KATE MOSS SHOCKER Source: Wire services, Mirror Net. DOWN the catwalk, drunk, every time. That was British supermodel Kate Moss' style for the past 10 years, she confessed in an interview yesterday. Her diet was drugs and champagne, she told The Face magazine. Moss, 25,
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  • Showtime
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      Highland fling for stars
      143 17 Twelve contestants fought it out in the Malaysian leg of Star Search '99 recently.. Reporter HAZEL TAN and photographer SIMON KER were up in cool Genting Highlands to catch the hot action HAPPY SHOCK: F6 Samantha Toh Su Yee was lost for words when she was
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      CASTING A WIDER NET
      101 17 THE two Malaysian winners will take on the winners from Taiwan, Hongkong, China and Singapore in the grand final here on April 25. This is the first time that Star Search is casting its net so wide. Hongkong and China are the latest countries to take
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      111 18 GTC A w fl H UIIULUMATEIB I TANGS STUMO XT NGEE ANN CITY (LEVELS 3 ft 4) IS PACKING I UP AND MOVING OUT IN LESS THAN A WEEK. EVERYTHING HAS TO GO! AT GIVE-AWAY PRICES, THERE IS SIMPLY NO TIME TO LOSE. YOU'LL ENJOY ££!!S!*3 90% OFF ORANDEO FASWONWEAR
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Fight to keep hold of Sabah
      318 19 AFP. MALAYSIA'S ruling party will have trouble holding on to power in Sabah state when it goes to the polls as soon as next month, one of its senior officials has said. "It will be an uphill task due to anti-federal sentiment and widespread
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      Lock icon Imbruglia scores a double
      80 19 ENGLAND and West Ham soccer star lan Wright and Miss World Linor Abargil, of Israel, on stage in the Brit Awards ceremony at the London Arena on Tuesday. They were present to hand Natalie Imbruglia (inset) the Best International Newcomer award. Imbruglia also won the Best
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    Lock icon Untitled
    516 20  - Showtime Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks found love on the Net in the movie You've Got Mail. Can it happen in real life? HAZEL TAN chats with some celebrities who let their fingers do the talking By Hazel Tan HAZEL: Hi, is that Ix? IX: Yes, it's me. H: Are
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    They don't believe me
    321 21 WHILE others conceal theirs, here's one star who doesn't mind revealing her identity to cybermates. Because people wouldn't believe her anyway, says Hongkong actress Chan Chung Ling. Not that she has tried it. Chung Chung, as she is affectionately known, only chats with her own circle
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    Lock icon 'Only for the lonely'
    236 21  -  By Hazel Tan THE few times Thomas Ong went into a chatroom, he came out disappointed. He didn't know what they were yakking about, so he couldn't join in. The Channel 8 heart-throb told The New Paper: "I think I belong to a different era. I
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  • SHOWTIME
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      Lock icon 'Not normal' star hits her peak... at last
      385 22  -  By Avis Wong HONGKONG actress Esther Kwan Wing Ho doesn't consider herself normal. Not in the way you may be thinking, though. Rather, she's "not normal" for taking so many years to become popular with Hongkong TV viewers. "It's normal for most
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      Souped up for energy
      147 22 ACTOR Bobby Au-Yeung Chun Wah (above) is happy just slurping soup daily. The Hongkong TVB star, who seemed a tad chubbier than he looked on TV, said: "I don't need to have sumptuous dishes for my meals, but I must drink soup. "I must have it
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      Right kind of recipe
      59 22 BOBBY Au-Yeung and Esther Kwan were in town to promote their serial, A Recipe For the Heart, which is showing on SCV Variety Vision Ch 55/56. Files of Justice V, starring Bobby, will begin on Feb 26 over Variety Vision Ch 55/56. Esther's Lady Rower Fist
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      That's no mean feat
      125 23 NOT many women can say that they get to bite the ankle of actor Johnny Depp (top left). But grown-up child-star Christina Ricci (above) had to think twice about it. Recalling the scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ricci, 19, told Neon magazine: "Johnny
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      MMO ADDS WEIGHT
      124 23 BLACK comedian Arsenio Hall will soon add weight to Martial Law the debut US TV series of Hongkong star Sammo Hung (left). Could it be that the crime-busting show hopes to repeat the cross-cultural chemistry of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour? Asked how he
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      'VE COME A LONG WAY, JERRY
      132 23 IF men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then film-maker Jerry Bruckheimer (left) is definitely from Mars. The man behind Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Con Air, The Rock, Armageddon and Enemy of the State has no qualms admitting that he makes
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    Eh, how come I'm not on it?
    470 24  -  eT CETERA WITH T JEYATHESAN HEY, I didn't see your name on the list, said a colleague at the office. What list, I asked. My name on any list is usually bad news. The 50 Most Eligible Bachelors list in this magazine, he
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      398 28 LEAGUE CUP: AFP. LEICESTER 1 (Cottee 54th minute) SUNDERLAND 1 (Quinn 34th) Leicester wins 3-2 on aggregate IT was a determined Sunderland against an even more determined Leicester City yesterday. Veteran striker Tony Cottee grabbed the priceless goal in the second-half for Leicester, which won the same competition
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      93 28 ITALIAN CUP: INTER-MILAN 0 PARMA 2 INTER-Milan ended the semi-final first leg tie with eight men, after three players were sent off for dissent. Argentine midfielder Juan Veron scored Parma's first goal with a right foot volley. But the whole Inter team surrounded referee Stefano Braschi and claimed
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      100 28 SINGAPORE VETERANS: THE Veterans Football Club Singapore are going back to Brisbane for another shot at the Super Oldies World Fun Cup from Oct 24-30. Two years ago, they finished fourth despite strong competition from teams like Brazil and Germany. "We want to finish at least third this
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      351 29  -  DENNIS RODMAN: with YVONNE LIM FREAK Flavour. Landmine. Goldmine. Poison. Spice. Go on. Tell the Lakers what you make of Dennis Rodman. Ask them if they're buying USslm (sl.7m) worth of trouble, or their ticket (finally) to championship glory. Ask them if with him on board, they'll
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      DO THE RODMAN
      94 29 Be born May 13,1961, in New Jersey, weigh 100 kg, stand at 2.03 m. Change your hair colour every week. Get body-pierced, tattooed, and wear dresses. Throw a US$3OO,OOO Super Bowl bash with transvestites. Win championship titles with the Pistons and the Bulls. Be rated the top
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      454 30 MAN UNITED 1 Andy Cole 69th ARSENAL 1 Nicolas Anelka 46 Half-time: OO Crowd: 55,171 MAN U Peter Schmeichel, Gary Neville, Ronny Johnsen, Jaap Stam, Phil Neville, David Beckham, Nicky Butt, Roy Keane, Jesper Blomqvist, Dwight Yorke, Andy Cole ARSENAL David Seaman, Lee Dixon, Steve Bould, Tony
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      ARSENAL'S ARSENE WENGER: The title is ours again MAN U'S ALEX FERGUSON: FAT HOPE
      805 31 JEFFREY LOW AT 'OLD TRAFFORD^ JEFFREY LOW, who has attended numerous big-match press conferences, imagines what's it like at Old Trafford after the fighting draw between Man U and Arsenal SATISFIED SILENCE, THEN... ON such a
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      35 31 Saturday: Arsenal v Leicester Blackburn v Sheffield Wed Coventry v Man United Derby v Charlton Leedsv Everton Liverpool v West Ham Borov Spurs Forestv Chelsea Saints v Newcastle Sunday: Wimbledon v Aston Villa
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      313 32 LAST NIGHT'S ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP ACTION FORMER LEADER LOSES AGAIN ASTON VILLA 1 LEEDS 2 ASTON Villa led the Premiership table for nearly half the season. But its recent slide just goes on and on. Yesterday, Leeds' Dutch striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink grabbed the headlines
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      Vialli's anniversary party turns sour
      219 32 CHELSEA 1 BLACKBURN 1: GIANLUCA Vialli marred his first anniversary as Chelsea manager when he was sent off in a bad-tempered battle against Blackburn. Sent off in the same fixture last season, the Italian had hoped to crown a year in charge today by closing
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      11 32 Satwday: Blackburn v Sheffield Wed Nottingham Forest v Chelsea
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      136 32 EVERTON 5 MIDDLESBROUGH 0 EVERTON had managed just three home goals in 12 Premiership matches all season. But yesterday it went goal crazy and hammered five goals past Boro. Boro may have been disrupted by injury, but that was no excuse for a display as uninspired as this,
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      Shearer on target
      159 32 NEWCASTLE 4 COVENTRY 1 ALAN Shearer led the way with two typical striker's goals as Newcastle secured its third successive Premiership win. At the same time, Newcastle took its tally for the season to nine against luckless Coventry with a 4-1 victory to add to the 5-1
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      318 33  -  S-League newcomer Clementi Khalsa causes stir in first warm-up game Reports/i S Gulam CLEMENTI Khalsa's Iranian coach Bahman Forotan calls his 'keeper-sweeper system revolutionary. He thinks it will take the S-League by storm this season. And Forotan says it would be foolish to dismiss it
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      PROS AND CONS: A COACH'S VIEW
      69 33 Advantages: Maximum use of all players, including the goalkeeper. It's a high-pressure game where you put your opponents under constant pressure. It's a combination of zonal ana man-marking. Disadvantages: You are at the mercy of the linesman and the referee. If opponents break through,
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      137 33 IS Abol Fazl, the former Tanjong Pagar United team manager, back in the game? He quit in a huff at the end of last year and promised never to come back. He made his announcement soon alter he failed to win the S-League Manager of
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      I don't think so, says S Gulam
      330 33 IT may be "new". It may be "revolutionary". But, frankly, I don't like it. H Firstly because the system puts a heavy responsibility on the goalkeeper. Instead of just guarding his goal, he's now expected to sweep all the loose balls. And maybe
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      Off to Tajikistan
      131 33 JITA Singh left for Tajikistan yesterday to conduct a coaching course on behalf of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The AFC 'C' Licence course will run from Feb 20 to March 5. This is the latest in a series of courses Jita, a former national coach and
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      265 34 Reuters ENGLAND'S soccer chiefs sprung a major surprise yesterday, naming Kevin Keegan as part-time national team coach in charge only until the end of June. Keegan will take over from the sacked Glenn Hoddle, but will return to his full-time job with Second Division Fulham
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      Lock icon FROM CURLY PERM TO PEOPLE'S CHAMPION
      511 34 A SAVIOUR TO UNFANCIED CLUBS KEVIN Keegan is renowned for his emotional approach to the game and the attractive, some might say kamikaze, style of his teams. On paper, his credentials for the England job appear wafer-thin. As manager of Newcastle and Fulham, Keegan
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