The New Paper, 24 September 2000

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  • [NEWS]
    • 519 2  -  I PASSPORT 800-800 By Linga Ponnampalam WHAT does it take to pass off as a six-month-old toddler? Smooth skin and baby-fat cheeks? Sure. But what about a trimmed moustache and stubbled chin? Because Immigration officers in Singapore and Malaysia cleared a passport with the
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    • 245 3  -  By Sylvia Toh Paik Choo DO you know anyone with an asbestos stomach? Or someone who eats gunpowder with every meal? c. Send him to us! The Sunday New Paper rv> 9 wifiis rumi We are looking for strong stomachs to enter The Sunday New Paper's
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    • 1043 4 Eldest daughter Died at 18 of kidney failure Son Shot himself in the stomach. Died. He was just 20 Youngest daughter Mentally ill. Needs to be taken care of Step-daughter Abandoned by husband. Children taken from her. Also mentally ill Father Diabetic. Can't
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    • 245 5 HER "friends" occupy just about half of her bed. They are Doraemon, Pikachu, a teddy bear and a few dolls. These share the space on Madam Koh's bed with her other belongings like her POSB passbook, a roll of toilet paper, an apple and some clothes. Her
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    • 293 5 SHE clutched two kitchen knives and threatened to kill her step-sister, Madam Ang. "She pushed and trapped me in a corner of the room, and threatened to kill me if I tried to step out," Madam Ang said in Mandarin. Then Madam
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    • 484 6  -  By: Sheela Narayanan PIERS Litherland is looking for Nefertiti. More precisely, his international team of Egyptologists is looking for tombs that may hold the beautiful, controversial queen of ancient Egypt. Mr Litherland, 44, is the treasurer of the Amara Royal Tombs Project, a non-profit organisation
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  • 811 8  -  C n^o by Gloria Chandy IN the face of the Singapore contingent's dismal showing at the Sydney Olympics, ex-Olympian Mary KLass wonders what she might have achieved given the better nutrition, training, facilities and money available to our athletes today. Sprinter Mary,
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  • 1387 9 Our photojoumalist spent a few days at an Iban longhouse in Kuching... and was asked "how many hills" from Kuching is Singapore. His reply: "Many, many hills plus a long swim away" HE uses a pebble to scrub dirt from his body when he
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  • 823 11  -  By Lingam Ponnampalam "YES, it's 'sports' now, but it's too late for me." When "Man Toyol" says that of his skateboarding career, it's a sad day in local extreme sports. Mention that nickname to most local skateboarders and there will be immediate recognition. After all, "Man" or Sulaiman
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  • 98 11 WANT to catch some world record-breaking stunts? Head down to the atrium at Plaza Singapura at 6.30pm today. Bike Trial world champs Ot Pi (left in picture) and Cesar Canas (right) will be trying to break the world record in the bunny hop and stair jump categories.
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  • 82 11 NTUC Club is introducing trekking as a healthy activity for the family. "Amateurs can also undertake this safely," said Mr Yusof Lateef, manager, NTUC Club Sports and Recreation. The idea of setting up the Amateur Trekking Club is to spearhead a community of trekkers," said Mr
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  • [NEWS]
    • 441 12 YOU'D be forgiven for mistaking the show as a dance performance. What with flamboyant dressing and nifty dance steps. But no, what we were seeing wasn't the latest Latin dance rage. It was just celebrity Taiwanese hairstylist Patrick Teng and his dance-cum-hair subject. Pence. Cut
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  • [EXPAT]
    • 673 13 When American expat BARBARA LAYTON, a former high-flying stockbroker-turned-photojournalist, came here three years ago, one of the first things she did was explore her new environment Among the many places she fell in love with was Little India. It remains the place which she
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    • 417 13 LETTERS TO GUS m a a in a 31-yaar-eM AmMm wftb a wife «mI two yoMCcMMrea.rvebeo« offered e two-year coatiaU will a r My wieaoy worii bei* eveotaaly. Does she aeod a work visa? If you have been granted a P or Q1 pass (types of
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    • 62 13 DO you have any favourite eating spots? Picnic spots. Chill out spots? Share your Singapore secrets with us. Or write about other matters to: The New Paper Expat Page 82, Genting Lane, News Centre Singapore *****7 T«fc 1800-733-4455 Fax:737-5375 E-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg If you wish to read some earlier
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  • [@ A GLANCE]
    • 313 14 LIFELONG learning is to become a part of life in Singapore instead of just a catchword. Yesterday, the Education Minister Mr Teo Chee Hean said that more opportunities will be provided for people to keep on learning through post-secondary and tertiary education. They can do this through
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    • 253 14 QNpcus] IT was supposed to be a fresh start for Madam Janyam Begum, 28. But tragedy struck. She has been looking forward to moving into a three-room flat in Bukit Batok. They were living in a one-room rental flat in the Chin Swee Road
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    • 103 14 This seems to be a gift any child would love to got... a huge rod balloon In the shape of a dog. The work of an American artist, JeffKoons, It l» part of an exhibition now on at the Royal Academy In
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    • [BRIEFLY]
      • 95 15 MALAY-MUSLIM Singaporeans can shape their destiny more effectively if they were represented by a collective leadership comprising independent leaders and Malay MPs. Members of the community can contribute more to society through such a system, helping various organisations to work together to improve relations between the state and
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      • 105 15 THEY were supposed to have been guarding the factory, but instead, two security guards allegedly stole two tonnes of metal worth more than $700,000 before they set fire to the factory, to covet- the theft. They sold the metal for $6,000, but the fire they allegedly started
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      • 93 15 SOME parts in Singapore smelled foul yesterday prompting people to make 25 calls to the authorities. Police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force said they received thee alls between 11am and noon yesterday, reporting foul smell in certain areas in the southern and central parts of Singapore. Power
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      • 109 15 LIM Sok Hoon is a three-time offender who has the dubious honour of having been made to clean public areas for a record of 12 hours in all. She was also fined $1,000 for her third offence. She is the first person to be made to carry out
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      • 110 15 'ma www www ■ww A WOMAN who threw a knife and > other objects from her 13th-floor flat was sent for psychiatric examination after being charged in court yesterday. No plea was taken from Ong Choon Siew, 47, who was charged with throwing items, including a knife and
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      • 110 15 EIGHTY-SEVEN teachers were sent to Woodbridge Hospital for treatment in the 20 months between January last year and August this year. According to head of the Child Guidance Unit at the Institute of Health, Dr Cai Yi Ming, six out of these teachers had to be hospitalised. The
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      • 116 15 MEDIACORP artist Chen Tianwen tore his leg muscles after falling 4.5 m while rehearsing for a charity show for the Singapore National Heart Association. He was not the only one who was hurt actor Weng Qinghai was also injured while riding a bike through a fire hoop. The
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      • 106 15 CHUAN HUP Holdings recently announced its biggest profit in 30 years of operation. It has further good news for its 107 employees. It has promised a free holiday to Beijing, for every employee, from the chairman down to the tea lady, office boy and security guard. Their spouses
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    • 166 15 HEART EXPO 2000: Learn how to give you and your family a healthy heart. American Mark Rothstein will also be around to do his marathon rope skipping routine. Vmm: World Trade Centre Hall 3 Tim#: 10am to Bpm Fm: $l $2 BUDDHISM ON STAMPS: Rare Buddhist artefacts
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 66 15 Partly cloudy and slightly hazy. Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. north Thunderstorms e.mrico sunrise h.r>4 am west Thunderstorms cunQAt 7 nn nm central Thunderstorms sunset 7.00 pm SSiii rsorn moonrise.. 3:33 am j south s* MMm moonset 4 05 east Thunderstorms K
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  • [THE WEEK]
    • 157 16  -  Will it ever happen here? Guest editor AIDE ISKANDAR Home United defender EVEN as Chelsea went down two to nothing against the Foxes of Leicester City last Sunday, hard-core Chelsea fans were still chanting the name of the coach whom the club had sacked five
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    • 269 16 For a team to have so many stars of that calibre, it requires a manager who not only can inspire his charges to show their best, but also should be able to control their emotions, unpredictable tantrums and verbal outbursts. Vialli'B pre-season problems Math French
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    • 110 16 I can quote many examples of coaches who were asked to leave before the season or after the season was over. But it would not be nice for me to name them. My point is, I think there is an avenue if a
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    • 108 16 I have been at Home United since the League began. And I am thankful that the club management has always made it a point to listen to the players' problems to seek solutions for them. I suppose that, as Asians in an Asian society, being
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  • [NEWS]
    • 319 17 FOR almost two days, 73-year-old Marie Poleet was trapped in a ditch under her lawnmower. She was driving the sit-on mower in her garden in St Louis, Missouri, in the US when it toppled into a ditch. As the machine completely covered her
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    • 377 18  -  An international gang war BY GILL SOUZA REPORTING FROM MUMBAI THEIR home turf is Mumbai, but the Indian underworld's biggest guns have been fighting their battles for supremacy abroad. On Sept 15, one of the two most powerful underworld dons, Chhota Rajan, was shot at in Bangkok.
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    • 210 18 CHHOTA Raj an began his career as a petty black marketeer of movie tickets. Then he was associated with the toughs on the payroll of a local Mumbai politician. As the politician moved up the power ladder, Rajan moved in as the local M dada"
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    • 255 18  -  BY C L TAN REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR TAKE your gang war elsewhere." This is the warning from Malaysian police to the warring Dawood Ibrahim and Cnhota Rajan gangs. "We have enough of a headache with our own Indian gangs' activities here.
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    • 316 20 She's a hair consultant who spends her free I riTTTSHPHBHHB mascots, for V r 0 111 w-J as much as $3,000 a piece. work has made her popular foreign advertising Lv J hi But 50-year W Mohamad Rosli is taking it all ■LT f m *f i in her stride.
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  • [NEWS]
    • 497 21  -  By Arthur J Pais REPORTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO KOMALA Vilas is making a name for itself in San Francisco. But this KV, as it's affectionately called, has no connection with the Singapore one. Instead, it recreates the Indian college atmosphere. Like Mr Srini Anomolou, co-founder of
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    • 308 21 THREE years ago, "Swami" Narayan Swami began dreaming of Komala Vilas, the restaurant. At the time, he was chatting with his two cousins about Indian restaurants in Silicon Valley, US. Swami himself is an engineer and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. One of his cousins is a Wall
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    • 179 22 BECKHAM GETS A BLOODIED HEAD/ Page 71 THIS is what Posh Spice looked like last month (left). But she has now changed her look for the latest Spice Girls album, and has a new £1,000 ($2,500) hairdo. Victoria Beckham cancelled several TV engagements and
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    • 158 22 POOR Leo. According to an Italian daily, Leonardo DiCaprio is so bored and miserable he has become grossly overweight and is "hiding away in his hotel". Rome daily II Messaggero said the actor, who is filming the Gangs of New York in Rome, was 11.7 kg
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    • 134 22 Wire services. SHE'S not afraid of being called a gold-digger. Ex-Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith (right) is, in fact, going to court for a share of her dead husband's estate, which is estimated at up to US$l6 billion ($27 billion). Ms Smith married Mr
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  • 234 24 SI PETE loves spending time with Pepe. They go for long walks and romp in the park. But if bad weather should force them to stay indoors, keeping Pepe entertained is difficult. Here are some tips on keeping children entertained indoors: Indulge in Idtchen capers Families
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  • 246 25  -  Cookielarl J I THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Trudy Lim trudy@sph.com.sg children's ages and interests. Scrabble, Monopoly and Pictionary are always popular. Then spend a quiet hour or two playing. The children have fun while learing to take turns and to play
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  • 682 26  -  Feature fry SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO OUR great and good Mr Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister, would, at a wild guess, give almost anything to have our streets of Singapore populated with the likes of the women you see pictured here. Every single one
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  • Article, Illustration
    100 28 Feature I man appears on the Rosie O'Donnell Show, but what we're really concerned about is the fact that talk show host Rosie O'Donnell looks like she's about to have twins. Singer Vanessa Williams sure loves a hoopla. Here, she is seen leaving an LA Lakers basketball game in
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  • 717 29  -  fcingleColumn] by Sheela Narayanan sheda@sph.com.sg u I HAD an epiphany the other day. Nothing as dramatic as the word itself (which actually means becoming aware of something that is very important to you) but enough for me to want to share it with you.
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  • [SeenHeard] SHARP
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      54 30  -  THE MOVIE Edited by Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg R Walter Wade (Christian Bale): JShift (to bad cop jack Roselli, who is 'Do you know who my father b? tf>4ngto kill him): "Why?" Shaft (Samuel L Jackson): "No. Do Roselfc "You would not believe rou?" the coet of private school these
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    • 424 30  -  by SHEELA NARAYANAN THE opening track will replay over and over again in your mind long after you've left the cinema. I can still hear it as I write this. What is it? Shaft. A remake of that 70s blaxploitation movie (70s movies
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    • 342 31  -  by SETO NU-WEN IF not for the fact that this movie is rated R(A), I can imagine kids saying at the end of the film: "Mummy, Daddy, when I grow up, I want to be like Shaft." You want to be what??? I'm no more
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    • 165 31 Roger Ebert in Ns online review. "Is this a food movie? Not •xactfjfjtooimidiofklson automatic pHot, as ft must be,feo satisfy tha fens of tha original Shalt kttbattarthanl •xpactwff Ym. Thar* ar» flashes hara of tha talant that Singleton haspossassad avar since Boyz N tha Hood, and rtrong acting
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    • 234 31 \j| Gift wrapped THE father cried as the twin •daughters selected costly wedding 'gowns. His wife said: "Honey, don't be sad." The husband replied: "Darling, I don't 'mind giving them away in marriage, but 'must they be so expensively •gift-wrapped?" Gimme a beer a MAN comes home from work, 'slumps
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
    • 516 32 [~1 KVi Cable l_™ J 24-hour subscription sales hotline m raWVlteS Now, Voyager 9pm This consummate tearjerker stars today Children of the Dust (Part I) Bette Davis at her best Mentally and 9.30pm Sidney Pomer stars as Gypsy, a physicaMy abused by her controlling part-Cherokee gunslinger in the mother, Bette
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    • 369 33 J Highlight of the Week *P° mon Treasure Seekers: Glories of lopm AngkorWat < atPSV.kwabeaninterestiag was3bandone<linthel4^_ Catch the repeat at 7.30pm ESPN jJ| > TTi family TTihmuch-artidpatedrwumtef w« today TtM Class SNpptri -WftLsL be played on neutral yound. Red Star 9pm ta this re-telling of the Cinderella tale. Befc-ade scored
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  • 1083 35  -  VenueJ 19 When you say you've been to Penang, the question almost everyone inevitably asks is: "Did you have Penang laksa?" CRISPIN A ROBERT did a food trail of sorts in this little island just made for foodies Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg TOURISTS go to
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  • 512 37 Tune in, G Decibels B chill out If Sing When You're Winning Robbie Williams (EMI) IN the video for She's The One, Robbie Williams hams it up as a figure-skating champion. On this CD sleeve, he's hamming it up again as a full football team. (See picture above.) Because it's
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  • 368 37  -  Rave with Scto Nu-WenN r m Cv.jT'- i v APART from Radiohead's Kid A, Madonna's Music is probably the most hyped album this year. Thankfully, the greater part of it does live up to all that jazz. Don't be distracted by the cowgirl-and-rhinestoneß gear she
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  • 511 38  -  OLYMPIC DREAMS SoSueMfH SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Suzanne Walker IMAGINE being nicknamed "Thorpedo" and have everyone know your monster shoe size. It obviously connotes speed. For those whose minds are in the drain, I dread to wonder what they're
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  • 347 39  -  °7 Carol L% a m carol@s CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-C 0 N S C I 0 U S By Carol Leong canol@sph.com.sg FOR long-time residents of the Thomson area, it's as if In In Beauty Salon has been there forever. Madam Jessie
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  • 778 40  -  nbolunnnj Hlll[l)l T Fll t t «iin o*r by Art Fazil WAS enjoying a poetic moment over a cup of teh and roti bakar when all of a sudden there was a commotion. Chairs and tables rattled as men rushed out of the kedai
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  • [Aggie] MATTERS OF THE HEART AND BODY
    • 179 41 I AM 20. I haven't been able to trust guys since my ex-boyfHend, J, left me. I got to know a few different guys from different walks of life. But they are all not the ones I would like to spend the rest of my life
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    • 136 41 Last week's letter Depressed 14 has been feeling blue ever since he and his girlfriend of I Vt years broke up. It was during a moment of foolishness that he lost his temper and scolded her. That led to the breakup. He now realises that he had
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    • 276 41 Readers' advice: I HAD a similar experience. Last year, my girlfriend of two years left me after a stupid quarrel. Within two weeks, she found another boyfriend. We had broken up a few times before over petty things. But each time, we got back together.
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    • 141 41 IT is never easy to let go of someone whom you love dearly. On the spur of the moment, you made a mistake and she has used it to her advantage. Don't heap guilt on yourself. I presume she already had her ex-boyfriend in mind and was just
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    • 532 42 I'M 26 and she's 23. I have known her for about three years. She is shy and timid. During our first few dates, she did not say much. I did all the talking. Normally, I would also be the one to call her for
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    • 309 42 I HAVE been married for four years. I am 25 and my husband is 31. My husband is hot-tempered and flares up easily. We have a I O-month-old son. My problem is that I was locked out from our home last week. The
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    • [Puberty] Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 279 42 I'M a girl who comes from a Q conservative family. I feel very shy when friends ask me about sexual matters. I don't know much about these things. I'd like to ask the following questions: What is an orgasm? Is a girl still considered a virgin
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      • 181 42 MY boyfriend was sexually Q abused as a boy. It took me a long time to find out what actually happened as he had kept It locked up inside. I know that this is not healthy and I want to help him. I feel that men
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    • 44 42 CALLUS If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****9. Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg (please mark Aggie) or call 1900-*****07 (calls cost 30 cents a minute).
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  • Page 43 Miscellaneous
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    • 869 47 [jrVtodayJ Tlirn The Flirting Scholar The Science of Sin Apollo 13 W Entertainment (Ch 56), Discovery Channel (Ch 12), Channel 5,7 pm I 10 pm 10 pm Based on the true story of the Apollo lAB O A classic Chinese tale retold comic Anger, gluttony, sloth, lust four of the
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  • [RACING]
    • 328 48  -  By Michael Lee Apprentice jockeys eqjoyed a field day at Kuala Lumpur yesterday when they bagged six of the seven races on the card, with Richard Lim and Yan Weng Kuan lapping up a double each. Lim, the leading rider in
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    • 1157 48 8 POWERFUL MERCHANT 54 c 52.5 (16-7) *RUm (1) 1 1 1 (476) 13 BRKSHTCTTY53(236-56) *WKY«n (6) 4 2 2 (455) 9 STRAIGHT SUCCESS 54 (36-11) SHO»i (3) 5 5 3 (397) 3 ICHIBAN REFLEX 565 (20-Si BTM (10) 10 9 4 |48?) 12 ALKHAWALEEKABJAR
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    • 219 48 1 WALK TO THE MOON 56 (8-6) AlanaSwwom (6) 1 8 WYNTONLASS52(34-8) JeffNosto (4) 2 2 BALLET GIRL 53.5 (55-11) P«tor Knuctoy (7) 3 Winning trainer David Harrison Margins: 2 V«, 2,1. Time: Iminll.osec. Forecast: $12. Tierce: $78 ,n. .1 UfJ,J Clmvm uourte scratching, wiw biorm
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    • 1580 49 TODAY'S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD Goingforecast: Good to yielding No. Uwtlrom Horat W> m* Jodm Bairtw (AaataWi, tnkm-cmtm) 1 84 BEAHEADS 57 (51) MKway 6 (3ag Osman-Be Aheads) 2 FOX CHASER 57 (53) MZaidi 8 (3ag Comer-Fox Chase) 3 KEY EXPRESS 57 (53) D Miller 2 (3ag V Nathan-Southern Galaxy)
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    • 380 50 PICK OF THE DAY I This four-year-old New Zealand-bred has done enough in three starts to suggest that a win is in store for him this afternoon. The Hydrocarbon Stable-owned galloper, who has been racing against stronger opposition since his debut, finds himself in an
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    • 75 50 RACE 2: Twin Fortune, Secret Formula, Taifei, King Lark, Olympic Village, Mega Success, Blue Grass. RACE 3: Famous General, Season Dancer, Austin Power. RACE 5: Hippo Ventura, Big Secret. RACE 6: Bintan Star, Strong Character, Mr Quick, Platoon Commander, Imperial Scholar, Must Invest. RACE 7: Victory Pet, Baby
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    • 967 50 RACE 1: PRINCELY STAR was withdrawn when he failed his pre-race blood test. He was impounded. The going was yielding. LE SPORT jumped awkwardly, throwing his head. AL KHAWALEEK ABJAR and ICMIBAN REFLEX came together shortly after the start. Shortly after
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    • 1115 51 PARTY POOPER: Apprentice Terry Ong 's victory on ths Charles Read-trained Mega Victory In Race 4 prevent* a clean sweep by the foreign jockeys at Kranji. Picture/ Zaihan Mohamed Yusof 5 HIGHLAND STAR 55 (11-5) ASplterl (1) 1 1 1 482 6 CHEERS UP 54.5 (10-6)
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    • 331 52  -  By Lionel Lee THE highly-touted Military Chief suffered his first defeat at Krai\ji last night when he could not withstand a late charge by Super Goldluck, bringing down with him an entire army of supporters. Race-goers had installed Military Chief a firm favourite in the
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    • 1026 52 RACE I: THUNDER LIGHT was scratched when found to be lame nearhind. CHEERS UP was restless in the barrier at the start and jumped awkwardly in onto TOWN LOVER. COURTLY LARK was slow Into istride. Jockey P Wynne reported that KNIGHT RAIDER
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  • 446 53  -  M TIGER BEER SINGAPORE CUP: SEMI-FINAL. SECOND LEG [sports] Home United wins 6-4 on aggregate. It will meet SAFFC in the Singapore Cup final on Oct 1. Scorers: Miroslav Kuljanac Ist, Masrezwan Masturi 61st Main sponsor Borneo Motors/Roberto Building Material Equipment sponsor Lotto Scorer Aleksander Duric 72nd,77th
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    • 44 53 WOODLANDS MATCH VS HOME UNITED STADIUM WOODLANDS DATE 23/9/2000 I •FULL-TRIE MATCH 2-2 RESULTS '"FulUlme" Includes injury time but not extra time or penalty snoot-outs. SCORE RESULTS 1X 2 I DRAW 1/2 GOAL wo °?i^ NDS TOTAL A OPALS 4 MV To*ordt »od Brr+''t
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    • 301 54  -  By Peter Siow "IF anybody sees me in a boat again, they can shoot me." Rower Steven Redgrave said those oft-quoted words immediately after winning his fourth straight Olympic goal at Atlanta in 1996. Fortunately, no one put a bullet in him when he returned to
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    • 111 55 Hie tongue says a lot, even in the sporting arena. In victory or defeat, the fleshy, freely movable mouth organ has a fiery message. Here, BRIAN MILLER gives more than just a tongue-lashing. He takes a tongue-in-cheek dig at these Olympians aHHHHK I It i! 4« 4-
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    • 451 56  -  THREE FOOTBALL GIANTS KNOCKED OUT I OF OLYMPIC GAMES QUARTER-FINALS ASIA'S SOLE HOPE Cameroon 2 Brazil 1 (extra time) Scorers: Cameroon: Patrick Mboma 17, Modeste Mbami 113 Brazil: Ronaldinho 94 Half-time: 1-0 Chile 4 Nigeria 1 Scorers: Chile: Pablo Contreras 17, Ivan Zamorano 18, Reinaldo Navia
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    • 148 56 AP. MODESTE Mbami fired the u golden goal" for nine-man Cameroon to score a sensational 2-1 victory over hot favorite Brazil. Poor Brazil. The star-spangled players were jeered off the field by the fans after an inept performance. Cameroon had two players sent off and Brazil, which equalised
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    • 152 56 AP. THREE first-half goals set Chile on the way to a comfortable win over 1996 gold medallist Nigeria. Rodrigo Tello's 17th-minute free-kick from the left-wing was met with a deft header by Pablo Contreras to make it 1-0. Less than a minute later, Chile's No 1 striker
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    • 173 56 AP. SPAIN substitute Gabri scored four minutes from the final whistle against Italy in a bad-tempered match. Clear-cut chances were at a premium as the two sides cancelled each other out effectively. Gabri's match-winner was a stunner. He spun in the penalty-area and rifled a low shot past
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    • 166 56 AP. SO unlucky, Japan. Asia's solitary Olympic Games hope was edged out on penalty-kicks by the United States in a match Japan should have easily won. The Americans, who never even reached the last eight before, now go on to the semi-finals after twice coming from behind and
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      211 57 Dads, mums, kids and medals. Wow, what a sporting family combination. BRIAN MILLER looks at how the family celebrated the successes of the heroes... regardless of whether it was the gold, silver or bronze medals i L 1 i 1 a PISTOL-PACKING MAMA: American shooter Nancy Johnson (above,
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      198 58 DAY 10 DIP NOT FINISH He had a bad day, one he would love to forget. First, Aziz Zakari of Ghana on lane two took off the blocks before the starter's gun boomed. One more false start and he would have been disqualified but Zakari did better the
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    • 110 58 Bora: July 23,1974, Kansas City, US. Failed to qualify for the 1996 Atlanta Games and decided in the same year to move from Kansas City to Los Angeles to train under the world's leading sprint coach John Smith. Won the US 100 m title in 1997 followed by
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    • 157 58 AFP. WHAT a priceless catch. A 20-year-old Australian jeweller turned lucky yesterday evening. He grabbed the shoe 100 m gold medallist Maurice Greene threw into the crowd. After winning the race the US star took off both shoes and tossed one into the frenzied crowd at
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    • 593 59 WOMEN'S 10QM GoM Marion Jones (US), 10.755 ec Silver—Ekaterini Thanou (Greece), 11.12 sec Bronze—Tanya Lawrence (Jamaica), 11.18 sec MEN'S 100 M FINAL Gold: Maurice Greene (US), 9.B7sec Sflvar Ato Boldon (Trinidad) 9.995 ec Biw» Obadele Thompson (Barbados) 10.04 sec HE covered the 100 m track in
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      502 60 POSTCARD FROM SYDNEY'S OLYMPIC STADIUM BAD NEWS FOR GIRL WATCHERS Girl-watchers are having a disappointing time here. From the swimming pool to track and field, two of the Sydney Games high-profile sports, young girls in the prime of their lives are mostly covering up their assets. Not just
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    • 159 54 fc MEDAL TALC? nU Country QaM!!! fIU B4H ■j China Hf France 10 10 5 *V Australia 9 16 11 Italy 9 MBMMHB Russia .8 8 11 V Netherlands 7 3 3 9 Romania 6 2 South Korea Japan MHMHBHHHHHt Ukraine 3 6 4 Britain 3 Sweden 3. 2 \i
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  • PREMIER
    • 114 61 MAN OTP 3 Paul Scholes (13th minute), Teddy Sheringham (36th min), David Beckham (38th min) CHELSEA 3 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (6th minute), Tore Andre Flo (45th and 70th min) We showed great character to come back. We knew we had it in us. D&nder Graeme Le Saux, serving
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    • 200 62  -  BY Edwin Yeo OH, bloody Beckham. And for once, when I say that, I'm not insulting the England midfielder. Nope, take a look at the picture on Page 1 and youH know what I mean. Yesterday's exciting match between Manchester United and
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    • 719 62 FINALLY, Chelsea looked like title contenders again. Although you couldn't tell by the way it defended in its 3-3 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford yesterday evening. The way the London side has been playing of late, no one was quite surprised
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    • 145 63 Bradford City 0 Southampton 1 Hassan Kachloul 29 Half-time: 0-1 Crowd: 16,163 Coventry City 0 West Ham United 3 Paolo di Canio 38, Joe Cole 40, Frank Lampard 69 Half-time: 0-2 Crowd: 20,120 Derby County 1 Georgiou Kinkladze 75 Leeds United 1 Lan Harte 34 Half-time: 0-1 Crowd:
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      572 63 TONIGHT: Leicester v Everton Live on Football Channel, 11pm CALL INFOLINE Call 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for the result of Sunday's match. Calls cost 30 cents a minute I SATURDAY'S SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS AFP. LIVERPOOL 1 SUNDERLAND 1 The battle of the most prolific England strikers produced two cracking
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    • 769 64 THERE'S A DELICATE ART TO SIR Alex Ferguson does it at Manchester United. Sven Goran Ericksson does it at Lazio. Gianluca Vialli lost his Chelsea job doing it "Rotation" used to be what farmers did: Tho principle off changing tho crop to allow tho oarth
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    • 153 64 IN defeat, athletes sometimes reveal their true self. From the Olympics, who will forget the gaunt face, the tears of Svetlana Khorkina, the Russian gymnast who lost her title? She fell off a vaulting horse inaccurately measured by incompetent officials. But in the pool, Eric Moussambani, the near
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  • 811 66  -  y/f M ISklg PAY 10 Wang Nam (Chn) bt Chen Jing (Tail 12-21,22-20,21-17,21-15 U Ju (Chn) bt Jing Junhong (Sin) 15-21,21-13,21-12,21-19 PETER SIOW In Stfdr* IT was ***** close... Jing Junhong lost the chance to create history for Singapore yesterday when she lost in
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