The New Paper, 17 April 2001

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  • 24 1 TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2001 m Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS
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  • NEWS
    • 108 2 Reuters. US defence officials say there are no plans to move the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk near China. The officials, who asked not to be identified, were responding to a Washington Post report that the ship was sailing in the direction of the South
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    • 53 2 Supporters of Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid wear camouflage during training in the forests of East Java. National police chief Surojo Bimantorot, however, is against such action including suicide squads. Parliament will meet on April 30 to decide whether a second censure motion will be issued against the
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    • 357 2 Indian wedding gets underway in UK pub and then... Around Bpm on Sunday night, an Indian wedding reception had just a Bradford pub. In a neighbouring pub, a group of men believed to belong to a right-wing group were living it up. According to witnesses quoted
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  • 602 3 WORLD TAKE a good look at Nicole Kidman (left) and Pamela Anderson (below, left). The next time you see them, they could be in gowns from India. Hollywood stars are looking to the design houses which dress Bollywood stars. Fashion houses in Bombay and Delhi,
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 519 4  -  NKF CHARITY SHOW BY Teo Kuan Yee HER lungs were bursting and the water she had swallowed was choking her. Yet she could not swim to safety, weighed down by the heavy chain. Gasped a frightened Hong Huiffang: "I felt like I was on the
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    • 231 4 CUT out the danger. Let's make it safer instead. Last month, MP Seng Han Thong, (Ang Mo Kio GRC), said in Parliament that the practice of dangerous stunts by artistes for the sake of charity should stop. He was referring to death-defying stunts like Li Nanxing's.
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 165 6 p| IHHI MCqueen MCking THE worker has been taking medical leave frequently of late. His boss wonders if he is genuinely sick each time. The chances are, the worker could be suffering from stress. So said associate consultant psychiatrist Chua Hong Choon of the Institute of
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    • 60 6 PlQure This THIS photograph of an US federal agent confronting six-year-old Elian Gonzalez has won a coveted Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. US politicans had wanted to keep the boy with his relatives in Miami, against the wishes of his father in Cuba. The photograph was
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    • News Break
      • 68 6 I COMMUNITY I MENDAKI has welcomed Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong*s call for Malay/Muslim groups to work more closely with each other and with government agencies. Mendaki said: "The PM's message is that while we have made good progress, he wants us to do more and do it
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      • 57 6 PEACEKEEPERS SINGAPORE'S first armed mission to a UN peacekeeping force leaves next month for East Timor. The 70 troops will stay a year with duties including escorting humanitarian convoys and protecting vital installations. They have been training with a New Zealand team. East Timor is still
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      • 63 6 I LAWYERS MORE lawyers have left private practice than in the public sector in recent times. In the past four months, 93 lawyers left private firms but only three quit the public sector. Singapore Legal Service chief of staff Jeffrey Chan said the service has been reviewing market
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      • 72 6 I HOUSING THE Housing Board has named four sites for its new Build to Order (BTO) system. Under it, flat buyers are invited to pick flats in specific sites. The HDB will build flats only if the demand for a site exceeds 70 per cent. The four
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      • 69 7 I PLANES SINGAPORE Airlines is lending a hand to struggling Ansett Australia. Ten Ansett planes are grounded by the air safety authority in Australia. SIA has offered a Boeing 747-400 plane, with cabin crew. Air NZ, Qantas and Air Canada are also helping. The planes grounded are
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      • 69 7 I DIESEL I SOME diesel spilled into the canal outside the Kranji Water Reclamation Plant on Sunday night. About five cubic metres of diesel had leaked out of a storage tank. The canal, Sungei Mandai, leads into the Straits of Johor. It took half a day to clean
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      • 58 7 TWINS THE Nepalese twins who were separated last week returned to the operating theatre yesterday. Doctors spent five hours inspecting the post surgery wounds and skin grafts of Ganga and Jamuna Shrestha in the sterile environment of the operating theatre. Both girls had fevers and high white
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      • 62 7 I PHILIPPINES I FORMER Philippine leader Joseph Estrada surrendered to police and was arrested yesterday. He is the first ex-president there to be prosecuted on criminal charges. The hearing on charges of corruption and peijury is set for May 17. Estrada is said to have diverted tobacco
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    • 41 6 New Straits Times: Estrada held for graft International Herald Tribune: Princess's pregnancy enthralls the Japanese Asian Wall Street Journal: Taipei appears uncertain on Aegis BBC news: Israel attacks Palestinian targets as international outcry grows over air-raids in Lebanon
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    • 84 7 THUMRIJNG HIS NOSE AT THE NORTH POLE My thumb's now very soft and sensitive. It's a bitflat as I lost some tissue. Adventurer Khoo Swee Chiow who was given the all-clear by the Singapore Sports Council's Dr Patrick Goh. Mr Khoo returned from an unsuccessful attempt to reach
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    • 72 7 The Straits Times: Some US lawmakers toughen China stance The Business Times: Peter Kwee clinches Nassim site with bid of $50m f Lianhe Zaobao: US senators divided over US-China ties Berita Harian: Call to Malay organisations to work together to maximise resources RCS morning news: Malaysia's PM
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    • 166 7 in FOCUS INCOME TAX ARE you one of the 200,000? That's the number of taxpayers who had not filed their returns by midnight on Sunday the deadline for filing by post. If you are, get yourself to a computer. You have until midnight tomorrow ro
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 47 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams fAY CUBICLE IS SUCKING THE LIFE FORCE OUT OF f\E. I f\EAN, IT ALWAYS HAS. BUT IT SEEfAS LIKE IT'S HAPPENING FASTER NOW. TUil i THEY NOTICED m w. *s K I m m m &1 mm v. a s 7 I ii s
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 919 8  -  By Amrit Kaur AT the age of two, little Dylan was falling forward on his face every time his parents tried to make him sit. In fact, the three-year-old had so many falls that he ended up with numerous bruises all over his
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    • 200 9 DYSPRAXIC children are usually quite intelligent, despite their problems. They may want to pick up their toys after playing, say a long word or simply write the letter "A" in their books, but the sequence of actions involved in doing so may be difficult for
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    • 954 10 For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. We quote Science to defend Literature. On Thursday, the YScene interviewed eight students, who said Literature is irrelevant, that it is for the elite and difficult to score in. The comments triggered a flood of
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    • 579 11 After 0 levels ITE or the poly? Q I AM a Secondary 4 student and I am currently deciding on whether to join a Junior College or a polytechnic. My LlRsinSec 3 was 16—A1 for E maths, A 2 for History, A 2 for English, B4 for both pure Chemistry
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    • 360 14  -  By Chua Ying-hong SHE played it by ear and landed among the top 10. Eleven-year-old Charmaine Liew Shengmei (above) wowed the audience at the Speak Good English Movement Storytelling Competition Finals 2001 with her lively and confident performance. And of course, her costume, which
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    • 124 15 PROBLEM WITH HAIRP > FIND OUT COST-FREE ■r IF YOU CAN BEAT IT. I Qi d i I realized I was losing more hair each day. I im' I was worried it would be noticed by those I a^ ound me and tried al sorts of remedies^ I potential bad
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    • 729 16  -  ...And it may just lead to a settlement today RAFFLES TOWN CLUB SAGA REPORTS BRIAN MILLER SOMEONE asked me yesterday, what was my call. Meaning, when did I see the Raffles Town Club saga coming to a close. I laughed. Who knows, right? Well,
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    • 173 16 MR Peter Lim, 47, the former "Remisier King" who turned corporate adviser, claims Raffles Town Club shareholders chairman Lawrence Ang, William Tan and Dennis Foo broke an Qral agreement to give him a 40 per cent stake in the club. Mr Ang and Mr Tan had also promised
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 368 17 BOY CRUSHED TO DEATH THE classes were about to start. But the gate of the religious school was still half open. So one of the Primary 2 pupils thought of•' closing the metal sliding gate. But this was a huge and heavy gate, too
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    • 109 17 A SECOND bizarre accident took place in Johor on Sunday. In the incident, two close friends on their way to a religious school died after they were hit by a garbage truck which was making a U-turn near a junction in Johor Baru. Neighbours
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  • NEWS
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      55 18 mui*mui* When Briton Nick Cavander decided to 1 become a full-time dad after hischild was first had to find an appropriate term for miii$0ti Some people call themselves house-husbands, some people call themselves stay-at-home fathers. It's very difficult. We don't actually really have a label. 'Home
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    • 381 18 asking MARKET WATCH ECONOMIC slowdowns are boom time for economists. They give their own "take" on forecasts. In The Business Times today, for example, two reports on the same page take opposing positions on the Singapore economy. One says the Singapore economy is more resilient than most
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    • 92 18 AFP. THE outlook isn't good for Cisco Systems, the world's top provider of networking devices for the Internet. The US company said yesterday it will cut 8,500 jobs to cope with faltering demand for information technology equipment. It expects third quarter sales to be 30
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    • 75 18 The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 31.62 points (0.31 per cent) at 10,158.56, its highest close since March 13. The technology-heavy Nasdaq dropped 51.86 points (2.64 per cent) to 1,909.57. Declining issues narrowly led advancers nearly 4 to 3 in the New York Stock Exchange. SINGAPORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ
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  • WORLD
    • Teacher, we have found you a man
      • 201 19 WHEN Ms Clair Clark pinned a postcard from a friend on her bulletin board, her curious ninth grade class asked: "Is that your boyfriend?" And when she told them she didn't have a boyfriend, they decided to "hook her up". Basically they were bored and were
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      • 106 19 THE first time teacher Clair Clark called stranger Kevin Wiles the pair chatted till the wee hours of the morning. They REALLY hit it off. Lot's of common ground, they found out, the Register-Guard of Oregon reported. They'd both served in the navy and had been married once
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      • 70 19 HE popped the question a few days before Halloween, after hauling Ms Clark out to a farm to carve pumpkins on a bitterly cold morning. She worked on a pumpkin with dreadlocks, while he surreptitiously carved "Marry Me?" into his, fastening the engagement ring to the nose. He
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      • 79 19 HE greeted her with a purple tulip, and they went out for sushi and a movie. He gave her a goodnight kiss something he'd never done on a first date. Both were smitten. He called her early next morning and they took his dogs for a walk. "I
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      • 64 19 JUST as nothing about their courtship was conventional, neither will their wedding on May 12 be conventional. To honour the kids who made it happen, they've decided to hold it in the school auditorium. What's more, about 20 of Ms Clark's students will stage a full-on, theatrical re-enactment
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    • 112 19 TEACHERS need to learn too, Japan's Metropolitan Board of Education believes. So it is schooling three of its top teachers not in a classroom, but in the boardroom. They have been shunted off to private companies to learn real-life skills, the Mainichi Shimbun reports. The three have
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    • 352 20 Wire services. THE ship said to be trafficking in child slaves from Africa has docked in the west African nation of Benin. Authorities in Benin boarded a ship at the centre of a frenzied hunt off West Africa for scores of child
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    • 354 20 HE was a remand prisoner awaiting trial on child sex abuse charges. The three men shared the same prison cell with him, but they certainly weren't going to be his friend. The child abuser must suffer for his crimes, said his fellow inmates. So after
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  • 522 21  -  Etcetera WITH RIANA ZAKIR SO children with full-time mums usually outshine their peers in school. Ten of 13 top PSLE pupils have mums who are housewives, according to a recent Straits Times article. After reading that, I considered skipping into the office to
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    • 431 21 P Cincinnati's great divide remains The US city of Cincinnati was hit by riots last week after a if white P° ,ice officer shot dead a black teenager on April 7. Several people were injured, hundreds more arrested, and p*t» the city had to be put under curfew. 4|flf Officer
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 108 21 COMICS The Concrete Jungle/ Colin Goh gmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmL m~w ws&w ismr* /-a rrsumrt Nva cuxsttoNA Ml? souto honk# Calvin and Hobbes /Bill Watterson HttLO. MM I WUI? 50 NOOk W NEAM, WO I STBKTtM SPEAWt«,f \F WAT I 83(. HANE I MO IF *M WINK CASRI NCWR CAN TWSOW I 'NOOIDNT
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    • What's got these
      • 299 22 WHO can forget Darren puckering up for a lethal cobra at a charity show? Or his daredevil ways as the ex-host of Travel Hunt? So who would have guessed that he heartily dislikes a mere fruit? Said
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      • 120 22 "I'VE tried everything, even sky-diving. But when I see a lizard, the emotions it strikes in me can't be described." FEAR METER: 7/10 HISTORY: In primary school, he had a close encounter with a lizard. "My classmate was walking behind me. When I felt something
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      • 300 23 FANCY holding a tiger with your bare hands? Well, the 1.82 m tall actor said yes, he would hold an adult tiger during the filming of drama serial Tian Yan (1990) in Thailand. He has also cuddled snakes like pythons during filming. Zheng Geping's one
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      • 220 23 "ITS a baa fear and I don't wish it, it's no fun at all. "I break out in cold sweat and it is very uncomfortable. So did he catch the movie, Arachnophobia? "I have the VCD but when I
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      • 51 23 HERE are some of the named fears found on www.phobialist.com Ablutophobia: fear of bathing Alektorophobia:... chickens Agyrophobia:... crossing the street Arachibutyrophobia:... peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth Athazagoraphobia:... being forgotten or ignored Automysophobia: ...being dirty Chronomentrophobia:... clocks Clinophobia:... going to bed Decidophobia:... making decisions Euphobia:... hearing good
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  • Spotlight
    • Article, Illustration
      555 24  -  TO TAKE CYCLING TO NEW HEIGHTS f GOING 1 By Jesslyn Chia COMING soon: Asia's first permanent world-class bike park. Right in the heart off Singapore. By September, you should be able to watch cyclists race, jump and perform their tricks at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. The bike
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    • 113 24 THE world-class cycling track at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve is being funded by six individuals, with the largest single contribution being $500,000. Mr Ramanathan is one of the donors. He did not want to say how much he had given, or who the
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    • 38 24 BERM Curved turns of varying heights MOGUL Large, rounded mounds of earth. Some are crescent-shaped ROLLERS Series of big humps STUTTERS Series of bumps TABLETOP Shaped like a big tabletop STALLWALL Wall with a curved top
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      149 24 SINGAPORE DATE FOR WORLD CUP? *IF things go as planned, the International Cycling Union (UCI) Bikers X World Cup may even be held in Singapore next year. Mr Glen Jacobs, an official UCI course builder and coordinator, hopes to flag off next year's World Cup on Singapore's bike
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  • HEY!
    • 424 25  -  That's how Anggun dealt with one obsessive fan By Yeoh Wee Teck MUCH as Anggun (left) loves her fans, it's when they love her too eagerly that she starts to worry. She doesn't fear the over-enthusiastic worshipper. But a persistent
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    • 153 26 HER dusky skin, her luminous eyes, her dark shiny hair, her sensual body for some, Anggun is more than just a voice, she's definitely eye candy. When asked to share her beauty secrets, she just said: "I don't know... I eat everything! I just don't
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    • 113 26 SHOW INTO WHAT: Anggun Live in Concert WHEN: April 30, Bpm WHERE: Kallang Theatre TICKETS: $61, $81, $121, available from all Sistic outlets HERE'S a chance to get to see Anggun. Sony Music and Midas Promotions have two pairs of tickets to
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    • 410 27  -  BY Teo Kuan Yee IN the eyes of Hongkong director Jingle Ma, 34-year-old Ekin Cheng can behave like a child sometimes. Ekin fought with six-year-old co-star Tarn Wai Hou, who played his son on the set of their new film, Goodbye Mr Cool, Jingle said.
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    • 208 28 SEX siren Norika Fujiwara is out to seduce men again. In her new drama Ex-boyfriend, she showers her hunky co-star Takao Osawa with passionate kisses. Never mind that hiscjiaracter is already married! As the story goes, the ex-couple run into each other seven years later and
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    • Article, Illustration
      135 28 TALK about sacrifice. Sweetie-pie Ryoko Hirosue (below) does not mind hiding her pretty face to look like a monster. All for the sake of her latest commercial for Game Boy's new product, Dragon Quest 2. But won't it ruin her pretty-girl image? "I was a little worried in
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    • 135 28 SPRING is the best time to admire cherry blossoms in Japan. Who would you pick for a romantic stroll among the cherry blossoms? In a poll conducted by Wink Up magazine, the No 1 choice among female fans was cute Kinki Kids member Tsuyoshi Domoto
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    • 301 36  -  By Michael Lee BERNARD ANG'S loss has been fellow-trainer Charlie Read's gain. But the affable Ang was not sore about ex-charge Bo Mag clinching his second feature race, the $180,000 Group 3 Committee's Prize, for Read last Saturday. "Even if I don't
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    • 301 37 AP. THE field for the Kentucky Derby is coming into focus, and what is crystal clear is that trainer Bob Baffert possesses a powerful 1-2 punch in Point Given and Congaree. What remains to be seen, however, is whether usual Derby trainers
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    • 346 38  -  S-LEAGUE UPDATE BY Wang Meng Meng DEFENDING S-League champion SAFFC will be one of the teams to suffer when Thai stars go back for national duty next month, but team manager Kok Wai Leong, foresees no problem. SAFFC will badly miss its star
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    • 388 38 Reuters. Brazilian forward Rivaldo has said he knows nothing about a claim that Barcelona is set to negotiate his transfer to an "important" English club. "I know nothing about meetings between clubs and I don't want to know anything about them," he said on his website
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    • 239 38 Reuters. RONALDO could return to action before the end of this season. The Brazilian striker, 25, has not played since suffering a knee injury in the Italian Cup final a year ago. Speaking to reporters after his first training session back at Inter-Milan's training centre yesterday, the
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      • 1188 39  -  Realisation of a childhood dream CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL (2nd leg) DEPORTIVO v LEEDS (Delayed telecast, ESPN, tomorrow, sam) FIRST LEG: LEEDS 3 DEPORTIVO 0 Talk about a baptism by fire, Leeds United manager David O'Leary's young team was given a 4-0
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      • 183 40 fln «^l¥ win the Premiership. TbeyVe dropped points against us, Liverpool and Arsenal. But the small teams are don't think of winning, only of not conceding more than two goals. When they play us they play 500 per cent harder to win the game. ON MAKING HMNCXRMKS I
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    • 32 41 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Q-FINAL (2nd leg) Panel Host DARRYL DAVID TV Presenter on the Football Channel and ESPN Guest Panelists JOHNDYKES ESPN and Star Sports anchor-presenter EDWIN YEO TNP football correspondent
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    • 1327 41 BAYERN MUNICH v MAN U (Bayern leads 1-0) Live on ESPN, 2.30 am, Thursday DARRYL: Manchester United has swept all before them in England in winning its third straight title, but it was given its biggest jolt since West Ham knocked
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    • 14 42 BECKHAM: Will Man U feel his loss? Picture/ Reuters
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    • 222 42 DARRYL: Just which Arsenal will turn up? The one that magically destroyed Manchester City 4-0 or the one that meekly crumbled 3-0 to Middlesborough? Arsenal has been perversely unpredictable this season, and by that very logic alone, I reckon it is going to play
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    • 95 42 Reuters. INJURY to Silvinho has probably saved Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger a potentially prickly decision. Silvinho's calf injury, picked up in Arsenal's 3-0 defeat by Middlesbrough, meant Wenger did not have to drop him and Ashley Cole could return without any controversy. With Saturday's Premiership
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    • 154 42 (Leeds leads 3-0) DARRYL: I have said before that Leeds is one of the most difficult teams to play because it has nothing to lose. The one person who can inspire any hope of a Deportivo revival is magical midfielder Djalminha, although he would need some
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      362 43 EVERTON 2 LIVERPOOL 3 Five goals, a missed penalty, a scored penalty, a sending-off, half the players on the pitch booked, controversies galore, a stunning last-gasp winner and a referee out to prove that he's the boss on the pitch, just about sums it up... AFP. HOW THE
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    • 509 44 I scored in both games against Everton last season for Coventry, sothisisaluckyteamforme. I looked up and saw Paul Gerrard was on the other side of his goal. He was maybe trying to anticipate what I was going to do because the last free-kick I'd taken had
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    • 660 44  -  By Edwin Yeo THANK goodness Merseyside derbies are not on every week in the Premiership. I don't think my heart can take this level of excitement week in, week out. Five goals, a missed penalty, a scored penalty, a sending-off, almost half the teams booked,
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    • 769 45 DERBY COUNTY 2 Paul Boertien 24, Stefano Eranio 90 inrracßA LUvC9IEIIU Crowd: 28^87 COVENTRY 1 John Hartson 21 SUNDERLAND 0 Crowd: 20,946 NEWCASTLE 2 Carl Cort32, Nolberto Solano 56pen WEST HAM 1 Frank Lampard 80pen Crowd: 51,107 MIDDLESBROUGH 1 Dean Windass 39 IPSWICH 2 Alun Armstrong 46,50
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    • 132 45 Football365. COVENTRY City manager Gordon Strachan believes his side can pull off yet another great escape from relegation after John Hartson's winner against Sunderland gave it a lifeline. Strachan believes the Sky Blues can now win their remaining four matches and extend their unbroken 34-year run
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    • 68 45 Football365. HARRY Redknapp refused to accept that West Ham is safe from relegation after the Hammers' 2-1 defeat at Newcastle. West Ham remains on 39 points, six above third-from-bottom Coventry. Said Redknapp: "I think we still need another result. "Coventry are having a right go
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    • 79 45 DERBY boss Jim Smith plans to let Stefano Eranio bow out of top-level football on a high after watching his last-minute wonder goal seal victory against Leicester. The Italian is set to return to his homeland at the end of the season but Smith's loyalty in
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