The New Paper, 29 February 2004

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  • 32 1 the new paper FEBRUARY 29, 2004 on Sunday MITA (P) 026/03/2003 Wabaita: nawpapar.aalal .com.a Email: tnpOaph.com.sg 80 CENTS Prwss Holdings Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 8 *****1 *****9 the new paper
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    • 90 1 Daddy gave him Pull it 'Tpag^^^ PtairW JONATHAN CMOO I 1. v, MB/ 9 I R j w/ I P* I fidS kHK -'.'l tM V- A 1 A I t- f /mm m i-:, H*s A /.V fBHBKI A, > j| |L i_ *V fa |p/^\iI J I N>Ns
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  • NEWS
    • 1028 2  -  ON THE M'SIAN ELECTION TRAIL PAS' ELECTION TRUMP CARD By Azhar Ghani tnp@sph.com. sg Reporting from PERLIS IT. was a curious end to a political ceramah (talk). As the crowd watched, Malaysian opposition politician Harun Din (right) a solemn picture of concentration with eyes shut began
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    • 151 2 THE former Islamic studies lecturer at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia is also a respected ulama who went to Egypt's Al-Azhar and Cairo universities for his Master's degree and doctorate both in areas of Islamic law respectively, on government scholarships. His stellar credentials led to
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  • NEWS
    • FACE or food?
      • 176 4  - No shame if you're hungry Last week, a man was scolded at a temple when he tried to take some of their free food home for his children. It was embarrassing for him, and for those who had to watch. What is it like at such meal tables? Is the
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      • 866 5 Continued (from previous page) The folk eating at the lodge's free Chinese vegetarian buffet are mostly down-at-heel. Their split shoes reveal chapped feet inside. Toes hang off the end of sandals three sizes too small. At lunchtime on Wednesday, I enter the Lodge past a
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      • 837 5  -  By Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS are known to go for anything that's free. Some give a token for what they take for free, but others just take and take, as much as they can. In The Straits Times Forum Page last Monday,' Mr
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    • FACE or perception?
      • 861 6  -  MAMASANS UP IN ARMS OVER TV PORTRAYAL REPORTS JOYCE LIM joyech THE programme was called Get Rea! But at least five of the mamasans who watched it say it was anything but real. And they became so upset that they approached this newspaper to rectify what
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      • 511 6 IT began with the case of one well-known mamasan, who was caught evading taxes on her booking commissions. Now other mamsans are also getting visits from tax inspectors, who warn them to bare all when they file their taxes. Popular mamasan Lee
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    • FACE or passion?
      • 742 7  -  r THE WAH FACTOR L I i REPORTS TAN MAE LYNN nwlynn@sph.cam-w HE can't drive. But he has a swanky Lamborghini parked in the driveway of his family's bungalow, just waiting for the day he gets his licence. And when he does, Mr Bobby Hiranandani, 18,
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      • 292 7 Hir PASSERS-BY are often awestruck. They'd gawk, touch and even climb over his flashy, low-slung sports car. Mr Goh Kian Tong has become used to his black Lamborghini Diablo attracting such extreme reactions from people in the street. Mr Goh, 47, a
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    • FACE or money?
      • Article, Illustration
        776 8  -  Lively undergrad, 23, chooses career in funeral planning REPORT AND PICTURE By Joyce Lim Joyce Lim joycel@sph. com.sg MISS Michelle Tan looks like the girl next door. But when this polite 23-year-old undergraduate hands out her namecard, she has people turning their backs on her. One even threw
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        653 9  -  Too shy to buy condoms at shops, male grad, 27, starts online store By Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph.com.sg CHALK it up to the blush factor. You can buy condoms at check-out counters of supermarkets and provision shops. But some would run and hide at such public declaration
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      932 10  -  Public gestures of apology more pronounced in the East When sorry seems to be the hardest word F *®grace? By i Celine Lim cellsf@sph.com.sg IT was one of the most dramatic public apologies in recent times. The Korean director of a series of controversial nude photographs portraying
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    • 869 12 Russian who lost wife, children in air crash allegedly stabs Danish air traffic controller in Zurich HE never got over the deaths of his wife and two children. Months after the plane crash that killed them, Mr Vitali Kaloyev could be seen crying at their
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    • 169 13 George Clooney says he'll do it in a toga to help dad HIS dad's running for a seat in Congress. And actor George Clooney (right) wants to help him in that bid. So he's offering to wash cars dressed in a toga for cash. Talk
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  • 345 17 Relatives have to bribe officials to get graves and maintain them NEWS CORRUPTION has become so rampant in Indonesia that even in death one can't escape it. The family or friends of the deceased often have to bribe officials just to obtain a
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  • 350 19 [NEWS] ONLY nine months ago, she was just another London schoolgirl. Today the doe-eyed Titian-haired beauty is being hailed as the next Kate Moss. Supermodel status is guaranteed and 16-year-old Lily Cole (right) is being compared to a masterpiece Botticelli's Venus, and a long-ago darling of
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  • NEWS
    • 411 22 First, Turkish N woman's two brothers shoot her in street i THE young Turkish woman was in hospital after surviving an attack by her two brothers. But they returned to finish her off. She was shot twice in the head. All because Ms
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    • 189 23 Crank caller fools fast food outlet managers THE calls came in on Feb 20 to Wendy's restaurants in four different suburban towns in the Boston area. In each case, the caller said the police suspected employees of stealing from customers, and that workers should be strip-searched. The
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  • 330 27 [NEWS] Nissan wants cars for Japan royalty off road as they are too old for repairs A FLEET of Nissan Prince Royals the most exclusive Japanese make of car has been carrying the Japanese Imperial Couple for decades. But now the car company fears they
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  • 814 28 jPlMg" THE WORLD'S FIRST MOBILE BLOGGING (MOBLOG) REALITY SHOW! 0 oi smgTei LYNN Heng Wei Ling emphasises that she is a staunch Christian. And she will only date Christians. Her nickname on SingTel's My DreamD8 contest, Zonda, however, is taken from the sports car, Pagani Zonda, a
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  • NEWS
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      • 126 29 Hands up for 10,000 Snapshots of the main news to save you time MS Glory Barnabas, 63, dropped out of the Samsung Olympic Torchbearer Challenge early, at Ngee Ann City yesterday. "The sun has zapped my energy," said the former track queen who lasted 21 minutes, standing with 218 other
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      • 361 29 SAT dropped for university admission WORRIED your mother tongue scores won't be good enough to get you into university? Well, here's a bit of good news. The Education Ministry has announced that students who do badly in a mother tongue subject need not include the grade
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      • 121 29 INDONESIA will recruit and train tens of thousands of health workers in an attempt to stop the spread of dengue fever, which has killed 322 people since January. The outbreak has affected more than 17,700 people in all 32 provinces, the health ministry said. Jakarta alone has had
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      • 114 29 THE US Defence Department has denied Iranian reports that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been captured. Iran's official Irna news agency quoted the state radio's Pashtun service, which reported "a very reliable source" as saying that Osama had been captured in a tribal area of Pakistan.
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      • 119 29 TAIWAN President Chen Shui-bian and up to 2 million of his supporters formed a human chain down the length of the island yesterday. The day-long demonstration opposing China's deployment of nearly 500 missiles aimed at Taiwan was also meant to rally support for Mr
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 29 29 Showers in the afternoon, mainly over northern and central Singapore. J <£>"/, Showers jf Jjtk mtrn, V Showers Party cloudy vA# J Partly cloudy r< <3 r Partly cloudy p* >
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 220 31 s wmaMEEmmmm PH.OOnn: Euro 2004 Qualifier/ITTF Pro Tour Highlights 11.00: EPL-—Arsenal FCvs Charlton 9.00 am: Champions League Extra Uefa Champions Extra Croatian Open/Gillette World Sports Athletic/Premiership Extra 11.00: Premiership Extra/Dream Team 3.30: IBF World Grand Prix Thailand Open Women's 1.30: EPL Fulham vs Manchester United 2.00pm: Super 12 Rugby 2004
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    • 140 31 Highlights BatttafteM Earth Channel i, 6pm Starring John Travolta, Barry Pepper. In the year 3000, an alien race tries to enslave humanity in its quest for global domination. The Waterboy Channel 5,7.30pm Starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates. (team's waterboy discovers he Ips a unique tackling V tfmnty and becomes a
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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  • RACING
    • 556 35 How have aspiring trainers Kevin Wong and Mok Mun Chow acquitted themselves at the Australian Racing Institute? The New Paper's Racing Editor MARC TAN takes a busman's holiday to the northern New South Wales-based outfit to find out how the Singapore Training Academy for Racing-sponsored duo
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    • 82 35 Street Talk (Race 10 No. I) He will not pay much but It will be worthwhile to wait until the last race for the unbeaten Street Talk, who makes his return after a sevenmonth break this afternoon. With four impressive wins in as many starts to his name,
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    • Article, Illustration
      275 35 TOP TIPS RACING| r RACE mm Vl Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michad Lea km kJ|f Is 2 Mr Lancet TA *-Fl 3 Um'a Hade 9VWI Impress J 2 3 Dynamite Friend II Tupelo 9 Sun Metal 1 Dynamite Friend 1 Wanko 4 Afadu's Special 1ITUpelo 3 Dynamite Friend
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    • 473 35  -  BY Mare Tan *****3 THE Australian Racing Institute (ARI) has put in a lot of time, effort and money supporting racing at Kranji. The brainchild of animal lover and Gold Coast-based nutriceutical entrepreneur Joanne Hambrook, the Mur-willumbah-based outfit in
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    • 232 35 Name: Kevin Wong Keen Heng Date of birth: Aug 12, 1978 Highest quaffficatkMuO Level, St Gabriel's Secondary School 41 Marital status: Single, Marsiling resident H Previous work experience: Stablehand S with former Bukit Timah-based trainer Luke Kang at age 14; served National Service in police force; stablehand to
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    • 385 36  -  #SHOCK I: Lim's Feature last throughout in 16-horse field in debut, winner second-up #SHOCK 2: Swift N Honest up 48kg in body weight from last start but leads all the way By Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg THE Ipoh races produced a double whammy yesterday. True, former Singapore-based horses
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    • 1390 36 nfifB Maiden Oh/2 1.00 1600m (LC) Stakes: RM2S.000 Wo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Age/oriqin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 0689 COLOURLANDSTAR 59 (41) *HMohdc2.S 3 (3nzg Robert-Colourland) 2 0-3305 MR LANCET 58 (39) LSofhan 12 (6argg KF Wong-ALA Crabbia) 3 7-463- UM'S
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    • 72 36 RACE 4: Circle Of Life, Supreme Happiness. RACE 5: Citi Czar, Hatari, Caught Unaware, Kim Grace, Prime Treasure. RACE 6: Jambhala, Tiger In The Woods, Merdeka, Flying Diamond, Brandavino, Caldecott Vision. RACE 7: Shania Magic, United Naga. RACE 8: Speedy Nancy, Victory Jimmie, Future Prince. RACE 9: Royal Liner,
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    • 1110 37 11 HOPEFUL LAD 51.5 (64-13) LSofhan (4) 1 1 1 (484) 13 HEAVEN'S CHILD 50.5 (33-9) ISaifudin (5) 4 3 2 (497) 14 PRIDE OF TAMBUN 50 (27-8) SHOh (8) 5 5 3 (459) Others in finishing order: SAPPHIRE (104-21) *J Chuah, AKASHI POWER
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    • 84 37 LEADING jockey Azhar Ismail (left), it seems, could do no wrong of late. The Penang-based rider streaked ahead in the jockeys' table with another four winners from just six mounts yesterday. Wins on Forest Park (Race 5), Midnight Reef (Race 6), Condor Hero (Race 8) and Golden
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 33 37 4-D DRAW SATURDAY Feb 28,2004 FIRST SECOND THIRD 3239 0927 5155 STARTERS 8399 5262 2019 7368 2613 8207 1627 8907 4811 0850 CONSOLATION 8151 1162 6640 2886 0186 7186 4251 7535 6835 9805
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  • 268 38  -  POOL; SAN MIGUEL ASIAN 9-BALLTQUR (Singapore Leg) SPORTS By Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg FRENNIE Reyes' father is a former world (champion in a sport he ia seriously pursuing, but he doesn't want dad as coach. Not that dad Efren, 49, the Philippines' World pool, champion in 1999
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      659 40 NBA ALL-STAR2004 The Western Conference won convincingly over the Eastern Conference at the NBA All Star Weekend held at the Staples Centre on February 15 in downtown Los Angeles. Infographics journalist CEL GULAPA had an all area access card to give you the highlights. THE West had
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    • 137 40 My quest for Lebron James' autograph A FRESH DUNK In the Rising Stars Slam Dunk contest, Jason Richardson bounces bad 9^apSfe^dun^ ,WGOn k The two-ttfna defending champion M eventually to Fred Jones after J THE FUTURE OF THE NBA, Carmeio Anthony Jooks on as Lebron James yeare. Lebron
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      • 183 42 WORDS such as 4-4-2,3-5-2 or the sweeper system are nothing new to the seasoned football fan. Indeed, devotees of the Beautiful Game love to talk tactics just# much as they love to talk about star players, great goals and hilarious bloopers. xi 3PlBs Mm t'-vp In our
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      • 1025 42 The story of total Football is the story of one man Rinus Michels. His name may not ring a bell to many young fans but the 76- year-old Dutchman was the inventor of what is arguably the most spectacular tactical system ever seen. In
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    • 306 44 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN Wire Services. BARCELONA'S recent surge in La Liga comes up against a potential barrier when they take on Deportivo La Coruna tonight in the major fixture of Spain's weekend programme. Barca are playing their best football since Frank Rijkaard became coach and
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    • SUNDAY cheers CARLING CUP FINAL LIVE tonight
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        189 46 Ivan Campo v Juninho Former Real Madrid player Campo is protector of Bolton's back four and has performed that task to near perfection this season. Does the simple things well and has improved his distribution skills. Juninho, a World Cup winner wtth Brazil, continues to play with tfeat
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      • 361 47 SOMETHING remarkable will happen in Cardiff tomorrow. Aside from the prospect of Middlesbrough plundering the north-east's first trophy since 1973, or the alternative that Bolton celebrate a major honour after their own 46-season drought, an eight-year itch is certain to he scratched. Whether it is Steve
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      • 609 48  -  By Ernest Luis npsports@sph. com.sg ITS going to be a real English cup atmosphere at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff tonight...with some exotic foreign flavour there's no denying that. While both contenders for this year's Carling Cup Bolton and Middlesbrough have English managers, their teams
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      • 186 48 jtM yi j'.» W| ---i3Bl rTat tjfcJT jrj ■pon't think anybody will really talk about going there, sitting there and defending. Like the Premiership most of the time, it will be: Let's have a go and let's open up the game and see who's the best
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      • 157 48 flfeould be a very, very good game, of football. I am pleased when I look at our team with the experience that we have got. These are players who have played In big games before. That Is why they are here. That is why they came
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      • 580 49 PA Sport. PASSION Sam Allardyce's (right) passion for the game was illustrated graphically when he allowed himself to be hooked up to a heart monitor as part of an experiment and saw his pulse rate shoot through the roof as the slings and arrows of
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      • 250 50 UK TIPSTERS PA Sport. NOT much separates the pair In terms of form or personnel and this is reflected with Boro being given the edge in general by the bookmakers. The pressure will be greater on the Teessiders to deliver. Bolton
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      • 392 51 PORTSMOUTH vNEWCASTLE PA Sport. Newcastle manager Sir Bobby Robson will restore skipper Alan Shearer to the starting line-up for tonight's Premiership match against Portsmouth after handing him an unwelcome break. Shearer, 33, was furious to be left out of the side which drew 1-1 with Valerenga
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      • 93 51 UK TIPSTERS PA Sport. YOU have to admire how Harry Redknapp's men are going about their business despite an injury list which shows little sign of abating. They might just rattle the visitors on this occasion. Newcastle continue to battle for fourth spot in the Premiership and are
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      • 726 52 LEEDS v LIVERPOOL PA Sport. LEEDS caretaker-boss Eddie Gray has urged the club's fans to remember Harry Kewell (left) for his on-pitch talent rather than the acrimony surrounding his move to Liverpool. Kewell returns to Elland Road for the first time tonight since his controversial
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      • 236 52 PA Sport. Players, management and fans at Elland Road have been through the grinder this season but they continue to show plenty of grit and look a decent bet to beat the Reds. While one shouldn't get too carried away, the last couple of weeks
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      • 463 53  -  Manchester CHy ......0 Chelsea ....................1 Gudjohnsen(81) MANCHESTER CITY: James, Dunne, Distin. Van Buyten, Tamat, Wnght-Ptiillips, Reyna, Sibierski, McManaman, Macken (Sinclair 72), Fowler. Subs (not used): Arason, Barton, Bosvett, Jihai. CHELSEA: Cudicini, Johnson, Terry, Gallas, Bndge, Geremi (Huth 71), Lampard, Parker, Cole (Makelele 45), Crespo,
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      • 488 53  -  By Paul Walker SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TOMASZ RADZINSKI was the catalyst for Everton to secure a 2-0 victory over Aston Villa at Goodison Park. An uninspired first-half saw Everton keeper Nigel Martyn save from Lee Hendrie, Juan Pablo Angel and Darius Vassell, then two minutes
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      • 715 54  -  ARSENAL 2 (Pires 2nd min, Henry 4) CHARLTON I (Jensen 59) TV VIEW WANG MENG MENG I—.if ROBERTO Carlos is right: Arsenal do play samba football. Unbelievable that it may seem, Real Madrid's cannonball kid has paid the ultimate tribute to his club's Champions League
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      • 242 54 ACCORDING to Roberto Carlos, the best team in the world reside not in Madrid but in London. This revelation was made by the Brazilian World Cup winner when he called Arsenal the team to fear in Europe, reported The Sun. Saying things that may not
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      • 1487 55  -  Arsenal 2 Chariton Athletic 1 Ptrw (2) Jensen (59) Henry (4) ARSENAL^Lehmann, Lauren, Campbell, Toure, Com, Ljungberg (Silva 74), Vieira, Edu, Pi res (Cygan 88), BergKamp (Reyes 74), Henry. Subs (not uMd): Taylor, Kanu. CHARLTON: Kiely, Kishishev (Johansson 78), Fortune, Fish, Hreidarsson, Vbung, Holland, Jensen, Stuart,
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        210 56 FULHAM 1 (Boa Morte 64th min) MANCHESTER UNITED I (Saha 14) Former Fulham man Louis Saha (in Fulham colours, left) broke the hearts of the home supporters with a superlative goal for his current side Man U. Fulham equalised soon after but Saha went close to scoring again... till
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      • 728 57  -  FULHAM 1 MANCHESTER UNITED I TV VIEW ERNEST LUIS nptpontQtph.corntf LOUIS Saha or Judas Saha. Call him what you want but last night the French striker who left Fulham in January in a transfer to Manchester United ironically betrayed himself in a 1-1 draw. Last night, banners
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    • 792 60  -  n "7*T i. >-\ We ask local designers to dress Oscars' hottest gal By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph.coM.sg ITS all about the look. You may be the best actress of your generation or the next big director, but if you do not look absolutely stunning as you walk
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    • 413 62  -  The Iraq war is over, Saddam Hussein has been caught and Hollywood can breathe a sigh of hedonistic relief and party again. We do the stiletto-trip behind the velvet ropes to the invite-only dos for a sneak peek By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg Governors Ball The first stop
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    • 170 62 PLEASE, you can't expect the stars to party just for one night. Hello, wake up and smell the Veuve. Here's a list of some of the shake-a-leg pre-Oscar events that happened throughout the past week: Tuesday I General Motors fashion parade cars, couture and celebrities. Wednesday W magazine's
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    • 444 63  -  By Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg I ONCE went to a party for Liz Hurley and Hugh Grant whefe the mayor of the city was turned away at the door. He did not have that all crucial piece of paper: The
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    • 473 64 'Th is suspense is terrible. I hope it will last 7 Oscar Wilde ■■hlu wim )u iai BEST MOVIE Those hobbits really know how to run a N long-distance marathon. After being sidelined for Fellowship and Two Towers in the last two yearsby A Beautiful Mind
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      773 65 Sometimes, it's not who won a nomination, but who could've andshould've won, that gets the bigger buzz. JEANMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) recaps the favourites that were surprisingly snubbed by Oscar this year Cold shoulder for Cold Mountain The glaring omission of the US$80 million ($135m) American Civil War epic
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    • 544 66 When it comes to Oscar predictions, it's usually all talk and no action. So The New Paper's panel of movie critics wants to put its money where its mouth is. If we don't get it right, a forfeit awaits. Who will emerge unscathed, and who
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    • 539 67  -  By Sheela Narayanan sheela@sph.com.sg THANKS to Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's now infamous moment on the boob tube, any profanity or bodily exposure at the Oscars will be bleeped out. But you can talk politics, the show's producers claim. Yeah right. Probably with loud
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    • 142 69 Okay/ we can't afford the real thins. M fi But we came up with an economy ve^ip| 'We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities' Oscar Wilde THE REAL THING Manolo BUhnik ovemighter bag OUR VERSION Giannetto jSB overnighter
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    • 464 69  -  By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg EVERYONE'S a winner at the Oscars. Never mind if some nominees don't take home the coveted trophy. They are bagging thousands of dollars worth of designer goods and luxurious trips. We're talking about US$100,000 ($170,000) worth of freebies, baby. They include first-class shopping,
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