The New Paper, 19 January 2005

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1 56 The New Paper
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    31 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2005 Press Holdings I Website: newpaperasia I .com.sf Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MICA (P) 025/03/2004 70 CENTS 8 the new paper
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      86 1 Civil servants lose parking subsidy EXCLUSIVE/Page 2 UHH9 I N^jtm n^iEIy I <- I I I I 11 Hjfc I I H$£ V s M m m m m m 1 I I- l I M m. m, M WM I I mm m mwA mmk I m mk J
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  • SINGAPORE
    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon No parking perks in 'clean-wage' system
      858 2  -  CIVIL SERVANTS LOSE SUBSIDY I By Karen Wong karen@sph.com.sg FROM April 1, civil servants who drive to work will no longer enjoy subsidised parking at their workplace. For those who work in the central business district, this means they will have to pay the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Most private sector workers don't get subsidy
      430 2  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph. com.sg CIVIL servants have had it good for many years. v Staff of private companies said the PSD move has merely put civil servants on par with what they have been doing all along. That is to pay about
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      Lock icon She files false police report blaming him
      723 3  -  Woman jailed a week for lying about traffic accident after motorist reverses into another car By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg I Ts one thing to lie. It's another thing to lie in a police report. The penalty can be a jail sentence as Oh
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    • Article
      Lock icon OTHER FALSE REPORTS
      126 3 ON Jun 4 2003, former navy diver Sivaprakash Narayansamy, 31, gave two false reports to the Traffic Police that he was driving a car involved in a minor traffic accident that day. It turned out that his wife, Nirmala Munusamy Vijaikumar, 26, was the driver. Sivaprakash was
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon $250k for top of world view
      481 5  -  By] Desmond Ng desmondn@Bph.com. sg ON one side, a postcard view of the Central Business District (CBD) with ships plying along the Keppel Channel near Sentosa. On the other, a picturesque view of Macßitchie Reservoir. And what's more it's just a 10-minute walk to
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      Lock icon PRE CAST FITTINGS
      93 5 THE 40-storey blocks will be the first fully pre-cast public housing development here using HDB's modular Pre-cast Column Beam System (PCBS). This system comprises pre-cast components including columns, beams, slabs, household shelters and toilets which come complete with tiling, light fittings and fixtures. Under PCBS, these components
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      Lock icon HEIGHT MATTERS
      106 5 AS a rule of thumb, the higher the floor, the higher the price of the flat. But there is a cap. The caps for the three categories of flats are: ■Three-room: Around $20,000 Four-room: Around $30,000 Five-room: Around $40,000 Mr Albert Lu, managing director of C&H Realty said
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  • The news watcher
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      Lock icon Not familyfriendly enough
      167 6  -  SETO NU-WEN seld FLEXI-WORK, family friendly. Despite calls for these to be slowly ingrained into the workplace, companies aren't biting. Only 4.1 per cent of private sector employees were on flexible work schedules last year, up from 2.6 per cent in 1998, says a Manpower Ministry survey
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      Lock icon More profits, but more stress
      113 6 LAST year was good for large and small companies here, says a ranking by credit ratings firm DP Information Group. The study of 1,000 firms showed total net profits had gone up 38.8 per cent to $46.7 billion. The study also showed that large, listed
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    • Article
      Lock icon Come invest in Indonesia
      93 6 INDONESIA'S President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is urging international investors to get involved in the country's infrastructure development. More than 90 projects worth $36.7 billion are up for grabs. At a summit, also attended by some Singaporean firms, in Jakarta, Dr Yudhoyono vowed to improve the country's
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      Lock icon ERP in New York soon?
      95 6 IT worked in Singapore. As well as London. Now, New York hopes itll work for them too. A group of 200 chief executives are recommending a traffic pricing system similiar to our Electronic Road Pricing. They say this will ease the burden on the city's
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      Lock icon China HIV couple say I do
      59 6 HE'S an HIV carrier. But so is his bride. Chinese groom Xu Liankun is kissing his wedding documents as he sits next to bride Pan Zhiqin in a van on their way to a collective wedding in north-east China yesterday. Five couples, all HIV
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    • Article
      Lock icon Stock watch
      32 6 Yesterday's Percentage Close action change Dow Up 0.67% (70.79 pts) 10,628.79 Nasdaq Up 0.87% (18.13 pts) 2,106.04 S+P 500 Up 0.97% (11.46 pts) 1,195.98 STI Down 0.14% (2.93 pts) 2,084.19
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    • Article
      Lock icon SMU ups fees by 15%
      184 6 STUDYING in the Singapore Management University (SMU) will cost each student $6,500 a year up from $5,650 from August, $570 more than the other two universities. The SMU may have hinted at a fee hike earlier this month but the 15 per cent rise still
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      80 6 JAGA Malay for "awake", in Singlish it has come to mean 'to take care of" or "look after", and is also a generic term for a caretaker or night watchman. EXAMPLE: 1. "Eh, I'm going to the toilet. Can you jaga my bag for me?'' (I'm going to the toilet.
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  • PARLIAMENT
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      Lock icon Let's 'chope' jobs for older workers
      648 8  -  BY Clarence Chang clarence@sph. com.sg NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng introduced a radical idea in Parliament yesterday. Since MP after MP had voiced anxieties about structural unemployment and out-of-work elderly citizens not having enough for retirement, Singapore should "reserve" certain jobs just for them.
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      Lock icon We want to carry on working
      696 8  -  By Faith Teo wenli@sph.cotn.sg HE earns only a third of what he used to, but is happy with his "old man's job". He is in his late 50s, and after retiring recently, started working at a petrol station. His earlier job, in the construction
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    Lock icon No lack of funds for safety
    389 9 SPEAKUP Lim Boon Khoon Principal Consultant, Hazard Evaluation and Loss Provontlon Consultants THIS is with regards to the report, "I'm paying you, so don't sabo me", in The New Paper on Jan 11. I do not agree that there is a lack of funds
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    Lock icon Here's a bag of rice and a newspaper
    342 10 HARI RAYAHAJI GESTURE SINGAPORE HE wants to share two things closest to his heart rice and newspapers. Mr JafFar Sadik, 27, whose family owns a rice trading company, Sayeed Muhammad and Sons TVaders, will give out 2,000 bags of rice on Friday
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    Lock icon Dengue spreading
    410 11 More Malaysian states see new cases NEWS Malaysia expects an increase in reports of dengue cases in the next few weeks. This is because the dengue outbreak, initially confined to Selangor, Federal territory, Penang and Pahang, is spreading to other states. The Malaysian Health Ministry said since Jan
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon British soldiers this time
      64 13 LOQtTHM** forced to cffi jitadt and log,pit! APPALLING SIGHT be said tMUßhbose images something that is anything other than shocking and appalling. —Prosecutor Lt-Col Nick Clapham told the court HE IS ASHAMED of tm/t^icceptable dndMindie $s act and that he has brought shame to his proud
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      Lock icon Latest court martial reveals shocking details of abuse of Iraqi looters
      486 14 Wire services. HE lies helpless and terrified on the concrete floor, bound in a net like a trapped animal while a soldier pretends to swing a punch (left). In another picture, an Iraqi looter crouches near a pool of
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      Lock icon One soldier pleads guilty
      727 15 Looters got hell when caught after breaking into food camp IRAQ WAR CRIMES I Wire services. THE pictures of civilian prisoner abuse have shocked the court martial trial taking place in Germany. Three British soldiers, Corporal Daniel Kenyon, 33, and Lance Corporals Mark Cooley, 23, and
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      Lock icon Hainan — the S'pore that never was
      438 16 Hainan the S'pore that never was Having failed to make it as a commercial hub, island officials now bet on tourism instead THE Singapore in China. That was the grand plan China's leaders had for Hainan province in the early *****. After all, the two are both islands with a
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      Lock icon The Appearance
      394 17 Donald Trump's fiancee bucks tradition by revealing $160,000 wedding dress before ceremony but vetoes live telecast Wire services. HE'S the brash tycoon famous for dismissing contestants on his reality show The Apprentice with a blunt "You're Fired". But for his wedding on Saturday, it seems it is Donald
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  • Singing for a cause
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      732 19  -  Showtime&L ifestyle In a rare tour de force, about 100 Malaysian artistes banded together for a song of hope for the tsunami victims. The miracle? The song took only one week to write, record and produce A By Christie Leo FROM KUALA LUMPUR THE Malaysian music industry is shining
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      Lock icon OTHER STARRY FUNDRAISERS
      334 19 WHAT: Love (Mandarin version of We Are The World). WHO: Recorded by over 100 stars from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung. WHAT: Crossing Borders, a 7-hour Hong Kong concert by the Hong Kong Performing Artists Guild. WHO: Leon Lai,
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      Lock icon It's now Dr Kamal Hassan
      170 20 KAMAL Hassan can add another accolade to his long list of achievements. He was conferred an honorary doctorate by Sathyabhama University in Chennai yesterday, reported the Indo-Asian News Service. The Tamil actor-director was honoured for his contribution to Indian cinema. "I am proud to be
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      Lock icon Aln't misbehaving
      114 20 dKar&wia Kapoor and Shahid been, they are not P Work and shopping have occupied their Kareena, 25, and Shahid, 24, have been in shooting a new film, reports FfljQoj&i'e magazine. TKAV sirA Q]CA thftiT frAP Hnnp Alley CUt5 cUpv 9|/cUUIUg UXvJI Uvv WIIIC buying up the town with
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      Lock icon Publicity hound?
      293 21 Vivek's efforts to help India's tsunami victims have provoked some sniping in showbiz circles IT looks like a case of damned if you don't and damned if you do too much. The Times of India reported that Vivek Oberoi (left) has been accused of being a publicity hound
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      Lock icon I'll never work with stars again'
      88 21 NO more big stars for Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt (above). They just don't make business sense, he told the Indo-Asian News Service. 'They are too expensive and I'm not sure that they always add to the film. "I have decided never to work with
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      Lock icon Bangkok sizzlers
      654 22  -  IN BANGKOK REPORTS v SYLVIA TOH CHOO com IN her prime, Madonna could be counted among the first to use scandal and provocation to grab the headlines. To shock in places usually not appropriate for notoriety. Several years ago the Material Girl almost punctured me in the lung
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      Lock icon Gentle man, Oliver Stone
      357 23 YOU wouldn't know it, to tell from his films, that Oliver Stone is kind and gentle, spiritual and pacifist. Looking a little tired following a rushed flight from Japan, where he was promoting Alexander, the acclaimed director is a special invitee to the BIFF. BIFF is
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      Lock icon Anime, Csupo's world
      212 23 GABOR Csupo should worry. His children love anime. Csupo (say shoopoh) is founder of Klasky Csupo, the animation studio that launched The Simpsons and Rugrats, more renegade from Disney you can't get. "Anime has been penetrating the American market for 10 years; there is a cult following
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      670 25 HENEWPAPER/Wednesday,January 19,2005 PfitlVJiT TtIVIE TV Pag®29 6.00: 5.00: Point Of 4.30: Singapore 6.00: Totally Spies 6.00: Masak 6.02: Love, 6.00: Samurai X 6.00: The 6.00:215t 6 Performing As No Return Today (News) 17: W.\ I Apa?— Singapore Style (Episodes 7& 8) Simpsons Century (Variety/Encore) (Drama/ KSSBiIISIiiHH Semi-Finals (2) 6.30: The
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    Lock icon Six steps to safer surfing... on the new computer of yours
    797 26 Tech LAT-WP. Buying a new computer and worrying that it will be infiltrated with spyware and virus the moment you connect it to the Internet? Fret not. It's completely feasible to put a computer on the Internet and never
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    Lock icon The ITtelecoms divide is blurring Companies should relook who handles what
    546 30  -  TECH THINK TECH GEOFFRY PEREIRA tnp@sph.com.sg A COUPLE of executives were gathered in an equipment room in our office building. Standing around a device that looked much like a stereo amplifier with flashing green lights, they were trying to
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  • TECH
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      Lock icon Ancient dance goes high-tech
      388 32 Japanese robot puts best (metal) foot forward to help preserve cultural heritage AFP. THIS is one dancer who can dance all night and not get a single step wrong. Japanese researchers said they had turned a humanoid industrial machine into a master of Japanese traditional dance
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      Lock icon Old Masters didn't trace images on canvas: experts
      393 34 AFP. DID olden-day master artists make use of a camera to help them produce their work? Scientists are preparing a broadside against British artist David Hockney for suggesting that Renaissance masters projected images onto canvas which they then copied, a British journal
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      Lock icon Harvard student faces Apple lawsuit
      309 35 AP. A WEBSITE that disclosed Apple's top-secret plans to bring out a U*****(5823) mini computer and a new bare-bones iPod turns out to be the brainchild of a 19-year-old Harvard student. It has prompted a lawsuit from the company. Mr Nicholas M Ciarelli, who says
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      123 44 RESULTS of three trials conducted over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji vyo ctorH a\i yubiuruay. The going was good. TRIAL 1 (test): 1 Victorious General (M Razali) 2 Star Bid (A Ng) 3 Top This Business 4 Royal Überator (M I Unofficial margins and time: Ns,
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      184 44 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK THE Trevor Bailey-trained Round The Bar showed good form at Kranji yesterday. Taken by jockey Mark Zahra, he drew notice to his chances when he pulled away from stablemate Make More Magic (Marco Monteriso) to clock 37.45 ec
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      389 44 KRANJI STAKES A—l,4oom: Fire House (M Zahra) sped over 600 m in 38 after cantering one lap. Roktzar (E Wilkinson), Balance Funds and Hedge Funds (M Pumpa) canter/38.5. Balance Funds (Open Benchmark 67 race) and Hedge
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      502 44 TRUE DAZZLER, one of the two raced newcomers entered for Friday's mixed meeting on turf and fibresand, comes with three country wins from 11 starts in Australia. The five-year-old New Zealand-bred by Defensive Play out of Manabelle was a debut winner on Jun
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      479 45 NST. STORM EXPRESS geared up the Class 4 Div 11,200 m sprint on Saturday with a dashing workout yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-oid New Zealand-bred gelding by Al Akbar sprinted smartly over the final 600 m in 36.8 sec and finished with
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        170 45 FIRST ride, first winner. It was certainly an auspicious start to the new season for former multiple champion Saimee Jumaat when he saluted m the opening race last Saturday aboard Leopard Strike. Prior to that, he had taken a few weeks' break and, like they say
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        127 45 ONE out and one in in double quick time. That was the story of last Saturday's winner Pan Express. It took the Laurie Laxon-trained seven-year-old only three days to put back what he had lost through a disqualification. Only last Wednesday, the Australian-bred's win was annulled following
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        68 45 ON THE subject of Barend Vorster, the defending champion jockey's win-account surprisingly still reads zero after two weeks into the new season. From 20 rides, the "Red Baron" has only five seconds to his credit. Trainer Michael Clements' first rider claimed all five over the weekend.
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      917 45 HKJC tipster Jeremy Greene's selections: RACE 1: 10 Lazy Buddies 1 Cotton Ball 6 Money Express RACE 2: 1 Grand Commands 3 Sugar And Sweet 8 Choice And Chance RACE 3: 2 Stoic 6 Couldn't Care Less 12 Touch Down
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      399 46 TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN AP SEVENTH seed Tim Henman overcame a customary lapse in concentration to beat Frenchman Cyril Saulnier 6-1, 6-2,4-6,6-3 in the first round of the Australian Open yesterday. Henman, who's never been beyond the fourth round in Melbourne, recovered his poise after dropping the third set,
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      545 47 WORLD OF GOLF Wire Services. TIGER Woods still exerts a powerful influence on golf despite his failure to win many tournaments recently. So said top Danish golfer Thomas Bjora. In the United Arabs Emirates yesterday to sign up for the US$2.2 million ($3.6 million) Dubai Desert
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      268 47 Wire Services. THE PGA Championship, the European Tour's flagship golf tournament, will offer record prize money of U555.22 million ($8.53 m) this year. This is after BMW agreed a four-year sponsorship deal. The U*****,000 increase in prize money comes as part of a deal for the
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      763 48 EURO KICKOFF: SPANISH CUP PA Sport. IT has not taken long for the hard-working Thomas Gravesen to be baptised as the new "Shrek" by the Spanish press. But the former Everton star midfielder says the name doesn't really suit him. "I don't mind being called an 'ogre'
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      417 49  -  FAM-FAS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS CUP By Gary Lim npsports@sph. com.sg WITH the country still on a high from the Lions' Tiger Cup success, there could not have been a better time for Singapore and Malaysia to renew their football rivalry. Tonight, S-League champions Tampines
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      210 50 EPL LEE Dixon claimed that the arrival of Jose Mourinho in England has unsettled Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger. And it provoked the row brewing between the two two Premiership managers. The former Arsenal right-back told the London Evening Standard
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      709 50 THE FRANK MALLEY COL UMN PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson (left) calls Arsene Wenger (right) a "disgrace". The Frenchman demands that the Football Association charge the Scot with "bringing the game into disrepute". But don't tell us he hasn't dreamed of tougher punishment for the Manchester United boss.
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      460 51 FA CUP (3rd ROUND REPLAY) EXETER V MANUTD PA Sport. Manchester United are hoping there won't be another embarrassment. Captain Roy Keane has said he was 90 embarrassed by the club's goalless FA Cup draw at home to Non-League Exeter he would have asked for his
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      237 51  -  By I MARCIO GAIA EXETER WE will fight Manchester United with even more stamina than in the first match. Surviving that pressure at Old Trafford gave us confidence and the belief we have a shot at those giants. This could be the game of our lives and
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      589 52 BENITEZ TO GERRARD: EPL RAFAEL Benitez has backed Kop skipper Steven Gerrard into a comer over his future by declaring: "I promised him I would bring good players to Liverpool and I am keeping my side of the bargain." With Real Madrid privately
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      344 52 FERNANDO Morientes believes Michael Owen may find it easier to succeed now that he's made the switch the other way. Said Morientes: It may become a little easier for Michael now because I have gone and that means he has one less rival.
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        385 53 Wire Services. Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez (right) stood by his decision to field a weakened squad against Championship Two side Burnley. The Clarets sent the Reds crashing out of the FA Cup. After the third-round tie was initially postponed due to bad weather, Burnley were keen
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        167 53 PA Sport. RAFAEL Benitez's Burnley counterpart Steve Cotterill (above, right, consoling Milan Baros) hailed the result as "probably my best night". "It's a fantastic win for us, I'm delighted with the boys," he told Sky Sports. "In the second half probably they were the better
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        65 54 t, i v-j Embattled Liverpool 'keeper j| /pfzy Dudek, heavily criticised for allowing Wayne Rooney a soft goal in Manchester United's 1-0 1 Premiership victory atAnfield on Saturday, redeemed himself with three fine saves against Burnley this morning. But it was not enough to save Liverpool as defender Djimi
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        84 54 I Chaplow tinges a run from deep and gets away from Zak Whitbread. He takes a shot from 18 metres but Dudek turns it behind the right-hand post and Whitbread clears for a comer. The corner is cleverly taken to Micah Hyde on the edge of the box and
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        735 55 PA Sport. WHAT in the world was Djimi Traore thinking? Or rather, was he thinking at all when he tapped the ball into his own goal? Good sense and logic said he only had to clear the danger and that meant shooting away from
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