Streats, 13 October 2000

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  • 23 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets FRIDAY 13 October 2000 j Another quality publication of &M* Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 394 1 EXECUTIVES are no longer the privileged fat cats they used to be. Not only is their career ladder shaky, there is a tendency to be knocked off by foreign talent, restructuring and by their own stagnating skills. Ministry of Manpower figures say that more executives
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  • morning rush
    • 152 1 Childcare 1 IT'S back to normal for pre-schoolers from Monday but with greater caution than usual. The Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) Taskforce yesterday confirmed that all childcare centres, kindergartens, enrichment centres, play groups, special schools, foreign system schools and learning centres will be open
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    • 73 1 I Childcare 2 A MAID'S a must for childcare, says an exclusive Straits Times poll (see today’s Straits Times). And that’s one of the reasons parents are reluctant to have more children. But must it be so? One working mother panicked when her maid left her
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    • 64 1 Childcare 3 ZOE Tay’s new movie role will be that of a mother. But the queen i of Caldecott Hill I declares: I “I’m not really I patient with children. I can’t stay with them i the whole day, espeI dally those children who just go
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 256 2 Both are seriously injured and in hospital SHE was on her way back to her employer’s home at Simsville at around 10am yesterday after finishing her grocery shopping. But the 26-year-old maid didn’t make it back. She was hit out of the
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    • 315 3 American Mensa chief takes four minutes to answer onePSLE question THEIR combined IQ exceeds 800, but five presidents of international Mensa associations found themselves stumped momentarily by two Primary School Leaving Examination questions that were published in The Straits Times on Tuesday. The five are among more
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    • 135 3 onekindact, John Too, 35, provision shop owner: I had to carry some stuff from my van to my shop one day. However, as I was the only one tending to the store, I could not leave. A customer entered my shop a schoolboy from Maris Stella High
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    • 137 3 THE midnight taxi surcharge doesn’t do it anymore. For taxi drivers that is.Berita Harian (BH) found that taxi drivers were not keen about the night shift anymore. About three months ago, BH found daily advertisments for substitute drivers to work the night shift. The
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    • news scan
      • 146 3 A 60-YEAR-OLD hospital attendant was robbed of a gold chain in a lift on Tuesday. At 10.25 pm on Tuesday, the woman entered Lift C of Block 60, Telok Blangah Heights where she lived. A man in his 30s followed her into the lift and stood
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      • 104 3 TANKOK CHUAN, 26, was sentenced to six weeks’ jail for endangering human life by throwing down a chair from his flat. On July 11, Chuan was frustrated by the noise of children playing downstairs of his block at Blk 439 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 and
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      • 74 3 THANKS to an alert resident, police managed to nab a thief who broke into a coffee shop at Blk 111, Lor 1 Toa Payoh yesterday morning at about 2.50 am. His accomplice, however, got away. The police recovered $172.80 in cash and 29 packs of cigarettes from
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    • 230 4 THE next time a stranger calls you saying you’ve won a luckydraw prize, think hard before you claim it. One corporate officer who tried to claim her “prize” ended up buying $20,000 worth of timeshare holidays instead. When she realised she couldn’t afford it and was
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    • 164 4  -  by Stephanie Goh A MAN posing as a fortuneteller tried to con $BOO out of a shop-owner. On Friday, Oct 6, at about 11.30 am, a man aged about 35, walked into Miss Ng Lu See’s shop. He said her flat was haunted. Taken in, Miss Ng,
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    • 226 4 WITH fake investment and holiday plans, a man conned four people, including two TCS artistes, out of over $66,000. Lee Chun Beng, 32, lied to his victims that their “plans” would be delayed because his dad had, died. He then frittered away all the
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    • 308 5  -  by Sarah Ng Often; when I thought I've forgotten to switch off the light in the other room, it turns out that it's actually off. Remote access would save me the trouble of getting up to check. Web editor Lim Kwee Lan, 40 FINALLY,
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    • 82 5 If you're going to be in the northern and eastern parts of the island, keep an umbrella handy. You can expect showers in the late morning and early afternoon. But I will be heading south where fair weather is forecast. Temperatures will go up to a
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    • Just a minute
      • 53 5 If want to donate to charity but you're too busy to go through the hassle of writing and mailing a cheque, log on to WOAcities.com. The E-provision store here will donate money to one of more than 60 charitable or civic organisations each time you shop at
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      • 57 5 You have until Dec 31 to contribute at least 100 to your CPF account to be eligible for a government top-up of up to 1,700. You can either I i send a cheque, H made payable to the CPF Board or drop by at any Singapore Post branch or
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      • 59 5 Check this out... If you're into wines, you're in for a treat! 1 There's an Australian It Wine Fair at Tanglin Ip Mall, where you'll p be able to sample over 23 brands of wines from renowned vineyards in Australia. You'll also be able to buy these
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 638 6 WITH the notable exceptions of US President Bill Clinton and actor Hugh Grant whom we all know are criminally straight all other male celebrities known to mankind are gay. Manchester United football star David Beckham, is gay because he’s been spotted in gay bars. Tom
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • 251 8 -ap MANILA -The Philippine vicepresident resigned yesterday from her Cabinet post, citing “serious accusations” that President Joseph Estrada received millions of dollars in payoffs from illegal gambling operators. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she was resigning as secretary of social welfare, but will continue to serve as vice-president.
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    • news scan
      • 101 8 AP BANGKOK Bangkok police plan to deploy policemen on bicycles in the city’s main park following increasing reports of robbery and assault there. At least four armed police officers will patrol the park in downtown Bangkok on mountain bikes during the early morning and early
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      • 108 8 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand will train two elephant calves and present them to Sri Lanka so that Thai and Sri Lankan tuskers can march together in a Buddhist parade, officials said yesterday. The elephant calves will be trained to participate in an annual parade honouring Buddhist relics, because
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      • 137 8 Xinhua URUMQI, China China and Mongolia have signed a letter of intent to build a trans-nation-al protection zone for endangered wild camels. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Bureau for Environmental Protection said at present there are only two wild camel protection zones in the world, the
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    • 181 10 -ap She is serving 18-month term for scalding maid's hand HONGKONG A woman sentenced to 18 months for scalding the hands of her Filipino maid with a hot iron remained in jail after losing her court appeal. Liu Man-kuen, 33, was convicted of one
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    • 212 10 -afp His phone was used to call the British hostess' friend TOKYO Japanese policj arrested a businessman who may offer the strongest lead yet to the whereabouts of a 22-year-old British bar hostess, missing for three months. Police arrested Joji Obara, 48, over
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    • 472 11 w Making Music 23 year-old Elmer Goh is a talented songwriter who pens songs about his life experiences. Not only that, the engineering undergrad also sings, plays the violin and guitar and produces his own MTVstyle videos. Read more about him in Singaporeans' Gallery on Weekend Online. Do you, like
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  • Streatsmart Streatsmart global
    • 277 12 Reuters The rubber raft rammed into the US navalship anchored atAden DUBAI An explosives-laden rubber raft slammed into a US Navy destroyer and exploded in the Yemeni port of Aden yesterday, killing four US sailors and injuring 31, five seriously, a US Navy spokesman
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    • 94 12 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has stepped up an alert on the highly contagious hand, foot and mouth virus after it killed five children in Singapore and Malaysia, reports said yesterday. “The Public Health Ministry has expanded its hand, foot and mouth disease monitoring alert
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    • 59 12 knowornot DESPITE rumours that the slightest nibble on this Christmas flower will result in death, poinsettias are not poisonous to humans. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission determined in 1975 that the toxicity of poinsettias is a myth, though the flower is a nonfood substance and, if
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    • 278 13 -AFP Milosevic supporters are buying time to plan their return BELGRADE Yugoslavia’s fledgling democracy was under threat yesterday with allies of ousted leader Slobodan Milosevic mounting a fightback, and control over the police and army far from assured. “The Serbian public is facing the danger of
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    • 179 13 -AFP LOS ANGELES Evelyn the gorilla got out of her zoo habitat on Wednesday afternoon, getting into some monkey business and forcing the zoo’s evacuation. The 24-year-old Evelyn, who weighs 114-136 kg, munched on some bananas and apples that her keeper left on the
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    • 163 13 betweenthelines £sien you think about it, we Americans conduct a fairly peculiar job interview for the presidency. I mean, does a campaign really provide answers to the questions you would ask if you alone were in charge of hiring Al Gore or George W Bush
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    • 159 14 -afp Inhaled steroids do not have any long-term effect WASHINGTON A US study released on Wednesday has concluded that inhaled steroids used to treat childhood asthma do not have any long-term effect on children’s growth. Previous studies had found that inhaled steroids, which some
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    • 194 14 -afp COLUMBUS, Ohio Efforts to thwart video camera-carrying peeping Toms were instituted in Ohio on Tuesday, with a new law that could send the celluloid voyeurs to jail. State Representative Edward Jerse said he introduced the anti-peeping Tom legislation after a man was caught
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    • 118 14 You want your home to be Home2be.com by well-known local design company Nobel Design aims to be a one-stop online shopping mall for exclusive furniture and home products. There are more than 30 online merchants, with 800 home products, ranging from home furniture to kitchen essentials. It hopes
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    • 276 15 Reuters, AP Killing expected to raise tension RAMALLAH, West Bank -Two suspected Israeli undercover soldiers were lynched yesterday by hundreds of Palestinian youths in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian police sources said. The attack on the soldiers was sure to ratchet up tensions as
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    • 192 15 -afp CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida After four aborted attempts, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off on Wednesday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The goal of the 100th space shuttle mission is to continue to prepare the station'for
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    • 43 15 Paid to squeal How much is the top reward for exposing your company's use of illegal software? $20,000 More than 1,000 people were rewarded up to $lO,OOO last year in the programme by the Business Software Alliance, a non-profit software watchdog.
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    • 157 15 -AFP WASHINGTON The average daily volume of e-mail around the world is expected to reach 10 billion this year, and will explode to 35 billion by 2005, a new study said on Tuesday. The study by International Data Corp said that by 2005, most people
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    • 163 15 WASHINGTON The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill allowing for the sale of food and medicine to Cuba, easing its 40-year-old embargo. The measure attached to the US$75 billion (*****.25 billion) Agriculture Spending Bill was passed despite initial efforts by lawmakers
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    • news scan
      • 168 15 AP WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina Al Gore and George Bush met on Wednesday voicing agreement on foreign policy issues but parting company on domestic affairs. The meeting was polite until differences on domestic policy began to poke through on gay marriage issues, hate crimes legislation, the environment and
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      • 101 15 AFP PORTLAND, OREGON The Roman Catholic Church agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to 22 Oregon men who say a priest had molested them from 1950 to 1974. The plaintiffs had asked for US$4 million (Ss7 million) in damages, charging that Father Maurice Grammond sexually abused
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      • 109 15 WASHINGTON President Bill Clinton was urged to consider cutting aid to Russia unless US businessman, Edmond Pope of State College, Pennsylvania, jailed on espionage charges is released. The House decided on Wednesday to call on Clinton to end all aid designed for Russia to enter
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      • 89 15 AFP WASHINGTON The Justice Department collected royalties on US sales of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf during Word War 11, and for three decades after it, US News and World Report magazine stated on Monday. Presidential Advisory Commission researcher John Bendix found evidence that during the war
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 225 16 Reuters EDINBURGH Scotland’s First Minister Donald Dewar died on Wednesday only 14 months after bringing modern government to Edinburgh for the first time in nearly 300 years. The 63-year-old staernch defender of Scotland's place within a United Kingdom died of a brain haemorrhage still
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    • 200 16 Reuters OTTAWA When US voters go the polls on Nov 7 to elect a new president Cuban President Fidel Castro is unlikely to be paying much attention. He plans to spend the day at the beach instead. Mr Castro told CBC television, Canada's public broadcaster,
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    • 141 16 Reuters LONDON Paul McCartney is to take to the Internet on Thursday to talk about art and his paintings. “For many years I painted in private and I didn’t really talk about it to anyone outside of my family,” he said on Wednesday
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    • 262 17  -  by Yvonne Kwok ZOETAY has admitted that she has little patience for children. Sporting a new hairstyle at yesterday’s prayer ceremony for her first movie outing in Raintree Pictures’ The Tree, the queen of Caldecott Hill knows what it takes to be an ideal mother
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    • 193 17 ALTHOUGH many have been speculating about the relationship between Media Works artistes Darren Lim and Evelyn Tan, no one could really put a finger on the truth. Are they dating? Or are they yrjerely the “good friends”they say they are? The answer is out now. Darren
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    • 172 17 OCT 10 was a happening day for many people. Hongkong veteran pop queen Anita Mui celebrated her 37th birthday on that day. Amongst those in attendance at the star-studded event were Leslie Cheung, Heavenly King Jacky Cheung with wife May Lo, sultry Karen Mok and sophisticated Carina
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    • 73 19 MU m m m m ;.y t a t* I c I s p NOES KAPOOR a BONEY KAPOOR film directed by SATfSH KAUSHIK music SANJEEV DARSHAN Trees, a song and a heaving bosom don't make Hindi films any more. Flip the page to find out what does m m
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  • easy STREATS
    • easyStreats tv
      • 540 20 Reuters A TREE, a song and a heaving bosom were all it once took to make a Hindi film. But not any more. India’s vast and fecund Hindi film industry (known affectionately and otherwise as Bollywood) has lately been gyrating to a different tune.
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        • Today's must-see TV...
          • 62 20 7.30 pm, TCS 5 So it’s a kiddie show a and you’ve proba- M bly watched it at JB; least once or |j twice. But the i||| mean green mu- II tants with the famous names will still bring a smile to anyone’s unhappening Friday night.
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          • 50 20 5.30 pm, TCS 8 Forget all about bald kings and English governesses. This new 50-parter revolves around Chinese Emperor Zhengde and his love life. In the debut episode, Zhengde meets Feng-jie while journeying through Jiangnan. They fall in love, but Zhengde is already engaged to another...
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          • Article, Illustration
            82 20 12.25 am, TCS 8 i Driven by three I characters, rather I than a strong I storyline, TempV tress Moon tells r of Ruyi (Gong Li), a woman who be- '■Mjt comes the head of a wealthy Suzhou household during the ’3os. She is assisted by a poor
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          • 47 20 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Starring the inseparable quartet Jack Neo, Henry jd Thia, Mark Lee and jjfSJ Patricia Mok, Neo’s directorial debut hu- i morously portrays i Singaporean mar- I ried life as seen I through the stories 1 of three couples.
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          • 73 20 9pm, TCM (SCV 17) James Cagney is a gangster whose love for a singer (Doris Day) prompts him to finance her singing career. However to his intense jealousy, she is romantically involved with a pianist who he ends up shooting. When he is released from
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    • 294 21  -  Actress Cynthia Koh has proven that she's not afraid of challenges. But what about tackling a third party in a marriage? by /Violetta Wong Y This is a daily feature in which we ask the most pertinent (or impertinent) question
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    • easyStreats treats
      • 393 23  -  J&m jm& rwoshoes by Wileen Chang TALK about eating, drinking and making merry. The Germans sure know how to do it well. That’s why they have the Oktoberfest celebrations. If you want to partake in the festivities, just go down to Paulaner Brauhaus at Millenia
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    • 337 24 stepharim. weekend Stephanie Goh writes a weekly column. You can reach her at gohcys@sph.com.sg ANYONE up for a free weekend of music and worms? Before you start squirming in your seat with images of spineless, wriggling creatures in your head, relax. These worms are, well, not of
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    • 640 26 Couples are reluctant to have more children despite government incentives. Why? Childcare woes; says a Straits Times poll published today. Gloria Chan, a working mother with two boys, felt the same sort of panic when she was left in the lurch by her maid. This is
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 237 33 -AFP Italy v Georgia Two goals by the striker amply repaid the coach's faith in him ANCONA, Italy Alessandro Del Piero took full advantage of the international lifeline handed to him by Italy’s coach Giovanni Trapattoni, converting two second-half penalties in the 2-0 victory over Georgia
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      • 244 33 -AP ATHENS Gianna DaskalakiAngelopoulos, who ran the successful bid for the 2004 Athens Games, has said in a recent television interview that “theoretically, the lOC can remove the Games from Greece.” She is scheduled to discuss the Games with Premier Costas Simitis early next week.
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      • sport scan
        • 88 33 -AFP SYDNEY -The Sydney Olympic Games cost a total of US$3.3 billion (555.7 billion) to stage with taxpayers picking up more than one third of the bill, New South Wales Treasurer Michael Egan said yesterday. He said the NSW government will have spent US$l.2 billion once
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          84 33 AP VIENNA -Third-seed Thomas Enqvist (right) was forced to retire from the first round due to an ankle injury, while hometown favourite Thomas Koubek earned a berth in the quarter-finals of the US$ 800,000 CA Trophy tennis tournament. The 26-year-old Enqvist was injured last week while training at
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        • 53 33 -AFP SOFIA, Bulgaria Bulgarian athletes who won medals at the Sydney Olympic Games will receive US$lO,OOO-30,000 for their efforts and that includes the athletes who tested positive for doping, the government announced. Gold medal winners will take home US$3O,OOO, while silver and bronze medalists will receive US$l5,OOO
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        • 53 33 -AP ROME Having failed to make the coach’s cut for the Serie A season opener, Hidetoshi Nakata said he will stick it out with AS Roma for now. “It’s natural that I don’t like it, but I accept it,” the Japanese soccer star told Italy’s ANSA
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        • 86 34 AP BARCELONA Barcelona captain Pep Guardiola said that his side has still not adjusted to the loss of Luis Figo (right) following his world record transfer to Real Madrid. Barcelona has been beaten in four of its seven games this season without Figo, outstanding for the Catalan
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        • 90 34 -AFP ZAGREB Croatian canoeist Matija Ljubek, the winner of four Olympic medals and the country’s most successful Olympian, has been shot dead, national radio said yesterday. Ljubek, 47, was killed late on Wednesday by his brother-in-law in Valpovo, some 300 km east of Zagreb, the police said.
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        • 62 34 -AFP VALLEJO, California, South Korea’s Se Ri Pak (left) began the defence of her title at the U *****,000 (Ssl.2 million) LPGA World Championship. The 20-woman select field includes the year’s major cham- pionship winners Americans Juli Inkster and Meg Mallon plus top-ranked double major winner
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        • 76 34 -AFP LONDON A freestyle wrestler is in line to become the third athlete from the Sydney Olympics to be stripped of a gold medal after failing a drug test. Two wrestlers tested positive for banned substances during the final weekend of the Sydney Games, a senior
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        • 67 34 AP MANCHESTER Limping Manchester United star David Beckham (right) does not need knee surgery and could be fit for a weekend clash with English Premier League leader Leicester, it was reported yesterday. After being examined by a specialist on Wednesday, he was expected to play in
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      • 335 34 Reuters HELSINKI Coach Howard Wilkinson feels that England was denied a win by French referee Alain Sars in the 87th minute against Finland. A Ray Parlour shot from eight metres out hit the bar and appeared to bounce down over the goaline but the goal was not
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      • 237 34 Poland v Holland Reuters ROTTERDAM A convincing Portugal earned a 2-0 victory over a below-par Dutch side in its World Cup qualifier on Wednesday to go to the top of Group Two. “We’re happy not only with the victory but to go top of the group is
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      • 177 34 All the results Croup 1: Russia 3 (Buznikin 19,Khohlov 57, Titov 90) Luxembourg 0; Slovenia 2 (Siljak 44, Acimovic 79) Switzerland 2 (Turkyilmaz 20,66) Croup 2: Republic of Ireland 2 (Kinsella 25, Dunne 50) Estonia 0; Holland 0 Portugal 2 (Conceitao 10, Pauleta 44) Croup 3: Malta
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    • easyStreats sports people
      • 281 35 ap NEW ORLEANS Shaquille O’Neal left Louisiana State University after his junior season, about 35 units short of graduating. More than eight years later, he is two months from earning his General Studies degree. If he completes two correspondence courses during the fall semester in agriculture
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      • 245 35 -AP ZURICH A French television station was banished from the Swisscom Challenge tennis tournament on Wednesday after repeatedly approaching Anna Kournikova despite being turned down for interviews. The WTA Tour said that three reporters from M 6 had been “extremely aggressive” and had “gone behind the
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      • 316 35 Reuters IT IS a measure of how far table-topping Leicester City has come that its coach Peter Taylor ruled himself out of contention for the England manager’s post vacated by Kevin Keegan. Just five years ago, the very idea of a Leicester coach being linked with the
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