Today, 11 January 2001

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  • 8 1 TODAY Thursday January 11, 2001 I MITA(P) 138/11/2000
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  • 400 1  -  Kim-Kyna Tan by and Ng Boon Yian IN a move that hints at bad times ahead and seeks to help executives facing the sack, rank-and-file unions will be allowed to represent them in cases of unfair dismissal and retrenchment. This major policy change brings
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  • 211 1 Deputy Prime Minister BG Lee Hsien Loong was interviewed by CNBC's Bernard Lo. Some excerpts: Bernard Lo: From time to time comparisons are made between you and your younger brother Hsien Yang. Is there any inkling of sibling rivalry between you two? DPM Lee:
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  • Hot news
    • 450 2  -  Ng Hwee Koon Ministry moots plan to prevent brain drain by hwe ekoon® newstod ay. com. sg THE doctors are in and the Ministry of Health is trying to make sure they don't bolt. When they reach a certain seniority, many government doctors are tempted
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    • 362 2  -  Elaine Quek by elaine@n c wsto day. c o tn.sg DAY three of the negligence trial brought by a businesswoman left crippled by surgery to remove a spot on her brain heard how there was no medical proof that the treatment she received
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    • 71 2 REUTERS photo. A STATUE of President Saddam Hussein standing near the newly built Saddam tower for communications of the AlMa'mon telecommunication centre on Wednesday. The centre was destroyed by US and British air raids during the 1991 Gulf War. It was reconstructed by Iraqi engineers in 270
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    • 131 2 Bernama JAKARTA A witch doctor serving time in jail has filed an appeal following a sensational disclosure that one of his alleged victims has been found working in Malaysia. Ahmad Sarudji, 48, is in a Medan prison in North Sumatra waiting to be hanged
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    • 84 2 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Some 200 Malaysian boatmen staged a protest yesterday against a police crackdown on smuggling across a river on the border with Thailand. The boatmen plying the Golok river in the coastal town of Tumpat in Kelantan said the operation had dented their income. They urged
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    • 362 3  -  Hazel Tan Golden Globe nominations onTV by hazel@newstoday.com.sg THE Golden Globe Awards this year will have a familiar ring. The names will not be alien. Singaporeans will know most of the characters and the storylines. The reason is simple. Channel 5. Ms Selena Ho, assistant
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    • 133 3 DRUG abuse and trafficking can never be totally wiped out in Singapore. "The money is very good and some people can't resist its temptation," said Minister for Home Affairs Mr Wong Kan Seng, after an award presentation ceremony yesterday. Central Narcotics Bureau officers and Police Dog
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    • 362 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Plans to groom top students to lead community by za ckari a @ne wstoday. com. sg MENDAKI plans to take the best and brightest brains studying in local polytechnics and groom them into an elite group that will carry the torch for the Malay/Muslim
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    • 140 4  -  David Ngiau by david@n ews tod ay.com. sg HE turned on his mother, using violent force. In return, she turned her son in to the police by calling 999. She gave him another chance, but this time the errant son stole blank cheques from her,
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    • 29 4 Reuters photo Indian Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, holding Indonesian President Wahid's hand, arrived in Indonesia yesterday for a three-day state visit,
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    • 175 4 -AFP BANGKOK Thailand has called in the army to help oversee chaotic vote counting and quell violent protests delaying final election results. Gen Pornsak Durongkavibulya said he was coordinating with the army to send soldiers into provinces where disgruntled voters have attacked election centres and blocked
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    • 101 4 JAKARTA Indonesian police are using high-tech radar detectors to search for Tommy Suharto Mandate Putra, the convicted son of former president Suharto. Authorities resorted to the use of high-tech devices because they believe he might be hiding under ground, Antara News Agency said. Mr Montolalu, who
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 125 4 READ 0N... A conspiracy, cries Chavez Fallen Cabinet nominee warns of agenda to undermine Presidentelect Bush/ 14 The Third World's asset headache Poor people have property but cannot generate new wealth/17 The Supernatural M. Night Shyamalan, the 30-year-old creator of The Sixth sense, casts a cold eye on life and
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  • LETTERS
    • 256 6  -  See Leong Kit Frequent checks required to curb disease outbreaks CONCERNED parents should note that the Hand, Foot and Mouth disease (HFMD) can also affect primary school children, and not just kindergarten kids. They should remind their school children never to share water bottles. Adults
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    • 159 6  -  Arjen van Schaijk I AM writing in response to the MSG scramble. As Mr Deepak S Narula wrote (Today, Jan 8), MSG is added in almost all pre-packed food and to food in most outlets island-wide. It is very hard to identify on the food
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    • 330 6  -  Raja Mitra IT appears that quite a few people with entirely wrong attitudes, manners and habits have pervaded the ranks of cabbies here. I have had periodic encounters with unhelpful and rude cabbies. The worst was on new year's day when I
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    • 264 6 I REFER to Mr David Soh's letter, "Some answers needed on direct sales or network marketing" (Today, Jan 5). Some regulations against unfair business practices are necessary to protect consumers. But we should guard against over-regulation as this can inadvertently burden legitimate businesses.
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  • Business news
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      508 8  -  Chan Chao Peh Natural gas piped to Singapore six months ahead of schedule by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE will rely less on fuel oil to generate its daily energy needs of an estimated 4,000 megawatts. This follows the delivery of natural gas from Indonesia's West Natuna fields on Jan
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    • 233 8 SINGAPORE remained the fifth most expensive city in office space last year, according to a survey by real estate consultancy firm, DTZ Debenham Tie Leung. The others in the top five were Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei and Mumbai. The survey was conducted by measuring
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    • 129 8 Bloomberg News. TOKYO Singapore Airlines, Japan Airlines and other Asian carriers face slowing airfreight growth this year as a cooling US economy cuts shipments of electronics and other goods, analysts said. SIA and JAL, two of the region's three biggest cargo car- riers, both
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    • 186 8 Bloomberg News THALES SA's takeover bid for Singapore-based Avimo Group has become unconditional, said the financial adviser of Europe's largest defence electronics maker. Thales, which changed its name from Thomson-CSF last month, has received acceptances from existing Avimo shareholders to raise its stake to 52.1
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    • 242 9 Pertama pays $15 million for the 8 outlets PERTAMA Holdings, the Singapore-based retail arm of Australia's Harvey Norman, has acquired all the eight outlets of rival Electric City. This win boost its annual turnover from $40 million to $140 million, putting it just behind
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    • 281 9  -  Chin Wei Lin by DESPITE the poor performance of the dot com industry, Horizon.com said that it was confident that Cyber-IB.com, which it has acquired a 40 per cent stake in, will perform well. Executive Chairman of Horizon.com, General Ng Jui Ping,
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  • MARKET NEWS
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      445 10 Shares weaken on late forced selling SINGAPORE shares closed mixed albeit on continued fund inflows into the market on index benchmark hugging styled trading. Besides the usual speculative stocks, trading focus was on MSCI Singapore component stocks. The STI index inched up 1.84 points to close at 1969.91
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    • 379 10 Markets Movers THE Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange found new vigour in the afternoon, after an extremely quiet morning session. This was prompted by bargain hunting on selective stocks, particularly those that had lately declined significantly and were looking attractive valuation-wise. At the day's close,
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 255 11 AFP Seven bodies recovered from Irian Jaya crash site JAKARTA Seven bodies, including those of the provincial chiefs of the police and military, were found at press time yesterday in the wreckage of an Indonesian navy plane, which crashed in Irian Jaya. Captain Prio Purwoko of
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    • 92 11 Reuters NEW DELHI The world's largest diamond trade was shut down yesterday. Indian jewellery exporters and diamond traders went on strike to protest against the arrest of powerful diamond merchant and film financier, Bharat Shah. All India Radio said the move could further affect the stock
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    • 69 11 -AFP BEIJING Three Falungong members who distributed flyers promoting the banned spiritual group have been jailed for up to six years. They were charged with causing damage to law and order, the Beijing Daily said. One person was sentenced to six years for printing 7,000 copies of
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    • 109 11 Agencies SURABAYA Relief for mon os odium glut am ate (MSG) producer PT Ajinomoto may finally be in sight as Indonesian police released one of its executives. They said they released Mr Yasushi Oda for lack of evidence. Mr Oda, Ajinomoto Indonesia vice-president, was
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    • 293 12 German ministers quit amid controversy BERLIN The mad cow disease claimed its first high-level political victims in Germany yesterday with the resignation of Andrea Fischer, the Health Minister and Karl-Heinz Funke, the Agriculture Minister on Tuesday. The development brings to an end a debilitating feud over how
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    • 320 12  -  Steven Ooi by Steven® tiewstoday. com. sg KUALA LUMPUR Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad confirmed on Tuesday that a Cabinet reshuffle was imminent, but kept the details close to his chest, Malaysian newspapers reported. Dr Mahathir was non-commi-tal when asked about the timing
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    • 67 12 When CJ and AG chat AFP photo Mr Dzaiddin Abdullah, the new Chief Justice of Malaysia (left), chatting with the newly-appointed Amum Mokd Zard, the first Malaysian woman Attorney-General of Malaysia, at the Federal court house in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The Malaysian Bar Council and Attorney-General's Chambers yesterday pledged
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    • 118 12 ALLAHABAD Hindus unable to get to a massive religious festival in northern India can cleanse their souls by having a virtual bath in the Ganges on the Internet, reported online news site Ananova. The Maha Kumbh Mela that began yesterday is expected to attract up
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    • 169 12 -AFP MANILA A wave of deadly bombings in Manila just before the new year could be linked to the Christmas eve bomb attacks on Indonesian churches, Philippine national police chief Panfilo Lacson said yesterday. "There is a link between the series of bombings here and the
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    • 174 12 JAPAN Another storm is expected to hit the political horizon here as a key faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) looked set to split yesterday. The looming turmoil is believed to be due to the failure of the faction's leader, Mr Koichi Kato, to
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    • 64 12  -  Antara JAKARTA Indonesia's Defence Minister Mahfud MD said yesterday two groups want to create chaos in the country with the aim of disintegrating it. "There is an indication that these groups want to disturb the situation whoever leads the government "Even if Gus Dur (President Abdurrahman
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    • 496 14  -  Steven Ooi Fallen Cabinet nominee warns of agenda to undermine President-elect Bush by steven@newstoday. com. s& WASHINGTON Linda Chavez withdrew her bid for the position of US Labour Secretary on Tuesday, saying she had been driven out by a campaign of retribution for the outcome of
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    • 177 14 Reuters WASHINGTON A coalition of mostly liberal special-interest groups announced on Tuesday what they called the biggest drive ever against a Cabinetlevel nominee, conservative Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft. Leaders from more than 200 groups representing women, labour, minorities, gays and environmentalists said their "Stop
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    • 157 14 Reuters OKLAHOMA The first of a state record of seven lethal injections scheduled in one month was carried out with the execution of a man for the 1987 rape and beating murder of an 84-year-old woman. Eddie Leroy Trice, 48, was pronounced dead at 9.15
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    • 138 14 AFP SYDNEY An Australian couple detained in Laos for allegedly stealing jewels will finally have legal representation. This came after the Australian Ambassador to Laos, Mr Jonathan Thwakes, visited the couple a second time yesterday since their arrest two days before
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    • 105 14 AFP LONDON Opera star Luciano Pavarotti has left a high-profile overseas aid charity out of disappointment over reports of bribe scandal involving his cofounder. Mr Pavarotti, who persuaded pop stars like Elton John and Bono to help raise millions for War Child UK, was irked
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    • 330 15 Reuters Glossy kit to deter illegal immigrants criticised SYDNEY An Australian campaign to deter illegal immigrants by warning them that they face racial hatred, family disunity and a life of crime and prostitution in foreign ghettos provoked dismay among human rights groups yesterday. A spokesman for Immigration
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    • 82 15 Reuters LOS ANGELES Teen pop princess Britney Spears (left) was deemed top of the worst-dressed charts by the self-appointed fashion guru known only as Mr Blackwell on Tuesday in an annual list that also included Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Spears, 18, soared to first place
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    • 123 15 AFP ILIGAN Muslim separatists, blamed for the recent deadly bombings in Manila, yesterday fired mortar rounds at a major plant that supplies electricity to the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, the military said. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front also attacked with mortars two army detachments
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    • 79 16 Reuters LOS ANGELES Pop superstar Michael Jackson will perform with his five brothers on a new reunion album, the first in more than a decade, it was announced on Tuesday. The twicedivorced singer will also host a panel discussion next month in New York on
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      42 16 Reuters photo HOUSTON (Texas) The reaction is one of shock as family members of one of the victims of a shooting incident arrive on the scene on Tuesday. A gunman had killed three people before turning the weapon on himself.
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    • 424 16 Contamination tests for peace troops LONDON The British government was forced into an embarrassing U-turn on Tuesday, when it said military personnel who served as peacekeepers in Kosovo and Bosnia would be tested for contamination from depleted-uranium (DU) weapons, reported the Independent newspaper. However, the
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    • 221 16 LONDON A wave of potentially lethal drugs, one of which can be concocted in the home kitchen, is sweeping through Britain's dance clubs. A survey by Mixmag, a leading dance magazine, to be publicised later this month indicates a 10-fold increase in the
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 905 17  -  Hernando de Soto Poor people have property but cannot generate new wealth by LIMA (Peru) Imagine a country where nobody can identify who owns what and resources cannot conveniently be turned into money. You have just put yourself into the life of a developing country
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  • RELAX
    • 614 18  -  Hazel Tan Bankrupt ex-HK star Liao Weixiong returns to showbiz to follow the lure of wealth. I am willing to do Category Three movies too. But look at my physique! No one has asked me yet. W Actor-tumed-businessmaii-turned-actor Liao Wekiong (right) by hazel® newstoday. com.
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    • 174 19 Titanic star decides to lose weight for plum roles Finally, Titanic star Kate Winslet (right) has decided to shed some pounds. For some quality roles. The actress packed on a few pounds when she was pregnant with daughter Mia, who was born last October. While motherhood
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    • 99 19 Madonna (right) loves Britney Spears (above), Britney loves Madonna...you know the story. They've been fawning all over each other in the press lately. Now word is out the reigning Queen and Princess of Pop may join musical forces in the studio, reported Star magazine.
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    • 193 19 Here's another piece of news on. Titanic stars. Wedding bells are ringing for boyish looking actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his supermodel girlfriend Gisele Bundchen. According to peoplenews.com, he has proposed and the marriage will take place this summer. "Leo's madly in love with Gisele, the
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    • 156 19 There is a new man in Kate Moss' life. According to friends, the waif supermodel could be dating Jefferson Hack, the guru-like face behind the style bible magazine Dazed and Confused. Friends told peoplenews.com that their relationship could have long-term prospects. "They move in similar circles,"
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    • 2631 24  -  Bruce Buschel M. Night Shyamalan, the 30-year-old creator of The Sixth Sense casts a cold eye on life and death in Unbreakable by Samuel L. Jackson lies motionless on a mock hospital bed, staring into nothingness. A mock doctor stands over him, naming the bones he has broken.
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    • 475 26 DO you feel on top of the world when you wake up in the morning, or do you wish you could stay in bed all day? Tons of pep pills are prescribed every year just to help weary people get through
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    • 491 26  -  Leong Phei Phei High-cholesterol and high-sodium food is no-no if you want to keep your heart in tip-top condition. by ph eiphe i@ne wstoday. co m. sg YOU are what you eat. If you do not already know, diet plays a big part in increasing your risk
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    • 782 27 MORE and more people are suffering from TATT, and doctors admit that even when they recognise it, they are unsure what to do about it. The intriguingly named Tired All The Time syndrome has baffled many GPs. Unlike the
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    • 740 29  -  Edmund T Shern No, there won't be a new version of Space Odyssey (thank goodness!), but 2001 offers plenty of remakes by edmund@paprika.com.sg HERE'S a piece of Hollywood wisdom if at first you DO succeed, try and try again even harder. Yes movie fans, in addition to
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      531 30  -  Edmund T Shern NOT SAY I WANT TO SAY If you're so smart, then why aren't you rich? by edmo nd@p a prika. c om.sg In the 80s, I was a big Michael J Fox fan and one of his all time best was a movie called The Secret
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    • 233 30  -  David Ngiau by david@n ews to d ay. co m.sg The Media Corporation of Singapore has scored a double coup by bagging two major beauty contests for 2001 as their organisers. MediaCorp will be co-organis-ing the 2001 Miss SingaporeUniverse pageant together with Derrol
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
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    • 542 21 Payanam Payanam: In Conversation With //J-^--^-^ f\ Vasantham Central, EMM Russell Wong /vemr ch^n^,* 7.30 pm Channel News Asia, This episode starts with the lure of 0.02 Dill MORNING Hollywood the Land of the Stars! W"^% 6.00 am Headlines Hollywood highlights include the The guest tonight is the stud- 6.02
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 504 23 I Musical hot on your heels Compiled by Rosalind Png Know Your Chinese Theatre ofthe Arts, Nanyang Polytechnic •(•Pl^y fe*^ fM r^iL^y > r'J clear doubts about the Nanyang Polytechnic's Theatre and Drama Club j*f^tHXr' Cfcv jft ff tm^ ?^k B) effects of Chinese mcdiThe cast comprises students from the
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  • SPORTS
    • 530 32 The picture of great work ethic for young wannabes NFL ALAMEDA In 13 years with the Oakland Raiders, wide receiver Tim Brown has been steady, working hard and putting up numbers. The 1987 Heisman Trophy winner out of Notre Dame is finally seeing his efforts,
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    • 268 32 EDEN PRAIRIE One goal remains in Cris Carter's illustrious career. But a puzzled look crossed the likely Hall of Famer's face when he was asked whether that 14-year career will be unfulfilled if the Minnesota Vikings, who play the New
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      587 33 Kobe's conning out of the shadow of Shag NBA LOS ANGELES The defending champion Los Angeles Lakers happen to have the league's two most dominating players, reported ESPN.com. Question is: Who is the more dominant player? Who is the true leader, the more indispensable piece? It was undeniably
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    • 563 34 Puskas, greatest Mighty Magyar, bedridden BUDAPEST In a dreary, municipal hospital, the ageing kings of football's court come to pay homage. They braved the bitter Hungarian winter to do their duty to one of the game's greats. Last November, former team-mate Alfredo Di Stefano
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    • 276 34 Worthington Cup Ipswich 1 Birmingham 0 LONDON George Burley claimed that St Andrews would hold no fears for his Ipswich side after Marcus Stewart's controversial penalty handed it a slender first-leg advantage in the Worthington Cup semi-final. Stewart converted from the spot at the end of the first
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    • 668 35  -  Jai Arjun Singh The three stars of the 90s:Tendulkar, Lara and Waugh Cricket by www.tehelka.com DELHI More cricket was played in the 1990s than in any previous decade in the game's history. With South Africa's return to the international fold in 1991, the induction of Zimbabwe
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    • 986 36 In this second and last of Today's special feature on Sir Alex Ferguson, he reveals a genuine love for his young superstars. FERGUSON probably doesn't see any of his success as inspired by higher powers. In any one of his worlds, you
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    • 783 37  -  Leonard Thomas Lazio's hero leaves the Eternal City an ex-emperor by leonard@newstoday.com.sg NOW that 48 hours have passed, the initial storm of Sven Goran Eriksson's (right) resignation from Lazio will have abated a little. England has finally got its man, at 10 million pounds (5525.8 million)
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    • 791 38 Last season's best gather in Hawaii for the Mercedes Championships HAWAII And there they went, Tiger Woods (picture) and David Duval, the Nike one-two punch, give or take a Titleist lawsuit. In carts, speaking of lawsuits. But then, this was just a practice round.
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    • 505 39  -  Kelvin Phang Another reason why Minister Mah is confident this year by kelvin@ne wstoday. c o m.sg Choketawee Promrut. Another Thai international and ex-Bull, Surachai Jirasirichote, is believed to be heading to Woodlands Wellington. One of the reasons for the Thai influx is the fact that the
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    • 200 39 MALAYSIAN boat DK42 took line honours on day one of the seventh Singapore Straits Regatta yesterday, but had to settle for overall second place based on handicap. After 3 hrs and 31sec, DK42 was the first Category A boat to sound the horn on the
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