Today, 20 January 2001

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  • 13 1 TODAY IS ft I U r Q. <IV January 20, 2001 MITA(P> 138/U/2000
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  • 706 1 PRESIDENT ON THE BRINK MANILA On a day when a bitter President learnt that friends are as temporary as power, he also found he has somewhere between five hours and five days to keep his post. Mr Joseph Estrada was trying to negotiate a
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 245 2 THE time-consuming and at times frustrating business of renovating your homes may well become a thing of the past. Launched last October, idconnect.com is a joint venture between NTUC Income and Cartel Design Decor, offering homeowners the option to shop online for contractors. It even throws
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    • 315 2  -  Ng Boon Yian Certainly not the workers who need it the most by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg YOU would imagine that older workers with outdated skills and inadequate education would be the ones who most need training to keep up with the fast-moving economy. But it is actually
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    • 300 2 SHE'S a well-paid, high-flying executive who can afford a car. But she prefers taking the MRT to work. Ms Surachita Mishra, an associate consultant with a top US-based management consulting firm, is one of 54 per cent of professional workers who used public transport last year.
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    • 211 2 IT'S usually the celebs and the VIPs who get interviewed on TV. But for the next four weeks, one prominent woman will play host in a 15-minute programme on Channel NewsAsia. Ms Claire Chiang, Nominated MP, a leader of the women's movement, daughter
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    • 188 3  -  Mahesha Thenabadu by reporter@newstoday.com.sg YOU could call it making a brief appearance. For that was the fate of two provocative posters featuring lingerie-clad females put up by JL Lingerie at Orchard Point. And the shop is more amused than, maddened by the incident. Store owner
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    • 243 3  -  Maurice Png Pilot scheme to test 30 SBS vehicles by mau rice@newstoday.com .sg THE Ministry of the Environment is to launch a pilot scheme which will see gas-powered buses on the roads. A working group comprising ENV, SembCorp Gas, SBS, Volvo and DelGro have signed a
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    • 127 3 -AFP NON-Constituency MP JB Jeyaretnam was declared bankrupt yesterday after he failed to meet the deadline to pay a defamation suit. The decision effectively disqualifies the 74-year-old Workers Party leader from politics. However, Mr Jeyaretnam, one of only three opposition MPs in the 93-seat Parliament, said
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    • 264 4  -  Leong Phei Phei Web-casting service on trial at hospital's baby-care unit by pheiphei@newstoday.com.sg YOUR baby at your fingertips, literally. With the launch of a three-month Viewbaby Service free trial at Thomson Medical Centre (TMC) yesterday, parents can now keep a watchful eye on their newborns with
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    • 201 4  -  Mahesha Thenabadu by reporter@newstoday.corn.sg WITH preparations for Chinese New Year in full swing and the recent dip in COE prices, car dealers are gearing up for a bumper January. Most of the leading car dealers that Today spoke to said car sales
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    • 273 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahini by z ackaria newstoday. com. sg SINGAPORE'S first Malay music awards are set to give the local music scene a long-overdue shot in the arm. Admitting that the local music scene has been quite stagnant as compared to Malaysia and Indonesia, Ms
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    • 120 4 DEMAND for more telephone lines means that Singapore phone numbers will gain an extra digit From March 1 next year, all existing and new lines will be prefixed by "6". The eight-digit plan would increase the current capacity to 60 million. This would ensure
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    • 154 4 STUDENTS will soon be learning in cyberspace, with the launch of a new service which will put them in touch with qualified tutors at the click of a mouse. The HP Email Mentoring Programme 2001 is a collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Hewlett-Packard
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 98 4 READ 0N... Moonies are spreading Their influence can make or break governments/0 Love dealt a deadly blow Boy feared murdered after meeting online lover/10 Birth of two worlds No 'us' and 'them' attitude in Western societies, unlike Singapore/ 11 Difficult diva? topez can be demanding, but she does have a
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 135 5  -  Yeo Kok Seng Hike unfair when CPF isn't restored THE reason given for the tertiary fee increase was that there has been no increment for the past few years due to the slowdown of the economy. The economy did improve last year, but there are signs
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    • 175 5  -  R. Jenkins I WOULD like to comment on the story on Jan 16: "Girl, 3, takes wrong step". I was saddened to see that the lorry driver was arrested for dangerous driving. When is the legal system going to hold pedestrians responsible for their own
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    • 112 5  -  Tay Heng Lai I WOULD like to know why electricity tariffs for residential properties have been increasing incessantly. Why do residential owners have to pay more, when electricity use in non-resi-dential properties generate most of Singapore Power's income, anyway? Ironically, non-residential tariffs only keep decreasing.
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    • 70 5  -  Han Liang Yuan (Ms) WE refer to Ms Michelle Goh Li Nah's feedback (Today, Jan 18). We would like to inform your readers that it is an offence for taxi drivers to pick up passengers in the vicinity of a taxi stand. The taxis should
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    • 318 5  -  Er Ming Hung I REFER to the letter "Does government discount capabilities, talents of polytechnics graduates?" (Today, Jan 17) by Mr Kevin Tan. I am an A-Level holder, currently serving NS. I find Mr Tan rather subjective and prejudiced in his views. First of all, poly
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    • 42 5 WEETECKHIAN Greeting diners and visitors to Times Square@Millenia Walk will be spectacular sights of dragons (above), and other Chinese cultural icons. Catch them either tonight, or from Feb 2 to 4, all at 8 pm. Today photo hy
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 344 6 -Bloomberg News SHARES of SingTel posted their biggest one-week gain in five months as analysts expect a likely win in its Australian acquisition to boost its planned Asia-wide network. SingTel is up against UK's Vodafone Group Pic and Telecom Corp of New Zealand
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    • 91 6 Bloomberg News A WEEK after World Shipholding raised its takeover bid for Osprey Maritime, the firm, controlled by Norwegian shipping magnate Mr John Fredriksen has gained an additional 13.1 per cent stake. Among those who accepted its offer of $1,125 a share for the Singapore-based operator
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    • 372 6  -  Chan Chao Peh 'But our concern is US slowdown' by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg SINGAPORE attracted a record $9.2 billion in fixed asset investments (FAI) last year, exceeding the target of $8.5 billion. Total business spending (TBS) in the same period rose slightly to $1.9 billion, according to the Economic
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    • 344 6  -  Chan Chao Peh by chaopeh@newstaday.cnm.sg SINGAPORE'S economy is expected to grow by a slower 4.5 per cent this year, said two professors in economics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This latest estimate by Dr Tan Khee Giap and
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    • 350 7 Silicon's huge tech loss Only gainers were makers of power generator TECHNOLOGY companies in California's Silicon Valley have suffered "tens of millions of dollars" in losses from the recent rolling electricity blackouts in northern California, according to a survey by Silicon Valley Manufacturers Group, reported the British Broadcasting Corporation. The
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    • 162 7 Bloomberg News CREATIVE Technology may see its fiscal second quarter profit nearly halved as demand for persona] computers slows. Earnings for the three months ended Dec 31 are likely to fall to U5524.5 million from US$44 million a year ago, based on the average
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    • 103 7 HEAVYWEIGHT foreign investors are gunning for bluechip buildings in Seoul, A report by Colliers Jardine, a property consultancy firm, said that from the end of 1999 up to now, the total volume of major transactions has hit 1.5 trillion won (552.04 billion). These include the Government of
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    • 554 7 HI, it's me again, Alfredo from Sage Cafe in Raffles Place. Our customers are in a festive mood this week with the holiday quickly approaching. Vinny, Ms Goh Goh and I decided to invite the Sage over for
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  • MARKET NEWS
    • On the rise
      • 495 8 INVESTORS brushed aside the poorer finishes in financial and property issues and concentrated on technology stocks. Tech leaders led the charge on Nasdaq overnight, reporting results that met lowered expectations. There was also optimism that the FED would act soon as most recent statistics conveyed
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      • 465 8 KUALA LUMPUR Nasdaq's positive performance overnight, coupled with expectation that the US Federal Reserve will make the decision to cut interest rates further at the forthcoming (FOMC) committee meeting, contributed to the strong buying support on the local bourse. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index
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    • 502 9 History may not be kind to Clinton, say analysts WASHINGTON The 42nd President of the United States, Mr Bill Clinton, ends a scandal-tainted presidency with his best job ratings ever. Even his foes conceded that Mr Clinton, 54, has been the most gifted politician of
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    • 104 9 AFP JAKARTA Police in the Indonesian capital yesterday arrested a woman, allegedly linked to the family of former President Suharto, after she was spotted carrying three bombs in a bag at a tourist attraction. The woman was arrested at the "Indonesia in Miniature" recreation park in
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    • 143 9 Reuters LONDON American baby twins at the centre of a bitter trans-Atlantic dispute after they were adopted via the Internet have been taken into the care of local authorities in Wales. Twins Kimberley and Belinda (left) were adopted by a British couple, Mr Alan Kilshaw
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    • 150 9 KUALA LUMPUR Students who gamble, swear or carry cigarettes now face the cane in Penang. Each offence could earn 10 demerit points, which means one stroke of the cane under a new system introduced in Penang schools this week to curb disciplinary problems, reported The Star.
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    • 158 9 JAKARTA Indonesian navy officers based in Batam suspect two Singaporeans of funding Indonesian pirates operating in the Malacca Straits. The commander of the fleet, Colonel Boedi S., told Antam yesterday that the navy had arrested four Indonesians suspected of robbing and then seizing a 300-tonne ship
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    • 114 9 AFP BANGKOK Five people were killed and a row of five shophouses gutted yesterday when a gas leak set off an explosion and fire in a commercial district of the Thai capital. One of the dead was a street vendor who had set up his
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 275 10 Agencies Boy feared murdered after meeting online lover JERUSALEM A 16-year-old Israeli boy's trip to visit his online Palestinian lover ended tragically when his body was found riddled with bullets on Thursday. Ofir Rahum (right) and the Palestinian met on the Internet and the relationship
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    • 170 10 NEW YORK Cutting costs or slashing payroll have long been the time-tested ways of turning a money-losing company around. But Mr Paul O'Neill did none of these when he took over an unprofitable aluminium company, Alcoa, in 1987. Instead, the man who US President-elect George
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    • 26 10 AFP photo Hanoi residents carry their mandarin trees home on their motorcycles, as Vietnam prepares to celebrate the Lunar New Year next week.
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    • 169 10  -  Oana-Kyodo SYDNEY Pregnant women risk impeding their babies' development by eating too much of some popular fish species which contain high levels of mercury. The warning was issued by the Australia New Zealand Food Authority yesterday. Women should limit their intake of several large,
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    • 141 10 Reuters LONDON A sex shop owner has fallen foul of British trading laws after customers complained that his so-called hard core pornography videos were far too tame. Nick Griffin was fined £3,800 (559,520) after angry buyers complained to trading standards authorities that the salacious titles he sold
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    • 186 10 AFP HONG KONG Rave parties have been blamed for a dramatic 77.5 per cent rise in the number of youngsters arrested for drug offences in the territory. Police Commissioner Tsang Yam-pui said the number of juveniles apprehended for drug offences soared to 1,873 last year, from
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 264 11 Reuters PARIS When former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas (left) goes on trial next Monday charged with corruption, an entire political class will stand accused. The highest ranking official to face graft charges in recent French history, Mr Dumas, 78,
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    • 925 11  -  Raj Vasil No 'us' and 'them' attitude in Western societies, unlike Singapore by SINGAPORE, during the past 35 years, has achieved spectacular economic progress and prosperity, thanks to its PAP rulers. Its people today have come to enjoy employment opportunities and standards of health, housing and
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  • RELAX
    • 616 12  -  Hazel Tan Lopez can be demanding, but she does have a softer side by haz el@n ewsto d ay. c om.sg JENNIFER Lopez is no easy feat. During a seven-minute television appearance in London, the gorgeous looking diva reportedly stunned television professionals with her outrageous demands. According to
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    • 364 13  -  Hazel Tan Farm Wong's parents reveal an interesting side about the star by haze 1@ n e wsto d ay. co m. sg Looks like Fann Wong (above) started young. Her blabbering habit we mean. But there could be a reason. Fann started "talking interestingly" at a
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    • 394 13  -  Elaine Quek by elaine@news to d ay.com. a g IT'S a marathon of a totally different nature. Instead of sweating it out, DJs from all of MediaCorp Radio's 11 stations went under the wintry draft of the air-conditioning to bring
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 1 14 Showcase
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    • 904 14 Festival of Spring Compiled by Rosalind Png Spring Festival Performance New Ideal Art Gallery, Paragon, #05-14 Today Two promising Singaporean artists Tan Kay Guan 7.30 8.30 pm and Sim Tian Sung will exhibit their latest works. Chinese New Year Celebrations Open area at Redhill market, Blk 79, Redhill Close Tan's
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 1 15 Movies
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    • 1185 15 A GVYISHUN What Women Want: 4.15pm, 11.35 Preview T Accidental Spy (M): 11,15am, 11,30. Cast Away 3.20pm, 11.15pm 11.45, 1.40pm, 1.55,2.10,4.05,4.20, G\ PLAZA What Women Want: 3,40pm, 4, 5.35, 11,20pm, 11.50, 12.15am 4.35, 6.30, 6.45, 7, 8.55, 9.10, 9.25, 11.20. Accidental Spy (M): 11.10am, 11.30, 11.35, 11.55 .50, 1.30, 1,50,
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 3 16 T v Listings
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    • 602 16 j| Disappearance of Tonight in Person M Christina Channel NewsAsia, mtR ~!hv ih'tiih inidn■ sMpiciouscimim- Tonight In Person's host for the first 1 stances, of a newly-wed heiress four weeks is Nominated MP Claire I|. points a detective to her husband as —*tf Chiang, who is also a well-known v
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    • 614 17 Ibu Ku Malang What a Wonderful Ibu Ku Tersayang KKw World fVOWif channelnewsasw Suria, 9.30 pm Channel 8,10.30 pm Sansongko is the man responsible In his first foray into the big screen, for Carry's pregnancy. Carry is an *^(K, I^_H Naming plays a second fiddle MORNING undergrad who is doing
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  • SPORTS
    • 571 25 Reuters Pacers hit drought, at first NBA Indiana 84 Atlanta 76 INDIANAPOLIS For three quarters, the Indiana Pacers didn't even look like themselves. Jalen Rose wasn't getting enough shots, Reggie Miller wasn't hitting enough shots, and the Pacers were in a giant scoring drought.
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    • 293 25 Reuters Super Bowl EAST RUTHERFORD The New York Giants are going up against the stingiest defence in the NFL when they face the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl next Sunday. But running back Tiki Barber is sure they will find a
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    • 663 26 AFP LONDON Manchester United supremo Alex Ferguson believes the biggest threat to his team's chances of winning a third successive Premiership title can only come from within Old Trafford. Ferguson knows that with an 11-point lead and main rivals Arsenal a further
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    • Article, Illustration
      257 26 Reuters Grobbelaar loses libel suit, court says he fixed matches LONDON The English Football Association (FA) said on Thursday that it was urgently examining the court judgment which overturned a libel damages award to former Liverpool goalkeeper "The Clown Prince" Bruce Grobbelaar (below). "The Football Association and the
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    • 630 27 AFP But first there's Perugia Italian Serie A Perugia v Juventus MILAN Second-placed Juventus evidently believes in getting in its first shot early against fellow title challenger AS Roma, even though it is Juve's nerves that will be tested first tomorrow when it meets
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    • 332 27 Reuters ZURICH The two most powerful men in soccer, Fifa president Sepp Blatter and his Uefa counterpart Lennart Johansson, will try to resolve a feud threatening to derail negotiations with the European Commission (EC) over a new transfer system. The meeting promises fireworks,
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    • 94 27 Reuters BUCHAREST Romanian soccer star Gheorghe Hagi, nicknamed the Maradona of the Carpathians" at the height of his career, has shunned Diego Maradona and not invited him to his farewell match in March. "I decided to drop Diego from the list of my guests although
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    • 502 28 Reuters Daly shoots six-uncler-par 64, after an unofficial lesson fromTiger HONOLULU Taking the cue from Tiger Woods, John Daly kept his driver in the bag and got into the spotlight for all the right reasons. Golfs partly-reformed wild man turned back the clock to his glory days
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    • 243 28 Asian PGA HONG KONG The Asian PGA has taken the difficult decision today to postpone next week's President's Invitational Pro-Am in the Philippines. The US$2OO,OOO ($350,000) tournament was to have been played at The Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club as the season opening
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    • 107 28 APGA MALACCA Former Australian amateur star Brad Lamb moved into contention to win the Davidoff Tour Qualifying School after firing a three-under-par 69 in the third round at Orna Golf and Country Club yesterday. The 23-year-old Lamb, who turned professional last October, has a three-day
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    • 260 29  -  Kelvin Phang TOO much pressure and media coverage could be detrimental to a young local professional golfer like Singapore's Lam Chili Bing. So said Peter Teravainen (above right, with Lam in the background), who had his third consecutive podium finish in yesterday's Accenture
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    • 476 29  -  Kelvin Phang Malaysian in trouble after mishitting his third shot Champion of Champions by kelvin@ne wsto day. co m. sg MALAYSIAN Danny Chia's chances of winning the 2001 Accenture Champion of Champions nearly went up in smoke at the final hole. Approaching the par-four 18th at
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    • 589 30  -  S. Gulam in Dubai Figuring out... Three in the running for striker's spot in coach's 4-5-1 formation. Nine out of 11 players have more or less booked their berths by gula m newstoday. com. sg SLOWLY, but steadily and surely, the pieces are falling into place for
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    • 248 31  -  S. Murali by mu rali@newsto day.com.sg IT looks like it will be a good year for the S-League. A few weeks ago, National Development minister Mah Bow Tan announced that some government linked companies would be coming in to
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    • 726 31 -AFP Agassi and Sampras rebuke Russian for calling for more pay Australian Open MELBOURNE Andre Agassi (right) and Pete Sampras joined forces yesterday to deliver a stinging rebuke to Yevgeny Kafelnikov after the Russian, star called for tennis players to be paid more. Agassi, in particular, seemed to
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    • 72 32 f Sampras is tired otba" «/^n«ted in H Poulsen's first XI i i r ~i| j China, before being taken m but he still makes the up in Egypt. From there it J almost next round moved into Greece, picked before going to Rome, France and jV Ausiralian Open finally
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