Today, 28 May 2002, Afternoon Edition

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    7 1 TODAY Tuesday M_ y 2 02« M[TA(P)063.11.2001
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Statistics that make you wonder
      462 1 Teen abortions accounted for 13 per cent of the total last year TEENAGE abortions have been rising since 1999. Last year, there were 1698 abortions that involved mothers aged 20 years and below. This accounted for 13 per cent of total abortions. Teenagers are impressionable.
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      Lock icon Russia, Nato unite against terrorism
      292 1 Reuters PRATICA DI MARE (Italy) Nato will set the seal on a new era of security cooperation with former foe Russia today, rewarding President Vladimir Putin for embracing the West and backing the US-led war on terrorism. "All Western states and Russia will stand united
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      Lock icon Dalai Lama urges peace
      163 1 Reuters WELLINGTON Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said India and Pakistan had too much at stake to go to war over the disputed territory of Kashmir, as the two countries traded fire along the border. In New Zealand on a four-day visit, the Dalai
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Desire, choice and a home
      549 2  -  Tan Hui Leng YOUNG Singaporean couples will have to rethink the way they plan their housing and investment, but for now they have a more immediate problem to deal with: How to propose. Young men can no longer say "Let's queue for a flat" and
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      Students camp in classrooms after panther escapes from Johor zoo
      196 2 A BLACK panther is out on the loose in Johor, having escaped from the Johor zoo in Malaysia. Orang Ash' trackers have been roped in for the panther hunt, which also involves the police, Wildlife and National Park (Perhilitan), the
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      Lock icon Suicide bomber hits Tel Aviv suburb, several seriously hurt
      238 3 -AFP JERUSALEM A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and injured up to 50 people yesterday when he blew himself up in a shopping parade in a Tel Aviv suburb. The attack came just hours after Israeli forces stormed the West
      -AFP  -  238 words
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      As Azalina sulks...
      390 3 Puteri Umno plans crusade against incest to repair its dented image KUALA LUMPUR The young women's wing of the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) is spearheading a nation-wide "poster campaign" against incest. A team under the Puteri Umno wing has started making visits to various states to
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      Lock icon Musharraf: We don't want war
      158 3 i i. t l mill if (iiiw Agencies ISLAMABAD Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that he did not want war with India, but warned that Islamabad was ready to respond with full force if Indian forces attacked. "We are faced with a grave
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      Fire at Pearl's Centre
      42 4 A FIRE broke out on the ninth floor of the Pearl's Centre car park at about 5.40pm yesterday. It was brought under control by 6.10 pm. No one was injured. Some discarded furniture was destroyed in the blaze.
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      Computer aid
      373 4  -  Zackaria Abdul Rahim Poly students to set up lab in Cambodia TOTING 11 donated Pentium computers, some students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic will spend part of their holidays to help set up a computer lab in a small town in Cambodia. Under a collaborative community service effort between
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      132 2 PIIIIO) A\ i<YOU: THE SAFE WAY Mandarin Hotel Ballroom, Level 6 Saturday, 1 June 2002, 2pm spm Registration Fee: $5 (inclusive of tea reception and ctoor gift) A Public Forum in English and Mandarin organised by Alexandra IHesp i t a I So many ways to lose weight. But which
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      12 3 sicumum INFO TALK tHBPBWi^MB^^^^^B Thursday, HwpBMHMrimJH 30 May |U*Mtt*|i««*#UPM|PH at 7pm U^2|ls|liJi!liilKi|liliKffi^^^^^^H
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      19 4 LL.B (Hons) in 2 years! For Graduates only UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Full time Part time classes Commencing: June 2002
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      574 5 |m 'Life is Great with Children' Photo Competition 0* Vote for your favourite photo and h£ do your part for charity! F™H After weeks of film loading, film rewinding, shutter clicking, Vote and win these prizes: and more film loading, Great Eastern's "Life is Great with Children" photo competition has
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      We are pro-active
      265 6  -  Tan Yew Soon but Feedback Unit cannot consult public on every policy issue I REFER to your letter, "Policy bulldozer? A more active role needed from Feedback Unit" (Today, May 13). The Feedback Unit seeks to play an active role in soliciting public feedback on national policies
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      Of noise pollution, an unruly relative and the police
      405 6  -  Sharon Foo I WOULD like to share my experiences with some members of the Singapore Police Force. The first was a few years back when I was a pick-pocket victim. When I told the policeman on duty that I had been
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      Please explain these SingTel minuses
      125 6  -  Leong Sze Hian I REFER to the article, "Smart money Singaporeans are now better equipped in the market", by Val Chua (Weekend Today, May 25-26). Those who bought SingTel shares at the IPO price of $3.61 in 1994 are still having losses. According to The
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon Investors shrug off global economic recovery prospects
      241 8 AFP BASEL (Switzerland) Investors failed to revive their confidence in a strong global economic recovery by early May, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said in its quarterly review. "The early months of 2002 dissipated the ebullient mood that had built up in
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      Lock icon Fiat urged to sell off more assets
      214 8 -AFP LONDON Creditor banks have warned the Italian Fiat group that its debt could be downgraded to junk bond status unless the group strengthens its restructuring plan, Financial Times reported. The banks are pressing Italy's largest industrial group for increased asset sales in
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      World markets
      51 8 Index Vdw Change Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ml Ordinaries Faiwon Wtd *****.35 *****.73 3335.00 5729.90 +.07 ■62.05 -3.30 +23 50 unth -.53 -.10 +.41 Korea Comp JH Index 840.57 392.09 -14.W -J6 ■1.64 -.19 lakarlo Camp Phils Comp ihenzen B 512.79 1333.09 217.57 +5.64 103 444 +1.15 ,15
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      Lock icon Your S$1 buys
      37 8 Bloomberg Uss 0.556 UK£ 0.382 Yen 69.43? HK$ 4.336 RM 2.113 Euro 0.604 Rupioh 4944.54 Boht 23.822 Peso 28.086 A$ 0.9978 Indian Rs 27.227 Won 685.587 C$ 0.854 Yuan 4.602 Ui 1.1736 WT$ 19.107
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      Lock icon Nintendo boss steps down after 52 years
      113 8 -AFP TOKYO Japanese videogame maker Nintendo said its charismatic president, Mr Hiroshi Yamauchi, 74, would step down after 52 years at the helm, handing power to a carefully groomed management group. Mr Yamauchi, outspoken but publicityshy and a stand-out with his purple suits,
      -AFP  -  113 words
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
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      Lock icon More Mazda parts from China
      200 10 AFP TOKYO The Japanese car maker, Mazda Motor, will raise the proportion of car parts supplied by non-Japanese companies such as those in Asia, possibly China, to cut the cost of production. "As we aim to implement cost-effective auto parts procurement, we will increase buying
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      Stronger than S$
      68 10 THE Australian dollar rose above the Singapore dollar yesterday at the exchange rate of $1.0014. According to a Bloomberg report, the Australian currency may rise on expectations Australia's central bank that Governor lan Macfarlane will announce on Friday that he is prepared to raise interest rates. This
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      Lock icon To Asia
      361 10 Bloomberg DuPont moving textile fibre production TOKYO DuPont, the inventor of nylon, is shifting production of textile fibres to Asia so that its synthetic material unit will be more competitive as the company seeks investors for at least part of the business. Its chief executive officer, Mr Charles
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      Lock icon On hold
      276 12 Bloomberg Canberra not selling Telstra stake before 2004 CANBERRA The Australian government is not considering selling its 50.1 per cent stake in Telstra earlier than fiscal 2004, according to Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson. The government plans to sell its majority stake in Telstra in the year ending
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      Lock icon Good news at last for APP
      457 13 Bloomberg Beleaguered company gets credit to build pulp plant in China HAIKOU (China) Asia Pulp Paper Inc, which stopped payment on about US$l3 billion ($23.4 billion) of debt, resumed construction of a pulp plant in China after local banks arranged financing for the project,
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Danger fries
      231 15 —-o -AFP KL orders checks into cancer-causing food KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia has ordered a check on all food products following a European study that found carbohydrate-rich food to contain acrylamide, a cancer-causing agent. "This finding is serious and we will conduct a check on food products, especially those
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      Lock icon Distraught Perth man blows himself up
      64 15 Reuters PERTH An Australian man blew himself up with explosives strapped to his body. He was apparently distraught over a relationship break-up, Perth police inspector Ray Collins said. "There was no political involvement or motivation whatsoever," he said. The suicide explosion occurred late on
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      Lock icon One bump did it
      240 16 Agencies Bridge collapses, sending motorists to their deaths WEBBERS FALLS (Oklahoma) A barge with apparently no one at the controls hit an interstate highway bridge in Oklahoma on Sunday, causing the bridge to collapse. Mr Kevin Ward of Oklahoma's Department of Public Safety said at least
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      Lock icon Crisps with a message
      141 16 -AFP CAIRO An Egyptian firm has launched a line of crisps, packaged with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's image, to raise money for the Palestinians. In Arabic, the packet reads "Abu Ammar", Mr Arafat's nora de guerre, and "Hero of the Resistance", with drawings of the snack
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Not out of the woods yet
      784 18  -  Anil Bhatia Weak US recovery causes gold to shine and greenback to decline DESPITE the US gross domestic product (GDP) increasing 5.6 per cent in the first quarter, the Dow Jones index still ended last week at a very weak 10,104. Over the last
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      Lock icon HK's language policy very 'ambitious'
      255 18 -AFP A SOUTH China Morning Post editorial yesterday commented on Hong Kong's ambitious language education plan: The goal of language education in Hong Kong is for every student to become bi-literate in Chinese and English, and trilingual in Cantonese, Putonghua and English. For a largely
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  • UPFROMT
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      Lock icon KOREA MANIA
      567 20 Reuters TOKYO Crammed against a night club stage, hundreds of young Japanese women are shrieking and reaching out frantically towards six gyrating singers in silky shirts and white trousers. The object of their ear-splitting adulation is not a British boy band or the latest manufactured Japanese pop act
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      See Kylie in Barcelona
      184 20 YOU can't get her out of your head. Now you can see Kylie Minogue (picture) live in concert in Barcelona. All you have to do is tune in to the pop superstar's An Audience With Kylie Minogue special on Star World (SCV Channel 18) tonight at
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  • INFOTECH
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      Now, 'ONE' step closer
      420 22  -  Ariel Tam Sun makes it easier to deploy services on demand over the Web SUN Microsystems has brought firms closer to its Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) vision. The company has unveiled Version 9 of its Solaris operating system that now comes bundled with Sun
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      The infocomm way ahead
      334 22  -  Sol E Solomon r I "'HE increasing pace of interX national competition due to globalisation means that Singapore must continually maximise the potential of its people not only to keep up but to improve the country's position globally. With this in mind, three of the main
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      HP promises peace of mind
      260 22  -  Zackana Abdul Rahim ONLY two weeks after computer giants Hewlett-Packard and Compaq inked their merger, top executives from the United States were here to allay the fears of customers. This had mostly to do with the fate of the products they were using, including industry
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      7 22 CNETAsia The source for computing and technology."1
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  • IT FOR SME
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      Great results through integration
      1138 23 HP and Multisoft streamline work processes for the C P Group AS a leading logistics company, the C&P Group's interests cover warehousing, container depot and engineering, transportation, marine and shipping, chemical storage and management, as well as car rental and industrial leasing. In the last three
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  • BUSYCOOK
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      Lemony couscous
      291 25  -  Pauline DLoh Pair it with prawns and peas for a cool dish on a hot day COUSCOUS? What's that? My colleagues gathering at the pantry all looked at the dish with grave suspicion. Until, that is, they tried the first mouthful. Then they were instant converts. It's light,
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      Lemon Couscous with prawn and peas
      219 25 Ingredients: (serves 46) 2 cups couscous 1 cup green peas 1/2 kilo fresh tiger prawns 2 lemons 1 bunch coriander, chopped Method: 1. Clean and trim prawns of feelers and legs. Wash and drain. Heat up two cups water in a pan and bring
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      Chicken steamed in young coconut
      224 25 WITH the recent heatwave, most of us have lost the taste for rich dishes. It's time to cool down, and what better, tastier way than to have a light tonic soup using chicken and a young fragrant coconut. These coconuts from Thailand are really refreshing
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  • LIMELIGHT
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      A night of firsts
      473 26  -  Jose Raymond Pradana Vizha 2002 honours local Indian talent If there was any doubt about the abundance of talent in the local Indian entertainment industry, then Pradana Vizha 2002, the Oscars of the local Indian entertainment industry, would have dispelled it. Held at the Ritz Carlton
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  • INCINEMAS
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      Lock icon Sweet music
      592 28 Agencies Polanski wins top Cannes prize for The Pianist CANNES Franco-Polish director Roman Polanski won the Cannes Film Festival's coveted Palme d'Or award on Sunday for The Pianist, the story of a man's survival in the Warsaw ghetto during World War Two. It was the first time that
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      475 29 -Reuters Grant and Bullock flirt in Cannes while promoting their film CANNES British heartthrob Hugh Grant fuelled rumours of a blossoming romance with co-star Sandra Bullock, saying she was in love with him but that he was just in it for the sex. In Cannes to promote
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      365 29  -  Neil Humphreys FILM REVIEW Mean Machine (Now showing) QUITE often, watching actors trying to play football is slightly less excruciating than watching footballers trying to act Mean Machine (picture), just released here in time for World Cup fever, features both of these embarrassing
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    352 31  -  Sian E Jay Myanmar artist produces appealing works WHEN asked if the title of his exhibition refers to the early hours of the morning, Myanmar artist Aung Myint laughed and explained that 0.2.a.m refers to the year 2002 and to his initials. "It is about my work being
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  • SPORTS
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      701 32 Horry's latest last-gasp winner just adds to his list NBA Western Conference finals Lakers 100 Kings 99 Series tied, thanks to Mr Clutch LOS ANGELES As Kobe Bryant drove down the right side and missed a short runner, Robert Horry never moved. As Shaquille O'Neal hit the
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      Lock icon Late surge sees Furyk run away from the pack
      285 32 Reuters DUBLIN Jim Furyk produced a stunning birdie-eagle-birdie sequence between the 14th and 16th holes to win the US$4.5 million ($8 million) Memorial Tournament by two strokes from David Peoples and John Cook on Sunday. American Ryder Cup player Furyk, 32,
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      Easy to fix
      91 32 NEW DELHI Football matches may be easier to fix than cricket, according to India's notorious gambling syndicates. Said an Indian punter, who only wanted to be known as Mr X: "Anyone who wants to fix a World Cup match can do it easily. You can only fix
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      In the dock
      84 32 KUALA LUMPUR -The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday extended its clamp-down on drug cheats after finding the Austrian cross-country skiing team guilty of breaking doping rules. Trainers, doctors and managers will now be subject to anti-doping rules after the Austrian team coach Walter Mayer and chiropractor Volker
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      60 32 MELBOURNE -Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist has been charged with making public comments detrimental to the interests of cricket, the Australian Cricket Board announced yesterday. Gilchrist, speaking at a function in Melbourne, had said Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action was technically not within the roles. Muralitharan has
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      Diao a Red?
      69 32 LIVERPOOL Liverpool has agreed a fee for Salif Diao, the English Premier League side said yesterday. The Senegal international, currently with French side Sedan, is in South Korea for the World Cup and is likely to be in the starting line-up for the opening game against France
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      581 33 Agencies SEOUL Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Issa Hayatou, bidding to become the first African to hold the position, were putting the final touches to their election campaigns yesterday. At the same time, enemies and critics were busy weighing in with last minute views
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      Lock icon Top seeds advance
      250 33 AFP PARIS Top men's seed Lleyton Hewitt of Australia and the women's second seed Venus Williams were the big names to advance to the second round of the French Open here yesterday. Hewitt kicked off his campaign on the Suzanne Lenglen Court with a straight sets win
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      Rams could knock champion out
      457 33  -  Jose Raymond IF WOODLANDS Wellington wins tonight's Singapore Cup Group C tie against Home United by two clear goals, it will send the defending champion crashing out of the competition. After the first round of games, Home is on three points, level with Sembawang Rangers
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      Lock icon The fever's on its way
      1022 34  -  Rohitßrijnath ACROSS the continents there is a stirring. Across conflicting cultures for a fleeting moment a common language is accepted. Politicians, priests and convicts no one is immune to the World Cup's lure, or unfamiliar with this universal idiom. In Poland, once, an ecclesiastical conference
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        675 35 AFP Former skipper refuses to apologise and man who could have mediated will not intervene DUBLIN -Roy Keane's hope of playing in the World Cup is over. Despite a public campaign to have him reinstated and the former Ireland captain's insistence this morning that he
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        Lock icon Reds agree fee for Diao
        75 35 AFP LONDON Liverpool has agreed a deal with French club Sedan for Senegal midfielder Salif Diao for a fee of reputedly £5 million ($13.1 million). The English Premiership run-ner-up hopes to discuss terms with the player once his involvement in the World Cup ends. The
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        133 35 -AFP PARIS American veteran Pete Sampras was plunged into complete despair here this morning when his latest attempt to add an elusive French Open title to his list of 13 Grand Slam crowns ended in another miserable failure. The 30-year-old, trying for the 13th time to
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