Today, 7 April 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    9 1 TODAY Monday April 7, 2003 I MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon China rapped
      395 1 AFP WHO criticises Beijing's handling of Sars outbreak LUCKNOW, India World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland has publicly criticised China for its handling of the deadly pneumonia outbreak, the BBC said on Monday. Ms Brundtland said China should have reported its first cases of Severe Acute
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      1,000 civilians slaughtered
      99 1 NAIROBI The United Nations said yesterday it had been told nearly 1,000 civilians were massacred by tribal militias with machetes and guns in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo last week. "The (UN) investigating team heard that 966 people were massacred. They identified 20 mass graves and visited
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      Lock icon 'Iraq war could boost world economy'
      283 1 Agencies MUNICH, Germany US economist Milton Friedman, who won the Nobel Prize in 1976, said in an interview with a German news magazine that the war on Iraq could stimulate, rather than weaken, the world economy. Mr Friedman told Focus magazine that the economy
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      Lock icon Roads to Baghdad cut
      44 1 -AFP photo A convoy of US Army troops stop at a highway before entering the southern outskirts of Baghdad yesterday. The I US says it is tightening its grip around Baehdad and has I cut most approaches to the capital.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Tony Leung is best actor
      184 2 The Eye. Reuters HK Film Awards HONG KONG The Oscarnominated martial arts epic, Hero, and the Asian cop drama, Infernal Affairs, swept up almost every prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards last night, one of the most prestigious events on the Chinese movie circuit.
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      Takeover begins
      510 2 US makes first moves to start interim govt in Iraq WASHINGTON Despite a growing rift within the Bush administration on the shape of post-war Iraq, the first leg of a US-led interim government could be established as early as today. US officials told The Observer that the administration
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      Lock icon In 'a scene from hell...
      339 2 Agencies BAGHDAD In a shocking case of friendly fire, US forces bombed a Kurdish convoy in northern Iraq escorted by US special forces, killing four Americans and 12 Kurds. The BBC's, world affairs editor John Simpson, who suffered minor injuries in the attack, said a
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      Lock icon A better tomorrow?
      446 3  -  AL-ZUBAIR kgencies Many in southern Iraq don't think so (Southern Iraq) With persistent fighting, a lack of drinkable water and only a trickle of humanitarian relief, the better life promised by US-led troops is appearing more distant by the day for the people of southern Iraq. While
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      Schools closed to 'buy time'
      292 4  -  Lee Ching Wern WHEN the Ministry of Education made a U-turn on its stand regarding the closure of schools because of the Sars crisis citing reasons like to "give parents peace of mind" and to "manage educational efforts" a few eyebrows were raised. After all,
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      SARS UPDATE
      145 4 A doctor from the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) was diagnosed with Sars yesterday. He is one of the 23 hospital staff from Wards 57 and 58 at SGH who have been admitted to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). To ring-fence the infection, all 80 patients and 91 staff
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      Quiet critic
      554 4  -  Lee Ching Wern Still outspoken, but he does it inside Govt by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg IT HAS been said that one surefire way to silence your critics is to co-opt them. And so it was that when Dr Vivian Balakrishnan (right) appeared as a candidate of the People's Action Party
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Tax filing? Expat helps out
      189 6  -  Tan Hui Leng MR V TEJOKIRAN, a 25-year-old IT consultant from Andhra Pradesh in India, spends his weekends helping Singaporeans file their tax returns. As one of the 400 volunteers roped in by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras), Mr Tejokiran spends his weekends
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      When tough times do kill
      641 6  -  Amy Tan Job, financial woes and suicides by news@newstoday.com.sg HE WAS young, had a bright career and a girlfriend whom he loved dearly. Yet, he hurled himself from a block of flats last month. His family was too grief-stricken to talk about his death. The
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      Race ace a local hero
      498 8  -  David Christie OBITUARY Lim Peng Han was first Spore Chinese to race in British circuits in the 30s by davidc@mediacorptv.com ONE of the all-time legendary race drivers in this region, Lim Peng Han (pictures), passed away peacefully on March 29 in his home in the
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      Stress, spats and mediation
      181 8 A FAST-PACED lifestyle. A compact physical setting. Stress levels rise. No wonder, some Singaporeans are finding themselves being embroiled in spats between neighbours and family members, some of which have been in the limelight recently. Should they run to the police or the courts whenever such
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  • LETTERS
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      Undesirable cuts
      295 10  -  Christopher Robin Censors shouldn't discriminate against gays I REFER to Mr Ng Eng Ping's letter, "Snipping Nicole: Censors respond" (Today, April 3), on the Board of Film Censors' (BFC) classification policies. I am heartened by the stance taken by the board and grateful for its clarification. However, I
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      Be fair and humane to our nurses
      259 10  -  Angeline Leong Ming Yu I REFER to your front-page report, "When Sars clouds reason" (Today, April 3). I am amazed at how some Singaporeans can justify the shunning of nurses in public as a sensible measure. This is carrying kiasuism to its extremes.
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      Extend poly closure, better to be safe
      169 10  -  Teresa Tan AS A student of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, I hope that it would extend its three-day closure for at least a week since the health authorities have yet to discover how the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is spread. The possibility of silent
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Lock icon India beckons
      662 12  -  Rahul Pathak Derrick Paub Spore investors must act quickly despite risks by rahul@newstoday.com.sg NEW DELHI The immigration official at Indira Gandhi International Airport was trying to decide whether my passport should be deemed "damaged" or not while I tried to figure out if I was about to be
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      Lock icon Fair 'lost $128m from Sars ban'
      220 12 Agencies ZURICH The organiser of the Swiss watch and jewellery fair, Baselworld, is demanding that the government compensate it for losses incurred from a ban on some Asian workers following concerns about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), TagesAnzeiger reported. MCH Messe Schweiz AG, which
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    • Market Watch
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5627 UK£ 0.3595 Yen 67.5997 HK$ 4.3885 RM 2.1379 Euro 0.5248 Rupiah 5002.39 Baht 24.2454 Peso 29.9480 A$ 0.9374 Indian Rs 26.6732 Won 707.807 C$ 0.8319 Yuan 4.6572 NZ$ 1.0359 NTS 19.5918
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        Commodities
        23 12 Gold uss/oz 325.55 Silver uss/oz 4.410 Platinum uss/oz 609.70 Rubber cents/kg |8| 75 Palm oil RM/tonne 1487 Brent crude uss/barrel 28 62
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        Singapore
        92 12 INVESTORS are hoping the Straits Times Index can continue where it left off on Friday, when it rose for the fourth straight day. The benchmark climbed 11.19, or 0.9 per cent, to 1,313.73, extending the 2.7 per cent rally over the previous three days but still closing 0.4 per
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      Handset mania
      432 14  -  Chan Chao Peh Nokia to launch more new mobile phones this year by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg HERE'S something for fans of Nokia handsets if you were spoilt for choice by the sheer number of new models launched by the company last year, brace yourself. The Finnish telco giant intends to
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      Lock icon Motorola loses claims against Turkish telco
      151 14 Reuters CHICAGO A federal judge in New York, acting on an appeal court decision, dismissed Motorola Inc's racketeering claims against the family that owns Turkey's No 2 wireless operator but left open the possibility that they could be reinstated. US District Court Judge Jed
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      Lifelong learning
      517 14 SIM welcomes all working adults, regardless of age THINK you are too old or tired to learn? Dr Mohamad Effendy Rajab's 14-year 'affair' with the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) will prove you wrong. Dr Effendy was a security officer in his 20s when he started taking the
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      Lock icon Jennie's challenge
      437 15 Bloomberg New CEO of Raffles needs to expand chain and maintain profit JENNIE Chua brought Singapore the Miss Universe pageant and the World Dental Congress when she worked for the island's tourism board in the 1980s. Ms Chua, 58, now faces new challenges as chief executive officer of
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      Lock icon M'sia Airports chief retires in October
      164 15 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR The chairman of Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd will end an 11-year-long stint at the top in October, a company source told Reuters. Mr Basir Ismail, 76, a close confidante of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and a former banker who has been
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      Price fall not critical
      316 16 Japan's banking system still stable TOKYO Japan's top financial regulator said yesterday that he was concerned about a recent sharp decline in bank share prices but added that the nation's ailing banking system was not in crisis. "Stock prices have been falling on a global scale
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      Lock icon Myanmar faces banking crisis
      276 16 AFP YANGON A banking crisis in Myanmar has led to strict limits on withdrawals, a suspension of cheque and credit card services, no lending and a huge shortage of currency all of which are hitting many people hard. The bankruptcies of a few small money-lenders in
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      Lock icon Howard expects surplus
      182 17 AFP SYDNEY Australia's Budget will remain in surplus despite the drain on government coffers caused by its decision to commit forces to the war in Iraq, Prime Minister John Howard (picture) said yesterday. He said the war would cost hundreds of millions of dollars but not as
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      Lock icon KL adjusts package
      241 17 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia, which has run up high deficits, should avoid any major spending spree under a stimulus package expected to be unveiled within the next two months to bolster its economy, analysts said. The package was originally due to be announced late last month but
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      1735 16 Every Monday, we carry a table of dividends declared by companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The list, compiled with the assistance of Telekurs Financial, appears in our business and finance pages. The new service is in line with the efforts of the editorial team at Today to provide
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon Prison riot horror
      255 18 AFP More than 60 killed, 34 injured in Honduran jail tragedy TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras) More than 60 people were killed and 34 injured in a riot and attempted jailbreak at a prison in the Honduran port of La Ceiba, police sources said yesterday. A prison officer from El
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      Lock icon Peace monitors' office torched
      154 18 -AFP BANDA ACEH (Indonesia) A mob of some 1,000 people ransacked and torched a peace monitors' office in the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh, witnesses and a staff member said yesterday. The mob arrived at the empty Tripartite Monitoring Team office in Langsa, in East Aceh,
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      Lock icon It's a prelude to war
      330 19 AFP Pyongyang blasts UN council over its handling of nuke issue SEOUL North Korea yesterday blasted the United Nations Security Council's discussions of its nuclear programme as a "prelude to war" and warned that it would fully mobilise and reinforce its forces. "The Security Council's
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      Lock icon No Sharon case here
      185 19 Reuters BRUSSELS Belgium has reformed a controversial law that allow its courts to try foreigners for war crimes, in a bid to stop cases being brought against politicians such as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and former US President George Bush. The reformed law allows Belgium
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      Lock icon UK revokes cleric's citizenship
      252 19 Reuters LONDON Britain has revoked the citizenship of a Muslim cleric who applauded the Sept 11, 2001 attacks and was banned from preaching at a London mosque, Home Secretary David Blunkett said. Mr Blunkett said he had informed Mr Abu Hamza Al Masri that his citizenship
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      Lock icon Union for models
      94 19 Reuters photo A model displaying an outfit from Indian fashion designer Suneet Verma's Spring/Summer Collection 2003 in Mumbai recently. Indian models are forming a union to fight sexual exploitation and press for higher pay and better working conditions. The Hindustan Times newspaper quoted an unnamed top female
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      Lock icon Rape as a war weapon?
      304 20 AFP Myanmar junta dismisses report as 'ridiculous' YANGON Myanmar's military junta yesterday labelled a report released in Washington last week, which found that the country's armed forces used systematic rape as a weapon of war against ethnic women, as "too ridiculous". The report by the
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      Lock icon In the name of religion
      43 20 -AFP photo A man has a knife stuck in his skull during a Sufi religious seminar in the southern Iraqi town of Al Zubair on Saturday as other participants eat glass and pierce their tongues during the ceremony.
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      Lock icon Drug policy a 'licence to kill'
      156 20 AFP BANGKOK Thailand's tough drugs policy, which has led to the deaths of more than 2,000 people since it began two months ago, was a "licence to kill", a Thai rights group said. Research released by the Union of Civil Liberty examined the government's
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      119 20 TODAY and Ml pays tribute to NURSES caring for SARS patients From all of us at TODAY and Ml, we want to say a heartfelt Thank You to our nurses. Your selfless attitude and emmß l^^te dedication to your profession deserves all Singaporeans' deepest respect and admiration. While the rest
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon America in the shadow of Sars
      1216 21  -  Shaun Scow Tales of compassion and love abound even as paranoia grips certain sectors of the public b_y news@newstoday.com.sg CONCORD (New Hampshire) "Make sure you don't tell those you meet that you're from Singapore. Speak like an American. And oh, chew some gum." It
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  • WATZUP?
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      Lock icon Travel and taste
      625 22  -  Janice Lee" Master chef and avid traveller Keith Floyd cooks it as it is by janice@newstoday.com.sg HIS food is "virtually exquisite" and he knows it This master chef and avid traveller is honest with himself as he follows the motto of a famous Shakespearean character. "To thine
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      Lock icon When maestros meet
      459 24  -  Serene Foo by serene@newstoday.com.sg CALL it a "musical conversation" between two masters. The aural and visual feast looks set to be interactive you don't really know what the other will say, you have to react to it when he does. Through an unusual fusion of music, poetry,
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    • IN CINEMAS
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        Lock icon Babies on the mind
        269 26 Stars eager for real-life roles of mum and dad HOLLYWOOD actress Jennifer Aniston and husband Brad Pitt will kick off plans to become parents as soon as her hit television comedy series, Friends, comes to an end. Aniston married Spy Game hunk Pitt in July 2000
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      • Article
        BoA to star in Chinese film
        103 26 THE Korean pop princess, BoA, will make her debut on the big screen in a Chinese movie. She has reportedly been picked by director Jingle Ma (Tokyo Raiders) to play the role of an abducted artiste in Fei Ying Nu Xia, which also stars
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    • LIVING LEARNING
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        Lock icon Get the inside knowledge
        560 27  -  Chan Sect Fun Embedded technology is in and so are the programmers needed to write its firmware by news@newstoday.com.sg YOU don't usually see it but it makes your life a lot easier. And it is everywhere. Embedded systems technology has become so pervasive that you can
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        Bistro by the bay
        437 29  -  Gurmeet Singh Be seduced by good eats and a serene setting by eatout@newstoday.com.sg WHILE good eats are aplenty along the Singapore River, appetites are now being seduced at the city's new arts spot at the Esplanade Mall. California Bistro is hard to miss, with its glowing
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    • EAT OUT
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        Let's have coffee ... at Pizza Hut Cafe
        214 30  - Let's have coffee at Pizza Hut Cafe KarmanTse WHEN the desire for pizza strikes, the name "Pizza Hut" will come to mind for most people here. Now, make a mental note to recall that popular household name when you and your chums next organise a chit-chat session over coffee. As
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      1427 31 TV Friends Channel 5,10pm Return of Monkey King (h 8, 7pm J^|l> On The Green Trail cna 102pm In last season's finale, foey The abbot of Yanta Monastery predicts that pM Singaporeans take pride living in a worldinadvertently proposed to Rachel J^^L A\ |K Tripitaka will be heading to the
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      Lock icon Dreaming of a win
      598 32 AFP Janzen sets up two-stroke lead, hopes to end five-year barren run Golf Bell South Classic Top six all suffering from win drought DULUTH Lee Janzen, who has not won since claiming his second US Open title in 1998, built a twostroke lead at the damp
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      384 32 AFP INDIANAPOLIS -Jenny Thompson (picture), contemplating a fourth Olympic swimming campaign at the age of 30, says she couldn't have imagined such a thing when she swam her first international meet at the Indiana University Natatorium. "I don't think I thought
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        488 33 Reuters Finn wins crashed-strewn race though Fisichella finished Ist Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix McLaren continues winning run SAO PAULO McLaren's championship leader Kimi Raikkonen won a wreckage-strewn and chaotic Brazilian Grand Prix cut short by crashes this morning. The 700 th grand prix in Formula
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        495 33 Reuters Serie A Inter Milan 3 AS Roma 3 Inter trails leader Juventus by 5 points MILAN Inter Milan's title hopes suffered a serious blow yesterday after it let slip a two-goal lead to draw 3-3 at home to AS
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      787 34  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Sivaji's boys creating a stir as team sits two spots off the pace by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg IT WAS written off before the season kicked off. The talk was of men facing boys as critics predicted regular routs for the Singapore Under-23 team when it faced the
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      Lock icon Martin fends off final Chinese scalp, talks of retirement
      459 34 -AFP Badminton Japan Open Dane routs Xie TOKYO Camilla Martin defied China's domination in the women's singles to beat Xie Xingfang for her first title here at the Japan Open badminton tournament yesterday. The world number seven from Denmark, who eliminated
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      Maiden triumph
      111 34 BANGKOK American Edward Loar shot a final round of 69 to win the Thailand Open and his first professional title by five strokes yesterday. The 25-year-old finished on a 19-under-par total of 269. Australia's Jason Dawes took second spot while Taiwan's Chen Yuan Chi and Lin Wen Tang
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      Silly Fergie
      49 34 LONDON Uefa has condemned Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson's attack on the Champion's League quar-ter-final draw as "unfortunate and silly". Ferguson, whose side faces defending champion Real Madrid tomorrow, hinted in the British media that the draw was loaded to keep teams from the same country apart
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      Win marred
      84 34 SUZUKA MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi stormed to victory in the sea-son-opening Japanese Grand Prix yesterday, completing a hat-trick of victories at Suzuka. But the Italian's win was overshadowed by a horrific crash involving Japanese rider Daijiro Kato. He was rushed by helicopter to an intensive care unit
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      Sorenstam top
      62 34 LOS ANGELES Annika Sorenstam maintained her two-stroke lead in the second round at the Office Depot Championship, despite an evenpar 72 that included four bogeys over the final 11 holes. Heather Bowie is at 2-under 142, a stroke better than Pat Hurst and England's Alison Nicholas. Defending champion
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      740 35  -  Leonard Thomas No frills Scholes simply goes about displaying world-class stuff by leonard@newstoday.com.sg HE RARELY grabs the headlines for off the field antics. Throughout his career, it has been Paul Scholes' football ability which has almost always lit up the football stage he stars in. Against Liverpool
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        543 36 Reuters English Premier League Everton 2 Newcastle 1 Rooney rounds off spectacular week LIVERPOOL Newcastle United skipper Alan Shearer slammed Everton midfielder Thomas Gravesen over a "coward's tackle" on Olivier Bernard in yesterday's 2-1 defeat at Goodison Park. The Dane's knee-high lunge on the Frenchman went unpunished by
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        Lock icon Bring on United
        213 36 AFP BIRMINGHAM Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger refused to accept the momentum in the Premiership title race had swung in Manchester United's favour, despite seeing it draw level with his side at the top of the table. An own goal by Kolo Toure meant Arsenal could only draw
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