Project Eyeball, 15 September 2000

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Friday, September 15, 2000 80 CENTS
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon ‘What SM should write about’
    84 1 Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has said the second volume of his memoirs is for the younger generation. We took him up on it and set one of our young reviewers on it. She came away impressed, informed and more inquisitive about Singapore’s past than
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    Lock icon Jakarta burning !
    109 1 Jakarta burning Clashes between students and police erupted in central Jakarta yesterday after former Indonesian President Suharto failed to appear at the resumption of his graft trial because of ill health. The clashes took place in a city already jittery after Wednesday’s explosion at the Jakarta Stock Exchange. Indonesia’s attorney-general,
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    Lock icon Superwoman doesn’t exist
    57 1 The president of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) thinks superwomanhood the ability to balance career and family all by yourself —doesn’t exist. Dana Lam-Teo, wife, mother and high-profile member of society realised she didn’t need to prove that she could do everything and
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      162 1 LIMES Unisex loos not flush with success here Unisex bathrooms ala Ally Mcßeal are becoming more popular and common in the US and Britain, but many Singaporeans say they won’t stand or sit for a 100 for both sexes. See Page 3 Fatal disease at Eco-Challenge? World health officials are
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      48 1 T say to the IT industry stop wMamg, start recognising the legitimate needs of the community, and Invent fundamentally different business models to attract and then retain customers for life, rattier hiding behind legalities wbicb only protect the massive fortunes of tbe wealthy. 9 ‘Alpang’ See Page 20
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  • News & Views
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      187 2 BRIDES who are running late for their big day could end up sprinting to the altar in a new range of trainers specially designed to match their wedding outfits. Bridal accessory supplier Henry Kaye, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, came up with the stylish casual satin footwear after being flooded
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      Lock icon Speakers’ Corner ‘a worthwhile step’
      561 2  -  It’s part of gradual moves to meet needs of a changing S’pore, says SM By Walter Fernandez walter@sph.com.sg TO MANY sceptical Singaporeans and possibly the passing tourist, the two-week-old Speakers’ Corner may be nothing more than a hot grass-patch where those taking to the soapbox
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      Lock icon Stop at 2 policy wasn’t a mistake
      324 2 FORTY years ago, the Government told parents not to have more than two children. Today, it’s offering cash and other incentives better known as Baby Bonuses to get them to have more children. Did the Government make a mistake then? Is that why
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Unisex toilets – to go or not to go?
        773 3  - Unisex toilets to go or not to go? It’s trendy in the US, but Singaporeans may not be ready for it By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg IN SOME progressive places, the walls are coming down between men and women. Toilets, that is. Revolutionary unisex loos of the Ally Mcßeal type are
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      Lock icon Keep them clean first
      257 3  -  Karl Ho LET’S not talk about toilets being unisex until they’re at least clean, say Singaporeans. “I have a clothes peg in my bag when I go out,” joked Seraphina Wee, promotions and PR executive. “I use it to plug my nose when I use the
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      Lock icon There’s no such thing as a superwoman
      832 4  -  Family responsibilities should be shared, says Aware president By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg WIFE, mother and elected president of a high-profile women’s group all rolled into one. Yet Dana Lam-Teo says she is no superwoman. In fact, the president of the Association of Women
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      Lock icon Look at man’s role in family as well
      315 4  -  Joanna Lim DO HELP the women, but focus on the men, too. While Aware president Dana Lam-Teo feels the recent pro-fami-ly measures are a boon to any family, the focus seems to be still on helping women cope. How about the men?
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      Lock icon Parents calm despite disease
      483 6  -  Few have expressed concern to child-care centres By Desmond Wong eyenews@sph.com.sg IT SEEMS to be business as usual for the two other child-care centres affected by the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). Despite the death of two-year-old Lam Rui Qi, suspectedly from hand, foot and
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      Lock icon Get a bargain price on books
      464 6 HANGING OUT ORCHARD TOWER Records at Pacific Plaza is relocating its book outlet. Tower Books, which was in a separate niche, away from the music store, is closing down. But here’s the good news: Its current stock is on sale, at up to 80
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon HDB relaxes renovation rules
        124 7  -  No permit needed for some repairs By Ng Hwee Koon hweekon@sph.com.sg FLAT-OWNERS can replace HDB-installed false ceilings, study room sliding doors and build cement mortar kerbs in bathrooms from today, without needing a permit from the Housing Development Board. However, the relaxed guidelines for these and
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        89 7 CARDIOLOGIST by profession, watercolourist at heart. And on the first ever World Heart Day on Sept 24, the twain shall meet when Dr Winston Oh auctions off 52 of his best works to benefit the Singapore National Heart Association (SNHA). Oh, who recently raised
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        105 7 THE Asian campus of the Chicago Graduate School of Business was opened by President S R Nathan yesterday. It takes over the old Salvation Army premises on Clemenceau Avenue. The university’s deputy dean of part-time programmes, Gary Eppen, told Channel News Asia: “There is a large
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        Lock icon No job guarantee for professionals
        64 7 So it is not just the unskilled who are feeling the heat of the economic whirlwind. Heng Chee How, Deputy secretary-general of the NTUC, said yesterday: “For the first time, managers, executive, professionals and technicians form the single large group (44 per cent) among those
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      Lock icon What you can do with the machine
      51 7 Pay carpark fines and telephone bills. Reserve library books as well as book Government facilities. Send e-mail; it also has limited surfing capabilities. Check out the online directory of shopping malls. Download news, informaton and MP3s straight to infraredequipped hand-held devices such as
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      Lock icon Want to send e-mail? Try a payphone
      314 7  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg THEY hope to give the word payphone a whole new spin. Five-month-old startup AXS Infocomm is working with the Network for Electronic Transfers (Nets) to come up with a multimedia payphone that will allow users to pay for their
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      Lock icon Suharto no-show enrages students
      490 8 Clashes rock capital recovering from bomb blast Wires JAKARTA Indonesian police fired tear-gas shells to disperse hundreds of enraged students protesting against former President Suharto’s no-show at his trial which resumed yesterday. No one was injured but two students were beaten up and arrested, an eyewitness
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    • World WIDE
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        174 8 Wires LONDON British truckers and farmers ended their barricades yesterday at several oil refineries across the country after the British government put troops on standby and warned that fuel shortage caused by the protests was putting lives at risk. But undeterred by the protests,
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        73 8 AFP DUBAI An Iraqi hijacked a Qatar Airways aircraft flying from Doha to Amman and forced it to land in Saudi Arabia where he gave himself up, Qatar’s Al-Jazeera television reported yesterday. The hijacker, armed with a knife, surrendered to Saudi authorities after the Airbus
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        59 8 Wires. BEIJING China launched its boldest strike against corruption in 50 years of Communist rule when it executed a top lawmaker for bribery yesterday. The former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Cheng Kejie, was executed for taking US$5 million (SsB.7
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        Lock icon Abu Sayyaf threatens to attack
        128 8 Wires ZAMBOANGA Filipino Muslim extremists yesterday threatened to kill all their 22 hostages and carry out a massive attack against civilians in Zamboanga City and Jolo if the military mounted an operation against them. The Abu Sayyaf rebels are holding the hostages -two French journalists,
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        Lock icon Boeing to redesign 737’s rudders
        63 8 AP WASHINGTON Boeing will redesign the rudders of all 7375, the most widely used airliner in the world, following an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration. The redesign could take years to implement, so there will be new procedures for pilots to use in the
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      Lock icon Painful end to a protest
      45 8 A woman demonstrator being run over by a unmarked police car during a protest at the World Economic Forum (WEE), in Melbourne on Wednesday. The woman was one of go protesters that organisers claimed were injured during the operation. AFP
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      Lock icon Singapore team ‘feels fine’
      289 11  -  By Ian Lim ianlim@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Eco-Challenge team has received e-mails from the event’s organisers warning that they may have been exposed to a bacterial illness, leptospirosis, but when contacted yesterday afternoon, at least one of them had not read the message. However, Team Singapore Power
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      Lock icon FAST FACTS
      68 11 How you get leptospirosis: By being exposed to water infected by the urine of rats and mice. But it is not believed to be spread from person to person. What the symptoms are: Muscle aches, fever and chills which often lead to misdiagnosis because the symptoms are common
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      Lock icon Deadly disease fear for eco-racers
      438 11 US team already ill after Sabah challenge AP ATLANTA World health officials are worried that dozens of people who slogged through the rivers and jungles of Sabah as part of the recent Eco-Challenge adventure race have contracted a sometimes fatal bacterial illness. They are trying
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      Lock icon ‘PCs stunt kids’ development’
      166 11 CHILD STUDIES REPORT LONDON Computers do more harm than good in primary schools, stunting children’s development and impeding their personal relationships, claimed a report yesterday. According to The Telegraph’s website, the Alliance for Childhood, an international group of teachers, doctors, psychologists and primate researchers, said that
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      Lock icon Fashion feud
      445 12 Versace described his clients as sluts, says Armani ROME “I dress sluts.” That is how the late Gianni Versace is reported to have described his celebrity clients who included Diana, Princess of Wales, and Elizabeth Hurley to his rival Giorgio Armani, one hot afternoon. This shocking revelation was
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      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY:
      168 13  -  Francis Kan www.numa. com MOST investors would be put off the moment they hear “derivatives” better leave these complex investment instruments to the professionals, they seem to say. But if you are a braveheart, step right up and log on to Numa.com, which helps you
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      Lock icon Bulls&Bears
      83 13 Straits Times Index (STI) Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS SingTel 7,845,000 280 TTInt 7.756,000 44 East Tech 2820 132 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Creative SO 3810 80 2.1 SPHIOO 2820 50 1.8 SPH 2820 40 L4 Totai number of gainers: 96 Top 3 Losers CENTS t/- PacCent 2000 -70
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      Lock icon $1.9b telco payout ‘will pay off’
      577 13  -  It’s for the good of consumers: IDA By Eugene Wee and Francis Kan eugenew@sph.com.sg francisk@sph.com.sg IT’S A lot of money $1.94 billion of taxpayers’ money, to be exact but in the long run, the compensation forked out by the Government to the telecommunications companies
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      Lock icon YOUR BILLION-DOLLAR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
      345 13  -  Francis Kan WHY must the Government compensate Sing Tel and StarHub? IDA is compensating them for accelerating the liberalisation of the Singapore telecommunications industry. In January, the Government announced it would bring forward full market competition in the sector to April 1, 2000 from April 1,
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      Lock icon Foreign dotcoms setting up camp in Singapore
      777 15  -  Local start-ups feel confident that there will be space for all By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg FARAWAY dotcoms are flocking to this part of the world for a share of e-commerce gold. Their first stop: Singapore. What local dotcommers will want to know is,
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      Lock icon Here’s looking at you, kid
      39 16 One of three tiny mammals nicknamed “gremlins born on Tuesday in the Madrid Zoo-Aquarium. It belongs to the endangered species Callixtrix Jachus Sp. It was conceived via artificial insemination and born in captivity. AFP
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    • Article
      Lock icon Go online for cheaper fuel
      332 16  -  Save up to 12 per cent at Absolutecar e-Services By Steven Ng stevenng@sph.com.sg FUEL prices have gone up recently, so Absolutecar e-Services is offering motorists a discount on petrol or diesel starting next Thursday. Tay Yeow Ling, the company’s customer relations officer, said that after
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      Lock icon If only SM had...
      950 17 Amid explanations about nation-building policies, what comes out, says SAM! I-SHAN (ishan@sph.com.sg), is an unequivocal picture of SM Lee himself. UNLIKE the excitement of the first memoir, the second volume of SM Lee’s memoirs entitled From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000 lacks a
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    • DID YOU KNOW?
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        Lock icon ORIGINS OF THE ‘EVIL EMPIRE’
        105 17 THE phrase “evil empire” which former US President Ronald Reagan used to sprinkle so liberally over his speeches about the Soviet Union was inspired by none other than SM Lee himself: “Referring to the unrest in Poland, Reagan said the Russians must be worried about
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        Lock icon USED LONG BEFORE IT BECAME A TREND
        83 17 LONG before EQbecame popular, SM Lee understood its importance, especially its presence or lack of- in MPs. In 1970, after seeing how the Apollo 13 astronauts handled a near-disaster in space, and realising that all Nasa astronauts were subjected to psychological and other
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        Lock icon OF CATTLE AND DISCIPLINE
        131 17 COWS used to wander around the esteemed City Hall area in the early 60s, outraging SM Lee who looked out of his office window one morning in November 1964 “to see several cows grazing on the Esplanade!” They proved to be hazards to motorists as well.
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      Lock icon 3 leaders he wrote about
      547 18 Qiven that more than half the book is made up of Singapore’s relations with external leaders, the book has plenty of pithy thumbnail sketches of world leaders and politicians. Most of them are tactful, as SM Lee chooses to focus more on the leaders’ policies
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      Lock icon 4 things I now know more about
      641 18 SM Lee has said that he hopes that younger Singaporeans reading his memoirs will know why he and his Old Quard colleagues made certain critical and often difficult decisions after Singapore’s expulsion from Malaysia in 1965. His tome certainly provides plenty of details
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      Lock icon 3 things I wish he wrote more about
      590 19 Archival material there may be aplenty, but more of SM Lee’s thoughts on and rationale behind certain issues and policies would certainly have made for a far more interesting read. In particular, 1 wish there were more details behind policies which aroused
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      Lock icon 3 personal anecdotes that struck me
      609 19 Unlike his first volume, The Singapore Story, his second volume is full of explanations behind SM Lee’s nation-developing policies. Personal anecdotes humanise him and lend themselves to speculation on what drives the man or lies behind his intelligent, shrewd, efficient and ruthlessly determined public
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      Lock icon ‘Software makers need to rethink their marketing’
      544 20  -  Kenlvin wong ‘Psst! Would yon pay s3oofor Windows ME when a pirated copy is available for $10? (Sept 13) ‘Cut prices to stop piracy’ (Sept 14) ALL CAN’T BEAR THE COST LEGALITIES aside, one has to look at the economic and practical realities
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    • Eyeball SAYS
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        Lock icon Beware the next economy
        558 20 YOU can do no wrong; you’re under 30 and the world’s at your feet. The “old” folks yes, including those in their 30s and 40s are grappling with “structural unemployment”, a fancy name for realising that the skills so painstakingly learnt over decades of toil are
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      19 2 Log on to httpV/eyebalL asiaLconusg to watch video extracts of SM Lee’s press conference last night at the Istana.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      24 2 Qood morning! Slighty hazy. Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 12.13PM/2.7M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      36 4 Is it possible to be a superwoman in busy Singapore? Or is it the men who need to change their mindset on the traditional roles of parenting? Let us know what you think at feedback@ eyeball.com.sg
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      28 11 Click on http://www.eco challenge.com/borneo 2000/news/post medical.htm to read the CDC warnings to the Eco-challenge teams and organisers. Check out http://www.Cdc. Gov/ncidod/dbmd/ diseaseinfo/leptos pirosis-g.htm for detailed information about leptospirosis.
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      33 17 Go to our special site at httpV/eyebalL asiaLcomjs£/ html/Eyeball/ Others/SMLee/ for more extracts and pictures from SM Lee’s second volume of memoirs. Also, get links to where you can buy the book online.
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  • EyeSport
    • Sydney 2000
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        Lock icon A chronicle of our times
        423 22  -  Past Games reflect the prevailing mood of the moment By Nazvi Careem nazvi@sph.com.sg FOR those who care, the Olympics are like a time-clock of one’s life. With a spectacular opening ceremony expected in Sydney today, memories of past Games will come rushing back as another
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        Lock icon I’ll be watching out for the girls close to my heart
        340 22  -  By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg THE absence of Russian player Anna Kournikova in Sydney truly tugs at my heart, representing almost a disaster for women’s tennis. Honestly, can anyone match her on-court grace, svelte approach to the game and her
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        Lock icon Stay tuned for the 100m showdown
        317 22  -  By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg WITHOUT a doubt, the 100 m race is the most exciting sprint event in athletics. But this year’s final in Sydney will be more than just pure excitement. The fierce rivalries between American world-record holder Maurice Greene, training partner Ato
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        Lock icon Brazil on the pitch, Popov in the pool
        334 22  -  By Luke Pachymuthu luke@sph.com.sg IT HAS to be Brazil. Brazil is favoured to take home the gold medal in football. With the Ronaldinho and Geovanni partnership up front, the young samba men will be quite a hard act to follow. They’ve had
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        Lock icon Feuding tennis duo pairs up again
        303 23 INDIA GOES FOR GOLD AP SYDNEY India is so desperate for Olympic gold that even the politicians have gotten involved. That’s what it took to get tennis doubles pair Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi together again. The Indian pair, who broke up nine months
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        Lock icon Faster, higher, stronger
        32 23 French Olympic hopeful Patricia Qirard training for her ioo m hurdles event at the French camp in Narrabeen on Wednesday. The Sydney 2000 Olympics will be officially opened today.
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        Lock icon Boxer on the run leads East Timor team
        535 23 Special IOC ruling allows unofficial contingent Wires SYDNEY Boxer Victor Ramos', a man on the run in besieged East Timor, will have the honour of carrying the Olympic flag as well as lead his team into the main stadium ahead of the
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        Lock icon O’Neill focusing on 200m
        86 24 AFP AUSTRALIA’S Madame Butterfly Susie O’Neill (left) will be using her two 100 m events at the Sydney Games to jump-start her gold medal bids in the 200 m butterfly and freestyle races. She is seeded seventh in the 100 m free and sixth in the
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        Lock icon Brazilian brawling
        85 24 Wires TENSIONS seem to be rising in the Brazilian triathlon camp, after two of the men’s team were spotted brawling outside the Sydney Opera House following a training run. One was seen knocking lunch out of the other’s hand, resulting in a full-blown scuffle in which kicks were
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        Lock icon Raring to go
        126 24 Wires BRITISH triathlete Sian Brice, who has been busting a gut to get herself in contention for tomorrow’s opening event, gave a new meaning to “holding it in”, due to new EPO tests. Selected to be tested after a final swimming practice on Wednesday, there was insufficient
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        Lock icon Ali sparks frenzy
        74 24 Wires MUHAMMAD Ali went to the races in Sydney on Thursday and sparked a media frenzy. “You have all heard how pretty I am. “Now you can see for yourself,” said the sporting superstar as photographers and reporters scrambled for a chance to meet the man hailed
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        Lock icon NBC makes a boo-boo
        67 24 Wires AUSTRALIA’S golden girl Cathy Freeman an inspiration across the globe and arguably the most world’s most famous Aborigine. But the message had not quite got through to American broadcasting company NBC until recently. The website of the holders to the Olympic TV rights had described
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      • Cheers & JEERS
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          Lock icon Kanu doesn’t need the Olympics
          269 26 The Games are for boys, Euro football is for stars like him CHEERS N WANK WO Kanu has his Olympic gold medal, won four years ago in Atlanta with the sprightly Nigerians. He was a boy then, in footballing terms. Now, he is in with
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      • Time OUT
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          Lock icon The long, hard road to Sydney
          490 26  -  By Mike Lopresti USA Today SYDNEY When the time comes for him to fight, when Michael Bennett is in the Olympic ring, will they be watching back in the prison cells of Illinois? Inhabited by the violent or the dishonest or the lost. Inhabited
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      Lock icon Bates barking up the wrong tree
      516 25  -  Zola and Rijkaard can’t cut it By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg THE man definitely has a screw loose up there. Does Chelsea chairman Ken Bates really expect a change of fortune now that he has sacked Gianluca Vialli? Nuts. Absolutely nuts. Who does he expect
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      421 25 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Wires BARCELONA At the Nou Camp, experience clearly upstaged youthful enthusiasm. And as much as Leeds United tried to prove its worth alongside Barcelona, the 4-0 scoreline was a harsh reminder that Leeds’ dazzling young stars are still far from the bright lights of
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  • Unwind
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        1249 27 Fancy something which pleases the palate and is easy on the pocket? ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph.com.sg) rates the hawkers which attract the longest queues in Singapore. So, iFs time t 0... QF THERE’S one thing Singaporeans are good at it is queueing. They don’t think twice about queueing
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          95 33 THE popular East West Seafood buffet dinner is back at New Park Centra’s New Park Cafe. Besides fresh oysters and salmon sashimi, you can pile your plates with hot dishes such as crayfish mornay topped with black olives, Vienna crepes, black pepper crabs and sambal prawn with
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          126 33 KEBAB joints seem to be popping up faster than you can say falafel. The latest to hit town is Kyros Kebabs, open daily from 10 am to 10 pm, at 81-02 Scotts Picnic Food Court. The kebabs are marinated in a sauce of more than 25 spices and
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          123 33  -  Angelica Tan Glutinous Rice Ball Peanut Soup At 505 Beach Road, 01-75 Golden Mile Food Centre Open 11 am to 9 pm, closed on Wednesdays except public holidays. At Tien Chuan Eating House, Block 445, Clementi Ave 3, 01-181 Open noon to 9 pm. THE lantern festival may
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        551 34  -  Angelica Tan A PUZZLED “Go-what?” accompanied by quizzical stares was what I got when I asked some friends about Goa. A friend who had been there fared better citing the nudist colony at Arambol, powdery beaches and St Francis Xavier, who died there. The truth
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        431 34 Hearth and home has replaced the stuffy candlelit atmosphere of Seasons. ANGELICA TAN (tanaw@sph .com.sg) explores the flavours of One-Ninety. UST more than two J months ago, Four Seasons Hotel handed out sledgehammers to guests to tear down the walls of Seasons Restaurant. Out went the plush carpets,
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          99 28 BRITNEY Spears has a saucy confession to make, she wore no knickers for some of her raunchy videos. Britney admits: “Some of my outfits are so tight I can’t wear underwear. I mean, have you seen the catsuit in 00p5...1 Did It Again. It was so
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          73 28 U2’S Bono will manage the lads from Boyzone in the forthcoming movie about the band’s life story. Band member Stephen Gately reveals the U 2 frontman is to play Boyzone manager Louis Walsh. He says: “Bono has agreed to play Louis, which is fantastic.
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          97 28  -  Jeanmarie Tan OASIS frontman Liam Gallagher has co-written a track with Courtney Love for the new Hole album. After bassist Melissa Auf Def Maur left in December to join The Smashing Pumpkins, the band has been desperate to find a replacement. The latest name touted for
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        662 28 POP ROCK REAL L’arcen ciel(Kl/OON Records) LEST you mistake them for a French outfit, L’Arc en Ciel, which means rainbow en Francais, are bona fide rockers who hail from Osaka, Japan. Infiltrating the underground indie band circuit back in 1991, they are currently enjoying massive mainstream success,
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        281 28  -  THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS David Bowie (RCA) THE twisted tale of a megalomaniac rock ‘n’ roll star formed the basis of this 1972 concept album. The gaudy and cosmic era of glam rock was nearing its commercial
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        753 29 POP ROCK SOUNDPHILES Knobs (Zomba Records) SOUNDPHILES is just another compilation of breezy, diluted tunes in the chill-out, down-tempo mould. With traces of Groove Armada, Moby and Morcheeba, the tracks are schizophrenic and lack a coherent identity. What lingers after listening to this album is a
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        137 29  -  Ronald Rajan SHE’S THE COVERING, BY STROLL From their album For You, The Hedonist (1999) http://www.audioload.com Time: 2:24 Packed with a fearsome groove, She’s The Covering is a burst of raw power from the four-piece band made up of NUS students. They are all talented musicians.
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        1118 31 Music magazine BigO turns 15 this month, it is still produced from home and its founders are determined to stay true to their ideals, including supporting homegrown bands, even if it means losing potential revenue. A S 20-SOMETHINGS in September 1985, they started a magazine
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        575 32 LAT-WP Lopez, Santana, Miguel some of the names are familiar, hut the awards are new and reflect Latino musics growing popularity ON A landmark nod to the growing impact of Spanish-language music in the US, the first Latin Grammy awards were held on Wednesday in Los
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        346 32 AP Awards: Record of the Year for Corazon Espinado, featuring Mana; Best Pop Instrumental Performance for El Farol; Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Corazon Espinado, featuring Mana Factoid: Carlos Santana, godfather of pop Latin music, was born in Mexico in
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      179 35 The power of punctuation WE ALL know the potency of language and how the pen is mightier than the sword. But what about the full-stop and the humble comma? Do these too have the power to jolt nations and launch a thousand ships? Note the following letters
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      735 35 Movies Rudy 7.30 pm TCS 5 An immensely entertaining biopic of Rudy Ruettiger, a working-class boy intent on realising his dream of playing football at Notre Dame despite his lack of academic and athletic qualities. The movie pushes all the right emotional buttons, and boasts great performances from stars Sean
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      278 36 Reuters LONDON Hugh Grant’s manhood has been restored. Ex-girlfriend Liz Hnrley has cleared the air and said she never criticised her former lover for being “less than adequate” in bed. Confirmation comes in the form of an unreserved apology from the magazine Jane
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      182 36 Reuters LOS ANGELES The love-child of actor Michael Douglas and Welsh beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones bears the distinctive chin dimple of both his father and his veteran movie star grandfather Kirk, the proud mother said. In an interview given jointly to US Weekly and Britain’s OK!
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      230 36 Lopez in bed with bodyguard LONDON Sexy US star Jennifer Lopez, who jetted into London to promote her new movie The Cell, shocked hotel staff by snuggling up with a burly bodyguard. The giggling pair were walked in upon as they watched a soft-porn movie at a posh
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