Project Eyeball, 2 October 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Monday, October 2, 2000 80 CENTS
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      239 1 Have a heart, bosses With childcare centres and kindergartens closed this week, parents won’t be the only ones who will have to scramble. Employers will also be busy signing urgent leave forms. But just how family-friendly will bosses be? Will they be flexible enough to allow parents who are out
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      97 2 A PAIR of sexy garden statues has been auctioned at Sotheby’s for a record £245,000 (*****,000). The stone carvings show two impressions of a maiden craning on tiptoe to kiss a satyr part man, part goat and are thought to be the most expensive pieces of garden furniture ever
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      100 2 Those who need information can call the following numbers: Ministry of the Environment: *****84 or *****61 1800-*****22 or 1800-453 2222 Ministry of Community Development and Sports (For parents of children in childcare centres): 1800-258 0677 Ministry of Education: 879 6115 or 872 2220 Ministry of Health: 325 9220 or
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      Lock icon Crisis needs bosses to be understanding
      572 2  -  Closure of child-care centres may see more leave requests from parents By Joanna Lim and G Sivakkumaran joanna@sph.com.sg gsiva@sph.com.sg NOW would be a good time to demonstrate a family-friendly corporate policy. Starting today, 557 childcare centres and 440 kindergartens will be closed for at
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      193 2  -  Joanna Lim and G Sivakkumaran SHOW some sympathy. As kindergartens and creches close this week, employers could be more understanding with workers who may have to take time off. Said President S R Nathan: “A child’s life is much more important than our conveniences. I am
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      Lock icon The way to win the war for talent
      1116 3  -  Companies need to boost family-friendly factor By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg AT LEAST one “F” word is in vogue at the workplace “family”. Still, when it comes to pro-fami-ly policies, even some of Singapore’s best-managed companies could learn a thing or two from
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      Lock icon Welcome to my home office
      770 4 Feedback positive on Govt plan to aid technopreneurs ELSIE Lee, 43, just renewed her one-year term for her home business. She was among the 242 people who had first signed up for the Technopreneur Home Office Scheme (THO) when it was implemented in July last
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      Lock icon Home is where the work is
      517 4 LOVE thy neighbour, for there may be a Steve Jobs waiting to be discovered. Your hint would be a non-illu-minated signage, about 30 cm by five to 10 ems, that may look even smaller than the unit number as with Tan Hai Tat. The
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        463 5 7m not a photographer f exclaims Kathy Low, known affectionately to her friends as Miao. Tet, what crossed our minds when she showed us her collection of travel photographs was: ‘AwesomeL FOO LYN LEE (lynlee@sph .com.sg) reports. BEWARE, Miao is a self-confessed “thief’ and shoots
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      Lock icon E-travel fails to take off at travel fair
      404 5  -  By Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg E-TRAVEL is great, especially when you book it with brick-and-mortar companies. That, in essence, was the message of the e-travel fair held at Suntec City for three days from Sept 29 to Oct 1. Brick-and-mortar travel giants
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      878 6  -  Williams Syndrome leaves people with a high EQ but a low IQ By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg GLEN and Lorraine Yow couldn’t have been happier when their first son was born in the Year of the Tiger. He was a joy to behold and he swept them off
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      879 6  -  Williams Syndrome leaves people with a high EQ but a low IQ By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg GLEN and Lorraine Yow couldn’t have been happier when their first son was born in the Year of the Tiger. He was a joy to behold and he swept them off
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon Winning card for grandparents
        122 8 GETTING a card for grandpa? Don’t just look at Hallmark. You can get one from the Sembawang-Hong Kah Community Development Council as well, but only if you go to school in that district. The CDC launched its Grandparents’ Day card yesterday. In all, 70,000 cards will
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        Lock icon ST raises $105,000 for needy kids
        149 8 A TOTAL of $105,000 in pocket money so far. But before you rant about the lucky rich kid, take note that this money is to be distributed to needy kids from all around the island. This was the amount raised by The Straits'Times’ School
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        Lock icon Terry Fox Run draws 8,000
        145 8 RUN for a good cause. That is what participants in the Terry Fox Run 2000 did yesterday. And the cause? Cancer awareness and research. Yesterday’s annual run drew more than 8,000 people, and the organisers have already raised over $300,000. This means that it is
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        74 8 A POLICEMAN was found dead with a gunshot wound to his head inside an armoury of the Special Operations Command (SOC) in Queensway yesterday. Police said Corporal Lee Yeow Ping, 28, was on duty at the armoury. About 4.15 pm, a colleague found him lying
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        Lock icon $2,000 taken in East Coast robbery
        65 8 A ROBBER got away with almost $2,000 in cash after breaking into a restaurant on Saturday morning. The owner of the Yu Jia Zhuang Exotic Chinese Cuisine restaurant on East Coast Road discovered this when he came back to the establishment on Saturday morning
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      261 8 Region’s first mobile breast-screening centre to visit HDB estates THE theme was pink. The ladies, as did the vintage cars and a bus, came adorned in that colour to join the pink parade. It was all for a good cause: raising breast cancer
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      Lock icon Falungong protests disrupt celebrations
      471 10 Hundreds held during Beijing ceremony Wires BEIJING It was to have been a joyous day to celebrate the 51st anniversary of communist rule. Instead, the police were yesterday forced by hundreds of followers of the banned Falungong sect to briefly close much of Tiananmen Square. The
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      Lock icon Protesters interrupt flag-raising ceremony
      208 10 IN HONG KONG AFP HONG KONG Celebrations of the birth of the People’s Republic of China, were also interrupted here yesterday, this time by a small group of pro-democracy protesters. Hong Kong police moved in to silence 15 activists chanting “power to the people” through loudhailers
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      269 10 LONDON Campaign funds look to be the least of the Tories’ worries in the next election, if they accept Britain’s single biggest political donation by a businessman and prominent Eurosceptic. The man with the deep pockets is Paul Sykes, a property developer and Internet
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      575 11 Legal responsibility not limited by time, says Akbar Tandjung JAKARTA The clamour for former Indonesian President Suharto to be brought to book, despite the dismissal of the case against him last week, grew stronger yesterday when the country’s powerful parliamentary Speaker
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      288 11 NATIONAL TRAGEDY COMMEMORATION AP JAKARTA With violence again threatening Indonesia’s stability, the country’s military and political elite gathered yesterday at the place where the army’s top brass was butchered in a failed coup 35 years ago and warned against a repeat. Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri watched over
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      Lock icon Jakarta calm despite petrol price rises
      196 11 AP JAKARTA Fuel prices in Indonesia rose 12 per cent yesterday, but there was little sign of mass hoarding or public outrage leading to violence. Five busloads of protesters and many on motorcycles drove through Jakarta shouting slogans against the price hikes. Later, about
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      94 11 Reuters FUEL prices rose in Malaysia yesterday, the first time in nearly 20 years, without much outcry. Unleaded petrol rose 9.1 per cent, or 10 cents, to 1.20 ringgit per litre. Diesel was up by 7.7 per cent, or five cents, to 70.1 cents per
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      128 13 A chilling video grab showing the final moments of terror for 12-year-old Mohammed Aldura, crouched behind his father, Jamal, when they were caught in the crossfire between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops in the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in Gaza on Saturday. The boy screamed in panic
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      364 13 23 Palestinians dead, hundreds hurt in fourth day of Gaza clashes Wires JERUSALEM Palestinians waged running gunbattles with Israeli troops yesterday, including a shootout near an Israeli enclave in a West Bank town that pushed the four-day casualty toll to 23 dead and 700 wounded. The
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    • World WIDE
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        81 13 COLOMBO Heavy fighting raged in northern Sri Lanka as Tamil Tiger rebels mounted fierce attacks against army positions, leaving at least 56 killed, the government said yesterday. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attempted to breach military bunker lines at Eluththumadduval on
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        73 13 JOLO The Philippine military yesterday bombarded the mountain lair of Muslim rebels holding 17 hostages on southern Jolo island, officials said. Infantrymen clashed with about 30 Abu Sayyaf fighters on Mount Dahu on Saturday. The fighting left three rebels dead and a soldier wounded. Meanwhile,
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        63 13 MOSCOW A tense atmosphere prevailed in Chechnya yesterday as it marked the anniversary of the entry of Russian forces to the breakaway republic on Oct 1,1999. Russian sappers foiled an assassination attempt against the republic’s administrator Akhmad Kadyrov. Three people were killed and 13 injured
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        98 13 AP ATHENS A yacht carrying 38 people sank after hitting a rock off the Aegean Sea island of Naxos yesterday, four days after a Greek ferry sank in one of the country’s worst maritime accidents. The Zeus 111 sank after hitting a low-lying rock 3.8
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      549 15 Trend may persist until next quarter Reuters TECHNOLOGY stocks are not your best friends, at least not in the week ahead. That’s because, analysts said, Singapore stocks are bound to ape the US markets. In turn, that may spell good news for some old economy
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      55 15 Indian activists shouting anti-government slogans while burning an effigy of Petroleum Minister Ram Naik in New Delhi yesterday. They were protesting against an increase in fuel prices. Many motorists have felt the pinch, and have put up their cars for sale and are utilising the public transport system
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      224 15 VIDEO-IMAGE TRANSMISSION SPEEDS BY 2002 AFP TOKYO Coming soon: the world’s fastest data communication technology. Still, the company responsible for that, Japan’s new telecoms giant KDDI Corp, is going about its task with little fanfare. KDDI, formed by the merger of DDI Corp, KDD
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      479 16  -  But PocketPC has one flaw no expansion slots By Winston Goh winston@sph.com.sg iPaq H 3650 PocketPC would not appear out of place in a sci-fi movie, thanks to its glimmering good looks. It’s also got one heck of a “brain” inside: Intel’s 206 MHz Strong
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      Lock icon Olympic websites fail to hit target
      388 16 ONLY 15 MILLION LOG ON Reuters FAR fewer people logged on to the Internet to keep track of the Sydney Olympics than expected, senior Olympic officials said on Saturday. The International Olympic Committee’s marketing division had forecast that some 35 million individuals, or “unique
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      537 17 Bar-code reader being given out free Ap NEW YORK Some people find navigating the Internet rather tricky and would like to avoid typing in complicated website addresses when they can. A new free device called :CueCat is tailor-made for these reluctant explorers. :CueCat is
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    • Tech FILES
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        32 17 The new Matra N 72 being presented at the Paris Car Show on Saturday. The show opened to the public today, and will end on Oct 75. AFP
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        123 17 THE Americans invented the computer in 1946 with ENIAC, right? Wrong, says the Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk). The world’s first production model electronic computer was Colossus 2, which went into operation on June 1,1944 in Buckinghamshire, England. It was used to break break German communication codes, which
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        113 17 AN EXACT copy of a champion Holstein cow will be auctioned this week in what is believed to be the first time a farm animal has been cloned for commercial sale. The first calf clone, or clones several are now growing in the wombs of
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        143 17 AFTER a major sting against child pornography on the Internet, German police said on Friday that they were investigating hundreds of people across the country for visiting a website showing illegal pictures of minors. Police raided the homes of 13 suspects in the eastern
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        130 17 Reuters AMTEC, a technology company based in Northern Ireland, has developed a device which, it says, will sharply reduce the number of patients who wake up during surgery, the Financial Times said. Amtec made use of work carried out on the effects of stress to
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        109 17 AFP SOME experts now say that present cases of extreme weather can be linked, at least partially, to global warming. “The recently-observed series of extreme weather events must have been influenced by the higher average temperatures,” say Pier Vellinga and Willem van Verseveld of the
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      Lock icon The importance of staying belted
      611 20  -  SALON.COM By Elliott Neal Hester IMAGINE you are floating. Released from the grip of gravity, you soar through recirculated airplane cabin air, high above those who were wise enough to heed the captain’s announcement. You are still clutching a plastic cup in one hand, but
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      Lock icon Ad-ding up to cold, hard cash
      528 20  -  By Adeline Goh adelgoh@sph.com.sg ONLINE advertisers flock to where they can get most mileage out of their ad dollars even if it means parachuting on a site that is on the verge of a total shutdown. After all, they are in the business of
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      Lock icon If you can, why not?
      628 21 ‘Pun and games at $lO,OOO a year’ (Sept 29) SOME elite kindergartens charge up to $1,300 a month for full-day classes. Eyeball readers have their say on whether the amount is worth it. RICH IS NOT SMART I THINK education should be fair to all
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      Lock icon Being honest on the Internet
      210 21 Singaporeans get personal on the Net’ (Sept 27) I AM the owner of one of the homepages you mentioned in your article about Singaporean homepages. The one where you comment that I sound like I’m either “all sugar and spice and all things nice, or
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      67 2 If you’re a parent of a pre-schooler, how are you coping? Does your boss give you sour looks or worse when you ask for time off? Tell us at or e-mail to feedback@eyeball.coni.sg Also, read about how the Chua family, who lost two children to the disease on Saturday, is
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      27 2 (food morning! Cloudy. Occasional showers with thunder in the late morning and afternoon affecting most areas. High: 31C I Low: 24C Tides: 1.48PM/2.9M 1.30PM/2.8M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      33 3 Do companies need a change of mindset in the area of family-friendly work practices? Or are workers not giving companies enough assurance that they can deliver quality work? Tell us at asial.com. sg
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      224 16 M ??*'ss<£ V-;. Win a Free Trip (with Grandstand Seat) to the Malaysian FI Grand Prix in October 2000 Misssed out on our recent Eyeball-Shell “Go Kart with Michael Schumacher” promotion? Fret not! For the next five days, Project Eyeball will be giving readers a chance to win an ALL-EXPENSES
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  • EyeSport
    • Sydney 2000
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        642 23 Freeman’s gold may help Australians stay united Wires SYDNEY For many Australians, the Olympics may go down as the Reconciliation Games, all because of one women Cathy Freeman. Freeman, 27, is Australia’s first Aboriginal gold medallist after winning the women’s 400 metres final. When she lit the flame
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          51 24 KAYAKER Birgit Fischer became the first German to win seven Olympic gold medals by capturing the women’s pairs yesterday, her second title in Sydney. Fischer’s victory in the women’s four on Saturday was her sixth gold, tying fellow Germans Reiner Klimke of equestrian and swimmer Kirstin
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          83 24 WIJAN Ponlid will get more than US$5OO,OOO ($850,000) to ensure he boxes on to Athens after his gold medal triumph for Thailand yesterday. The 24-year-old policeman from Suhkhothai became Thailand’s new sporting hero with his 19-12 points win over world champion Bulat Jumadilov of Kazakhstan in
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          101 24 Wires TALKS were on yesterday to avert an air-traffic controllers’ strike that could cause chaos in Sydney as Olympic visitors depart en masse after the closing ceremony. Sydney Airport is braced for its busiest day in history today, with 44,000 passengers expected through the international terminal alone,
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          Lock icon US boxers miss gold
          100 25 AMERICAN boxers will go home from an Olympics without a gold medal for the first time since 1948. They didn’t go quietly though, complaining that holding cost them one gold medal and bad scoring a second. Ricardo Williams Jr, who had outpointed Diogenes Luna of Cuba
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          Lock icon Hard hitters win out
          108 25 YUGOSLAVIAN volleyball players hit the ball harder and played tougher than anyone else at the Olympics, and their effort was rewarded with their first gold medal. Bouncing back from a four-set defeat to the Russians to start the Games, Yugoslavia was relentless against the same opponents
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          Lock icon Three-way jump-off
          88 25 Wires JEROEN Dubbeldam of the Netherlands won the gold medal for show-jumping, emerging victorious in a three-way jump-off with his compatriot Albert Voorn and Khaled A1 Eid of Saudi Arabia. The jumping final was held over two rounds, with the penalties for both rounds added together. The three
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        Lock icon Bridging the gap
        350 24  -  Russia, China hot on the heels of US By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg THE United States might have pipped Russia to the top of the overall medal tally, but really, it is nothing worth bragging about. If anything, the US’ overall medal tally has fallen while many other
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          Lock icon S’pore could do with more incentives
          530 24  - S’ pore could do with more incentives By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S table-tennis star Jin Junhong will be able to cash in on her Olympic feats after all. Singapore Table Tennis Association president Yeo Guat Kwang said Jing and teammate Li Jiawei will receive a year-end performance bonus for their
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        Lock icon CHAMPS AND SCAMPS
        464 25 The first Olympics of the Millennium ended yesterday. Our Olympic Awards celebrate the great, and not so great, from Sydney 2000. Ben Johnson Super Doper Award: American shot-putter, CJ Hunter, a four-time winner. Hunter also displayed impeccable timing as his wife Marion Jones went after an ultimately
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      Lock icon Shearer back in form
      555 26 Newcastle downs fighting City Wires LONDON Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer ended his three-match goal drought over the weekend when his headed winner against Manchester City gave his side a much-needed 1-0 Premiership win. Before the match at Maine Road, City manager Joe Royle said the
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        487 26  -  A CHANGE OF GUARD By Chris Lakey peppoint@sph.com.sg IT’S out with the old, in with the new. And many thanks to Harry Redknapp and Peter Taylor. Confused? The old is Stan Collymore -for which we have to be eternally grateful to Peter Taylor. The new is
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      31 23 The Olympics may mean reconciliation to Australians, all because of Freeman (above). For the defining moments of the Sydney Olympics winners, losers, weirdos... plus final medals standing, click on httpV/eyebalLa&i&L com-sg/Eyeball/Sports.
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  • Unwind
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        540 27 IL'cnty years after his passing the timeless and unsurpassed eanon of Alfred Hiteheoek eon tin ties to seree up the promise of fearful trepidation, says JEAMMARIE TAM sph.eom.sg THERE is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” So Alfred Hitchcock, the indisputable Master
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        473 28  -  Jeanmarie Tan Psycho (1960) Oct 4, 10 pm Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh Dissatisfied office worker Marion Crane leaves town with a stolen $40,000 to start a new life. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she checks into
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        393 28  -  Jeanmarie Tan HLFRED Joseph Hitchcock was born on Aug 13,1899, to a grocer. He graduated from St Ignatius College, a Jesuit school where he studied engineering, and he took art courses at the University of London. He had a fear of the police and
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          537 29 Epitomising Celtic kitsch of the highest order Riverdance is coming to town and the small screen. JEANMABIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) sneaks a preview and is left breathless by it all. RISH eyes aren’t just smiling, now they’re laughing all the way to the bank. The Irish musical sensation
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        812 30  -  Jim Hoffa LOVERS FOR A DAY Ivan Klima EITHER Ivan Klima’s antecedents Nazi concentration camp victim, editor of the Czech Writers’ Union journal during the Prague Spring, outspoken critic of literary censorship, banned in his own country until 1989 nor his works are unfamiliar to English
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        242 30 It’s about: Patrick Bateman, a self-obsessed 1980 s yuppie who gets off on using various accoutrements chainsaws, nail guns, rusty coat hangers, et al to kill men and “hard-bodied” women. Patrick is: Homophobic, narcissistic, materialistic and an obnoxious ***** of the first degree. He is likely
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        904 31 AN INVISIBLE SIGN OF MY OWN Aimee Bender THIS debut novel is an odd tale of an elementary school maths teacher with a passion for numbers, a knack for quitting, and a nagging idiosyncrasy of knocking her knuckles on wood till they are raw. Mona
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          82 31 AS THE holiday season arrives, tight printing capacities and distribution problems faced by stores like Barnes Noble might mean delays of up to two weeks for first prints, said Publishers Weekly. Meanwhile, reprints may take a month longer than usual. Publishers like Random House say they’re “making the
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          131 31 LONDONERS are smarting over Salman Rushdie’s rejection of their city for New York because he found it “backbiting and incestuous”. “Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie, whose scant claim to fame is that he once wrote a book no one understood, has deserted our shores for New York,”
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          107 31 Karl Ho BRITISH crime-fiction authors are baying for blood at America’s hegemony in this year’s crime writing awards, called the Macallan Daggers. This year’s shortlist organised by the British has five American crime authors on it, compared to one British author, Lucy Wadham, who wrote Lost, a
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        835 33 Indian author Anita Nair joins the ranks of Picador s prize-winning stable with her debut novel, The Better Man. JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) finds out her take on first times. IRST is a good word Pto use when it comes to 34-year-old Anita Nair. The Better
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        218 33  -  June Wan THE issue is not so much as to be a better man than to be a good man. Protagonist Mukundan, a retired civil servant, returns to the village of his birth. As if in a vivid flashback to the past, he is rendered
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        517 34 Rising above the popcorn is artiste Wang Lee Horn, teen idol with dreams of bringing Chinese music to the world. TAN DAWN WEI (dawntan@sph.com.sg) reveals the heart of this descendant of the dragon. EVERMIND that in Chinese music’s teeny-bop hinterland, idol status is rather a result
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          63 34 BARELY four months after her divorce, Gloria Yip has snagged a new lover. Though he possesses nowhere near the fortunes of her wealthy ex-hubby, the mother of two doesn’t seem to mind. The former actress, who now works as a marketing manager for fashion house
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          80 34 BELIEVE it or not, there’s an Aaron Kwok Day in the state of Nevada in the US, appointed by the mayor himself no less. The Heavenly King’s record-breaking concerts in Las Vegas’ MGM Hotel so impressed the Americans that he not only was referred to as
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          96 34 THE highly anticipated new film from celebrated Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai has hit the screens in Hong Kong minus a sizzling bed scene involving the two leads Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung. This hot shot ended up on the cutting room floor, destined
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          91 34  -  Tan Dawn Wei YOU know you’ve hit the big league when producers willingly change the script for you. Megastar Jackie Chan got just that treatment when he found out that he was slated to play a drug kingpin in Rambo 4. So anxious was Jackie Chan to
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      305 29 TV TATTLE Buff up, Buffy SARAH Michelle Gellar is sick of being called anorexic when, she says, she’s just “small-boned”. She says: “I’ve always been a skinny thing. Yes, I did at one point have some baby fat and I did lose that. But I’m a tiny-boned person and I
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      35 32 WHAT REALLY GOES ON AFTER OFFICE HOURS ER Pill STARLET KIRSTEN DUNST mm Jp*.. i i 'ml v OCTOBEf ill; Sr 4s ■Hi f 451A iiivc lament MAnt-lMnn/ SHOP TILL YOU INSHENTONWAY M f oWan
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      32 34 We asked Wang Lee Horn which three musicians or performers, dead or alive, he’d most like to work with. Find out at http://eyeball. asial.com.sg, plus watch those classically-trained fingers tinkle the ivories.
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      177 35 Five reasons to believe computers are female: No one but the Creator understands their internal logic. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is virtually incomprehensible to everyone else. The message “Bad command or file name” is about as informative as: “If you don’t
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      589 35 IMS Chip Hazard and his commandos are ready to wage war on Gorgonites, and any of their human allies, in Small Soldiers. Movies Metro 7.30 pm TCS 5 Eddie Murphy is a self-assured negotiator for the San Francisco police force. He teams up with a sharpshooter to face off a
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      284 36 AP LONDON Princess Diana was quick to laugh, but remained a deeply unhappy person, according to a new biography that was strongly condemned by her son Prince William (below). The Sunday Times yesterday printed the second installment of Shadows of a Princess, by
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      344 36 CELEBRITIES revealed their secrets on relaxing after a hard day’s night to Sunday People. Emma Bunton (right) said, “Reflexology has helped me out on many stressful occasions over the years and it’s a brilliant way to relax because it can be done any time, any
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        90 36 CHARLOTTE drarch, (left) the young singing sensation, will face the harsh reality of a lawsuit filed by her sacked manager that could cost her at least $4 million. At issue is whether Church has to honour her contract, which ran until 2002, with her manager, Jonathan Shalit.
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        48 36 Wires EAST Timor independence leader, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, and his wife, Kirsty Sword, have had their first child, a son, a spokesman said yesterday. Gusmao was present at the birth of Alexandre Sword Gusmao, delivered on Saturday in Dili. It is his fourth child.
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