Project Eyeball, 6 November 2000

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    10 1 pro jecteyeball. MITA (P) 077/02/2000 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6,2000 80 CENTS
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  • News & Views
    • SIA FLIGHT 006
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        Lock icon APOLOGISE
        288 1 US$400,000 not enough, they tell SIA Taiwanese families tell pilots: For days, the families of those who died dealt with uncertainty, horror and grief. They were focused on their departed loved one, their loss. Then as the storm cleared, it became clearer. The pilot used the wrong runway. Grief
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        Lock icon Taiwanese want: • Pilots’ apology • More compensation • SIA in court
        1436 2 Taiwanese want: Pilots’ apology More compensation SIA in court TAIPEI The baying for blood has begun, and sadly, it could get louder as the days pass and anguish turns to anger. Bereaved families of the 25 Taiwanese passengers killed in the SQOO6 crash met the press at the Taoyuan Funeral
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        Lock icon Damage control
        878 3 SIA did better than in the Silk Air disaster SINGAPORE Airlines, it would seem, has learnt from the painful lessons of the Silk Air Flight MIIBS crash some three years ago. Even though some relatives of victims have hurled brickbats at the airline over its handling of the
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        Lock icon At fault: The airline... ...or the airport?
        2192 4 There’s no denying pilots’ error Runway 'should have been clearly marked as closed’ THERE was no Agent 007 to rescue SQOO6 in the last minute as the flight hurtled towards disaster. Just five days after the incident, the verdict is out: Captain Foong
        AP  -  2,192 words
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        Lock icon Few airports have ground radar because cost is very high
        462 5 LONDON’S Heathrow Airport has one. So does Chicago’s O’Hare and 33 other airports in the US. And if Taiwan’s Chang Kai Shek Airport had one, the crash of flight SQOO6 could have probably been avoided. It’s called Air Surface Detection
        USA Today  -  462 words
      • Net BUZZ
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          Lock icon Is it right to lay blame solely on pilot?
          1145 10 Probe thoroughly before laying blame CONDOLENCES and comments have been pouring into the Eyeball online forum over the past few days. The revelation that SQOO6 was on the wrong runway and SlA’s quick acceptance of responsibility, however, raised more questions than
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        Lock icon Two heroes laid to rest
        330 36 Hundreds turn out to bid cabin crew farewell TWO Singapore Airlines cabin crew. Two heroes. Two funerals. Both were held back-to-back in yesterday’s afternoon heat. It was a heartwrenching affair for family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers at the funerals of leading stewardess Irene Ang
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      Lock icon Twists and turns of the SQ006 crush
      1320 6 We review the events following the fateful night of Oct 31, when the Boeing 747 burst into flames on the runway of Taipei’s Chiang Kai Shek Airport. Oct 31 SQOO6, bound for Los Angeles, takes off at 11.18 pm from Chiang Kai Shek
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      1034 8 Airline Cause Aftermath Singapore Airlines is offering to pay US$4OO, OOO (Ss/04,000) to the families of those who died in the SQOO6 tragedy. Here is a look at some of the major air crashes in recent years and the compensation paid to the victims' and survivors' families. TRANS
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      Lock icon FATAL AIR CRASHES THIS YEAR
      385 8 Page Design: Bong Fortin/Michael Angelo Zarzuela Jan 5 Skypower Express Airways Embraer EMB-110 in Abuja, Nigeria On board: 13 Died: 1 Jan 10 Crossair SAAB SF34O in Zurich, Switzerland On board: 10 Died: 10 janj.3 Avisto Shorts 360 in Marsa el-Brega, Libya On board: 41
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      163 11 ELIAN Gonzalez, the young Cuban survivor who arrived on American shores on a raft, won many hearts. So, when the boy’s granduncle announced that he was buying the home at 2319 NW Second St where Elian stayed, many lottery players took it as a sign. They bet US$l ($51.74)
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      Lock icon Stay clear of politics, PM tells AMP
      735 11  -  Strengthen, not undermine, Malay MP leadership, he says By Joanna Lim joanna@sph.com.sg STAY out of politics. The message couldn’t have been clearer, coming from Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The PM challenged the Association of the Muslim Professionals (AMP)’s proposal of “collective leadership”
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      Lock icon Making her brown eyes blue
      536 13  -  Coloured contact lenses are all the rage By Toh Bee Ping beeping@sph.com.sg NOW that bleached hair has become the norm, the next fashion wave is coloured contact lenses for a pan-Asian look. Lenses that can make your brown eyes blue. Or green. Or violet. They
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      Lock icon Gamethon takes a hit
      435 13  -  GAMING By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg IT WAS touted as the blast of the year, where over a 100 gamers could join an 11-hour free-for-all shootout. Yet the biggest LAN gaming party organised by the People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM) was closer to a letdown than a
      Wang Huifen  -  435 words
    • Article
      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.fund supermart.com
      127 14  -  Nicholas Yong HERE’S all you ever wanted to know about unit trusts, in a user-friendly format. It explains, in simple terms, the technicalities of unit trusts, and explains the fundamentals of financial planning clearly. The “fund selector” provides a complete listing of all
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      Lock icon British police used illegal software, says Microsoft
      412 14 Four arrested, including superintendent, for year-long breach LONDON Police computers across Britain have been running counterfeit Microsoft software for a year, reported The Telegraph yesterday. The discovery, made by Microsoft’s investigators who were cracking down on pirated software, led to the arrest of
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    • 2 days to go
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        Lock icon Who’s hot today
        242 16 AFP Odd pickings WASHINGTON American football, Halloween masks and bloodlines have replaced crystal balls and tea leaves in divining the outcome of this year’s US presidential election. These less conventional methods of prediction have given Republican George W Bush the edge over Democrat A1 Gore. “This is
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      Lock icon The world is watching
      838 16 Many countries have stake in who wins the US presidency AP LONDON It’s not diplomatic etiquette to say it aloud, but governments all over the world care deeply about who wins the US presidential elections. China worries about George W Bush’s enthusiasm for a missile shield;
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      Lock icon The big issues
      1088 17 AP Where Al Qore and Qeorge W Bush stand on the key issues of the presidential campaign may prove crucial on Election Day tomorrow. NAME George W Bush AGE-BIRTH DATE 54; July 6,1946. EDUCATION B.A. Yale University, 1968; MBA Harvard University, 1975. EXPERIENCE Businessman in various industries,
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      239 20 Police fire tear-gas and water cannon at hundreds Wires SHAH ALAM Malaysian riot police fired tear-gas and water cannon yesterday at several hundred protesters demanding freedom for jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim. The protesters had begun to march carrying banners and flags of the opposition
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Tommy ‘willing to surrender’
        202 20 AP JAKARTA After evading arrest for two days, former president Suharto’s youngest son will soon surrender to authorities and begin an 18-month jail term for corruption, one of his lawyers said yesterday. Saying that “Tommy” Mandala Putra, 38, was still in Jakarta, his attorney, Erman Umar,
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        Lock icon Arafat plans to meet Clinton
        152 20 Wires JERUSALEM A 16-year-old Palestinian died from a gunshot wound to the head in clashes near a refugee camp in the eastern Gaza Strip as tensions remained high in the Palestinian territories yesterday. But in a plea for peace in the Middle-East, tens of thousands
        – Wires; AFP  -  152 words
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        121 20 Wires MANILA Philippines Vice-President Gloria Arroyo, who is leading a united opposition, has prepared a list of possible Cabinet members should President Joseph Estrada be forced into resignation amid a high-stakes corruption scandal, aides said yesterday. Her lieutenants, meanwhile, were preparing legal arguments for an impeachment
        – Wires  -  121 words
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        Lock icon Thai monk accused of rape
        106 20 AFP BANGKOK Thai police were yesterday investigating allegations that a Buddhist abbot repeatedly raped an 11-year-old girl who lived with her mother inside his temple compound. The case is the third this week in which a senior member of the nation’s clergy has been accused
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    • Local LOG
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        133 20 CLEAN and Green Singapore comes at a price $4OO million a year. At the launch of the Clean and Green Week yesterday, Singapore’s Acting Minister for the Environment, Lim Swee Say, said the Environment Ministry and the town councils blow more than $l2O million each
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        130 20 OVER the last week, business bigwigs have been worried about a different kind of bottom line. Three thousand participants, representing 116 corporations, battled it out for points in the sporting arena in the first corporate games to be held here. The Corporate Community Games is the brainchild of
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      • Article
        Lock icon Award for Tamil newspaper
        98 20 IT WAS another feather in the cap for Tamil Murasu, Singapore’s only Tamil newspaper, when it was recognised for its contribution to the Indian community. The award was given by the Indian Activity Executive Community of Ulu Pandan Club. Editor Chitra Rajaram, in receiving a symbolic
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      Lock icon Cocaine found in British MP toilets
      540 21 Traces of hard drug show up LONDON Cocaine has been snorted inside the British Houses of Parliament. In an investigation carried out by London’s Sunday Times newspaper, several samples were taken for testing from toilets next to bars used by MPs and their guests
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      Lock icon Brit guide to the perfect marriage
      208 21 GOVERNMENT STARTER KIT AFP LONDON Every British couple planning a wedding will soon get a starter kit from the government -a guide on how to have the perfect marriage. The booklet, entitled Married Life, will be part of a government drive to promote the
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      Lock icon Nike deal makes Man U shareholders see red
      282 21 LONDON Manchester United’s eye-popping sponsorship deal with sportswear giant Nike is not going down well with the sports club’s shareholders. The shareholders group Shareholders United fears that the £302.9-million (*****.7 million) deal may give Nike too much influence on the football institution.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      25 11 Qood morning! 111!! Slightly hazy. Showers with thunder are expected in the morning High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 7.35AM/2.2M 6.30PM/2.2M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/metsin
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      314 18 2 Adam Hadi, bom on 17.7.2000, a baby brother for our little Iman Nur. Ayah if Ibu love you baby. Sham if Want After years of waiting for a baby, we are delighted to receive our Dragon boy, Alvitl Aw Yotlg. Aw YongKwan Leong A special thanks to Dr Mary
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      302 19 12 Thanks to all relatives and friends for their gifts, care and concern for our new bom little princess Low Li Ling Chee Keong&Seo Soh Steven Celine would like to share their joy with everyone. Our precious gift from God came to us in the form of an adorable little
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Singapore’s win ‘unconvincing’
      697 23  -  1-0 victory against Cambodia was gutsy but lacklustre By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE coach Vincent Subramaniam must be saying: “Hey, a victory is a victory.” He couldn’t be wrong. I, too, will say that. But no more. Certainly, that was all that was needed to be said
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Mosley again
        59 23 AFP NEW YORK American Shane Mosley stopped Mexico’s Antonio Diaz in the sixth round here over the weekend to retain his World Boxing Council welterweight title. Mosley remained unbeaten in 36 fights, with 33 victories. Diaz suffered his third defeat in 33 fights. Mosley beat Diaz in the
        – AFP; AP  -  59 words
      • Article
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        79 23 AFP SYDNEY More athletes are expected to compete in the Sydney 2002 Gay Games than the number who took part at the Olympics, organisers said yesterday. A Federation of Gay Games official said up to 15,000 athletes and 25,000 spectators are expected to visit Australia for the Games.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Over the Hill?
        79 24 AP ATLANTA Grant Hill sat out Orlando’s game against the Atlanta Hawks with a sore left ankle, and a team spokesman said he could be sidelined for two weeks. In Friday’s loss to the 76ers, Hill was l-for-7 in the fourth quarter and limped noticeably. He played
        – AP  -  79 words
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        Lock icon Off the ball
        135 24 AFP NEW YORK- Orlando Magic guard Tracy McGrady and Philadelphia 76ers guard Eric Snow were both penalised by the NBA for their shoving match over the weekend. McGrady was suspended without pay for one game and fined U 557,500 (5513,200) for delivering a two-handed shove at Snow’s
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        Lock icon Hertha Berlin
        62 26 AFP BERLIN Hertha Berlin delighted their fans at the Olympic Stadium with a 4-1 win over Werder Bremen, pushing the club two points clear at the top of the Bundesliga. Hertha has 24 points, with their nearest challengers Bayern Munich on 22 after a 6-2 drubbing of visitors
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        Lock icon Real biggest loser
        101 26 AFP MADRID The top three teams in Spain’s Primera Liga suffered upsets over the weekend, with Real Madrid the biggest loser as it fell 1-3 to lowly Numancia. Numancia’s Romanian midfielder Dimitru Laurentiu scored a hat-trick as his 16th-placed team dismantled the Spanish powerhouse, dealing Real its
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        Lock icon Lazio moves to top
        40 26 AFP ROME Goals from Pavel Nedved and Hernan Crespo handed reigning Serie A champions Lazio a 2-0 win over Bologna at the Stadio Olympico. Lazio moves alongside Atalanta and Udinese at the head of the table.
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    • Article
      Lock icon DID YOU ENOW?
      46 23 TIGER Woods turned down US$l.2 million (Ss2.l million) in appearance money alone to play in the Australian Open later this month. Yes, the superstar golfer has decided against playing Down Under, prompting championship director Tony Roosenberg to say: “No tournament can afford him.”
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      Lock icon Riley snags 1,000th win
      817 24 Heat proves on opening night it can win without Mourning Wires MIAMI Eddie Jones looked squarely at the television cameras, microphones and tape recorders that were thrust in his direction. “We hear it every day, that we won’t do it because (Alonzo Mourning) has gone down,”
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      Lock icon LOOKING BACK
      39 24 GOING back-to-back is supposed to be hard to do, but when San Antonio lost its 1999 NBA title, they also broke a lengthy string of title repeats: Lakers (1987-88); Pistons (1989-90); Bulls (1991-93); Rockets (1994-95); Bulls (1996-98).
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      Lock icon Leeds shocks Liverpool
      455 26 Leaders Man U, Arsenal pull away AP LONDON Manchester United and Arsenal continued to put distance between themselves and the rest of the pack in the English Premiership on Saturday. United won 2-1 at Coventry on goals from Andy Cole and David Beckham. Arsenal kept pace with
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    • Premier POINT
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        Lock icon Top job won't be easy for Eriksson
        467 26  -  FOREIGN COACH FOR ENGLAND By Chris Lakey THERE is a joke going around that after Graham Taylor (The Turnip) and now Sven-Goran Eriksson (a Swede), the next England manager is likely to be Jasper Carrott (a comedian). Vegetable jokes aside, the events of
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      41 26 LEEDS’ four-goal hero Mark Viduka (above): “It was one of those days. Every time I had a sniff at goal, it went in. Very rarely do you get to be part of those sort of games.” AP
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  • Unwind
    • Television
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        Lock icon Najip Bagus
        1220 27 The Mad Malay Man is back. Never more Upfront, Najip Ali speaks to JEAKMARTfi TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) about foreign inspirations and the new season of talk-show mayhem that he intends to unleash. HEADING over to Bali, Japan and London, Najip Ali has been soaking in foreign inspiration since the
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    • Asiabeat
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        Lock icon Tortured bliss
        859 29 Charming and affable, a normally tight-lipped Tony Leung Chiu Wai opens up to SANDITAN (sandi@sph.com.sg) about massages, singing and how he felt during the 15-month process of making In The Mood For Love with director Wong Kar Wai. OS THE quietly sad newsman with an unfaithful wife in
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        Lock icon Kok and Cheung’s steamy Dare
        209 29  -  Hera Chua WHEN host Chen Hui Hui asked how Ann Kok prepared for the scene when she was filmed stripping off her top and undoing her black bra to bare her back to Julian Cheung, she replied, embarrassed: “It was required for the scene and
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    • TV
      • TV TATTLE
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          Lock icon Oprah’s contract extended
          80 31 TALKSHOW queen Oprah Winfrey has signed a new two-year contract with King World Productions, which will keep her TV show on air until 2004. Unlike previous years, the pact was signed with very little fanfare. “I am finally at a point in my life where I’m doing
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          Lock icon All about Tiffani
          104 31 FORMER Beverly Hills ***** vixen Tiffani Thiessen is set to star in an ABC comedy pilot tentatively titled Something About Tiffani, Variety reports. The Ladies Man actress will play a beer-guzzling, tart-tongued woman who ditches her fiance at the altar and heads off to Italy for a
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          Lock icon Ford checks out on wife
          100 31  -  Siti Hadijah A WEEK after he was photographed cozying up to Lara Flynn Boyle, 58-year-old Harrison Ford checked into a posh hotel near the apartment he shares with his wife Melissa Matheson. Ford and Flynn Boyle spent the night whispering in each other’s ears. The
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      • Armchair
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          Lock icon who dares, lives
          629 31 Before Survivor, there was a plethora of “more-real-than-reality” documentaries. JEANMARIETAN (jeanm@sph.corns.sg) examines Dare TV, on which ordinary stars make the Tagi alliance look tame. ■■■■■■■I ORLD’SMost L X X Amazing Car Chases. When A Animals Attack. HiMIIH When Good Pets Go Bad. When Bunk-beds Go Wrong. Okay,
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    • Books
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          Lock icon New comics site
          92 33 PANTHEON Books now has a website devoted to six of the world’s best graphic novelists Chris Ware (Jimmy Corrigan), Daniel Clowes (Eightball), Art Spigelman (Maus), Ben Katchor (Julius Knipl), Matt Groening (The Simpsons), Raymond Briggs (The Snowman) and their new works. It’s at http://www. pantheonbooks.com/ comics. Used
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          Lock icon Horror revisited
          58 33 POCKET Books re-releases Stephen King classics Carrie (1974) and Salem’s Lot (1975) this month with brand-new covers (above). Resembling trashy pulp novels instead of the horror stories that have given sleepless nights to two generations, they’ve been probably revamped to capture new graduates from the R L Stine
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          Lock icon Dear diary...
          62 33  -  Sandi Tan LEADING literary site Slate has put out a collection of diary entries that it runs on its site http://www. slate.com. Called The Slate Diaries, they include entries by a variety of different people from self-promoting author Dave Eggers to enlightened radio host Ira Glass to UPS
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        Lock icon Chinese ribbing
        962 33  -  All books available from Borders Jim Hoffa THE bad boy of Chinese literature is at it again. Well, he’s been at it for quite some time, but this is only the second opportunity that readers in English are getting to sample the work of someone who has attracted
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        Lock icon Tapestry of timeless romance
        1204 34  -  by Nicholas Jose June Wan THE RED THREAD Nicholas Jose (Chronicle Books) $39.99 THE Red Thread is an interesting love story that weaves together the affairs of two pairs of lovers from different centuries. But while it traverses two centuries, no modern time machines are used.
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      30 29 X Go to asial.com.sg to see young fans go wild in Pusan’s Festival Square as Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Maggie Cheung make a public appearance to promote their film.
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      174 30 Baby Bonus Just missed the government's new baby bonus? Well, here's another reward you can claim: a chance to have a free birth announcement ad and win $5OO worth of prizes. Simply send us a non-returnable photograph of your newborn (below 6 months old) and a birth announcement message of
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      Lock icon CHAT AND MOUSE
      229 35 ONE liners and mottos: Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse. Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I’m not a complete idiot, some
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
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      526 35 Movies Rnshmore 1.45 pm Star Movies 58 At Rushmore Academy, Max (Jason Schwartzman) constantly fails classes, but he is the head of the bee-keeping society. Complicating his life is his attraction to a teacher (Olivia Williams) and his friendship with a depressed local tycoon (Bill Murray). War is declared when
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