Project Eyeball, 16 November 2000

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyebaU.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Thursday, November 16, 2000 80 CENTS
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      314 1 CATC ■jJi 1 THE LITERATE CLUBBER So you can groove to techno, jungle, whatever. So can the average Ah Beng. We show you how you can party and appear intelligent. See Pages 20-21 Patrick Ewing isn’t quite done yet. He contributed enough to play a big part in helping his
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  • News & Views
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      175 2 THIS Netizen, it would seem, has just got so fed up with the delay in the declaration of the next US president, that he has taken things into his own hands. Mamono@sonic.net came up with an innovative solution he just offered the disputed presidency to the highest bidder in
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      Lock icon Impeachment move against Arroyo
      489 2 Uproar as member of vice-president’s own party files motion against her Wires MANILA Impeachment fever has gripped the Philippines. Now, not only has President Joseph Estrada been impeached, but yesterday a legislator filed an impeachment motion against his vice-president, Gloria Arroyo next in the line of
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      Lock icon Koreas go on red alert
      311 2 NORTH, SOUTH FACE-OFF AFP SEOUL The seas off Japan and Korea have been extremely choppy in recent days with code red military tensions. First, North and South Korea faced off in their first reported military alert since the historic summit between their leaders. Then, Russia
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    • Ground ZERO
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        Lock icon Pelu ‘isn’t right for the arts’
        765 3  -  Some support citizenship forum, others want audiences to decide for themselves By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg THE maelstrom created by the banning of Talaq, a play which explores marital rape and violence in the Indian Muslim community, got worse when the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit
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      Lock icon Brace yourself and smile
      657 4  -  An older generation of wired individuals are looking into getting some pearly gates By Thao Hua thaoth@sph.com.sg METAL mouth. Train tracks. Brace face. Dreaded epithets among children with braces? Not necessarily, as more adults, including some in their 50s, are choosing to straighten those gnashers. And
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      Lock icon Dreaming of a bright Christmas
      58 5 Thousands of lights will greet visitors on Friday night when they go to the Tanglin Road and Orchard Road area. French lighting expert Louis Clair (left) used 35,000 bulbs and 50,000 m of cables to brighten up this festive season. Two thousand stars have also
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      Lock icon Leaner, more agile stat boards
      528 5  -  Management contracts bring private sector approach By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg FOR most of us, MCs are the ticket to a day home in bed. But for civil servants, it could mean MTV channels in staff lounges, telecommuting, and the promise of remuneration in the form
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      Lock icon CULTURE OF TALENT
      329 5  -  Sue-Ann Chia IN A PS2I symposium speech in July this year, Ministry of Trade and Industry permanent secretary Khaw Boon Wan talked about how statutory boards could be restructured to be more “nimble and responsive” and successful in recruiting and keeping talent. He said that certain non-core
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      Lock icon Dentists in Bukit Panjang have it good
      184 6 OTHER CLINICS TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine practitioners are not the only ones who have it good. The dentists in the Bukit Panjang area have a constant flow of patients as well. That’s because they have the largest patient-to-dentist ratio in Singapore. There are only
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      686 6  -  Number of non-Western medicine clinics up 59 per cent By Sonny Phua sonnyp@sph.com.sg IT’S a journey back to the roots. Or so it seems. Non-Western clinics have been mushrooming in Singapore, at a rate faster than that of Western ones. For every two non-Western clinics
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon Israelis mourn death of Leah Rabin
        162 7 Reuters TEL AVIV Thousands of Israelis gathered yesterday to pay their last respects to peace advocate Leah Rabin, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “The country has lost someone very valuable. She was no less great than her husband,” wept Dafna Dan,
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        Lock icon Failure to arrest Tommy criticised
        137 7 Reuters JAKARTA The Indonesian government denied yesterday that there was a conspiracy to keep former President Suharto’s youngest son out of jail, as criticism mounted over the failure of the authorities to nab the runaway playboy. Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman denied that the police was trying
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        Lock icon Israeli army nabs 15 Fatah members
        97 7 AFP JERUSALEM The Israeli army has arrested 15 members of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction, which it suspects of shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, an Israeli Cabinet minister said yesterday. “This operation was conducted in cooperation with the Shin Beth (internal security service)
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        165 7 AP BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN United States President Bill Clinton says his biggest regret as president may be his failure to reconcile Israel and the Palestinians, because he “really wanted with all my heart” to bring peace to the Middle East. “If it doesn’t happen, I’ll be profoundly
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        Lock icon Bandit frees Indian film star
        174 7 AP MADRAS A popular Indian film star was freed early yesterday after being held hostage for 3 x /2 months by a bandit accused of more than 100 murders, a high state official said. Rajkumar’s release came after months of tortuous negotiations between Veerappan, the
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    • Local LOG
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        136 7 THE media war is hotting up. Close on the heels of SPH-owned MediaWorks’ joint venture with Hong Kong’s Star East Holdings, Media Corp Studios has signed a partnership with ML Movie TV Productions headed by popular actor Moses Lim. Viewers can expect new English, Chinese programmes
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        Lock icon Companies up, businesses down
        100 7 THE local economy has picked up for sure. But things are looking brighter for companies than for businesses, according to findings by the Department of Statistics. The first half of 2000 saw a 56 per cent rise in the number of companies formed compared with the
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        Lock icon HK takes No 1 spot from S’pore
        85 7 SINGAPORE has bowed out to Hong Kong. Coming in tops for Asia in Fortune’s annual ranking of the Best Cities for Business last year, Singapore has this year dropped to third place. Hong Kong has been named No 1, followed by Sydney. Incidentally,
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        84 7 OWNERS of cars may soon be able to enjoy a 20 per cent cut on insurance premiums. This is one of the many benefits that the General Insurance Association of Singapore (GIA) is looking at rolling out for the public with the formation of the
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        Lock icon Glitch in HDB e-bidding system
        87 7 THERE was a 10-minute glitch in the Housing Development Board’s new e-bidding system. The exercise was to close at 11 am on Tuesday, but was extended for an hour because the system was temporarily unable to accept credit card payments for the $5OO deposit required
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    • US Elections 2000
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        Lock icon Harris in the middle
        861 8 Florida’s secretary of state under fire Salon.com TALLAHASSEE (Florida) There was a time, not long ago, when the high point of Katherine Harris’ day was closing a big property deal. Boy, has she come a long way. Today, the actions of this bleary-eyed, tough-talking secretary of
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        Lock icon Courts active, but voters want it to end
        249 8 TALLAHASSEE LEON County Circuit Judge.Terry Lewis yesterday upheld a ruling by Florida’s secretary of state Katherine Harris to impose a 5 pm (6 am Singapore yesterday) deadline for final results from the state’s 67 counties to reach her. The decision appears to
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      Lock icon Wall St gets nervy as stalemate continues
      627 9 Shift from apathy to worry that weak government could harm economy Lat WASHINGTON All eyes are on Florida but for the first time, gentle rumblings are coming out of Wall Street. Economists are growing increasingly edgy that presidential election recounts and the weak
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      Lock icon Democrats rope in giant-killer
      233 9 Reuters WASHINGTON Enter the David who slew Microsoft celebrated litigator David Boies on behalf of the Democrats, to train his legal slingshot at the Republican campaign. Boies, who also represented Internet song-swop company Napster and computer giant IBM, made an appearance on Tuesday after a complicated
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      Lock icon Judges duck election cases
      261 9 LAWSUITS OVER RECOUNT NYT WEST PALM BEACH Who wants to have the last word on the US presidential elections? Clearly not the county’s judges they have been passing off the political hot potato as fast as a McDonald’s french-fry station. As many as five circuit judges
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      319 11 VOLATILE MARKET BLAMED NYT CHICAGO Playboy Enterprises, the US magazine and media group, yesterday withdrew the initial public offering (IPO) of its Internet business, blaming volatile market conditions. The Chicago-based company also reported widening losses for the third quarter because of spending on Playboy.com and lower circulation
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      Lock icon Damning the World Bank
      39 11 Indians protesting against the visit of World Bank president James Wolfenson in New Delhi on Monday. Ihe World Bank is funding the controversial Sardar Sarover dam project, which opponents say will leave thousands homeless. Reuters
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      Lock icon New fund goes UP
      585 11  -  DBS promises you’ll have peace of mind with this unit trust plan By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg TRUST your hard-earned money with, us and sleep tight tonight. That’s the promise of DBS Asset Management’s latest unittrust plan, aptly called UP. The fund, which was launched yesterday, is
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      184 11  -  Nicholas Yong THIS is a good site to stop at before you take on the Goliaths of the stock market ring. With e-trading levelling the playing field between institutional and retail investors, Getexchange believes it’s vital investors are equipped to handle the technicalities.
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      88 11 Straits Times Index (STI Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS PCI 37,686,000 145 PacCent 19,353,000 128 Chew EH 19,072,000 33.5 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Bukit Sem 1200 20 1.7 JIT 358 16 4.7 Thai Prime 200USS 266 14 5.6 Total number of gainers: 95 Top 3 Losers CENTS Creative 50
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      Lock icon TV ads may go the interactive way
      421 12  -  POINT, CLICK AND BUY By Teo Yen Fen y enfen@sph.com.sg HATE TV commercials? You’ll be happy to know that one day, they’lT be dead. That is, according to Barry Diller, who delivered the first keynote address for Casbaa 2000 yesterday. He is the
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      Lock icon Clueless about content
      762 12  -  Broadband bigwigs in the dark By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg CONTENT providers for broadband have finally come out and said it they are clueless as to what kind of broadband content consumers want. During a panel discussion at the Cable and Satel- lite Broadcasting Association of Asia 2000
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      Lock icon Driving back to the 1930S
      54 13 Le-Seyde, Mitsuoka Motors’ new classic car, was designed to reflect the American taste of the *****. The Japanese custom vehicle manufacturer s president Susumu Mitsuoka unveiled the stylish auto in Tokyo yesterday. The company plans to sell 100 of the cars for ¥5,250,000 (5584,g03) each
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      Lock icon Amazon launches e-book store
      249 13 DOWNLOAD 1,000 TITLES AP SEATTLE Online retailer Amazon.com on Tuesday began selling electronic books, along with the old-fashioned paper kind. Amazon’s new e-book store offers about 1,000 titles, all in the Microsoft Reader format. That’s a tiny portion of Amazon’s total offering of more than 28
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      Lock icon Working from home made easier
      396 13  -  SCV offers broadband VPN services By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg THERE’S a new way of hooking up home PCs to office networks and it could replace traditional, costlier methods. This could also lead to more staff spending more time in the ultimate family-friendly workplace the home.
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    • State of the NET
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        Lock icon Reclaiming Internet Eden
        714 14  -  By Michael Dwyer mdwyer@sph.com.sg ANOTHER day, and another B2C dotcom bites the dust, the Nasdaq gets the jitters and www.f**kedcompany.com has another victim ready to skewer. My view? Bring ’em on. Some dotcom failures can be put down to simple cluelessness, such as the excessively honest people
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      Lock icon Use research agencies to gather feedback
      395 14 Performing arts: Who should call the shots? (Nov 14) SEVERAL MPs on Monday wanted arts performances left out of the reach of the Public Entertainment Bill debated by Parliament. The Bill came in the wake of the banning of the play Talaq by the
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    • Generation NEXT
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        Lock icon Lonely hearts on the Net
        1083 15  -  Online love smacks of desperation... ...But it’s interesting By Jane Pek teens@eyeball.com.sg IN ROMANCE, at least, I’m a traditionalist. You meet someone, you like him, you get together, things work out (or, more often, they don’t). Things such as physical appearance, geographical distance, behavioural quirks
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      31 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder are expected in the late morning and afternoon affecting most areas, partly cloudy thereafter High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 2.35AM/2.8M 1.20PM/3.1M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/metsin
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      38 3 Should Pelu be allowed to continue its policing? Or should a citizens’ forum take its place? If so, what credentials should the panel possess? Tell us what you think on httpV/eyebalL asial.com.sg »For readers’ views, see Page 14
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      57 4 In a recent study that examined national servicemen, eight out of 10 needed orthodontic work. Yet only 10 per cent realised they needed it, according to Dr Alfred Cheng from the Association of Orthodontists (Singapore). http://www.aos.org.sg If you are not sure if your, teeth need help, members of the association
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      48 5 For more information about management contracts and corporatisation, log on to http://www.gov.sg/ps2l and click on symposium materials. With these management contracts, what changes do you hope to see in statutory boards, in terms of customer service or culture? Will management contracts make a difference? Tell us at http^/eyehall-aMal-com-sg
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      60 6 ‘With regulation and registration, the industry will become more defined.’ Richard Eu Eu Yan Seng chairman Do you think there will come a day when medical certificates from TCM practitioners will be accepted by employers? What sort of standards must TCM achieve before this can happen? Must they be the
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      48 8 Recount or not? Check out if Katherine Harris cast her vote for closure or accuracy at http://eyeball. asial.com.sg http://www.globe.com/ news/politics/ campaign2ooo/news/ What happened to idealism +.shtml This is not supposed to happen in a democracy: Voters have been reduced to mere observers. A comment from The Boston Globe.
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      42 9 Log on to to see what signal the Fed’s decision on interest rates sent to the markets. http://www.forbes.com/2000/11/14/ 1114mu.html Markets respond to earnings, not elections -a Forbes assessment. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/ dnflash/nov2ooo/nf*****115 317.htm Bonds rebound, even outpacing stocks in the US. are on the
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      208 10 SALE NOW > Subscribers! L... NOVEMBER 2000 555.00;RM6.5G Sex education wVhen and how much to teli them V *?'t 5 A Crabtree Evelyn Animal Zoo Soap Set worth 5524.90 for every subscriber! m m m a m tS te-S -TSi ISOAF« mmm -3 ...SHT .iv SS 41 How it changed
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      59 13 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET AWC? You'Re AW IFIOT* wow WATCH AUP POH'T ASK AG AIM] VOUG, WHY 170 I HAVE TO KEEP SHOWING YOU THIS? Hey, youne THE TECHIE! X 11-3 MAYBE I JUST LIKE BEING WITH YOU. /W HT LIH FORGOT I'M SHOWING WHAT THIS FOR WEne UKE
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      25 15 The writer is an 18-year-old columnist with Generation Next, Eyeball’s online space for the secondary school, JC and poly crowd. Log on to http://eyeball.asial.com.sg/ html/Eyeball/teens
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Indian F1 driver
        86 16 Reuters LONDON-Narain Karthikeyan will test drive a Jaguar at Silverstone on Dec 1, becoming the first Indian to drive a Formula One car. “Basically we’re just fulfilling our contractual obligations,” said a Jaguar spokesman. Karthikeyan and South African Tomas Scheckter, son of ex-world champion Jody, had raced
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        Lock icon Lomu still injured
        86 16 Reuters PARIS New Zealand winger Jonah Lomu, suffering from a cheekbone injury, is very doubtful for the All Blacks’ second rugby union test against France in Marseille on Saturday. A team spokesman said Lomu’s participation was in considerable doubt, as he will have to consult an expert
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      • Article
        Lock icon N Korea ‘welcome’
        122 17 TOKYO North Korea is welcome to co-host the 2002 World Cup with South Korea and Japan, the president of football’s governing body Fifa has said. “The door is open,” Fifa chief Joseph Blatter said at a Tokyo press conference. Japan and South Korea will host the 2002
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        Lock icon World Cup dates
        93 17 AFP PARIS World Cup holders France will play all three of their 2002 World Cup finals group matches in South Korea. The French, who added the Euro 2000 title to their trophy cabinet in July, will open their campaign in Seoul on May 31, play their next
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        Lock icon Huh’s not wanted
        86 17 AFP SEOUL Huh Jung Moo will not be signed up again as the head coach of South Korea’s national team, its football association has said. Huh, who was appointed coach of the national and the Olympic team in 1998 on a two-year contract, had offered to resign
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        Lock icon Award nominees
        90 18 Wires LONDON Six Manchester United players have been named in the list of 50 nominees for the coveted Ballon d’Or, the European footballer of the year award. The six are David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Jaap Stam, Fabien Barthez, Roy Keane and Paul Scholes. Arsenal has four nominated: Thierry
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        Lock icon Death threats
        49 18 AFP ISTANBUL- French international midfielder Youri Djorkaeff was left out of the squad for today’s friendly against Turkey after getting death threats, teammate Emmanuel Petit said. Of Armenian origin, Djorkaeff has supported groups publicising the alleged T urkish genocide against Armenians at the start of the century.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Jefferies in saddle?
        56 18 Wires LONDON Former Hearts manager Jim Jefferies is most likely to be handed the task of preserving Bradford City’s Premiership status. He travelled to Valley Parade for talks yesterday, just 10 days after leaving the Edinburgh club. Chris Hutchings was sacked from Bradford a week ago, five
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        Lock icon NBA WRAP
        264 19 Cavaliers 96 Warriors 86 LAMOND Murray scored Cleveland’s first nine points of the fourth quarter and had 14 of his 24 in the period as the surprising Cavaliers continued their fast start with a 96-86 win over the Golden State Warriors. Hawks 99 Trail Blazers 97 IN ATLANTA,
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      41 16 “EVEN if there was a bubonic plague, (Paolo) di Canio would not get in the side.” Giovanni Trappatoni, Italy coach. He said di Canio was somewhat down the pecking order for a place in the national side.
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      Lock icon Firing back
      422 16 Hingis, Kournikova slam Williams Reuters NEW YORK So what if the Williams sisters are making tennis more popular? So are several others. That’s what Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova seem to be saying. The two players took a swipe at Richard Williams’ statement that his daughters should receive
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      Lock icon Kuerten’s short cut to success
      338 16 PARIS MASTERS SERIES AFP PARIS Happy-go-lucky Gustavo Kuerten first wowed Paris tennis fans three years ago when he came from nowhere to lift the Roland Garros title with the destruction of double champion Sergi Bruguera of Spain. Always laidback to a fault at least off
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      Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
      32 17 LAST season, the English Premier League defences conceded a total of 1,060 goals, at an average of 2.78 goals per game? It was the highest average in 14 years.
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    • Tee TIME
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        Lock icon Asia, here he comes
        562 17 Can they measure up? AP BANGKOK Myanmar’s Kyi Hla Han, Asia’s No 1 player last season, will lead a strong contingent of proven Asian winners against a world-class field including Tiger Woods at the 10th Johnnie Walker Classic which begins here today. A total of 32
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        Lock icon Wooing Woods for votes
        305 17  -  By John Crean sports@eyeball.com.sg SHOTMAKER supreme Tiger Woods is becoming a kingmaker as well. Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecoms tycoon and leader of the Thai Rak Thai political party, has reportedly bankrolled Woods’ appearance at tomorrow’s Johnnie Walker Classic in Bangkok. In return for his US$l
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      Lock icon ON THIS DAY
      39 18 IN 1994, Everton beat Liverpool 2-0 in a hard-fought Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park. Duncan Ferguson headed the Toffees into the lead on the hour mark before Paul Rideout slotted No 2 to dash Pools’ hopes.
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      Lock icon Desperate Derby
      376 18 Manager in a flurry of borrowing, exchanging and releasing players Wires UNDER-FIRE Derby County manager Jim Smith has moved to strengthen his defence by securing the services of Nigerian international defender Taribo West on a three-month loan. The Rams, at the bottom of the English Premiership and the
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      Lock icon Plenty of mouth where the money is
      596 18  -  VERBAL FOOTBALL By Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg THEY might have the flashy moves that make the heart flutter with every touch of the ball. But off-the-pitch, there is a misconstrued notion that these star performers are like the bubbly gone flat. Lay those doubts
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      Lock icon SIR CHARLES TO EWING: QUIT SOON
      347 19 Lat-Wp NEW YORK If any of Patrick Ewing’s former contemporaries understand what the ex-Knick is going through, it’s Charles Barkley. And yesterday, the Retired Round Mound of Rebound offered this advice for the Sonics center: Shut it down after this season. On the afternoon
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      Lock icon Sonics zoom past Knicks
      404 19 Payton goes on rampage, helps Ewing thumb nose at former team AP SEATTLE Patrick Ewing was a winner in his first match-up against his former New York Knicks teammates, thanks in large part to Seattle guard Gary Payton’s stellar performance. The SuperSonics star had 25 points,
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  • Unwind
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      Lock icon Book that club
      1388 20 So you know your Sasha from your Digweed. But can you engage in a discourse on rave culture’s transcendental nature KARL BO (karl@sph .com.sg) tells you how to become a literate clubber. OW that party-goers L J have done the H practical, maybe it’s time to go
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    • Clubbing
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        Lock icon Paris nights are all right
        538 22 NYT OU can date the Y ascent of the Right Bank from the 1989 opening of the Opera de la Bastille. Around that time, artists began trading their pricey Left Bank studios for loft spaces in warehouses. The opening of new galleries and restaurants followed
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        Lock icon CLUB OF THE WEEK
        516 22 Karl Ho Altivo Bar En-route 109 Mount Faber Road Mount Faber Cable Car Station GETTING impatient waiting for Zouk Out? Then head on down to En-route at the Altivo Bar on Mount Faber this Saturday to warm up your blue suede shoes first. A decidedly smaller
        – Karl Ho; The Straits Times  -  516 words
    • Movies
      • Hollywood GOSSIP
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          Lock icon Britney’s Buffy appearance slayed
          92 23 WILL Britney be scarier than the creatures on Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Alas, we’ll never find out. The teen queen was to guest on the popular TV show, but she pulled out due to scheduling conflicts. However, the character she would have played will live on.
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          Lock icon Hughie’s queer role models
          66 23 HUGH Grant doesn’t bat for the other camp. That much we know after his exploit with one Divine Brown. But his choice of role models does seem rather queer. He tells Movieline magazine: “The three that I’ve had all my life have been the Queen, Woody
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          Lock icon Hollywood’s leading men in flying mood
          102 23 HOLLYWOOD leading men have a new status symbol besides blond starlets. The stars are now hankering after pilot licences and their own private planes. Kevin Costner and Arnold Schwarzenegger both own Gulfstream series planes which cost anywhere between US$35 million (Sss9 million) and US$4O
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        Lock icon Sharp movie statement
        644 23 SITIHADUAH (pedas@eyeball.com.sg) went to the roof of Suntec City to figure out why vertigo-plagued Mark Richmond would be dangling from one of the tallest towers in Singapore. HE sun was T scorching hot at 11.30 am. Climbing up the ladder to the rooftop of Suntec City Tower
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        847 24 CHICKEN RUN (PG) Stars: The voices of Mel Gibson, Julie Sawalha, Miranda Richardson CHICKEN Run is the first full-length claymation feature made by the nimble-fingered geniuses at Aardman Animation, Nick Park and Peter Lord. Together, they’re the Oscar-winning team behind Wallace And Gromit the market-spoilers that keep winning
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        744 25 CHICKEN RICE WAR (PG) Stars: Lum May Yee, Pierre Png IF SINGAPORE ever felt the need to make an apology to the world, the speech has been written. Entitled Chicken Rice War, it seeks absolution -for over an hour -for the way we speak, what we think
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        123 25 American Pi http://www.cinemanow.com IF YOU’RE tired of all the Blair Witch parodies out on the Net, tune into American Pi. It’s a hilarious 22-minute spoof of both Pi the Sundance winner about an obsessed mathematician and American Pie, the Hollywood hit about Jason Biggs losing his cherry. American
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          120 25 THE new Michael Winterbottom film has a hardworking website at http://theclaimmovie.com, where one can trace the entire development of the film. The site features a downloadable script, making-of footage (including Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich and Nastassja Kinski), a virtual tour of the snowy set, as well
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          54 25 AMERICAN actor-director Forrest Whitaker has been joined by British producer Johann Insanally, under commission by Britain’s Film Four, to develop and make films featuring black and Asian talent, reports Variety.com. Film Four has already pledged an undisclosed amount towards the joint venture’s first
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          33 25 “DO YOU know what they called me at home? They called me the Lone Free-Ranger.” Rocky (Mel Gibson) the Rooster bragging to chicks in the movie Chicken Run. SandiTan
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        86 26 Carl Brashear, 69, the retired naval diver who inspired the movie Men Of Honor (review on page 24), was in town for the movie’s special screening. Amongst the guests (flanking him) were US navy officers stationed in Singapore, and naval personnel from the attach submarine USS
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        532 26 Lat Film critics have raved over Croupier, but an Oscar nomination is not on the cards. A brief run in Singapore in 1998, along with inflexible rules, may be to blame, reports PATRICE GOLDSTIiIN (pedas@eyeball.com.sg) ■HHH ILM critic David L I Ansen of Newsweek said
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      31 26 Croupier, the noirish tale of a novelist-turned-croupier, showed at Shaw cinemas in 1998. It’s still available on video atD&O Video, Tanglin Shopping Centre, and at Hollywood Video at King Albert Park.
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      471 27 BEING the US Vice-President often means putting one’s foot in one’s mouth, repeatedly just ask Dan Quayle. So here, with two terms as VP served, are some memorable quotes from Al Gore, as gleaned from the Net: “If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
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      369 27 Movies The Kiss 10 pm AXN 19 Magic, possession and bizarre deaths turn a life topsy-turvy. When beautiful Amy Halloran turns 16, she meets Aunt Felice, a successful model. Felice’s life turned around as a child when she was kissed by a strange aunt, and now she has returned to
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      199 28 Reuters ACTRESS Melanie Griffith has entered a hospital programme in Los Angeles to treat an addiction to prescription drugs, her publicist said on Tuesday. “My doctor has referred me to the Daniel Freeman Hospital to step down from the prescribed medication that I have been taking
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      174 28 r/ I IRS I it w as Ben Affleck cosy ing up to Carrie Fisher. Now it’s Gwyneth Paltrow, his on again, off again lover, who’s gotten herself a new distraction, reports The New York Post. The flaxen-haired actress (left) has a new
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        107 28 OXFORD, England Former Beatle George Harrison (left) shouted: “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna!” while being assaulted by a knife-wielding intruder in hopes of disorienting his attacker, a jury heard on Tuesday. Harrison said in a statement read in court that he thought he was going to
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        147 28 Wires U2’S Bono said his children have pleaded with him not to drive them to school since he is always togged in his dressing gown. “I know there are people in this world who get up in the morning and take the time to peruse their wardrobe. But I’m
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