Project Eyeball, 26 March 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Monday, March 26, 2001 80 CENTS
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      342 1 SMELLY BUSINESS John Lni puts his nose to the Tech ground and sniffs out a fart detector, developed by a Japanese maker of medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices (this is not a joke). See Page 14 TAKING FLIGHT Fiona Voon wonders if she will change her view of life here
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      98 2 THE legendary beauty of Egyptian queen Cleopatra is just that -a legend. An exhibition at London’s British Museum next month, which features 11 statues previously thought to portray other queens, will show Cleopatra as plain-looking, about 1.52 m tall, and plump. The queen’s revised look goes against history, which
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    • Article
      Lock icon E-voting at next GE?
      491 2 It may be tried on an ‘experimental basis’, says Home Affairs Minister CLICK here for the candidate of your choice. This may well be how some Singaporeans will be voting in the next General Election. Instead of using paper ballots, the Government plans to try out
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      Lock icon The oyster is his world
      287 2 NEW SHUCKING CHAMPION A SHUCKING good time. That’s what it was. Irish ales, boisterous cheers, and toe-tapping music you could be forgiven for thinking that you were in a watering hole somewhere in Dublin. Only, you were in Singapore at Muddy Murphy’s, and the highlight
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon SingTel clinches Aussie deal?
        82 2 SINGTEL is believed to have pipped two world-class telephone companies in its takeover bid for Australia’s Cable and Wireless Optus. Its offer is said to be between Asl6 billion (5515.1 billion) and As2o billion. An announcement on the successful bid is expected today. Talk that Sing
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      • Article
        Lock icon Chinese woman found dead in hotel
        64 2 A 28-YEAR-OLD woman was found dead in a budget hotel in Little India yesterday morning. The dead woman, believed to be a Chinese national, was found with injury marks in a third-floor hotel room at the Kerbau Inn in Belilios Lane. Police are treating
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      • Article
        Lock icon Health tests for Kaki Bukit’s elderly
        45 2 KAKI BUKIT residents aged 55 and above took part yesterday in a community health-screening programme organised by grassroots and social organisations and the Health Ministry. The residents paid only $5 to be screened for high blood pressure and diabetes.
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      372 3 COLORADO Canada’s Defence Minister Art Eggleton said he would not allow the Canadian Armed Forces to push him into signing up for a planned US missile defence system before being formally invited. But some Canadian senior military figures fear that too much footdragging over missile defence could damage
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      378 3 Mori, Putin make little headway in talks, except to agree to talk again Wires IRKUTSK (Russia) Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori agreed at a summit yesterday never to abandon hope of one day signing a peace treaty ending
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      Lock icon 20 COPS move house because of one lost diary
      169 3 AFP LONDON More than 20 highranking police officers in Northern Ireland have been advised to move house after a superintendent’s car containing a diary with their personal details was stolen, The Sunday Telegraph reported. Their lives could be in danger as
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Fighting for her due
        899 4  -  Laid-off executive finds claiming arrears is uphill task By Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg THE world of executives is not as glamorous as it seems. Should their companies fold, they have nowhere to go for compensation. It’s a complaint that’s bound to get shriller in the coming months
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        294 4  -  Nicholas Yong IF YOU’RE an executive involved in a termination dispute because the company you were with has folded, here’s some advice from the Ministry of Manpower: “When a company ceases operation, it is likely that it has become insolvent. “In such a
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    • Singapore
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        232 5 If you want to zip around in a hip commercial van, check these out. Daihatsu Extol (above) Compact and sporty-looking, this is the new and improved successor to the legendary Daihatsu Hijet. Its rear compartment is also one of the longest. Price: $40,900 (including insurance and COE). Call
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        Lock icon Women at the helm They ve got a bad case of van-ity
        664 5  -  More women are shelving cars for small vans By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg WOMEN are in the driver’s seat, literally. Not just in cars, but in commercial vehicles too. Looking at petite 28-year-old Yvonne Leong, you would have
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        298 5  -  By Eugene Wee eugenew@sph.com.sg A THOUSAND miles of ocean cannot drown their love. But that’s how much Brook Tester, 20, and Arlene Alphonse, 30, love sailing and their respective boyfriends. The duo serve as crew on the USS Kitty Hawk, an aircraft carrier docked at the
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        Lock icon Dine with the animals
        352 6 NIGHT SAFARI LAUNCHES GOURMET EXPRESS A SUNSET, good food and night prowling. It’s not a clip from an arthouse movie, but the Night Safari’s Gourmet Express comes pretty close. Come April, every Friday, this wild sanctuary will roll out its dining tram a la The Oriental
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        Lock icon Blowing the colonial horn
        53 6 Mister Mem of The Sundowners Bush Band Australia plays the Didgeridoo, a wind instrument, to a crowd on an open field opposite Plaza By The Park. Using instruments like the bushbourine, the lagerphone and bones, the band recaptures the colonial spirit with their original folk compositions.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Insure your mobile against loss
        573 6  -  Local telcos may offer insurance policies By Leong Pik Yin pikyin@sph.com.sg ABSENT-MINDED people may soon be able to protect themselves against scatterbrained moments: They could buy insurance policies for their mobile phones. It’s a possibility, said Ml’s assistant general manager of corporate communications, Chua Swee
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        Lock icon CHECK WITH CABS FIRST
        188 6 LOST your mobile? Just look for that cab that you took to work. Pauline Tan, senior public relations executive of Comfort, told Eyeball that the company receives about 1,000 calls every month from cab passengers reporting a lost mobile phone. City Cab said about 1,800 items
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    • The World
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        Lock icon ‘Organised criminals behind M’sia attacks’
        393 7 MIC’S SAMY VELLU ON PETALING JAYA VIOLENCE AFP Kuala LUMPUR Malaysia’s top Indian politician claims that organised criminals may be behind the recent attacks against Malaysia’s minority Indians. S Sarny Vellu, president of the Malaysian Indian Congress, was quoted by the Sunday Star as saytog
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        157 7 MALAYSIAN leaders have not attributed the clashes to race, rather, to the opposition and personal differences: ‘The opposition seems to be targeting the poor In that area and has poisoned them Into believing the government had neglected them. Based on this,! believe such clashes are linked to
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        413 7 Lay off foreign workers first, says govt KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is putting the interest of its citizens first the government has ordered that multinational companies (MNCs) with factories in Malaysia lay off foreign workers first if they shut down or relocate their operations. Deputy
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        470 8 Abductions affect country’s image and President’s standing, says security adviser Wires MANILA Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is vowing to stamp out her country’s image as the world’s kidnapping capital after a rash of abductions threatens to derail her supporters in upcoming national polls. Military intelligence officers are
        – Wires; Bong Fortin  -  470 words
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        Lock icon Kidnap consultants do big business
        518 8 RESCUING HOSTAGES AP HERE are some fast facts on kidnapping: You have the greatest chance of being kidnapped if you work for an oil, gas or mining company and get posted to Colombia. If you are kidnapped, the ransom demand will probably be U *****,000
        – AP  -  518 words
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        Lock icon Have they got the dope on me?
        851 9 Salon If Jenna Bush is a pothead, is it news? Is the press giving the President a break JAMES PINKERTON is a columnist for Newsday and worked as a White House aide under Presidents Ronald Reagan and Qeorge W Bush. SHOULD Jenna Bush,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Scaring kids away from drugs
        222 9 HOWARD LAUNCHES TOUGH DRIVE Reuters SYDNEY Scaring kids off drugs that’s Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s latest assault in his war on drugs. He launched a new zero-toler-ance campaign yesterday to get tough on children taking drugs. The As27-million (5523.8-mil-lion) television and pamphlet campaign features
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon This is not just any pen
        415 10 Cheaper spy gadgets, especially nannycams, turn ordinary folk into spies AP ATLANTA That Mont Blanc pen is really a tiny video system. Those sunglasses are also a surveillance camera. And that phone, well, it’s not just a phone. It’s a device that lets you
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    • Business
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        445 11 It might be your f irst time, or maybe you are just hopeless with numbers. Whatever the reason, filing your income tax returns can be a stressful exercise. So, with the deadline for filing just round the corner (April is), Eyeball presents to you an
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        178 11 I.R.A.S. WEBSITE GUIDES YOU THROUGH THE PROCESS Gail Aw WITH the deadline for filing your income-tax papers less than three weeks away, you might want to try out the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore’s (Iras) e-filing system, at http://efile.iras.gov.sg. If you have access
        – Gail Aw  -  178 words
      • Article
        Lock icon Market could look up but gains may not last
        408 11 Wires SINGAPORE The battered local stock market may find some support this week but analysts said any move on the upside would be fragile. “The markets have come off very quickly. So you might have a technical rebound from time to
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    • Mailbox
      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon On the right scent
          741 14  -  By John Lui talk@sph.com.sg DEPRESSED though I was that Russian space station Mir crashed to earth last week without harming any member of’N Sync, lots of people were pleased with the operation. But many technology editors are quite sad because now they can’t run stories about
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      • Article
        Lock icon THE WAITING GAME
        107 14 WE KEEP others waiting at wedding dinners and at the doctor’s all the time what’s with this waiting game Singaporeans play? 33% Pure selfishness; better for someone else to waste his time than mine, so I arrive last. 26% Everybody else (doctors, the newlyweds) is never on
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      • Generation NEXT
        • Taking flight
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            Lock icon Try not to be a S’porean White
            605 15  -  By Fiona Voon teens@eyeball.com.sg AFTER the A-level results flash past, the only tangible proof of 12 years in the pressure cooker is that green slip of paper in your hands. Some of us will now grapple with the question of which country to
            Mik Zarzuela  -  605 words
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            Lock icon Breaking free from the system
            493 15  -  By Benjamin Lee atomeeklemon@hotmail.com I’M A 16-year-old student, and I left Singapore for Australia in January. Sounds like a confession, doesn’t it? Before you write me off as a “deserter”, let me tell you why I decided to move away. I did not enjoy being
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      50 2 Departments: Enquiries 730-5800 eyenews@sph.com.sg Local News 730-5461 local@eyeball.com.sg Foreign News 730-5807 w orld@eyeball.com.sg Business News 730-5864 biz@eyeball.com.sg Eye Sport 730-5832 sports@eyeball.com.sg Unwind 730-5844 leisure@eyeball.com.sg Tech 730-5817 tech@eyeball.com.sg Online Edition 730-5811 Archives 730-5726 stlib@cyberway.com.sg Subscription fax line 746-1925 Snail Mail Project Eyeball News Centre, Level 6 82, Genting Lane Singapore *****7
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      26 2 Qood morning! M Showers with thunder and gusty winds in the morning affecting many areas. High: 32C 1 Low: 23C Tides: 12.03AM/2.7M 12.05PM/2.8M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      41 6 The Gourmet Express runs on April 6,13,20 and 27from 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm. Charges ($l3O per passenger, $ll7 per child) include Night Safari’s admission. There’s a $5O discount for groups of six. Make reservations through tel: 366 3635 or derek@zoo.com.sg.
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      40 7 SMALL PRICE BIG ROOM if ys mpf ll' |ii Complimentary Drinks Weekday Weekend Standard Room $4O $5O Superior Room $5O $6O Deluxe Room $55 $65 Tel: 842 0188 (10 lines) m Fax: 842 0388 12, Geylang Lorong 10, Singapore *****5
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      65 9 Read about the US First Daughter’s embarrassing escapades. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ allthebuzz/ allthebuzz.cfm?instanceid=B3l6 Jenna has been labelled “George W’s Wild Daughter” by the National Enquirer. http://www.usatodav.com/news/washdc/2001-01-29-bushtwins.htm George W and Laura Bush’s no-nonsense policy on the media’s treatment of their twin daughters. http://www.norml.org/facts/famous arrests.shtml Other celebrities arrested for marijuana use include director Oliver
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      34 11 For more information, please visit IRAS’ Frequently Asked Questions page at http://efile.iras.gov.sg/html/faq3.html, or call the e-filing helpline at 1800-252 5011. E-Filing Centres, listed at http://www.iras.gov.sg/Services/svcEfilingprize.htm, are alsc open to those who require further assistance.
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      287 12 Hello, I'm Evelynn Tan. I bring much joy and laughter to my Daddy Mummy. We are overwhelmed with the arrival of our first child. Our precious little boy weighed 3.06 kg and 48cm long, and was born at Gleneagles hospital. Goh Peck Chuan *CENSORED* I've been rated R(A). Gabriel Low
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      191 13 Our latest contribution to the Singapore population Nisha Sheryn Selvaraja. Santhi Selvaraja James is the younger of my twin boys born on 3 January 2001. This little dragon had some complications while in Mommy's tummy but is now quite a ladies' man! Celestina Lee What a wonderful shower! Smell, fee!
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Comeback win
        98 16 AP LAS VEGAS Oscar De La Hoya, who said he’s going to concentrate on boxing instead of singing, pounded out a steady beat on Arturo Gatti’s head and body. De La Hoya marked his return from a nine-month lay-off on Saturday night with a fifth-round victory. It was
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        140 16 AFP PARIS Japan’s dream of mounting a strong challenge at next year’s World Cup was given a rude shock on Saturday in the shape of a 5-0 drubbing at the hands of world champions France. With both teams pre-qualified for next year’s finals, Japan’s French coach Philippe Troussier
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      Lock icon CONTENDERS IN CHIEF
      169 16 Jacques Rogge FLUENT in several languages, Rogge, 58 (right), competed at the 1968,1972 and 1976 Games and represented Belgium in rugby. He also coordinated the 2000 Olympics and tackled the problematic build-up to the 2004 Athens Games. He is an expert in the problem of the abuse
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      Lock icon Race for Olympic hot seat heats up
      358 16 Belgian Rogge to announce candidacy for 10C presidency Reuters BRUSSELS After months of tactical positioning, former Olympic yachtsman Jacques Rogge is to join the race for the most powerful job in world sport. The Belgian surgeon will end months of speculation today when
      – Reuters; AFP  -  358 words
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      Lock icon Bucks’ coach blazing new trail?
      313 16 EVERYONE’S UPSET WITH DUNLEAVY LAT-WP WASHINGTON Blazermania, catch it and die: With things looking ragged in Lakerdom, your fans could probably stand some cheering up, so here goes. Things look even worse in Blazerdom. The players are upset with coach Mike Dunleavy, who can’t find
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      Lock icon With the grace of a champion
      394 17 US figure skater Michelle Kwan wins 4th world title USA Today VANCOUVER Michelle Kwan’s coach quietly watched a monitor backstage, stone-faced, as Kwan’s main rival, Russian Irina Slutskaya, waited for the marks for her long programme at the World Figure Skating Championships on Saturday.
      – USA Today  -  394 words
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      118 17 BASKHThATiTi: After being booted out of Indiana University for violating a code of conduct clause in his contract, Bob Knight is back in the collegiate hoop scene: He was introduced as Texas Tech’s coach on Friday. Hear what Knight said at his introduction on http://www. usatoday.sports.com FOOTBALL: Sven
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      Lock icon Eriksson doing his homework
      140 17 ENGLAND-ALBANIA TIE AFP LIVERPOOL Coach Sven Goran Eriksson yesterday admitted knowing little about Albania, England’s opponents in Wednesday’s crucial 2002 World Cup qualifier. Following his side’s 2-1 win over Finland at Anfield on Saturday the Swede said he was beginning preparations for the crunch match. “I
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        94 17 AP PONTE VEDRA BEACH (Florida) David Duval is going to Augusta. He pulled out of the Players Championship with tendinitis in his right wrist, leaving him and others wondering if he could be ready for the Masters in two weeks. But an MRI done this week
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        118 17 AFP FLORIDA Both top-seeded Brazilian Gustavo Kuerten and Australian Open champ Andre Agassi advanced into the third round of the Tennis Masters Series here on Saturday. Kuerten, who was the runner-up to Pete Sampras here last year, posted a 6-1,6-7 (3/7), 6-4 victory to send home Moroccan
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  • Unwind
    • Books
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        Lock icon Fresh, from INDIA
        1086 18 So you’ve read the classics from Narayan, Naipaul and Rushdie. Now, meet India’s new talents, which C/J/'J C h OIC (claracSsph.com,sg)reports, have risen to satiate the international appetite, ‘Previous generations of Indian writers were more interested in local problems. They were limited by writing about national themes,
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        Lock icon INDIAN GIVERS: SOME AUTHORS TO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR
        255 19  -  Clara Chow j| Arundhati Roy CLAIM TO FAME: Thirtysomething Booker Prize winner hailing from Kerala. Trained as an architect, her debut novel, The God Of Small Things, about a pair of Indian twins and the death of their nine-year-old half-British
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        Lock icon Sacred rites of murder
        743 20  -  Reviews: Clara Chow DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS PD James (Faber), $27.90 P D JAMES is huge in England, even if Singaporean readers haven’t quite picked up on her yet. The author of Cluedo-like detective mysteries, set in closed communities, packs enough punch to knock John Grisham’s
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        Lock icon QUICK PICKS
        244 20  -  Clara Chow THE HOUSE OF GUCCI Sara Gay Forden (Morrow) $49.67fr0m Kinokuniya WE’RE in the thick of Fashion Festival 2001, so might as well beef up on designer lore. This tell-all book (right) purports to take us behind the scenes of the Gucci fashion-house scandal through the tale
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      • Book MARKS
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          Lock icon Welcome advances
          67 21 IRIS MURDOCH’S widower writes of extra-marital sexual encounters in his memoirs. John Bayley, 75, admitted that two women, “Margot” (a family friend) and “Mella” (an undergraduate), made welcome advances on him. The accounts of these amorous encounters are in Widower’s House, the third volume of Bayley’s memoirs, which
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          83 21 THE sales department of Random House US probably had to use an Ouija board when they sent out this letter, as reported in The Guardian: “Dear Ms Shelley, This is to advise you that shortly we will be offering your title listed below to the Remainder Marketplace. You
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          Lock icon Nervous knight
          86 21 YOU may be a world-famous musician, knighted by the queen, and still get cold feet reading your poetry. Sir Paul McCartney performed his poems for an audience of4oo, in Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, last Wednesday, and suffered from a case of nerves. “I’m just going to wing it as
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          72 21  -  Clara Chow BROOKLYN author Paul Auster is penning a racy flick for director Wayne Wang, their third film collaboration. Called The Center Of The World, it’s about a Silicon Valley geek who lands a steamy vacation with a stripper. It stars Peter Sarsgaard of Boys Don’t Cry fame,
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        598 21 GABRIEL’S GIFT Hanif Kureishi (Faber), $25.40 GABRIEL’S GIFT is a lot funnier than its predecessor, Intimacy, and has less sex than Hanif Kureishi’s other books. Returning from his midlife crisis, the cult London-born Pakistani screenwriter and novelist paints a portrait of adolescent angst and the
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        178 21  -  Clara Chow A SUITABLE BOT Vikram Seth What: At 1,349 pages, it’s the longest single volume published in the English language since the 17th century. The story of finding a good husband for 19-year-old Lata is set in an India on the brink of her first elections
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    • The Tube
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        Lock icon In a class of their own
        620 22 Quality teachers are the talk of the town they’re the vital ingredient in developing a beneficial education system. So, what lessons can we learn from pop culture? JEANMABIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) reports. 0IDNEY POITIER, Michael Caine, Meryl Streep, Sting all these celebrities have had their
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        445 22  -  Jeanmarie Tan FIRST, Cynthia Koh enrolled in Channel s’s school drama Moulmein High, tackling juvenile delinquents. Soon, Kym Ng will join the pedagogical fray, teaching gifted students in an all-boys school in Channel U’s new light-hearted Chinese sitcom Apple Pie. Together with the school counsellor (played
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      • Eyeballing TELEVISION
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          Lock icon More than friends
          607 23 Lust is in the air as saucy Brit sitcom Coupling leads television into the mating season. So forget those frigid Friends, says JEAMMARIE TAM (jeanm@sph.com.sg), get down and dirty with the English. TWO’S company, three’s a menage a trois. So what do you get with six? Plenty
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      311 23 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS Actor, comedian and writer Steve Martin hosts the 73rd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Movies A Lesson Before Dying: A True Story Saturday 0 9 pm OHBO (Ch 60) BASED on Ernest J Gaines’ best-selling novel, a compassionate teacher befriends a young Black prisoner
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      966 24 V got to be i connected i iDA |||pfj SINGAPORE ecetebrationsingapore 9 .com Hearing voices online mm Being hearing-impaired has certainly not good listener. After all, she is currently volunteering her services as an e-counsellor on a help website for teenagers, where they can-e-mail her about their problems or even
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