Project Eyeball, 16 April 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Monday, April 16, 2001 80 CENTS
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      345 1 CLARK SUCKS, PEDRO SMOULDERS Good erotic writing needs to be more than just sex, as Candida Clark’s laughably bad descriptions illustrate. See Page 22 IT’S DOWNEY AND PATRICK Turn on the tube to see how the casting of Robert Downey Jr (left) and Robert Patrick has revitalised Ally Mcßeal and
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      95 2 REMEMBER that warning about becoming a rubbish collector if you didn’t study hard enough? That “threat” won’t work on Adam, a seven-year-old from Hyde, Manchester. Helped by Tameside Council, Adam’s grandfather, Stan Pritchard, arranged a birthday surprise for him spending the day with refuse collectors. Pritchard said Adam is
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      362 2  -  Manpower Minister tells S’poreans to prepare for retrenchments BY DENYSE YEO denyse@sph.com.sg CHERISH your jobs more preciously, folks. The employment situation is “not going to be as good as last year”, and retrenchment cannot be ruled out, warned Manpower Minister Lee Boon Yang yesterday. This was because
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon CPF review pushed to year’s end
        150 2 WITH all this talk of more lay-offs and the expected economic slowdown, the review of the CPF restoration is likely to be postponed till the end of the year. NTUC secretary-general and Minister-without-Portfolio Lim Boon Heng told reporters yesterday that the restoration will depend
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      • Article
        Lock icon Eat local to support home food industry
        136 2 THINK global, eat local. That’s what Minister for Health Lim Hng Kiang hopes Singaporeans will do support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the food industry and help them take their products regional. “We want to encourage Singaporeans, especially the younger generation,
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        Lock icon NZ, S’pore trade grows 35%
        99 2 TRADE ties between New Zealand and Singapore have seen an immediate boost since their free trade agreement. The ANZSCEP (Agreement between New Zealand and Singapore on a Closer Economic Partnership), implemented on Jan 1 this year, has sparked a solid 35 per cent growth in
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        Lock icon A beautiful New Year
        54 2 The search for Miss Song Kran was one of the many events during the “Celebrating Song Kran” event held at the Kallang Riverside Park yesterday for Thai nationals to usher in their New Tear. The winner of the pageant, an annual event in Thailand, walked away
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      319 3 LONDON The British government urged people yesterday to be on their guard after an explosion ripped through a postal sorting office in northwest London late Saturday in the latest attack blamed on Northern Ireland's Real IRA. VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul II insisted yesterday the world could change
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      Lock icon With crew released, both sides’ position hardens
      483 3 China declares pilot a martyr, bnt US insists he was at fault Wires BEIJING The stage is set for for tense follow-up talks on Wednesday as China proclaimed its fighter pilot killed in a collision with a US spy plane a “revolutionary martyr”
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      Lock icon NU to go ahead with rally
      188 3 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia’s largest Islamic movement, the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has decided to go ahead with a mass rally in Jakarta on April 29 the eve of a Parliament session that might rebuke President Abdurrahman Wahid. NU chairman Hasyim Muzadi announced that the rally
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        1421 4  -  Hotels and event planners cash in BY LEONG PIK YIN pikyin@sph.com.sg TEN minutes ago, you were listening to a Powerpoint presentation, scribbling notes and exchanging ideas with your colleagues. Now, you’re perched precariously on a make-shift podium, armed with an over-sized inflatable baton, and beating
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      Lock icon Adding zest to corporate dos
      176 5 HAVE a ball of a time at your next corporate meeting. Yes, you heard right. Meetings need not bore you to tears, and these hotels and event planners can help: The Beaufort Hotel What it offers: Team-building games, beach activities, islandwide treasure hunt. Tel: *****90.
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Aiming for sporting glory
        984 6  -  Sports school project has athletes, parents and PE teachers buzzing with ideas, some contradictory BY UYEN VU uyen@sph.com.sg THE school jocks are excited and the physical education teachers are cautious. Recently announced by the Ministry of Community Development and Sports, the idea of a sports school
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        232 6 SEVERAL students and teachers Eyeball spoke to brought up the Malaysia Sports School as a possible model for Singapore’s own. Here are some of the features of the Bandar Penawar Sports School in Johor, established in 1998: Boarding school: Has a capacity for 600 students.
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Ansett’s workers blew whistle
        503 7 SAFETY SCANDAL SYDNEY Ansett Airlines’ ongoing safety scandal over its 10 grounded Boeing 767 s was no accident some diligent safety inspector stumbled across. It was an inside job by whistle blowers, who were worried that the company comprised passenger safety by taking too many short
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        Lock icon Amazon accused of old-economy’ ways
        423 7 E-tailer is harsh employer, says British trade union LONDON A British labour union trying to break into the unorganised dotcom sector has chosen to make the world’s largest e-com-merce trader a test case. The union said Amazon.com used the worst of old-economy working practices at
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        Lock icon Football used as teaching tool for maths
        222 8 THEORY KICKS IN LONDON The trick to learning mathematics appears to be the right context, which, in Britain’s case, could be football. That theory is being proven by the popularity of a series of primary school mathematics and English workbooks based on the
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        Lock icon Koizumi is people’s choice for PM
        504 8 But Hashimoto likely to win race for Japanese LDP leadership Wires TOKYO Junichiro Koizumi is the runaway favourite to be Japan’s next prime minister. But it is his rival, former premier Ryutaro Hashimoto, who is seen as most likely to win because he commands
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        Lock icon Next fad: New trainers made to look old
        178 8  -  Mik Zarzuela LONDON Hot on the heels of the vintage jeans trend, grubby tennis footwear may be the next fashion statement for the young. Dirty Flash, Dunlop’s new range of its classic Greenflash shoes cost £5O (Ssl3o), twice the price of a
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        Lock icon Clintons on second honeymoon
        263 9 Seen kissing passionately in resort NEW YORK It has been a long, long time since the Clintons were described as being passionate for each other. But last weekend, they were spotted kissing at a tropical holiday resort, according to drugdereport.com. Former President Bill Clinton and his
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        Lock icon Mad-cow scare hits other products
        396 9 ANYTHING FROM SOAP AND SHOES TO CANDY AND CANDLES AP FRANKFURT Price hikes for Italian shoes and French handbags. Fruit chews pulled from store shelves in Poland. Animal fat abandoned by global makers of face cream and soap. Europe’s effort to rein in its bout
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        Lock icon Kissing schoolboys in Aussie play raises hackles
        271 9 AP SYDNEY A remake of Romeo and Juliet, which shows two boys in school uniform kissing each other on stage, is raising a storm in Australia. The play, entitled Shakespeare’s R&J, recounts how four schoolboys stage the classic love story by William Shakespeare.
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon High-end flats for less
        476 10  -  Hyundai enters local LCD market with prices starting at $999 BY ANDREW CHIN andrewc@sph.com.sg IF THE long hours in front of your CRT (cathode ray tube) monitor is giving you severe eye strain and splitting headaches, perhaps you may want to try out the pancakeflat LCD
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        Lock icon Television, that’s something to sniff at
        318 10 ‘IMMERSIVE’ GOGGLE BOXES THERE’S a gardening programme on the telly and your nose picks up the sweet smell of roses and jasmine just as you see the beautiful images on screen. You are watching the future television, which is not just a box of
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Plan to retire in comfort?
        1160 11 Start young, and stay the course Wallstraits.com WHEN you’re in your twenties and thirties, retirement seems a long way away. But if you haven’t started planning for it, here are some headlines that will jolt you into thinking about retirement: 7 in 10 aged rely
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          704 14  -  BY JOHN LUI talk@sph.com.sg THE problem with technology is that so much of it happens elsewhere. Sony, a company that creates a lot of technology, is based in Japan, where, for centuries, people have made it a point not to speak English, even when they are
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        Lock icon The clock also ticks for men
        837 15  -  BY AMY BENFER Salon IF CHILDREN came with date stamps recording the age of their parents at the time of their conception, my daughter, now 11, would be one of the freshest children in the schoolyard. She’s the product of 16-year-old eggs and 16-year-old
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      26 2 Qood morning! Showers with thunder over most areas in the afternoon. Partly cloudy thereafter. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 3.22AM/2.3M 7.05PM/1.9M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      95 5 pennState World Campus FOUNDATION YEAR OPEN TO O-LEVEL HOLDERS Our Foundation Year is designed for those without a formal education qualification, to help them gain entry into Year One at a University degree course overseas. All 7 modules are being offered online from Penn State, a US top-50 university. Apply
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      103 7 penn State World Campus per H %'r C?*jH i A ''l >•4 "Liberal Arts A Dynamic Force" Straits Times, 28Mar01, on the future of broadbased education in Singapore The first of its kind offered in Singapore, the BA in Liberal Arts is a multidisciplinary online degree programme coming from a
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      275 12 Yes! I've landed at the right place! jm air Let's face it, I am cute! Mother and father are overjoyed at the birth of their first born girl Fang-Si on 4 August 2000. She was born with lush black hair and ready to smile. Chun Wai Man A gift yearned
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      134 13 Will I be the future manhunt??? Qayyum Raishyan Bin Rahmat It is really wonderful to have Olivia Juliani Johansen (2nd child) to join us on 5/10/00. Cindy Tan Hi! Rachel is my name. This is how I give my cutest smile. I don't care even if someone calls me 'boh
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  • EyeSport
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        Lock icon Vieira to stay
        64 16 Wires LONDON Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira has once again pledged his future to the Gunners this time adding that he would still stay at Highbury even if Arsene Wenger moved on. Vieira has been linked with a move to Italy in recent weeks while Wenger, whose contract
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      • Article
        Lock icon To quit or not?
        94 16 Reuters LONDON Former England international Stuart Pearce will decide whether he will retire from soccer “in the next couple of weeks”. Pearce, who plays for West Ham United, will turn 39 on April 24 and has been in talks with manager Harry Redknapp about his playing
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      • Article
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        44 16 AFP COFFS HARBOUR (Australia) John Aloisi’s English premiership season is almost certainly over after the Coventry City striker tore his hamstring in Australia’s 2-0 World Cup victory over Fiji over the weekend. The striker will be out for more than a month.
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      • Article
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        58 16 “CONTRARY to reports in the media, we’re not scared of him. He’s fair to all the players, although obviously if you’re not straight with him you’re not going to be the most happy person at Old Trafford. There’s a lot of respect for the manager.” Manchester
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        Lock icon Juventus wins
        74 17 AFP MILAN- Juventus pulled off a 3-1 win over Inter Milan at Stadio delle Alpi to bring the Serie A race to the boil. Second-half goals from Alessio Tacchinardi, Filippo Inzaghi and Alessandro del Piero ensured Juve dispatched Inter, who scored through Christian Vieri’s penalty. The Turin giant
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        Lock icon Bayern to shop
        76 17 AFP HAMBURG Bayern Munich GM Dietter Hoeness has said they were ready to spend 51 million euros (5581.6 million) on recruiting new players for next season with a complete revamping of the team in the summer. Munich, which reached the final of the 1999 European Champions League
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        Lock icon Nantes Victorians
        56 17 Ap PARIS Nantes moved a step closer to winning the French championship by beating Bastia TO in the 31st round of Le Championnat, despite playing with a man down for most of the second half. Goalkeeper-skipper Mickael Landreau made a string of saves to keep Nantes in the
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        62 17 AFP WASHINGTON-The historic opening match of the Women’s United Soccer Association was decided on a penalty kick, off a controversial foul involving the league’s top stars, Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm. Bay Area captain Chastain was whistled for a questionable foul on Washington’s Hamm to set up the
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      Lock icon Ralf’s turn to shine
      321 16 Younger Schumacher takes Imola by storm as brother Michael sputters out Reuters IMOLA (Italy) Ralf Schumacher seized the first win of his Formula One career at the San Marino Grand Prix yesterday with a commanding drive from start to finish that handed Williams its first victory
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      Lock icon The greatest manager wants European Cup too
      515 16 FERGUSON MAKES HISTORY Reuters LONDON Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed his place as the greatest manager in the history of British football when Manchester United won the Premiership title for the third successive season and the seventh time in nine years. Other clubs have
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      Lock icon Spurs outshine Nuggets
      351 17 San Antonio improve record to 57-23 AP SAN ANTONIO The San Antonio Spurs had little interest in relishing their latest accomplishment clinching home-court advantage throughout the Western Conference playoffs. Moments after their 111-95 rout of the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night, the NBA-leading Spurs were looking ahead.
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      Lock icon Iverson’s the man
      458 17 NBA’S TOP HONOUR CANDIDATES Lat-Wp WITH the season coming to a conclusion this week, it’s time to check out who are the contenders for the league’s top honours: Most Valuable Player The candidates: Tim Duncan, San Antonio; Kevin Garnett, Minnesota; Allen Iverson, Philadelphia; Shaquille O’Neal, Los Angeles
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      156 17 Formula One: Well, the fourth fixture on the FI racing calendar is over but the next Grand Prix takes place in just two weeks time at Barcelona, Spain. Log on to http://www. planetFl.com to get up to speed with the latest from yesterday’s race at Imola, and read
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  • Unwind
    • The Tube
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        Lock icon Roberts Rule
        1077 18 Ally Mcßeal and The X-Files have pulled off casting coups with Robert Downey Jr and Robert Patrick, whose on-screen chemistry with their respective leading ladies have rejuvenated these tired TV serials. JEAMMARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) finds out what makes these Bobs tick. 0IS notoriously off-kilter “dramedy” and its sex-obsessed
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        Lock icon NO ROBERTS TO HELP DRIVE THESE MISGUIDED STAR-DRIVEN VEHICLES
        276 19  -  JEANMARIE TAN BIG-NAME stars don’t always guarantee a television hit, looking at some star-driven vehicles that have crashed and burned in a massive goggle-box wreckage pile-up. Here’s a look at the quirky US sitcoms which scored big opening-night ratings last October,
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        Lock icon Introducing Dorothy who?
        669 20 You’ve seen the seductive posters of Halle Berry for HBO’s latest TV movie plastered on Orchard Road bus stops. But just who is Dorothy Dandridge? JEAMMARIETAM (jeanmarie@sph.com.sg) takes a look at the rise and fall of this pioneering 1950 s screen goddess. D OROTHY DANDRIDGE is no
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    • Books
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        1060 21 NYT Chris Wares comics go beyond pictures. Indeed, he's bringing graphic literature to a bookstore near you. NEIL STRAUSS reports. N A world just getting comfortable with long-form comics as graphic novels, Chris Ware’s work heralds a rarer genre: graphic literature. To fans of alternative comics which
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      • Book MARKS
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          81 22 OFFICIALS from the University of Texas at Austin and Swann Galleries in New York are keeping mum about how a rare book, missing from the university’s collection since 1992, has popped up in the auction house’s catalogue. II Petrarcha (1514), a collection of poems by Francesco Petrarch, has
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          Lock icon Murder we’ll mark
          50 22 NEW publisher House of Stratus has hit on a bizarre scheme to promote its classic crime series. Black plaques affixed around Britain will herald the scenes of fictional murders. With a dose of meta-reality, a spokesman said: “You can find out what dirty deeds were done where.”
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          Lock icon If he can catch him
          78 22 DISPLAYING typical movie mogul arrogance and ignorance, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein expressed his keen interest in film rights to The Catcher In The Rye by roaring at a subordinate: “Just you get me in a room with this Salinger guy and I’ll talk him round.”
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          55 22 FRAN DRESCHER, star of TV’s The Nanny, must be laughing her infectious nasal laugh all the way to the bank. She has sold a memoir of her successful battle with early stage uterine cancer to Warner Books for US$l million (Ssl.B million). Her first book, Enter Whining, was
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        Lock icon Writing their stories erotic
        469 22 THE CONSTANT EYE Candida Clark (Vintage), $lB DIRTY HAVANA TRILOGY Pedro Juan Gutierrez, translated by Natasha Wimmer (Faber), $28.30 LITERARY smut has always pushed the bouhdaries of what society considers acceptable think D H Lawrence and Marquis de Sade. Two hot new releases could mean that
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        Lock icon OTHER EROTICA WRITERS
        238 22  -  CLARA CHOW DH Lawrence Renowned English poet and novelist. His notorious novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), deals with the sexually fulfilling love affair between a member of the nobility and her husband’s gamekeeper. An expurgated version was published in 1932. The third and most sexually explicit version
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        Lock icon Fairies for tech-savvy kids
        481 23  -  Reviews: Clara Chow ARTEMIS FOWL Eoin Colfer (Puffin) ARTEMIS FOWL is hotly tipped in the publishing world to be the next Harry Potter. Colfer himself describes it as “Die Hard with fairies”, and even before the book was published, Miramax had snapped up the film rights
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        Lock icon QUICK PICKS
        297 23 POSTCARDS FROM NO MAN’S LAND Aidan Chambers (Red Fox), $15.70 BATMAN: NO MAN’S LAND Alan Grant (Faber), $13.00 TWO books, linked by their titles. One, the winner of Britain’s most prestigious children’s book award; the other, a marketing rip-off. Postcards From No Man’s Land wrested the Carnegie Medal
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        210 23 ON THE ROAD Jack Kerouac (1922-69) Why: April 22 will be the 50th anniversary of the day Kerouac finished writing On The Road in 1951. Who: His name is synonymous with the Beat (short for “beatitude” the idea that the downtrodden are saintly) Generation. Son of French-Canadian
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      287 20 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOP PICKS Movies Home Fries Tonight 9 pm HBO (Ch 60) BARRY LEVINSON’S (Sphere, Rain Man) offbeat dark comedy is about a pregnant mistress (Drew Barrymore in yet another quirky role) who is stalked by her lover’s sons at the behest of their vengeful mother. Things
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      117 21 Nutritious Homemade "DouhaaShui?" Boil-it yourself, it's easy with Soyabean Powder Soyabean is well known for its wide range of nutritious value. For most people, soyabean drink for breakfast is a necessity but, that warrants a trip to the market in the early hour. Now, it is so easy to prepare
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Actor stabbed in pub brawl, another maced
      146 24 A PUB brawl landed actor Steve Bnscemi (right) in a hospital with stab wounds above an eye, under his jaw, in his neck and on his arms. The gaunt-looking actor who is best remembered in films such as The Big Lebowski, Fargo, and
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      Lock icon Brando hospitalised with pneumonia
      87 24 JUST when screen legend Marlon Brando (above) was about to start shooting a cameo role in the horror spoof Scary Movie 2, he’s been hospitalised for pneumonia. In the sequel to last year’s hit comedy hit, Brando will play a priest who performs an exorcism spoofing
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      124 24 Chat Mouse Like a virgin A WOMAN had been married four times and was still a virgin. Somebody asked her how that could be possible. “Well,” she said, “the first time I married an octogenarian and he died before we could consummate the marriage.” “The second time I married a
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      Lock icon Arnie ‘all but certain’ about run for office
      156 24 THE man who immortalised the line “I’ll be back” will eschew his dwindling film career for another that calls for more acting chops: Politics. Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) told an Austrian newspaper, Die Kone, that he intends to run for elected office. “It
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        Lock icon Halliwell says moves are all hers
        68 24 WORD has been going around that the svelte body in the music video for It’s Raining Men isn’t Geri Halliwell’s (left), but a superimposed image of the ex-Spice Girls’ head over a dancer’s body. The solo singer has vehemently denied it, saying: “It’s rubbish.
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        Lock icon Film’s fake drugs bowl Depp over
        108 24 Wires JUST because they make loads of money doesn’t mean Hollywood stars aren’t exposed to occupational hazards. Johnny Depp has had many a date with the toilet bowl, thanks to the fake cocaine he’s been using for his new film Blow since it’s actually
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