Project Eyeball, 26 April 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Thursday, April 26, 2001 80 CENTS
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      401 1 MAKE IT EAST FOR THEM TO VOTE We should send a signal that they are important sons and daughters of Singapore who still have a part to play in nation building, says Eugene Wee. See Page 15 WXSHLISTFOR GPRS PHONES WD Tang wants to know where all the goodies are
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      133 2 PLAYER OF THE WEEK A PIE for points that’s what a coach hopes will motivate New Zealand’s worst women’s rugby team to get their first points. Last weekend, the Whakatane Marist rugby team hit rock bottom again, scoring zilch to 196 points against an opponent. This adds up to
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      Lock icon Sony is top Asian brand
      429 2  -  SuperBrands survey shows SIA, Tiger, Knife score high among S’poreans Farrah Diba Tahar DRIVE home from work in a sleek BMW, make yourself a hot cup of Lipton tea and relax to the smooth tunes playing on your Sony compact disc player. These are the
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Tourists still flocking to S’pore
        139 2 TOURISM figures in Singapore are up, with visitor arrivals in March 3.8 per cent more than in the same month last year, totalling about 665,300 visitors. The Hari Raya Haji and Muharram holidays helped to boost arrivals from Indonesia and Malaysia by 8 and 8.3
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        Lock icon Police summon Roundtable’s Lim
        166 2 THE former president of The Roundtable, Raymond Lim, is the latest to be summoned by police who are investigating a seminar that the political discussion group organised last year. The police are trying to ascertain whether the seminar, held at RELC International Hotel on Nov 17,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Think Centre can sell books at rally
        126 2 THINK CENTRE has got the go ahead to sell books, T-shirts and stickers at Yio Chu Kang stadium this Saturday during its “Save JBJ” rally. This looks like its main means of collecting funds to help Opposition leader JB Jeyaretnam who’s facing bankruptcy.
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        Lock icon Jewellery design contest for kids
        93 2 WITH Mother’s Day just around the corner, Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) Classifieds is offering young readers a chance to give their mothers self-designed jewellery custom-made by Poh Heng Jewellery. Readers aged five to 12 are invited to submit their drawings of the perfect piece of
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        70 2 THE Department of Microbiology in the National University of Singapore (NUS) may well have come up with a key to cure cance shitake mushrooms. A study by NUS and a life sciences company here has found that extracts from the mushrooms helped suppress tumors in
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      313 3 EEEzZ Managers of the International Space Station agreed yesterday to allow an American millionaire, Dennis Tito, to visit the orbiting laboratory as a tourist despite concerns about the safety of having a lesser-trained nonprofessional on board. LONDON In an attempt to address a key election issue, Home Secretary
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      532 3 Police vow no special treatment as former Philippine president protests his innocence AFP MANILA Former Philippine leader Joseph Estrada was hauled off to prison yesterday to stand trial for economic plunder, a charge that could cost him his life. Thousands of police and Marines swarmed into
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Nurture, not nature
        920 4  -  High IQ not just a product of genes, but also environment BY Wong Sher Maine sher@sph.com.sg GENIUS is in the genes, isn’t it? So when Dr Hu Wen Wey -a medical doctor and ex-president of Mensa Singapore sent his daughter and son for intelligence quotient or IQ
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    • Singapore
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        Lock icon Pasir Ris to get night clinic
        548 5  -  Facility to open earlier than scheduled because of demand BY SUE-ANN CHIA sueann@sph.com.sg FROM December, residents of Pasir Ris will be getting a healthy dose of medical care closer to home. And, in a location used for yoga and cooking lessons the community club.
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      • Article
        Lock icon S’poreans ‘not terribly sexy’
        423 5  -  MEN BELOW 40 DO IT 6.2 TIMES A MONTH, SURVEY SHOWS BY DENYSE YEO denyse@sph.com.sg AND people wonder why this country does not have more babies. A study by the National University of Singapore has found that Singaporeans don’t have sex all that frequently, and are
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        Lock icon Soon you can bank at Fair Price
        655 6  -  DBS tie-up offers ‘no frills’ services BY FRANCIS KAN francisk@sph.com.sg DBS BANK customers will soon be able to buy vegetables and update their passbooks all under one roof. Under a tie-up between the bank and supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice, all of NTUC’s 68
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        Lock icon Shop through TV by year-end
        317 6  -  MASTERCARD IS ONE PARTY BEHIND T-COMMERCE BY STEVEN NG stevenng@sph.com.sg YOU are watching a Kim Basinger movie and her dress catches your fancy. You then use the remote control to get a product description and price on screen, and pay for it with your credit
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Taiwan can count on US might
        547 7 Bush says Washington has an obligation to defend the island if China attacks Wires WASHINGTON President George W Bush abandoned previous ambiguity and declared yesterday that the United States would defend Taiwan if it was attacked by China. Shortly after Washington unveiled the biggest
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        Lock icon NEGATIVE FEELINGS
        117 7 THE US public is uncomfortable with voting for a presidential candidate who is: An Asian-American 23% An Afro-American 15% A woman 14% A Jew 11% They also think Chinese- Americans are: More loyal to China than the US 32% The telephone survey of 1,002 respondents was conducted on
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        377 8 HIGH COURT SEAMS MALAYSIA RIGHTS GROUP Wires KUALA LUMPUR In a legal victory for the police, a High Court judge yesterday upheld the detention of five Malaysian opposition activists under the Internal Security Act (ISA) and slammed Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission for giving the detainees’ relatives false
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        Lock icon Koizumi breaks away from past
        538 8 Picks ally, rival for top LDP posts Reuters TOKYO In an apparent attempt to back his reformist credentials, Japan’s Prime Minister-in-waiting Junichiro Koizumi yesterday picked a staunch ally and a recent rival for top party posts. He chose close ally Taku Yamasaki for the position
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        245 8 Reuters TOKYO Koizumi’s win was not welcomed warmly by Japanese diplomats, who were concerned that his nationalist tilt could aggravate ties with some of Tokyo’s Asian neighbours. In what could be Koizumi’s first taste of an international rebuff, Beijing said yesterday that China’s No 2
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        Lock icon Gender has role in reaction to diseases, treatments
        287 9 PANEL FINDINGS NYT Washington sex matters or rather biological differences between the sexes does. The US National Academy of Sciences said in a report released on Tuesday that much more attention should be paid to the different ways in which women and
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        Lock icon Burning up tourism
        509 9 British tourism officials say critical guidebook isn't helping LONDON The strong pound, wet weather and endless images of slaughtered animals smouldering on pyres those were the problems plaguing British tourism this year. But now an outspoken guidebook threatens to further spoil Britain’s image to visitors, by condemning
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        Lock icon MAD ABOUT BRITAIN: WHAT’S HOT & NOT
        200 9 MAD ABOUT BRITAIN: WHAT’S HOT NOT COOL Fishguard: “Ferry ports tend to be ugly, depressing places, but Fishguard stands out as an exception to the rule. It’s on a beautiful bay (and the coastline) is far less touristy than the southern part of Pembrokeshire”. Sheffield: “Galleries and parks are being
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    • Technology
      • Tech TALK
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          Lock icon Apple may unveil new iBook soon
          138 10 APPLE will soon debut a new version of its ißook so says speculation on bulletin boards and tech websites. Apple US has halted sales of the laptop at its online store. It is currently listed as “temporarily unavailable”, a designation that typically precedes a
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          Lock icon Somethings never change
          178 10 MICROSOFT is requiring consumers who want to use Windows Media Player 8 to upgrade to the new Windows XP operating system. The move is reminiscent of the company’s controversial decision to tie the Internet Explorer browser with Windows, reports ZDNet. A similar “tying” of Internet Explorer with
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        655 10  -  Eyeball tests three colour printers to find out which one gives value for money BY ANDREW CHIN andrewc@sph.com.sg YOU may be committed to saving trees, but it’s hard to get away from using a printer. Eyeball takes a look at three new models from Hewlett-Packard, Epson
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    • Business
      • Business BUZZ
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          62 11 SINGAPORE’S largest property company Capita Land is partnering Standard Chartered Bank to provide a financial investment package for purchasers of The Floravale and Woodsvale executive condominiums (EC) located at Jurong West and Woodlands, respectively. The two ECs will be relaunched on Saturday, and for a limited period, buyers
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          Lock icon No more Job cuts
          54 11 FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL employees in Singapore need not worry. The contract manufacturer which has axed 8,500 people or 10 per cent of its work force, has no plans to cut jobs here. A spokesman said the company had “completed” the cutbacks and there be no need of
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      • Article
        Lock icon A sound stock option in uncertain times
        421 11  -  OUB, DBS offer best defensive value say analysts BY Nicholas Yong nicyong@sph.com.sg THERE are clouds on the horizon and big buys in the bag. While this might mean lower earnings for local banks, the advice from analysts is: Don’t write off bank stocks.
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        411 11  -  DOWNTURN DOESN’T MEAN HAING TO GO BUST BY FRANCIS KAN francisk@sph.com.sg E-COMMERCE is struggling to take flight in the local business scene, but that’s no reason to write it off as an expensive waste of time. That’s because e-commerce, warts and all, might prevent
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        Lock icon DBS website named most popular again
        269 11 DBS’ website has been named the most popular bank site, again. A survey by France-based Internet measurement firm Net Value found that http://www.dbs.com attracted the most unique visitors in February this year. Chalking up some 106,210 unique visitors in the month, http://www.dbs.com was well
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    • Mailbox
      • Eye-T
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          Lock icon Phony claims
          997 14  -  Designers shouldn’t fear setting standards BY W D YANG talk@eyeball.com.sg DON’T believe any cellphone salesman if he tells you that you need a general packet radio service (GPRS) phone unless you’re a gadget freak like myself. These newfangled mobile inventions boast of “exciting new capabilities” that let you
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      • E-Male ADDRESS
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          Lock icon Don’t alienate S’poreans abroad
          676 15  -  BY EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg WHAT is the measure of a Singaporean? Boy, that is a good one. It’s a question that I’ve been grappling with over the last few days, especially over the hullaballoo over a citizen’s right to vote when overseas. In Parliament recently, Home
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        • Article
          Lock icon Keep Asian-ness in the name game but focus on branding
          394 15 ‘As-pi-who?’ (April 20) SO WHAT’S more cheena a traditional Asian name like Lee Hwa, or an unpronounceable, wannabe-Western one like Aspial? Companies think that a name change will help one compete in a world of Cartiers, McDonalds and Levis. Is
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      • Article
        Lock icon TWO CARDS ARE ENOUGH
        102 15 CREDIT CARDS: Is it the more the merrier? 49% Two is enough one for use, the other as a back-up. 15% Strictly one; that’s financial discipline. 12% -I can live without credit cards and the temptation to rack up debts. 9% Having different cards for different
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      27 2 (food morning! Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 33C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 12.11AM/2.9M 1.13PM/2.7M Met Service: http:// www.gov.sg/metsin
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      40 4 Read about the US IQ_study and subsequent analysis at: Iji http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ 11 0..2-*****2.00.html http:// www.brook.edu/views/articles/ dickens/2001 psyc hreview.htm http:// www.newscientist.com/opinion/ opinion.isp?id=ns22B7s http://www.apa.org/releases/iqmodel.html http://www.apa.Org/iournals/rev/401ab.html#3 http://www.brook.edu/views/articles/dickens/ 2001 psvchreview.htm Try out an online with your kid and see who scores better at http://www.mensa.org/workout.html
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      72 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET LOOK, Bill, I VO N'T WANT TO JOIN MICROSOFT! WHY VO YOU KEEP ASKING? LOOK, HELEN... r I'M AFRAII7 THIS TIME ItL HAVE TO INSIST THAT YOU AT LEAST COME TO SEATTLE ANP TALK TO ME! WHAT VO you MEAN you INSIST? (N- 1 VIV
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  • EyeSport
    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Dyer not moving
        90 16 Reuters LONDON-Newcastle United midfielder Kieron Dyer says he is not interested in leaving the club following media reports that Manchester United has offered £l5 million (5538.6 million) for his services. “I am staying at Newcastle and that’s all there is to it,” Dyer said. The 22-year-old is
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      • Article
        Lock icon Vialli to Watford?
        39 16 AP WATFORD-Former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli has emerged as a possible successor to Graham Taylor at Watford. Former England manager Taylor is due to retire at the end of this season. The club did not comment.
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        Lock icon Denies drug use
        39 16 AP TURIN Juventus star Edgar Davids yesterday made his first public denial following revelations that his urine had tested positive for the steroid nandrolone. “I have very strong principles on which substances I consume,” Davids said.
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      • Article
        Lock icon New turf for final
        27 16 AP CARDIFF The muddy turf of the Millennium Stadium will be re-laid before the May 12 FA Cup final between Arsenal and Liverpool.
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      151 16 FOOTRALL: Ruud Van Nistelrooy paid tribute to Brazilian star Ronaldo, whom he credited for his own recovery from serious knee injuries. Soccernet’s Ivan Speck had a one-on-one chat with the Dutch star after he signed a five-year deal with English champions Manchester United. Log on to http://www.soccernet.com/ columns/2001/0425/
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      Lock icon Yes, no to driver aid
      706 16  -  Alesi not keen on traction control but others welcome its return for Spanish GP BY Adam Hashidy hashidy@sph.com.sg Source: AtlasF1.com THE Spanish Grand Prix marks a milestone of sorts for Formula One racing, but don’t tell Jean Alesi that. The Prost driver blasted traction control,
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      Lock icon O’Neill for Man U?
      501 17 Celtic offers directorship to keep him AFP GLASGOW Celtic fans heard the words they dreaded yesterday when the club’s director, Dermot Desmond, admitted that Martin O’Neill could become the next manager of Manchester United. O’Neill, who took over at Parkhead at the start of the season
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      Lock icon Bowing out with a bang
      140 17 ROMANIA’S Player of the Century Gheorghe Hagi played in a testimonial match in Bucharest yesterday. Hagi starred in the friendly tie between the Romanaian XI and the World XI that ended in a 2-2 draw. Although he didn’t score, he created both goals for the
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      Lock icon Sixers provide The Answer to Miller’s challenge
      296 17 PHILADELPHIA LEVEL WITH INDIANA Reuters PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson got his revenge on Reggie Miller yesterday. The Answer’s 45 points helped the Philadelphia 76ers withstand Miller’s hot start to beat the Indiana Pacers 116-98 and level their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series at 1-1.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Players desert XFL for NFL
      206 17 AP NEW YORK The exodus has begun. At least eight XFL players have signed NFL contracts, and as many as 100 could follow, as NFL teams follow up on the college draft by acquiring free agents to fill their training-camp rosters. Even before last weekend’s
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  • Unwind
    • Clubbing
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        Lock icon War of the karakoe lounges
        985 18 Espionage. Betrayal. Disgruntled clients. And a mythical pioneer who fell from grace. KARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) listens to the cacophony surrounding the karaoke enclave that is Serangoon Qardens. T SERANGOON wK H Gardens, a quasi-epic H KTV story is waiting I to be told. HHH The
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        Lock icon WHAT’S IN A NAME?
        507 19 Karl Ho COZY, enclosed places where you can be a screeching Frank Sinatra all night long. That’s what Serangoon Gardens offers, apart from its famous hawker centre and hip cafes: Eight KTV bars for the musically inclined, but not necessarily talented. Because Serangoon Gardens is essentially
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      • Night HAWK
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          Lock icon DJ Howells stokes adoring fans into pandemonium
          306 20  -  BY KARL HO karl@sph.com.sg PANDEMONIUM reigned supreme at Zouk as the superclub played host to up-and-coming UK DJing talent Danny Howells last Friday (April 20). Clearly basking in the adoration of his fans, Howells made sweeping gestures to stoke the crowd. When he
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        Lock icon A walk in the gardens
        685 20 Its appeal is not in its glitz but its casual homeliness. EARL HO (karl@sph.com.sg) soaks in the nightlife at Serangoon Qardens. 0ERANGOON GARDENS is more homely and less glitzy than Holland Village. But, that’s just the way its people like it. Professionals stopping by after
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    • Movies
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        Lock icon Strangers in exile
        835 21 They play the leads in Singapore's first sci-fi movie Avatar. Aussie actress Qenevieve O'Reilly and Broadway star Luoyong Wang talk to JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) about leaving their comfort zones to cover uncharted territory. THEY had not heard of a Singapore film industry back home. But that didn’t
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        Lock icon Ricky gets tai-tais off their butts
        400 21  -  BY CLARA CHOW darac@sph.com.sg HE SWIVELLED his hips, sang and sweated, and managed to get a roomful of who’s who in business to shake their bonbons like there was no tomorrow. On Tuesday night, at MTV’s exclusive Live And Loaded event held at Raffles
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      • Cyber SNITCH
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          Lock icon Identity parade
          58 22 YOU’VE seen their faces in films but can’t put a name to them. These are the people who make up the Who Is That? website. Only 13 actors are profiled, but each comes with detailed decriptions of their appearances in major movies, links to their fan sites (if
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          Lock icon Movie quiz
          62 22 SO YOU think you know movies? Test yourself at Dan’s Screen Shot Movie Quiz, where you have to identify three movies based on three screen shots. The shots are put up every Sunday at http://www. openix.com/-danb/ quiz.shtml. Can’t guess any? Make up your own titles. The funniest gets
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          Lock icon Kidman going solo
          72 22 AFTER the much publicised split from Tom Cruise and her miscarriage, Nicole Kidman made her first public appearance at the premiere for her upcoming movie, Moulin Rouge (above). Watch her cope in the white hot spotlight, clad in a stunning white vintage dress and harbouring obvious pain
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          46 22 7 thought she would quit the sausage and become a vaginatarian!’ Heather Graham’s disgusted dad when she flies into the arms of an ex-boyfriend after discovering that her brother Chris Klein made love to her in the movie Say It Isn’t So
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        Lock icon Sickeningly sweet
        421 22  -  Jeanmarie Tan SWEET NOVEMBER (PG) Keanu Reeves, Charlize Theron, Greg Germann, Jason Isaacs THERE’S absolutely nothing sweet about an insensitive male being redeemed by an angelic woman, especially when his first name happens to be Keanu. This abysmal, cliche-ridden fiasco which could be easily sub-titled Autumn In San
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        Lock icon PASS THE HANKY
        294 22 THEY meet, they fall in love, and one dies of chronic illness. Sweet November is just the latest in “terminal illness” weepies. If misery is what you want, try the following: LOVE STORY (1970) THE greatest romance film ever made, the screen version of Erich Segal’s book
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        Lock icon Blonde ambition
        1097 23 THIRTEEN DAYS (PG) Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp DEPENDING on your mood, Thirteen Days can feel like 13 years, 13 months, 13 days or 13 hours. The one certainty is that 13 is an unlucky number. The screenplay is adapted from tape transcriptions that were edited into
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  • The Back Page
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      Lock icon Bardot snaps at mayor over dogs
      105 24 BRIGITTE BARDOT, (right) the former French screen star turned animal-rights activist, lashed out at the Bucharest mayor for abandoning a stray-dog adoption scheme. “I trusted you but you betrayed me as well as all those who are fighting to save animal lives. You rule
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      Lock icon Chats & Mouse
      192 24 Chats Mouse Irritation, aggravation, frustration A BOY asks his father to explain the differences among irritation, aggravation, and frustration. His father picks up the telephone, tells his son to get on an extension, then he dials a number at random. When the phone is answered, he asks: “Can I speak
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      Lock icon Williams praises Beckham and star’s self-control
      86 24 ROBBIE WILLIAMS made headlines again in London’s The Sun’s Bizarre column when he openly declared his admiration for Man U star David Beckham. The singer wrote of Beckham: “He is very good-looking and very rich. He is a fantastic footballer who has a good-looking
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      Lock icon Is Miss France a dude?
      221 24 THERE is, allegedly, an intruder among this year’s Miss Universe contestants. UK newspaper The Telegraph reports that chaos is breaking out at the Puerto Rico pageant, following accusations that Miss France is, indeed, no demure mademoiselle, but a monsieur. A French Internet site claimed organisers
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    • Making HEADLINES
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        Lock icon Downey arrested, back in rehab
        72 24 ALLY MCBEAL star Robert Downey Jr (left) was arrested Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles suburb under suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance. After his release, the actor checked himself into a rehabilitation institute,. And that left singer Vonda Shepard alone
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        Lock icon Meanwhile...
        67 24 Wires Marlon Brando is still on the mend from pneumonia and has been told to rest before resuming filming his Scary Movie 2 cameo.. Chris Evans figured that the best way to entertain Billie Piper is by taking her on a number of wild rides at Chessington’s World of
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