Project Eyeball, 4 June 2001

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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asiaLcom,sg Mita (p) 105/03/2001 Monday, June 4, 2001 80 CENTS
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      367 1 DEAR NASA, Why did you have to spoil our fun by telling us that Mars really has no face? Did we have to know? Disgustedly yours, John Lui See Page 15 DEAR IX AND DUN, Please mind the language in your television series Making Headlines, because we journalists don’t talk
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  • NEWS & VIEWS
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      96 2 ASPIRING MPs are being challenged to test their skill at scaling the greasy Westminster pole in a new Web-based game. Starting out as a lowly backbencher, players must use all their wiles to reach the ultimate goal -10 Downing Street. Like the real thing, their progress will depend as
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      294 2 Serials and reality-TV programmes score with Mandarin channel’s viewers DRAMA and reality-TV programmes are pulling in viewers for Channel U, Media Work’s recently launched Mandarin TV station. Once Upon A Time In Shanghai is heading the station’s top 10 programmes screened between May 20 and 26, with
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      75 2 <, msmmrnmssm Programme Name Current Previous I Ratings% Ratings 0 1 Once Upon a Time in Shanghai 6.4 Nil 2 Celebrity Travellers 6.2 1.5 3 Exchange Lives 5.2 2.4 4 Lady Flower Fist 5 Nil 5 About Romance 4.7 4.7 6 Saturday Night Movie 4.4 Nil
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    • Eyeball NEWS
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        Lock icon Asean-China trade area being studied
        117 2 A FEASIBILITY study on an Asean-China Free Trade Area is under way, said Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the inaugural dinner of the 2001 International Monetary Conference at the Ritz-Carlton Millenia yesterday. Giving the delegates what he called a “budget tour of the landmarks
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        Lock icon Getting to fires sooner
        94 2 SATELLITE fire posts with their complements of firefighting vehicles and ambulances will be a common sight at void decks within your neighbourhood. The first of six posts was opened by the Marine Parade CDC Mayor Eugene Yap yesterday at Block 12 Kampong Arang Road. It costs
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        Lock icon Sand the winner is...
        87 2 CHECK out Sentosa’s “sandsation” with life-size sculptures of terracotta warriors on the beach at Siloso. The highlights include a Balinese display with native Hindu architecture, Thailand’s Naga Causeways, ancient Iraqi arts and Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat, whose replica, at 12-m-high, sets the record for South-east Asia’s
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      Lock icon Lawyers can now file documents on the Net
      216 2  -  FORGET THE COURTS BY ANDREW CHIN andrewc@sph.com.sg THE move towards a paperless courtroom seems to be moving at Internet speed well, almost. Electronic Filing Service (EFS), the system that allows lawyers to file court documents electronically, is migrating to the World Wide
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      332 3 WASHINGTON Maverick US Senator John McCain said he has no intention of leaving the Republican Party or challenging President George W Bush for the White House in 2004 as an independent candidate. The former Republican presidential rival to Bush sparked off rumours when he said he was spending
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      401 3 Party report reveals tensions between govt and people NYT BEIJING It’s a picture of seething unrest, as bleak as any drawn by dissidents abroad but this one comes from the inner sanctum of China’s Communist Party. The startlingly frank and extremely unusual report describes a spreading
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      229 3 Wires LAMITAN (Philippines) Muslim bandits, using child hostages as human shields, broke through a military cordon around a hospital in southern Philippines yesterday and escaped with American and Filipino captives. But hours later, fighting resumed in hills 3 km away. Nearby, troops found the
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    • Eyeball FOCUS
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        Lock icon Fancy condo names are all the rage
        1330 4  -  Only 5 new projects have ‘local’ names BY Uyen Vu uyen@sph.com.sg CHECK out the new condominiums on the selling block, and you’re not likely to find places with names like Song Jing or Taman Anggerik. These days, it’s all Goldenhill Park, Floravale or
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    • Singapore
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        87 6 PET OWNER “Initially, X didn’t nnieruftuil what she was talking about. She told m she was going to use energy from the universe to leal her® ITs Incredible, but it worked/ Sharon Goh 38, teacher, whose dog gets reiki treatments from Koh Koh, who has a clientele of about 20
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        38 6 VET Hmpunotiire started off with animals, not with humans. It started 3,000 or 4,000 years ago, and in those days horses were worth more than humans.’ Dr Jean-Paul Ly who practises both acupuncture and conventional medicine on animals
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        710 6  -  Alternative treatments like acupuncture extended to animals BY Uyen Vu uyen@sph.com.sg ALTERNATIVE therapy, did you know, is available in Singapore? But we are not talking about unusual treatment methods for you and me, but for pets. And just like for humans, it’s all about healing animals by
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      • Monday MUSINGS
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          698 7  -  Property agent Janies Lee made $680,000 while his peers averaged $152,000 last year BY FRANCIS KAN francisk@sph.com.sg TALK about going the extra mile property agent James Lee does it with a load of furniture on his back. The star at ERA, Singapore’s largest property agency, doesn’t
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        99 7 ON HIS CONTACTS 7 keep a database of 400 clients, and 1 keep in touch with them regularly...so they ll normally recommend relatives and friends who want to sell houses to me.’ ON HIS FAMILY 7 take one afternoon a week off to bring my family out. The only time
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    • The World
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        Lock icon Nepalese mourn but want answers
        437 8 Many believe govt trying to hide truth of royals’ deaths Wires KATHMANDU Between a lovesick prince gone mad and an automatic weapon that exploded by itself, the stunned Nepalese had little to console themselves with as they mourned Friday’s gruesome massacre of almost all of
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        Lock icon DEVYANI RANA: THE LADY LOVE
        226 8 AFP NEW DELHI The comatose King Dipendra had been dating Devyani Rana -for whose sake he allegedly gunned down eight members of the royal Nepal family -for over 10 years. Devyani, 24, is described by Indian newspapers as the “beautiful” and “cultured” daughter of a
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        Lock icon Top cops defy Gus Dur
        407 9 They and military back fired police chief Wires JAKARTA President Abdurrahman Wahid is now faced with what seems to be a brewing police rebellion after police and lawmakers disregarded his decision to fire the national police chief. Suroyo Bimantoro, with the support of over 100
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        Lock icon Who will step into Daim’s shoes?
        164 9 After Daim Zainuddin resigned last week as Malaysia s Finance Minister, the local media have speculated furiously about who will succeed him. These are the names being tossed around, with the names of the dailies that “proposed” them in brackets. ZettAhhtarAdx, the first woman
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        Lock icon Woman gets top post at Islamic party
        285 9 P.A.S. POLLS AP KUALA LUMPUR In a sign that it was softening its fundamentalist Islamic stance, Malaysia’s main opposition party yesterday elected a woman to its chief poli-cy-making body for the first time and filled other top posts with moderates. The Pan-Malaysia Islamic
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    • Technology
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        Lock icon The revolution that wasn’t
        1073 10 Digital dream of ending the tyranny of record labels goes up in smoke Salon ONCE upon a time, a revolution brewed. Righteous artists, technologists and youthful entrepreneurs launched digital music start-ups, determined to take power away from the conglomerates that controlled the recording industry and deliver
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    • Business
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        Lock icon Sticky fingers
        60 11 Thieves in Indonesia have been causing oil companies losses of more than $l.B million a month as they steal everything from wires and valves to control panels. It’s not even safe for aluminium insulation, which the workers (right) are trying to replace at a Caltex oilfield. Revenues lost
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        626 11  -  Your wedding outlay requires careful planning YOUR wedding may only be a oneday affair, but not planning for it financially may leave you with plenty of headaches after the event. Some couples start planning and saving for their wedding and honeymoon years before they even
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        241 11 MARKET OUTLOOK Reuters SINGAPORE shares are expected to be range-bound this week, although a plan by Tianjin Zhongxin Pharmaceuticals to list in Shanghai could put the spotlight on China plays. Tianjin has risen in recent weeks in anticipation of its listing on the
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    • Mailbox
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        565 14 ‘Making schools disabled-friendly’ (June 1) THE Education Ministry is doubling the number of disabled-friendly schools by 2005. But, in general, Singapore seems to be taking its time in making things easier for the disabled. What else needs to be done to help schools, and the
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        173 14 SOME under-the-stars eateries in Holland Village may have to go. Are you all for alfresco dining? 39% Yes. We need their hang-loose vibrancy to funk up Singapore. 21% No. It’s so hot and humid outdoors here, what’s the point? 18% Yes. If restaurants and diners take
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      • Wry TECH
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          Lock icon Mars loses face
          722 15  -  BY John Lui johnlui@singnet.com.sg NASA this week came up with pictures showing that the famous “face” on Mars is not a face at all, but a shapeless blob that changes with the light. Okay, so it’s more like Michael Jackson’s face. But in the end the National
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          245 15 ‘Less rah-rah National Day songs to stay in tune’ May 25 THE feel-good, nationalistic songs which are released near Aug 9 every year have gone from the blatant hard sell of Count On Me Singapore, to softer ballads like Kit Chan’s Home. Which sits easier with
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      27 2 Qood morning! M Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and early afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 25C Tides: 10.22AM/2.5M 9.58PM/2.7M Met Service: http://www.gov.sg/metsin
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      289 5 How do you feel about the exotic sounding names of condos here? They are fine. Gives my condo an upmarket image. We are in Singapore. Why can’t we have more local names, why must we ape foreigners? The names are ridiculous and don’t fit the image they conjure up. Some
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      54 7 RESEARCH STUD It Is your child short-sighted? Call 773 9406 Healthy children, 6-12 years are invited to join a clinical study* on anti-myopia medication. P® m WJr. ■V r I Reputable US. pharmaceutical company is sponsoring a clinical study at several centres in Singapore. For more information, please call Singapore
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      198 8 KING KOII SPINAL GUARD (ORIGINAL USA MODEL) A Long History of Unsurpassed Support, Now Even BETTER! For years, Spinal Guard sleep sets have been satisfying the needs of those who want to wake up without a backache caused by the inadequate support of a too soft mattress. The heart of
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      38 9 For more on the Indonesian situation: http://www. indonesian-observer. com/storv.asp?/ 1ib1d=***** A compromise with his deputy is Gus Dur’s only chance, says this editorial. http://www.msnbc. com/ news/*****7.a5p Can Megawati handle the more hardline Muslims? Newsweek’s account of Jakarta’s vigilantes.
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      74 10 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET PHIL, THIS IS MfLL.gR BRISCOE, OWE OF THE FEW POT-COMERS STILL MAKIWG A PROFIT. HOW VO you VO IT, MILLER? •FJ CL SPOTTIWG TALEWTf LIKE I KWOW RIGHT AWAY YOU GOT A WIWMER HERE... HER? MILLER'S FIRM ISWT "WU-TECH' v ITS 'MUVGTECH"! r HELEW? YOU
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      29 11 MUSCLEACHE RELIEVER! •in till Electrically Operated Heat Controllable Timer Control 111 Suitable for middle-aged especially for the old Lu First Enterprise Te1:*****51 6001 Beach Rd #O2-16 Golden Mile Tower
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      282 12 si tt* Christina Pan Jia Hui a joy to our lives! Steven Tika Pan iff j; '0 m Brandon an instant joy in our lives, angelic in our eyes. He is our precious little one. Adeline Oon It's our simple way of introducing our little princess Yekaterina. She's happy round
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      222 13 Lovable Baby Stef, eversince you came, you have made our lives happier. We are so blessed to have you. Papa, mama brother Steven Howdy! Announcing the arrival of the new kid on the block: Baby Jarryl. *Trumpets and cymbals* Our new-born just turned one month old yesterday. Judy Kok Leong
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  • EyeSport
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        Lock icon Hard-fought win
        83 16 AP PARIS Defending champion Gustavo Kuerten fought back from the brink of defeat on Sunday to beat American qualifier Michael Russell in five sets in the French Open. The top-seeded Brazilian saved a match point in the third set before turning the match around and eliminating his 122nd-ranked
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        75 16 Reuters BELGIUM’S 14th seed Justine Henin became the first player through to the French Open quarterfinals when she strolled past Austria’s Barbara Schett 6-3,6-4. After injuring her ankle at the German Open, Henin had nearly ruled herself out of the trip to Paris. “It is the first time
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        111 16 ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has admitted that he is in negotiations with Roma about attacking midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata. “I have already approached Roma. There is a big gap over what they are asking and what we are willing to pay, but both clubs are in talks. We will
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      Lock icon Newey to stay on at McLaren
      433 16 Apologises to Jaguar for confusion and embarrassment JAGUAR RACING will be very, very disappointed. Contrary to what has been said and reported, McLaren-Mercedes has its team intact, and technical director Adrian Newey is not going anywhere. He has confirmed his commitment to stay at
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      Lock icon Bruising but brilliant match-up
      565 16 SIXERS, BUCKS PROMISE BATTLE ROYALE IN GAME 7 Lat-Wp PHILADELPHIA Dikembe Mutombo guarantees victory for the Philadelphia 76ers. Scott Williams of the Milwaukee Bucks is suspended for Game Seven. Raise your hand if you don’t want this NBA Eastern Conference finals series between the 76ers and
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      Lock icon France barges into semifinals with 4-0 romp
      561 17 MEXICO LOSES THREE STRAIGHT AP ULSAN (South Korea) A deuce from rookie Eric Carriere and a great performance from Robert Pires led world champion France past Mexico 4-0 Sunday and into the semifinals of the Confederations Cup as Group A winner. Sylvain Wiltord
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      140 17 FORMULA. ONE: Adrian Newey’s decision to stick with McLaren has sent whatever credibility he had down the drain. That’s the opinion of many Formula One fans on atlasfl.com’s message board, where the technical director has been called plenty of unpleasant and unflattering names. (http://www.atlasfl. com/bb/ c6c*****75a72b*****85fc 8132cc021&threadid=*****) GOLF:
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      Lock icon Cantona denies coaching rumour
      536 17 But he doesn’t rule out returning to Old Trafford FANS of Manchester United have been foolishly getting their hopes up, and Eric the King has blamed the media for it. Talk around town last week was that the English Premiership champions had confirmed Eric Cantona as
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  • Unwind
    • The Tube
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        Lock icon The TRUTH is back here
        808 18 THERE’S a dreaded syndrome afflicting many a fledgling science-fiction series. All want to be a dark and mysterious force, communicating through shadows, pregnant pauses, and a brooding hero’s furrowed brow. Much of this can easily be traced to The X-Files, that long-running paragon of paranoia
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        495 19 NYT THROUGHOUT his career, Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files, has kept a low profile, maintaining the same sort of mystique as the enigmatic characters of his hit science-fiction series. Until now. A California-based producer, Carter has been bouncing around Manhattan, revealing bits
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        Lock icon A WEEKLY GUIDE TO YOUR TV ALIEN-NATION
        314 19  -  JEANMARIE TAN YOUR weekly timetable of the preternatural Wednesdays, 10 pm, Channel 5: The X-Files (season No 8) The truth about the abducted Fox Mulder is out there. FBI agents Dana Scully (Gillian) and John Doggett (Robert Patrick) continue with their quest to
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          765 20 We’ ve got news for U Making Headlines may profess to present the real slim shady of newsrooms. But ADELINE GOH adel@sph.com.sg begs to differ. Hey, producers should poke their heads in here sometime and find out what ids really about. HHBHH AKING headlines L J isn’t easy. Neither it
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    • Books
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        Lock icon David Byrne's sonic boom
        279 21  -  BY RONALD RAJAN ronrajan@sph.com.sg IT’S not every day an ex-rock luminary scores a modern dance production. But David Byrne’s prints, which hark back to his quirky Talking Heads years, live on in Ultima Vez’ In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting. Providing the sonic background for one
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        557 21 AXN's Anime Action Strip Contest is up and running. AXN is hoping to top last year's 300 Singaporean entries. CLARA CHOW (clarac@sph.com.sg) talks to an AXN judge, director of Dreamation Banyi, who describes how to script a winning piece. COMIC panels are midway between stasis and motion
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    • Arts Fest
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        569 22 The Arts Festival opened at the Kallang Theatre with grating music and suspended dancers as H Art Chaos took to the stage with Qrizaille and their signature show, The Rite Of Spring. But the broken images did not alienate the audience instead, they provoked them to think, reports
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        Lock icon EYEBALL PROFILES
        313 22 Who: U Theatre, a Taiwanese troupe formed in 1988. You may remember them from 1993’s Festival of Asian Performing Arts. The group has since evolved into a drumming theatrical outfit. Driving force: Founded by actress Liu Ching-ming, who trained under the Polish master Jerzy Grotowsky, and Malaysian-born drumming
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    • Books
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          63 23 US LIBRARY employees are fighting against visitors downloading porn and leaving it there for all to see. Twelve Minneapolis public librarians have filed a complaint, saying that such leftover porn creates a “sexually hostile work environment”. A federal agency, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is upholding this. Fast Food
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          54 23 RECENTLY, the most popular word to have in a title seems to be “nation”. Publishers, probably hoping to emulate the runaway success of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, have come up with: Free Agent Nation (Warner Books, May) Suburban Nation (North Point Press, April) Comic Book Nation (John
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          58 23 US PUBLISHER Pocket Books has bought a novel by Michael Gambino, grandson of the man The Godfather was based on. Gambino’s work of pure fiction (of course) is entitled The Honored Society. Meanwhile, Pocket Books has also paid a six-figure sum for Mineko Iwasaki, Arthur Golden’s inspiration for
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          Lock icon Writers’ refuge
          57 23 IF YOUR government’s offended by you, never fear, help is here. Paris-based International Parliament of Writers revealed last week that it was setting up a secret residence for writers in exile. It will be located in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. To date, 32 authors, filmmakers, composers and journalists
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        Lock icon Don’t trust the hype
        504 23  - Don’ t trust the hype Review: Clara Chow STOLEN LIVES: TWENTY YEARS IN A DESERT JAIL Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi (Talk Miramax Books) $39.99fr0m Borders WHEN Stolen Lives was published in 1999 in French, it sold 100,000 copies. It has since been translated into 12 languages. Oprah selected it
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        Lock icon TELLING THE LIFE BEHIND BARS
        98 23 THE GREAT ESCAPE Paul Brickhill This is a true story of how over 600 American and British prisoners of war escaped from Nazi camps. The classic film version starred Steve McQueen. THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Aleksander Solzhenitsyn A first-hand account of life in a Soviet corrective
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      273 20 MUST-SEE TV: THIS WEEK’S TOF PICKS V Movies Double Jeopardy Saturday 9 pm HBO(Ch 60) HELL hath no fury like a wife betrayed in this immensely watchable revenge flick. Libby Parson (Ashley Judd), convicted of murdering her husband, discovers that her conniving spouse is still alive. She hunts him down
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      43 21 In Spite Of Wishing And Wanting plays today and tomorrow at the Kallang Theatre. The performance starts at 8 pm, and lasts one hour and 54 minutes with no intermission. Tickets are $22, $32, $42 and ss2,from all Sistic outlets (tel 348 5555).
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      Lock icon Chat & Mouse
      312 24 Chat Mouse Money poem It can buy a house, but not a home It can buy a bed, but not sleep It can buy a clock, but not time It can buy you a book, but not knowledge It can buy you a position, but not respect It can buy
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      264 24 AFP Reuters Wires A HOMEOWNER is suing Courtney Love (right), saying she owes him more than US$4O,OOO (5572,400) in rent. Lawyers for Peter Ashby filed his claim in a British Columbia court on Thursday, saying the Canadian agreed to lease his posh home to
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    • Arts Fest DAY 4
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        162 24 T ang Quartet chat THINK the boys of the T’ang Quartet are your kind of guys? Make a date with them today at 6 pm for a live chat. The foursome is slated to perform with dance group The Arts Fission Company Wednesday through Saturday at the ARTrium@MITA. But they
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      43 24 Sold-out shows Shang Yang, by the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre June 12, 13. Zurich Symphony Orchestra, June 12 Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective, June 21 Dracula, by Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, June 22, 23 For more on the arts fest, see Pages 21,23
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