The New Paper, 19 November 1998

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    7 1 the new paper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1998
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  • THENEWSTODAY
    • Article
      Power failure leaves Malaysia in the dark
      287 2 NINE states in Peninsular Malaysia were hit by a major power failure yesterday. The power situation, which lasted three hours, was described as "serious" by a Bernama wire report. The power failure came as Malaysia was hosting the second and final day of
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      'Enough is enough'
      956 2 THE AD: When asked for his reaction to it by The New Paper, Dr Mahathir said: "I didn 't see it. I was too busy attending the meeting." A VERY PERSONAL STATEMENT AS A MALAYSIAN. 1 AM FED UP OF STUPID. IGNORANT. KURANG AJAR IDIOTS INSULTING MY
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      Was Dr M tired or clever at closing?
      400 2  -  By' Teo Hwee NaK IT was an unusually subdued and soft-spoken Dr Mahathir Mohamad that met journalists from around the world last night. The Malaysian Prime Minister, known for his sharp tongue and fiery comments, appeared tired and was tight-lipped during the
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      Lock icon WAS DR MAHATHIR SABOTAGED?
      165 2 AFP. THE moment Dr Mahathir Mohamad began delivering the final declaration of the Apec Summit yesterday, the sound system failed. Technicians today are still investigating why. "Just seconds before the start, it was okay, then there was no sound for the whole duration of the declaration,"
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      Lock icon Apec's brightest moment
      88 2 MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (front left) leading the Apec leaders clad in colourful batik attire outside for the traditional group portrait. Each leader chose the colour he wore, according to Malaysian reports. The male leaders' batik shirts were said to have cost RM6OO ($260) each. The
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      Lock icon WHAT DR MAHATHIR SAID
      134 2 Wire Services. APEC ended on a happy note yesterday with the members agreeing to help Asian nations caught in the economic crisis. The declaration was read by Dr Mahathir as host of this year's summit. "We reaffirm our confidence in the strong economic fundamentals and prospects
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    Lock icon Q: How to teach maths? Q: Use newspapers
    274 3  -  SINGAPORETODAY By- Tanya Fong WHEN he reads the daily newspapers, the headlines don't grab him. Instead, he scans the pages for graphs, statistics and even hotel room rates. He uses these as mathematical texts to teach his 13-year-old students how to calculate
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Hanyu pinyin for all
      108 5 \§g IN PRIMARY 1 FROM next year, all Primary 1 pupils will learn hanyu pinyin Mandarin in the first term. Now, hanyu pinyin, or Mandarin written in romanised form, is introduced only in Primary 2 or 3. Also from next year, Primary 2 pupils will learn
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      PILOT RUN
      82 5 IN the pilot project this year, 1,600 Primary 1 pupils in eight schools were taught hanyu pinyin in the first six to eight weeks of school before being introduced to Chinese characters. Pupils in the pilot programme scored an average of 78. Pupils in eight "control schools" not
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      Lock icon How is the plant feeling?
      45 5 ijgl* Feeling green: Japanese toymaker Epoch's creator Mitsue Ishikawa testing a plant with Plantone, a new toy that detects feeble electric currents In plants and translates them Into a colour display which shows the "feelings" of the plant Picture/ Afp
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    • Nows Break
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        Loan surprise
        65 5 I RATE CUTS THE latest prime rate cuts mean some buyers may not have to change their housing loan schemes, despite the CPF cut. DBS Bank has just cut its prime rate to 6 per cent. Based on calculations in The Business Times, the interest rate cut would
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        Petition to Dr M
        57 5 HOUSING A group of Singaporeans are putting together a petition to Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, over the development of a condominium project in Malacca. The buyers say the 42-storey condominium, The Esplanade, was supposed to be ready in September last year,but only
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        Cheated twice
        66 5 COURT SHE spent the night with another man in a hotel and then lied to her boyfriend. She said she'd been raped. But the police found from hotel security tapes that clerk Ng Yin Peng, 22, was not drunk and had in fact willingly had sex with William
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        BMW stolen
        60 5 CRIME TWO men stole a businessman's red BMW 320i early Tuesday morning after spraying his face with a liquid, temporarily blinding him. Mr Oh Choon Kum, 36, and two colleagues had stopped before the red light at the junction of Stadium Link and Mountbatten Road when they were
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      local Head liners
      55 5 The Straits Times: Apec unveils action plan The Business Times: Temasek refutes report of share purchases Uanhe Zaobao: MOE: Hanyu pinyin for all Pri 1 pupils next year Berita Harian: Apec agrees to settle economic crisis quickly RCS morning news: Apec leaders agree to monitor the impact
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      DOW JONES
      27 5 The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 54.S3 points to close at 9,041.11 yesterday. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was about 650 million shares.
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      in Foous Oil prices to fall further
      171 6 ASIA's economic troubles will depress oil and petrol prices for nearly a decade, says the US Energy Department. In 2000 alone, drivers will save about 13 cents (21 cents) a gallon, it added. In the US, continued low energy prices, weak Asian demand
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      $300 issue
      63 6 BONDS JURONGTown Corporation is selling bonds to raise $300 million. Of this, $10 million is for retail investors, who can buy the bonds in $10,000 lots. The rest of the seven-year fixed-rate bonds are up for bidding by institutions and high net-worth individuals. The bond issue is the
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      Hitch with ban
      72 6 CINEMAS DO you want to take food or drink into the movies? Legally, you can if there is no sign saying you can't. Lawyers said buying a cinema ticket was a contract and any terms, such as not taking food inside, had to be made known with
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      Change or else
      55 6 MICROSOFT Corporation has to change its software programmes, including Windows 98, in 90 days, or stop selling them. US District Judge Ronald Whyte has ordered the company to bring the Java components in its software products back into line with Sun Microsystems Inc's technical standards, pending a
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      Abri says sorry
      116 6 COMPUTERS INDONESIA THE Indonesian military, Abri, apologised in newspaper advertisements yesterday for its crackdown on protests last week. The ads in three major publications expressed condolences for the 14 people who died in the crackdown. Aides of Abri chief General Wiranto said the move was aimed at
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      Tongue Clflek
      4 6 WHAT'S HUP
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      world Head liners
      88 6 South China Morning Post: Civil servants' 5-hour days exposed New Straits Times: Strengthening foundations for growth Berita Harian Malaysia: A pec committed to economic recovery TV2: Regulation of financial markets to be worked out by a group of 22 countries TV3: Those affected by the floods in
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      Lock icon Dressed to win?
      192 7 PARAGON shopping centre (right) has got a new look after its recent facelift. And it hopes this makeover and its fiery display of fairy lights will make it a frontrunner in this Christmas' Best Decorated Building Competition. And you can also be a winner by guessing the
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      Old story
      74 7 mui<mui< Miss Daphne Tan, 33, editor with a market research company, admitted that some things get hotter with age became people have experienced a lot mors off Me. However, ceitain aspects of ageing take some getting used to. Said Kits Tan: There comes a point when the physical
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  • ON THE JOB WHERE TO LOOK WHAT TO ASK FOR HOW TO COPE
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      FUSSY housewives
      447 9 More housewives have been going back to work since the nationwide Back to Work programme was launched in 1996. But as YVONNE LIM finds out, the economic crunch hasn't changed some choosy attitudes among housewives SHE quit. After only three days on the job. Madam Ang (not her
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      Questions about jobs?
      42 9 If you have concerns or experiences to share that could help others, tell us. Our job counsellors will reply. WRITE TO: On The Job, The New Paper, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 FAX TO: 737-5375 E-MAIL: npops@sph.com. sg
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      MOM SAYS
      173 9 YES, more housewives have been looking for work. But not, it seems, because of the economic crunch. Most housewives, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), do not cite urgent financial reasons for going back to work. Rather, they did so because their children had grown up. Without this
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      THE NUMBERS
      48 9 In June, 1,574 housewives were seeking jobs. Last year, there were 1,181. Last month, 621 turned to MOM for jobs up from 133 a year ago. Eight in 10 have primary, ITE or secondary education. A third want administrative jobs, such as clerks or office attendants.
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
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      NTUC: Bosses can trim some fat, too
      391 11 DONT just sit and wait for the Government to cut costs. Or for workers to keep taking wage cuts. This is the message of the NTUC to company bosses in an editorial, Equitable cost cutting, carried in the Nov 20 edition of NTUC
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      NTUC REPLIES TO QUESTIONS BY THE NEW PAPER
      209 11 Q: Can government charges be reduced further? A: For a cost reduction of say 15 per cent, both components wages and government charges should be cut by 15 per cent to achieve the desired result. Wages form 43 per cent, government charges
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      Lock icon CRUSHED BY LORRY All because of this bag
      554 12  -  LEFT: Lt Mok stands second from right on the divider as the lorry approaches. LtTan stands to his left. MIDDLE: Lt Mok's bag is caught on the side of the lorry. He is dragged along with it BOTTOM: Lt Mok falls onto
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      'I didn't realise I was helping a friend'
      383 12 THE kind helpers didn't even know they were helping a friend. Lt Mok, an easy-going and friendly person, was surrounded by friends on the day he died. Two of them even stopped to help without realising that their friend was the victim.
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      POLICE INVESTIGATING
      39 12 JOHOR police said the accident was being investigated. Deputy Superintendent Tengku Asmara said accidents at that spot were rare. He advised pedestrians to watch out for traffic. They should use the zebra crossing nearer the passenger terminal.
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  • SPEAKUP
    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
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        SO WHAT?
        234 13 SHE'S INDIAN, HE'S CHINESE TNP, Nov 14 Nodle Pereira (e-mail) I REFER to "They make heads turn" (TNP, Nov 14). My entire family and I were stunned to find that something so normal and ordinary has been the subject of a newspaper story. So what if she is
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        THE EDITOR REPLIES:
        40 13 THE aim of the story was to show that while mixed marriages in particular Indian women marrying Chinese men had gone up, attitudes have not changed. And bigotry does deserve our attention or such attitudes will continue.
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        Shame these selfish people
        101 13  -  Thomas Tham AS a civic-conscious senior citizen, I would have failed in my role if I did not report the following ugly incident. Especially when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has just launched the Singapore Kindness Week (Nov 15). I was driving past Upper Thomson Road
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      Lock icon Yes, I married Baywatch babe,
      190 14 says NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman AFP. BASKETBALL star Dennis Rodman says he has married former Baywatch actress, Carmen Electra (above), and is "proud" of it. In a handwritten note released yesterday by Electra's publicist, the 37-year-old Chicago Bulls player said he was in love,
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      Leave Malaysia alone
      81 15 muKm ui< Prime Minister Data* Sari Dr Mahathir Mohamad wants to be left alone to manage Malaysia. He ticked off thoee critical of Malaysia's capital controls, in place since Sept 1, at tha Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Koala Lumpur Why not leave Malaysia alone with
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      Lock icon First black man in top party slot
      265 15 Source: Reuters, IHT. THE US Republicans have picked their first black man to a senior party position. They hope inspirational speaker and former football star J C Watts will score votes as head of the Republican conference, the fourth ranking post. He takes
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  • WORLDTODAY
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      'Diamonds' with pineapples turn out to be HEROIN
      255 17  -  Singaporean jailed By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY A SINGAPOREAN has been jailed for at least nine years for his role in getting a big heroin shipment into Australia. Tung Chew Hoong, 38, admitted being paid A$2,000 ($2,080) to help smuggle something
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      POLICE WATCH OPERATION
      187 17 APPEAL TUNG is appealing against his sentence, his lawyer, Mr Theo Voros, told The New Paper on Tuesday. Ung has been jailed for 11 to 16 years, after being found guilty of importing heroin. Ung is also appealing, Mr Voros said. Vohas pleaded not guilty and is
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      No worries, we're just here for the money
      224 18  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY NO one realised it was a robbery. The two men in security guard uniforms drove up in a security company van. An armed guard guided them to a parking spot at Enfield Auto Group Auctions in
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    You cannot change political culture so easily: SM Lee
    914 19 The Asian crisis, democracy, Asean and former Indonesian president Suharto were some of the issues Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew spoke about in an interview with the Financial Times at the Istana last Friday. The following are excerpts THENEWSTODAY But when
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      43 20 FREE YOURSELF Esse coin sets TlQer soft toys 1 Sunglasses if' $2 rebate on your next Esso Gold purchase Promotion Period 1 November to 31 December'98. Get your game cards with purchase from any Esso service station Or'ietafl outlets selling Esso motorcycle oils.
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  • Showtime
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      Lock icon Untitled
      51 21 that Hillary (linton is aiming eventually for high political office and probably for a new husband, take a look at the pictures in the December issue of Vogue. Britain's The Times the year she 's had, how many women could behave with such stature? Ms Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief Picture/
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      What's she doing here?
      379 22 WHY not? She's got style, she's got class and she's famous! Most who appear on the cover of Vogue do. Dressed in a velvet evening gown, Mrs Hillary Clinton looks spectacular. In the latest issue of the US magazine, Mrs Clinton, became the first First Lady
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      Braving cut-throat Hollywood
      359 23  -  By Avis Wong A CUT-THROAT business, Hollywood. That's the view of Singapore's foremost actor, Lim Kay Tong, who has some experience of that. But if it's so hard there, why does he keep returning? To perfect his craft, he said. "Once in a while, it's good to
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    • OF ART AND FRIENDSHIP
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        50 23 SHOW INFO WHAT: Art WHEN: Dec 2-6, 8 pm (Matinees on Dec 5 6, 3 pm) WHERE: Victoria Theatre TICKETS: $30, $40. $50, $60 ($25, $35, $45. $55 for matinees). Call Sistic on 348-5555 or Debbie Foo on 221-5585 for corporate bookings or group purchase of more than 20 tickets.
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      Cool babes
      276 24 •^'STAME ong (left)—too cool to be true? Taiwanese songwriterproducer Huang Shujun seems to think so. Said Huang: "When others smile, Faye acts cool. When others follow, it's her turn to smile." And apparently, Faye's fans are awed by her presence, too. After an autograph-signing session in Taiwan recently,
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    Lock icon Mistaken for NINJA killers
    921 25 TERROR IN INDONESIA For the past month, parts of Indonesia have been rocked by tales of "ninja"killings. Scarfed men in black have killed more than 200 people. In retaliation, suspected "ninjas"have been lynched by angry villagers. Caught in between are the police officers, who have been
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    Extra spice to daily life
    477 26  -  ET CETERA WITH J RAJENDRAN I HAVE not always been interested in the Spice Girls. But in recent months, I have become a fan. Well, sort of. Viva Forever, 2 Become 1, Spice Up Your Life, Stop and Lady is a Vamp I have heard
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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    345 27  -  CAREER CHOICE BY Tanya Fong SHE hates the sight of ill-fitting clothes. So she gets paid to rip $500 Italian suits apart. But it's to let her put them back together again so that they'll fit perfectly to a client's contours. Mrs Angeline Chua
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    440 29 FROM PAGE 31 CAREER CHOICE You're always in contact with all shapes and sizes. How do you handle customers who are shy about their bodies? Be professional. What is a typical day for you? I get a piece a customer wants to alter.
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      979 44 14TH JUNIOR INTER-CLUB SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS LAST SUNDAY (CLEMENTI SWIMMING POOL) Last Sunday, ex-national swimmer David Lim experienced success for the first time as a director of a swimming club. His three-year-old Swimfast Aquatic Club created a stir when it won its first Junior Inter-Club
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      99 44 IN all, 29 records were set last weekend. Swimfast's swimmers splashed their way to 13 new marks. Four were in the relays —the Boys' 200m (10 and under) freestyle and medley, the Girls' 200m (9 and under) freestyle and the Girls' medley (10 and under) relays. SSC contributed
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      247 45  -  BY Jason Lee SPREAD the wealth, or so the saying goes. Well, this year's S-League Golden Boot Award winner, Home United's Stuart Young, is doing just that to the tune of $2,000. He is donating a fifth of his $10,000 prize money to S Anthonysamy,
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      148 45 THE NEW PAPER'S JURONG LIFELINE: The New Paper has set up a Save Jurong Lifeline. Each time you call 1900-*****07, $2.40 will be charged to your phone bill, of which $2 will go to Jurong FC. The rest covers administration costs. All callers are eligible for a
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        83 45 SOCCER TMALS Geylang United will conduct open trials for, the Centre of Excellence and next year's Prime League season. UNDER 12: Born from Jan ***** to Dec 31'88 When: Nov 19 (3pm-6pm) UNDER 14: Born from Jan 1 '85 to Dec 31 86 When: Nov 20 (3-6pm) UNDER-16: Bom from
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      Beckham DID dive
      275 46 Hard to sympathise When David Beckham was sent off against Argentina at the World Cup Finals in France, many felt he had been the victim of a gross over-reaction by Diego Simeone. But did Beckham do exactly the same thing against Tim Sherwood to get him sent
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      253 46 THIS week's prize-winning letter is featured on the right. The letter-writer fetsa transferable three-month SCV basic tier subscription along with an SCV goodie bag containing an SCV cap, an SCV T-shirt, a stress ball, and a photo frame. The prize is courtesy of SCV. I WAS really disappointed
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      323 46 I'VE been a Man United fan since I was in primary school. Anyway, Man U's performance during the recent game against Blackburn was not its best. I think David Beckham did take a dive. The dive by him was just an act. A very good act indeed.
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      240 47 THREE cheers for Beckham! It'8 about time he had some payback for the "crime" he committed at France' 98. It's all too easy to blame England's downfall on Beckham's sending off. Fans were angry, they needed a scapegoat. Beck was it. There's no
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      172 47 TO say Beckham dived is to jump to conclusions. Everybody talks of the chest-to-chest contact and said that it was an Oscar winning performance. But what about the head-to-face part? Sherwood is one of the most uncompromising players in the English Premiership League. UPING I
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      503 48 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY AT WEMBLEY STADIUM. LONDON ENGLAND2 Darren Anderton 22nd min Paul Merson 39th CZECH REPUBLIC 0 DUBLIN'S FEAST ENDS Dion Dublin had scored five goals in two matches since moving from Coventry City to Aston Villa recently. But his golden run ended yesterday when
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      207 48  -  By] Lan Brown HOW much can England read into this welcome result and performance against a team unbeaten for 11 months and rated seventh in Fifa's world rankings? Considering that the original idea was about developing a system to serve first choice strikers Alan Shearer
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      178 49 EURO 2000 CHAMPIONSHIP: YUGOSLAVIA 1 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 0 YUGOSLAVIA earned a morale-boosting opening win in its Euro 2000 campaign in Belgrade last night. A close-range shot by Real Madrid striker Predrag Mijatovic in the second half clinched the closely-fought match.
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      115 49 Reuters. NORTHERN IRELAND 2 MOLDOVA 2 THE draw was a dismal result for Northern Ireland in Belfast. Lawrie McMenemy's team needed to win against the weakest team in Group Three. Moldova arrived at Windsor Park with a poor reputation of having won only one match away from home
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      425 49 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY: ITALY 2 SPAIN 2 Reuters. AFP. DREAM DEBUT YOUNG Sporting Lisbon stiker Simao Sabrosa made a dream international debut by scoring a last-minute goal in Portugal's 2-0 victory over Israel in a friendly. The 18-year-old beat Israeli goalkeeper Nir Davidovich to the ball to
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      86 49 Reuters. GERMANY 1 HOLLAND 1 LUCKY Germany! The European champion had Olaf Marschall to thank for preventing a home defeat against Holland in Gelsenkirchen last night. Marschall, a former East German international, found the net in the 53rd minute after being set up by Lothar Matthaus. He
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      76 50 HINGIS SWEEP: Are players expected to clean the court? Former world No 1 Martina Hingis of Switzerland (left) doesn't mind It as she runs a vacuum at New York's Madison Square Garden yesterday after she received the Hoover "Clean Sweep'award. The award
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      261 50 WTA CHASE MEET The big difference between Pierce andCoetzerwas in their ability to win points on first serve. Pierce won an impressive 71 per cent of her first that were food while Coetzer was successful on just 37 per cent of her first serve points. AFP. Frenchwoman Mary Pierce
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