The New Paper, 13 February 2000

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  • NEWS
    • 107 2 A three-letter word that can bring on the blushes. In fact, this sensitive topic often leaves parents tongue-tied when it crops up at home. Many teens are left to rely on gossip or old wives' tales in search of answers. And the answers are often not to be found
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    • 477 2 HOW the two sisters must have fought for their lives. The room was a bloody, violent wreck. One of them, after all, had a black belt in karate. But no one realised they were dead. Their bodies were left to rot for four
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    • 118 2 THEIR parents are inconsolable. Said their father, 56-year-old retired primary school teacher Mr Benjamin Samit: "How can anyone be so cruel to my babies?". His wife, Madam Ngie Kilau, 55, wailed in her grief. The couple, from Sibu, have five children four girls and a boy.
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  • NEWS
    • 642 4 Britain's body-pierced, teenagers are turning up at hospitals with all kinds of infections, some even linked to hepatitis Band Aids. The result: The British government is planning to clean up the act to ensure hygiene is observed. ERNEST LUIS takes a pointed look at
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    • 434 5 NO sooner had we finished interviewing Mr Malvin Chia and Mr Mann Bahadur when we saw a young girl agreeing to have her tongue studded. There was no better time to check out the facilities at Primitive Arts And Body Piercing, and they were game.
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    • 224 6 FROM PAGE 4: BODY-PIERCING THE HOLE TRUTH [ENV SAYS IwKKMpg am tattooing, there is a nH| risk of infection of diseases, such as Hepatitis B, if the needles used are not clean and are contaminated. However, so far there has been no reports
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    • 593 7  -  By Denise Chong VALENTINE'S Day makes cabby K W ("just call me K W") sad very sad. A taxi driver for 10 years, nothing dims his day more than sweet nothings exchanged by couples in the backseat of his cab. "Those couples I picked up on
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    • 36 7 Siomethings are very expressive\ you t I'm talking about lah. Making out, hispering sweet nothings. They think United States qfAmerica or what! Very free and easy society, is U? Cabby KW
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    • 177 7 This is the letter written by KW to his wife, C P for the Gold 90FAfs Valentine's Day Love Letters contest: THIS is the 10th year we are married. However, on each and every Valentine's Day, I, as a cabby, would need to work to make a living
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    • 677 8  -  1 I by Florence Tan WHILE the world carries on around him, one shattered man keeps vigil over his girlfriend in a hospital ward. She was attacked and raped at Bukit Batok Park last Sunday. She now lies on a hospital
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    • 486 8  -  By Melvin Singh WHY would a man, who doesn't know the Bukit Batok rape victim, offer a reward for the arrest of her attacker? Yes, Mr A that's what he insisted he be called stepped into The New Paper office with
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    • 794 9 A long time ago... in Episode One...three weeks ago, The New Paper on Sunday asked the cinemas how far they would go in dealing with this growing nuisance in cinemas. In Episode Two, 135 readers suggested ways to curb this irritating species
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    • 112 9 LAWYER Mr Gerald Khor Guan Yu, 29, was allegedly beaten up by four youths after a midnight movie in the Golden Village cineplex in Plaza Singapura on Dec 26. Mr Khor and his girlfriend had gone to watch the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, End Of Days. The four youths
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    • 102 9 7" mean that off you cannot still be a menace. Because you can turn to your friends and start telling them the story, because you've seen the movie, or, you can start munching noisily on your potato chips, or you can ask your boyfriend what's happening because
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    • 184 10  -  TWO ANG MOHS AT CHINESE NEW By Leong May Ling THEY are ang mohs, unsure of what Chingay meant. Until a stranger offered his help. Dutch expatriates Evelien Schiereck, 28, and Christiaan, 27, were at the Padang to soak up the festive atmosphere but had yet
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    • 175 11 TUfre are other ethnic groups Aiming as well although this is to be a Chinese Hike that. Sometimes I wish that they would slow down or stop a while so that I could have a longer look. —Evelien Schiereck, 28, from Holland. She's working in Singapore as a
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    • 204 12 CALLING all post-O level students! Have you decided where to go from here? Should it be a junior college or polytechnic for you? If you need some tips to help you make up your mind, make a date with The New Paper Beyond O Levels Seminar.
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    • 97 9 Romance blooms at the Orchard Captivate your loved one with a romantic dinner at the Orchard Hotel. Executive Chef Michael Hoevel has orchestrated the perfect ambience for lovebirds to profess Tjk* ORCHARD cah Dinner Course Set Dinner will receive a box of potpourri) (With a glass of champagne and house
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  • 1113 14  -  From stockbroker in New Jersey to housewife in S'pore D x^l By Barbara Layton THERE I was, thinking that the yuppie life I led would be it. Life, of course, was the intense and financially rewarding career I
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    • 163 14 Celebrate Millennium Valentine's Day at on 13th 14th Feb 2000 5 Couroe Candle Ljgfrt Set Dinner crnnclty fab apple topped with cocktail nance Cream of Old England Chowder j nerved with homemade garlic bread CHOICE OF MAIN COURSE Honey Sweet honey dip breaded finh topped with cherry sauce Lovln" Bovln
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  • @ A GLANCE
    • 305 15 Clob investors appoint Allen Gledhill IT has been 18 months with no satisfactory solution in sight to the Clob saga. So the association of Clob investors has now taken the first steps to help its members pursue legal action. Mr David Gerald, president of the Securities Association of
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    • 43 15 NEXTDOOR: A McDonald's staff member showing off the litter of kittles that will be on sale In Malaysia from Feb 24. In Singapore, chaos and fights broke out at McDonald's fastfood outlets during the Hello Kitty toy promotion recently.
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 112 15 TAKING the lead from the big boys in the business world where size matters, minor-league gambling operators are pooling their resources in order to survive. They have been hard-hit by a succession of raids that has led to more than 3,800 arrests in the past two years.
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      • 102 15 Reuters. THE investigating team tracking hackers who shut down a number of leading websites recently are following a lead in Germany. The team believes that a hacker who goes by the alias Mixter, and who breaks into networks with a programme called Stacheldraht (Barbed Wire), may be
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      • 107 15 AP. ON a stopover in Bangkok, President Abdurrahman Wahid said that General Wiranto would quit tomorrow. Gen Wiranto is said to have played a part in last year's violence in East Timor. So far Gen Wiranto, the Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, has
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      • 122 15 AN Indonesian trader is facing a charge of trying to cheat Singapore Pools of $200,000 using a fake ticket. He faces up to 3Vi years'jail and a fine if convicted of attempted cheating. He allegedly presented a Singapore Sweep ticket on Jan 31 doctored to look like
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      • 104 16 CHINESE surgeons say they have pioneered a superfast and painless cancer treatment. Doctors at Xtying Hospital in Xian inserted a superconductive knife, 2 mm in diameter, into the tumour of a liver cancer patient. They then forced high-pressure argon and helium gas through the knife point to
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      • 96 16 Reuters. OLD sex symbols fade away and so must their husbands. Roger Vadim is dead. The man who discovered Brigitte Bardot. And who was a former husband of Jane Fonda. The French film director also had a son by actress Catherine Deneuve, went on to marry Danish
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      • 103 16 Reuters IS Afghanistan that bad? Looks like it judging by the fact that only 37 of the 142 hostages freed from a hijacked Afghan airliner want to go home. A Kampuchean Airlines Tristar L-1011 is standing by to take home Afghans who want to go back. But
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      • 97 16 MONEY man George Soros is said to be interested in buying a 45-per-cent stake in Indonesia's automobile conglomerate, reports Bisnis Indonesia. Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (Ibra) put the PT Astra International stake up for sale. Ibra has said the stake could sell above 4,000 rupiah (90
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    • 178 16 GNpCUS] FREE markets, yes. But unchecked capitalism, no. We need to check its "worst excesses". And for this we need a new world order, says Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Based on a "new kind of international cooperation". Rich and poor nations should
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    • 62 16 DRAGONS DELIGHT: Do you or your children enjoy tales about this mythical creature? Find out more at the Dragons Exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre. Today between 10 am and 6 pm. Tickets at $1.50 (for children) and $3. NEAR TNEM ROAR: Catch this gravity-defying high-pole lion stunt
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 58 16 Showers in tfc* afternoon, mainly over northern and western Singapore. 0k K i S>' DSHHHSBH ■fflifflflinmmlißßllMM Mrtfc Thunderstorms sunrise 7:l7am wast Showers sunset 7:21 pm centni -3SI MM moon rise 7:17 pm south ParrtyGoudy moons* 0:52 om easl PorrtyOootty mSSEBUHH BHHIH minimum 22 first tide 2.6 m: 4.00 om "w*"™"
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  • 651 17  -  Readers see red, merger mania, hijacks, air crashes. What a start to a year! Guest editor DR N VARAPRASAD Principal and chief executive officer of Temasek Polytechnic WHAT does a guest editor write about? Look back at the news of the past week, they told me.
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  • 464 18 COMA WOMAN RAPED. BABY ALSO IN COMA C N^ Source: AP, The Boston Herald A WOMAN who was raped when she was in a coma, has given birth to the rapist's baby which slipped into a coma itself. Now, both mother and
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    • 206 19 Lions Clllb of Serve I I Singapore New Central Dlstr,ct 308 A 1 I I Annual Lunar New Year Charity Luncheon I I Senior Citizens I I Guest of Honour Mrs Goh Chok Tong I I 13th February 2000, 12 noon I I at The Neptune I I ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
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  • NEWS
    • 330 20  -  By Peter Wilson REPORTING FROM SYDNEY JUST spelling one word wrong cost cocaine smugglers their precious cargo. Using chemicals, the hightech drug ring had changed the colour and nature of the cocaine they were shipping. Their "black cocaine" would have foiled chemical analysis and sniffer dogs
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    • 64 20 THE Week cocaine is the fourth drug seizure Australian offlciais have made in amonth. Ten days ago, the authorities seized Australia's biggest haul 500 Kg of cocaine from a yacht north of Sydney after a two-year international surveillance operation on people suspected of trading in drugs. Two
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    • 541 21  - He can make you a knight for a price By Woon Wui Tek HIS office should have the sign, "The Doctorate Is In" because this is where you can buy one. From his humble Petaling Jaya shophouse, slick Malaysian businessman Samraj Arumugam can confer an exotic doctorate or a foreign
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    • 239 21 MR Samraj offers doctorates from two universities. Both give you reason for doubt. The first is based in England, so we called the British Council in Malaysia. A counsellor confirmed there had been complaints about the institution ("it shouldn't really be a university") and advised caution.
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    • 144 22 ACTRESS Julianne Moore (left) is shaping up as the new female lead in Hannibal, the sequel to the Oscar-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs. She is in final negotiations to portray FBI agent Clarice Starling in Hannibal, Daily Variety reports. Moore would join Anthony Hopkins,
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    • 456 20 PruCash Hong Bao lifc m jE&V K year after year This Lunar New Year, when your child says "GongXi Fa Cai...Hong Bao YiGeLai!", you'll have the perfect red packet for him or her PruCash Hong Bao a special savings plan that v; gives your child a big Hong Bao, every
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    • 137 23 1 AT DOWNUUII^AaC/ THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING EVERYMK/^ A romantic night out 111? with your sweetheart &®l j W©3| .^tficatc\ove^V^ ommm e <> f I r o\ j n h^iskc^; j 6 6/ I «»6bie aot»^ e «*<><* NTuc •Jm~ s 'WSL f ®»l/« 4 Lifestyle J®, Jtl ~u3& or fo
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  • Feature
    • 416 25 IT was a major moment; a once-in-a-lifetime moment. The chance to walk down Hollywood's red carpet, rolled out for the premiere of Play it to the Bone, the Woody Harrelson/Antonio Banderas movie for which I sing the title song. My husband (journalist-actor Koh Boon Pin, seen
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    • 178 26 IN Oct 1999,1 recorded Autumn Leaves, my second jazz album for the label Groovenote. Paul Beydor, the editor of this and other Ron Shelton films, had reviewed my first jazs album Here's To Ben. He had originally edited in the song In the Wee
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    • 767 26 ...BEFORE the movie started, the producer Stephen Chin came by and when he saw me, said: "Jacinths, I'm giving you Jimmy Woods' tickets. Come on down." We were quite happy to sit upstairs with Jenna and Jane and whoever else we couldn't recognize, but who would
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE HEART
    • 337 27 RECENTLY, my parents argued about something I don't understand. The cause is similar to the many quarrels they have had for the past few years. I tried defusing this air of anger and hatred. But my mum became even angrier when I talked
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    • 138 27 Last week's letter: SAD Man is in his 30s and is in love with a girl he sees every day in the MRT train. He always looks out for her when he boards the train. He thinks she it In her 20s. She's cute, sweet, has long hair
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    • 171 27 Readers' advice: I KNOW how you feel at the moment. It's a deep feeling in the heart that says, "I'm in love" and everything about the girl seems pleasant and flawless. But a perfect girl only exists in our fantasies. It might fet be her
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    • 145 27 YOU cannot achieve anything if you don't put in any effort. Looking at her every day does not necessarily send her a signal of your interest in her even though she may have noticed you. As a male, you should have the guts to make the
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    • 555 28 I'M 25 and my husband is 36 years old. There Is a big age gap between us and we can't seem to get along. Ifs been almost one year since we married. But I'm not quite happy living with him because he spends most of
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    • 362 28 I AM a 19-year-old girl studying at a polytechnic. Over the last six months, I seem to have become a changed person. Most of the time, I have been unable to concentrate during lectures and practicaJs because my mind is cluttered with thoughts. My
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 254 28 I'M a 13-year-old boy. QOne day, when I was seven, I touched my penis and felt a pleasurable sensation. I began to do this every day. Later, I began to rub my penis against my pillow and pretend I was having sex with a woman. Since last
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      • 231 28 I HAVE a few questions Ql'd like to pose: When a woman is sexually excited, what changes occur in her body? Why do some people prefer to have oral or anal sex? How can we determine whether a boy or girl is a virgin? Leong When
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    • 44 27 CAN YOU HELP? If you think you can help with some useful advice, write or fax to Aggie by Wednesday. The best letter will be published next week. The writer of the best reply will receive a special ©T-shirt and a New Paper cap.
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    • 44 28 CALLUS' If you need advice on matters of the heart or sex issues, write to: Aggie, The New Paper, Times House, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore *****5 Or fax: 737-5375, e-mail: npops@sph.com.sg (please mark: Aggie) or call 1900-912-0007 (calls cost 30 cents a minute).
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  • 677 29  -  [*l THE PLACE TO DIP FOR HOMEMAKING TIPS By sg TOMORROW is Valentine's Day, and Pete and Pepe have been scouring the shops for the best gifts. So what do you look for when choosing a gilt for that special someone at this time of
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 937 30 Turn T Choosy Females The Ride Home Beverly Hills Cop 111 M M Central, 9.30 pm Channel 5,8.30 pm HBO (Ch 60), Bpm We talk about women being choosy The season finale looks at what will It's laugh time! This time, Eddie m mm when looking for husbands. Well, it
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  • 323 31  -  CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-C 0 N S C I 0 U S By Carol Leong carol@sph.com.sg ONE of the most stunning things you can do for your home is to make your own wallpaper. Huge, huge pictures can be blown up
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  • 957 32  -  Venue FUJIFILM JET, SET, GO Edited by Crispina Robert crispina@sph.com.sg Do you think there is more to life than trying to find a seat every morning at 8.05 on the same, sweaty buscar? Want an out-of-this-world experience? Then go to India, says SALMA NURMOHAMED
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  • 244 33 From previous page Venue JET SET, GO Chicken Curry for the Soul Eat your heart out and then some if you think Indian food outside India is good, you are in for a bonus. If you have never tried tandoori chicken or sizzling hot samosas, you will be
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 839 34 w®® mHj [Playground!* rszzr VI Dave Ang dave@sph.comsg foreman very lazy men working for him, so one day he decided to trick them into doing some work for a change. !KW[ "I've got a really easy job today K, '<9 «t -M K. for the laziest one among you," he
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  • Seen Heard SHARP
    • Article, Illustration
      90 35 THE MOVIE Bachelor Jimmie Shannon's grandfather leaves him 100 million on condition that he gets and stays married to the same woman for at least 10 years, and have a child within five. The wedding must take place by Jimmie's 30th birthday, a little more than 30 hours
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    • 251 35  -  byl DENISE CHONG YEEEHA! The Bachelor got me off to a galloping start. The hero Jimmie Shannon (Chris ODonnell) has a vivid imagination and it was fun to literally see what was on his mind with the help of computer graphics imagery. For example,
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    • 84 36  -  Edited by Ernest Luis emest@sph.com.sg Jimmie Shannon (Chris O'Donnell) describing how men want lots of women: "Call It sweet grass. A mustang is driven to gat as big a variety of sweet grass as possible." Jimmie's "eternal student" ex-girlfriend (Sarah Silverman) describing marriage to Jimmie, who was an
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    • 226 36  -  by ERNEST LUIS WHOOPEE doo! Quickly follow that with a yawn, and that sums up my reaction to The Bachelor. Nope, the analogy of galloping horses did nothing for me. In fact, when Chris ODonnell's character Jimmie runs in front of the horses,
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    • 204 36 James Berardinelli in his online review: "The idem of a man engaging in a frantic search for a bride over a 30-hour period should be a great deal funnier than what The Bachelor offers. The film is not without its clever moments. For example, a few of the
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    • 226 36  -  with Jessica Leow FARTHER, farther, farther, Third Eye Blind makes it Farther is the best tune on the group's follow-up to its very successful eponymous debut But beyond this pounding and oh-so-happy number, and a few other great moments (like the surprisingly good Slow Motion
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 519 37 E* CALL: 873-3333 C aKIa I camj vision 24-hour subscription sales hotline In movies headquarters in Chicago. Stars John Travolta, Andie Mac Dowel I and today Phantoms William Hurt hso|B|| 10pm Seven hundred people mysteriously IflSi disappear from a small town in Colorado. The survivors find that the sat My
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 523 38 fri HoMywood lupwlit: Cwyntth f li i^.n Highlight of the Week 6.30pm dram ®W This willowy actress has quickly tues of F«t« dimbed the ladder of success, though 12pm Chlrjstarts believing Chi, a Gwyneth Pakrow only decided to foWKne-teller, when his predictions become a thespian at the ripe old age
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  • 577 39  -  Single Column by Jason Tan jasont@sph.com.sg ITS that time of the year again. Time to save on lunch just to buy your loved one pricey Godiva chocolates and $100 roses. Time to work off your New Year goodies to fit into that sharp Armani
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  • 742 40  -  poSueMel SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Suzanne Walker I'M not the sort of girl who would expect flowers or romantic dinners on Valentine's. Actually, I don't expect any man to spend money on me. I've since come to understand that to do that
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    • 459 41 1 radio deejay Hfllf One Valentine's Day, W M I MM WmWg I II I asked a man to marry B My saddest Valentine's Day If I W W me. But Joanne is... every year actually! Woodward would Because I'm usually dateless. not give Paul Newman But tomorrow, 111 be
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  • 540 42  -  ■m Column I* CTOR LIM KAY TONG WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Lim Kay Tong YES, I don't think I am. But my wife (food writer Sylvia Tan) does. Think that I'm romantic, that is. But I do make an occasion of Valentine's Day. Nothing too
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    • 586 47  -  By Lionel Lee FIRST-UP winner Major Chance looks a good prospect in Race 8 at Ipoh this afternoon. This Loh Kit Soon-trained four-year-old showed ability at Ipoh on Jan 2 when he led all the way to post an easy victory. The way he was going
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    • 67 47 RACE 2: Storm Legend, Fortune Machine, Imperial Scholar, Boy Emperor, Captain Val, Henry's Kuda. RACE 3: Make Win, Truly Serious, When You Believe. RACE 4: Night Man, Western Hero. RACE 5: King Boleh. RACE 6: Gettysburg, Bintan Star, The Best Action. RACE 7: Ichlban Reflex, I'm Sure, Nasib Gaya.
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    • 1400 48 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD Going forecast Good to yielding Ha Uttrw Horn Wt Rrtlng Joctay (AjdartqlnfcM. 1 *****4 BREED TO WIN 57 (46) BWoodworth 1 (4nzQ PK Leong-Uberation) 2 -5-12- TRIPLE SIX 55.5 (43) VSivan 5 (5nzg P Lee-Teh Tuan Thian) 3 0-04-0 VICTORY PLAN 55.5 (43) 'MRozain 8 (6ag
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    • 307 49 YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (COURSE B) RACE RESULTS Going: Good 2 SILVER STORM 56 c 53.5 (227-40) "TOnfl (6) 7 5 1 (443) 3 MARK OF COURAGE 55.5C 54 (111-23) *CAng (1) 5 4 2 (433) 7 MASCOT 52.5 (26-9) JIKwty (5) 9 6 3 (515) 9 KINO GENERAL 51.5 (39-11) JAzhar
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    • 1093 49 I Race 3 Post Town Handicap -1100m J 2 EXBURY FAJR 53 (29-0) Craig Staplat (9) PflwHeR f8i Paul King (2) 1 7 JUST FOR DONNA 52 (40-14) 4 ALH/Vnm52(19-T) 2 3 H Also ran: ANGELS WHISPER Krstian Hawkins. A SPECIAL MOMENT Clint Harvey. CREDrT REFERENCE Jeff
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    • 265 49  -  By Danny Khoo CLASS told in the Singapore Magic Millions Classic at Krauji last night. Giant Fight, the highest-rated galloper in the six-horse line-up, was simply in a class of his own in the 1,400 m feature, which was staged for the fifth time
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    • 92 50 STANDING TALL:a jubilant Saimee Jumaat giving Giant Fight a tug on the ear after the Malcolm Thwalteat rained galloper captured the $200,000 Singapore 2000 Magic Millions Claaaic over the KranJl 1,400 m laat night CARRY ON WINNING: French Jockey Olivier Doleuze cannot hide his Joy after
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    • 1005 51 RACE Is TIP TOP was leaning in the barriers and jumped awkwardly out, inconveniencing MASCOT. Near the 400 m, LUCKY WINGS steadied when tightened on the outside of MASCOT, who switched out for a run. Jockey M Kway (MASCOT), who had left the course,
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  • SPORTS
    • 867 52 CALL me em old chauvinist if you like, but having once sat in a smoke-filled hall among diners who pulled chicken legs apart while lusting for female blood, I never wish to see women's boxing in the flesh again. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier apparently do
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    • 415 53 PRADEEP PAUL IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA NBA ALL-STAR GAME (Tomorrow morning) ALL-STAR FASTFACTS Tomorrow's game will be televised in 205 countries in 42 languages. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's selection to 19 All-Star games is the most in history. The East has seven players in their first All-Star game, the
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    • 42 53 BIG HIT: Yea, Loa Angelea Lakers star Kobe Bryant haa lota to smile about. Ha received over one million votea from hla fana and la In the starting llne-up for the Weatern Conference team. Picture/ Ap
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    • 116 53 THIS is a land where handphones are given away free (if you sign up for sufficient airtime). And the latest Toyota Corona is being hawked at just US$l3,OOO ($22,000). Cheap living, huh? Not really. Not if you want to watch the All-Star game BUCK MARKET
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    • 171 53 ITS a true changing of the guard. The 10 players who will start the NBA All-Star game are all under 30. Well, Alonzo Mourning isn't, but he just blew out his 30 candles three days ago! The rest are all in the mid-20s with some like Kobe
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    • 426 54 Lots of cash and Feme's ready to spend THE DEAL: Reuters. Mobile phone giant Vodafone AirTouch PLC announced a £30 mm lion ($81 m) sponsorship deal with Man United. The four-year deal, starting June 1, will put Vodafone's logo on the team's shirt and offer its
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    • 423 54  -  14th COMMONWEALTH TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS By Peter Siow A BOAT load of about 200 Chinese refugees beached along a Canadian coastline just before Christmas. The landing triggered off a nation-wide debate in Canada: Welcome them or turn them around. But to Canadian table tennis official Dr Chandra
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    • 601 55  -  ASIAN CUP QUALIFIER: JAPAN v SINGAPORE: Live on Spoitscity, 6.30pm I'm prepared to take the brickbats... This is my prediction: ASIAN CUP QUALIFIER: Brunei v Macau (4 pm) There's no time difference between Singapore and Macau SINGAPORE'S OTHER TIES: Feb 16: Macau v Singapore Feb 20:
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    • 217 55 "WE'LL not be shamed." So said Nazri Nasir, the Lions skipper yesterday. "If anyone talks about a massacre, he doesn't know the spirit of this team," he said. "We are the first to agree that we are not in the class of the Japanese in
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    • 275 55 WHY is Nakata not here? Simply because he's not good enough for the current Japanese team. Yes, this was the reason given by Philippe Troussier, Japan's French coach who led South Africa to the World Cup Finals in 1998. Said Troussier: "Don't get
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    • 541 56 CHELSEA 3 Gustavo Poyet 79, George Weah 80, JodyMorrls9o WIMBLEDON I Andreas Lund 73 COVENTRY CITY 3 Robbie Keane 2, Mustapha Hadji 13, Cedrtc Roussel 18 SUNDERLAND! Kevin Phillips 57, Alex Rae 88 EVERTON2 Joe-Max Moore 24, Michael Ball 45 DERBY COUNTY 1 Avt Nimnl
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    • 76 56 CELTIC ended a traumatic week with a 34 Scottish Premier League win at Dundee yesterday. Alan Stubbs and Mark Viduka scored within two minutes of each other midway through the second half to make the points safe. Celtic director of football Kenny Dalglish, who took charge of the
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    • 584 57 ...now a security guard at 63 Majid Ariff has been living quietly since his 13 glorious years with the Lions from 1958-71. But he was nudged back into the limelight on Monday when the Football Association of Malaysia's
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    • 65 58 a game, we didn't dare to show public. Malu (shy) lah. Today, win o^/fftheplayers don't seem to care. They just go to the bank and tollect their salaries. MajidAriff I* THE COACH: Me/Id hea no licence, but plenty of Ideas. a THE PLAYER: MaJldArtffln action
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    • 48 58 NAME: Majid Ariff AGE: 63 FAMILY: Wife, two sons, a daughter and grandchildren RECORD: Represented Singapore from 1958 to 1971 Played for clubs Star Soccerites, Fathul Karib and Darul Afiah. LIKES: Playing with my grandchildren and playing weekend soccer. DISLIKES: People who value paper qualifications above experience.
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    • 486 58 HE is not wanted by any S-League club. And he is 63 years old. Yet, Mqjid Ariff says he is the man to lead Singapore to the 2010 World Cup Finals. And he has already mapped out a plan in his mind. Give
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