The New Paper, 26 March 2000

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  • 23 1 the new paper MARCH 26, 2000 —eseeebS- i m Another quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg MITA (P) 019/03/2000 8 "*****1 M*****®>
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  • NEWS
    • 524 2 WHY? TOMORROW: WHAT A PAKISTANI IN ISLAMABAD THINKS OFTHE CLINTON VISIT Wire services. ALL eyes were on the white and blue jumbo jet. The one in which the US President travels. As Air Force One made a slow descent, US Secret Service men scanned
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    • 208 2 MEANWHILE... This terrorist is running scared W WHY? ONE man was afraid of President Bill Clinton's visit to Pakistan. Osama bin Laden (above) feared that the visit would mean the end of his days as a free man. He called for an urgent meeting of about 100 of his followers
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    • 82 2 She's the unsung I I rr A MD heroine ol J Maid QS c Ad ki your home... 1.2J The Electric New Paper Contest Jj Year B Change the script. f And you want everyone to know about this k "Wonder Woman". Here's your chance to Win a DVD player.
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  • NEWS
    • 558 4 48-year-old mum arrested, faces 16 years' jail if convicted in US trial which begins in May MUM: Just PHOTO my little girl LAB: It's having a shower child porn HER action seemed innocent enough to her. Cynthia Stewart went to a photo lab and handed
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    • 233 4 IN SINGAPORE PICTURE this: A mum takes cute pictures of her little girl bathing and gives them to the photo laboratory to develop. Next thing she knows, the police knock at her door because the lab says she shot obscene pictures.
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    • 407 4 SO pictures of naked little babies are innocent enough, but what about pictures of naked adults? Most of the 15 labs I asked said "No". But two said "Yes". They would print naked pictures of individual people. Yet
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    • 483 4  -  by Ng Wan Ching THERE is usually an unspoken trust and bond between a parent and child. For me, it goes something like this for each of my daughters: "As Mummy, I will never consciously do anything to harm you or make
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    • 175 4 ALL five lawyers we asked said that there is no specific law here which says a parent should not take nude pictures of their young children for their own personal purposes. Said one lawyer: "If the parent were to take the picture
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    • 50 5 We'll provide the spark that sets her imagination soaring. The chance to attend 'class' in New York. (Without ever leaving home). H The computer to complete her term paper. Apd I I opportunity to make all her dreams come true. m Mk Mr x iMLI ylk V fl A *A
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  • NEWS
    • 678 6  -  The Electric New Paper's Change the Script Contest By Ivan Lim lvanl@sph.com.sg YOU must have had that urge at least once: To change the script of a movie, or at least, to rewrite something someone said. Yes, this has everything to do with tomorrow's 72nd Academy Awards.
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    • 622 7 They plan to trek, sail, scuba dive, kayak, and mountain bike 500 km of terrain in Sabah within a dozen days in one of the toughest races around Eco-Challenge 2000. Who are these women, really? MICHELLE CHOH finds out OH BOY, yet another bunch of women
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    • 130 7 ALTHOUGH all four women are training equally hard, one of them will have to make way for a man. The reason: Eco-Challenge teams must be mixed. There are other obstacles, too. Even though they have been partially sponsored by the National Youth Council, they
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    • 680 8  -  By Lingam Ponnampalam SO WAS it sexy or wasn't it? The outfit in question is this woman's blouse in the picture, which led to her being assaulted by her own husband. He claimed it was open too far down the front, revealing too much cleavage and
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    • 665 9 Next year, he'll be leading another team to tackle Mount Everest again. But David Lim who has been singled out by President S R Nathan for his extraordinary courage is no ordinary mountaineer, as ERNESTLUIS finds out IF you call mountaineer David Lim Singapore's
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    • 1044 9  -  By David Lim ONE of life's most perverse pleasures must be wanting to wake up at dawn and spending the rest of the day climbing a freezing piece of rock so big you can see it from 100 km away. I looked around our abode
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    • 661 10 But the grand old club at the Padang wasn't always like that. Singapore Recreation Club's (SRC) former president, Mr Eddie Tessensohn, talks to GLORIA CHANDY about the good old days WHEN he joined the Singapore Recreation Club for just $1 about 45 years ago,
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    • 72 6 Here's how you can win a DVD player Here's how you can win a prize in The Electric New Paper's Change the Script contest: Log on to the Internet and go to http://newpaper.asia l.com.sg/Teatures/contesLhtml and follow the instructions on-screen. Submit your entries to us no later than midnight Wednesday. The
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    • 122 8 Can there be an easier contest?! 1 Jr I .JIB r if* c^-r. y aa^i SIMPLY add up all the numbers you can find on our ©cover on Page 29.. Then mil our Infoline on 1900-*****01 and tell us what the totalis. Three readers with the correct answers will be
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  • 209 11 There is no need to be vindictive... It seems that y at the slightest sign of any matters have been taken to court. We ought to be solving them ourselves. Former deputy general manager Abdul Rashid, who's now an ordinary member I joined the club
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  • 74 11 TODAY, the SRC is a 5,500-member strong country club. But it has also become a hotbed of in-fighting, back-biting, expulsion of members, some of whom drag each other to court. This has left a bad taste over the years in the mouth of many members. Now, most just
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  • EXPAT
    • 732 12  -  By Dr Sergei Zhgoon SINGAPORE is a nice place for scientists to work and learn, and I should know. I was a senior research fellow at Nanyang Technological University a month each in 1998 and last year. Russia produces many talents who find it hard
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    • 482 12 (Translated from Russian) HOW SINGAPORE LOOKS: From above, Singapore seems small. The air is warm and very wet. But it's not always like this. There are days when the air is rather dry. But once you get into cool locations (practically all buildings
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    • 146 12 Dear Gus, I am new in Singapore. I've been here for two weeks and I'm also one of the expat wives who have a small shopping website company selling house decor. It is just that I don't sell to Singapore residents. However, after reading your article last
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    • 151 12 THANKS to those who have written. If your query Is still not answered, hang in there. Gus, our Expat Page editor, Is still checking for you. And he'N get back to you, soonest. As for those who are new In town, and those who are not so new, the
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  • NEWS
    • 666 13 IT'S like the dream of every country's tourism industry. Every year, within a period spanning a month or so of the haj season, about two million visitors from all over the world faithfully make their way there. In fact, so many want to visit Mecca,
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    • 121 13 THE HAJ Before performing the Heg, the pilgrims enter into a state of consecration called ihram. The attire, when one is in the state of ihram, makes every pilgrim, rich or poor, educated or less-privileged, equal. The ihram attire for a male pilgrim consists of two unsewn white
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    • 311 13 At the first stop, Mecca, the pilgrims perform two activities. These are the tawaf (circling of the Ka'abah seven times in an anti-clockwise direction), followed by the sa'i (walking between Mount Safa and Mount Marwa). The tawaf is the first thing the pilgrims do when they enter the
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    • 462 14  -  By SABRINA NG as told to AZHAR GHANI Thursday, March 16 was Hari Raya Hcyi. It's not the same as Hari Raya Puasa which was in January. Hari Raya Puasa marks the end of the fasting month, although I have to admit that I used
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    • 741 15 DR AUTOPSY'S CASEFILE THE tiny body yielded its horrifying secret only when Prof Chao Tzee Cheng conducted an autopsy. Marie Lean, a two-year-old girl seemingly prone to falls, had died suddenly on Aug 26, 1974. Her parents were devastated. The doctors treating Marie
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    • 353 15 MARIE'S mysterious injuries first came to light about two weeks before she died, said her parents. The little girl slipped and fell on a puddle of urine, and hit the back of her head. Three days later, Marie could not sleep, so her parents took her
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  • NEWS
    • 914 17 SIAS CHIEF TELLS ALL ON THE CLOB DISPUTE Just how was the long Clob standoff finally broken Mr David Gerald, who heads the Securities Investors Association of Singapore, explains the breakthrough to WOON WUITEK A "PRAGMATIC" settlement 1$ poised to end
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    • 232 17 What has the Clob saga taught you about Singaporeans—and Singapore investors? That Singaporeans are ready to band together. They want someone to lead them, on whom they can rely. The impetus must be: "You will do something for us". Then they are prepared to join hands. 50,000 joined
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  • @A GLANCE
    • 310 18 Nurses lured overseas by these COME on over. Singapore nurses working overseas are urging their peers here to do just that. Ms May Raine, a senior theatre nurse with St Anthony's Hospital, just outside of London, gets over £21,000 ($56,700) and works 37 hours
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 90 18 SOON, those in prison for less serious crimes can serve up to six months of their jail terms at home. Forty inmates are about to be the new test subjects of a new home-detention scheme, similar to a programme for drug offenders. All those on home detention
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      • 84 18 The strangled and dismembered bodies of 153 people, including 59 children, have been found buried in the dirt floor of an abandoned house in Uganda. The deaths are linked to the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, a Ugandan doomsday cult, whose 330 members died in
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      • 81 18 SINGAPORE Airlines plans to spend US$3 m ($5.1 million) over the next two years to develop and promote Indonesia as an international tourist spot. SIA hopes to encourage more visitors to Singapore to continue on to Indonesia. Starting this week, it will operate 56 flights a week
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      • 81 18 IN Baltimore in the US, 25 students in a pilot programme at Poole Middle School are learning maths from textbooks used by schools in Singapore. Because US students fall behind those in Singapore, Korea and Japan in maths, US educators are turning to Asia for solutions.
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      • 66 18 The National Wages Council will be meeting early next month and wants people's views on the restoration of cuts to employers' CPF contributions, refinements of the flexible-wage system, and a half-yearly bonus system. Send an e-mail to mom_lrd@mom.gov.sg, fax 535-4811, or write to TTie Secretary, National Wages
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      • 72 18 ANTARA news agency's ex-chief is suing Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid for dismissing him. He filed papers on Thursday, asking for one trillion rupiah ($228 million). Mr Parni Hadi said his dismissal goes against the new press law passed in September last year, which made a 1962 presidential decree
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      • 84 18 MICROSOFT has offered to split its web browser, Internet Explorer, from its Windows operating system. It hopes that by doing so, it can settle its anti-trust case with the government, reports the Wall Street Journal. The US Justice Department and 19 states accused Microsoft of abusing its power
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      • 76 18 CANT keep up with the Joneses? Well, actually, you can. More than 500,000 people are doing just that by logging onto Paul and Louise Jones' website every day to watch them renovate their home. www.internet-home-makers.com has become such a huge hit that 400 companies have sponsored their home improvements.
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    • 185 18 QN£>us] AMERICAN Beauty will win the Oscar for Best Picture. That is, if you believe the poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal. In a first since an informal straw poll in the *****, the members of the Academy of Motion Picture
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    • 96 18 GET HEALTHY TODAY: Join the Sports for Life Fun Run and test yourself at the modified Sit Reach and Inclined Pull-Up tests. It's all at the Bedok, Bishan, Bukit Gombak, Clementi, Queenstown, Tampines, Toa Payoh, Woodlands and Yio Chu Kang stadiums. It begins at 8 am and
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    • 124 18 A crystal vase makes a perfect centrepiece. But wouldn't a 1970 brass gramophone be a better talking point? Over 90 stalls fighting for your attention, each thmsting their wares in your face. Movie posters, antique watches, retro shirts you name it. Except, there are also hundreds of people in your
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 52 18 Partly doudy. Showers with thunder in the late afternoon mainly over northern, western and central Singapore. L -.*N> north Thunderstorms sunrise 7:07 om west Thunderstorms sunset 7:14 pm central Thundefstorms moonrise south PortlyCloody moonset U:46om eost PorttyCloudy KiriLSHHHIi liist t«de ?.6m:2:160m minimum 24 C setond tide.. 2.3 m: 3:28 pm
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  • 857 19  -  THE WEEK Guest editor ART FAZIL Singer, songwriter and columnist "WHAT can you do with $50 million", I asked my friend, George (not his real name) who was in Singapore recently for a short visit. "A lot," he replied. "For that amount of money, mate,
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  • NEWS
    • 139 20 WHEN this six-year-old wakes up, he will find he has only one eye left to face a whole lifetime. Mohd Shafie Bidin will never be able to see through both eyes again. If he ever reopens his right eye, it will be a false
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    • 473 20  -  By Shanoo Maharaj PICTURE this. The swearing-in ceremony of the newlyelected mayor of Katni, a prosperous mining town in the northern Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The mayor, wearing a bright sari and looking a little bewildered at the attention being
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    • 407 21 Here's how: Cutting arm with pocket knife Chewing it off IMAGINE the desperation this man must have felt. He was trapped in his overturned van for two days, pinned by his arm. The only way he saw to free himself and get back
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    • 502 22 SHE has four children, yet she wanted more. And when she couldn't have one herself, she took someone else's. She stole a two-day-old baby boy from a hospital. It was a terrible crime, stealing another woman's happiness. As the judgment made it painfully
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    • 438 23 SHOCK FIND UNCOVERED HMKaSoc^y:'-.w KT PEOPLE gasped in shock and horror. They could not believe what they were seeing. For what was it the diggers were coming up with? Plastic bags stuffed with unborn babies. In a few more months, they would have been
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  • 454 25  -  CHEAP AND HIP: STYLE FOR THE BUDGET-CONSCIOUS By Carol Leong canol@sph.com.sg IS there a parent who has never gone all ga-ga over their first born? Baby's first tooth, baby's first tuft of hair, baby's first fingernail clipping, baby's first palm and foot prints all
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  • Aggie MATTERS OF THE A
    • 227 27 I AM an Indian. However, my upbringing has brought me further from my own race but closer to the Chinese. As such, my close friends have always been Chinese and even my relationships have always been with Chinese girls. But these relationships do not last
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    • 132 27 Last week's letter: ANGRY is a 19-year-old who is married and eight months pregnant. She was dismayed and angry to learn that her husband had sex with one of her friends, A. After marriage, he told her that A forced him to have sex. A had also been
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    • 275 27 Readers' advice: I UNDERSTAND what you are going through. There is no better advice than to tell you what I have gone through myself. I almost committed suicide when I found out what my husband had done to me six years ago. The other woman
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    • 127 27 YOUR husband did the right thing in telling you that he had sex with another woman, especially with a person known to both of you. He must love you a lot to pluck up the courage to tell you the truth rather than keep the secret to
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    • 612 28 MY girlfriend and I have been going steady for six months. I care very deeply for her. I always try to make her happy. She has told me she loves only me and will never leave me
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    • 238 28 I AM a 14-year-old girl who is disappointed with one of my best friends, also an ex-classmate. He was a very good boy last year. He did not smoke, drink or mix with gangsters. But in the last few months, he started to drink, smoke
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    • Puberty Dr Lim Su Min clears the air over teen sex issues
      • 249 28 Ql HAVE a secret but I want to do something about it. I am an 18-year-old guy and I have a fetish for soiled men's undies. I go to a friend's house to find them, then masturbate while sniffing at them. Here are my questions: Am
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      • 167 28 MANY people write in wondering if they are gay. "Gay" is the layman's term for male homosexuals. This means a male adult who prefers the sexual company of another man. It does not apply to teenagers: Sex experts recognise that, during the
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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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    • 45 28 CALL US 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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  • 198 29 PRODUCED BY NORTHERN TERRITORY TOURIST COMMISSION Katherine in Australia's Northern Territory has remarkable cultural, natural and historical treasures for you to explore. The star attraction is the spectacular Katherine Gorge (Nitmiluk), a great place to walk, swim, canoe, take a cruise or simply float along on an air-mattress
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    • 210 29 Fact Box by SA(UIC)Tours W hat Kathcnnc National Park, 3.5 hrs by road south of Darw in in the Northern Territory Where 4 hrs flight from Singapore. Qantas daily. Royal Brunei Airlines and Malaysia Airlines twice weekly to Darwin W hen Katherine tours depart from Darw in as well as
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 889 30 m Jerry and Tom Separated by Murder Forrest Gump Cinemax (Ch 59), 9pm Hallmark (Ch 36), Bpm Channel 5,7 pm I Tom (Joe Mantegna) teaches Jerry Betty and Peggy are twin sisters with a Tom Hanks plays Forrest Gump, a (Sam Rockwell) how to become a strong bond. They hire
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 917 31 [1 Tune in, f Decibels I, OU Listener Supported No Strings Attached Enjoy the Moment First Time Dave Matthews Band NSync Ann Kok lulia Pene (RCA) (Zomba) (HyP e) {bMG) FOR some reason, it took me yonks WHY NSync has not hit the heights Enjoy The Moment is Ann Kok's
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  • seen Heard SHARP
    • 65 32 THE MOVIE Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) is a fish-tank cleaner whose life changes when he crosses path with gigolo Antoine Laconte (Oded Fehr). Deuce is forced to become a gigolo to pay for a $6,000 aquarium he broke and his life takes a turn on the
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    • 297 32  -  by MICHELLE CHOH THERE is only one fault with Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. It's a movie that tries to be everything funny, and ends up being not very funny at all. It tries to be a little slapstick comedy with the usual suspects of
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    • 77 33  -  Edited by Michelle Choh michchoh@sph.com.sg Laconte: "I just kind of fell into it." Bigalow "I'm going to kill my guidance counsellor!" Bigalow "So, you're a pimp." T j (Eddie Griffin): "T J doesn't think of himself as a pimp, more of a male madam." Antoine Laconte (Oded Fehr)
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    • 252 33  -  by ERNEST LUIS MY Very-Knowledgeable Film-Going friends were debating the Best Picture Oscar contenders: "American Beauty is dysfunctionally brilliant.'' "Cider House Rules is so rich." 'The Insider is simply gripping." 'The Green Mile is just...emotionally wonderful." Feeling left out, I cut in: "How about Deuce
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    • 193 33 Roger Ebert in his online review. "I laughed enough towards the beginning of Deuce BigaJow, indeed, that my hopes began to rise: Would this be that hardest of all films to pull off, a really funny comedy? I hoped, and then my hopes began to flag, and by
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    • 249 33 Chicken in the library A CHICKEN enters a library, walks up to the librarian and says: "Book book". The librarian hands the chicken two books, which it tucks under its wings and leaves the library. A few minutes later, the chicken re-enters the library, hefts the two books
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 435 34 1 CALL: 873-3333 I L-(J.«. 24-hour subscription sales hotline movies and Oscar now have to contend with thur Fell Felice... the challenges that the outdoors can I Opm A tragic love-story between East and s e at em HBQ BiI West Felice Beato, a photographer yinfi# jL and explorer, writes
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    • 502 35 Highlight of the Week I B personal items. He takes the bed and mirror and installs them in his bedroom. One day Greg stares into the mesmerising depths of the mirror and sees a man's reflection that of wed Monkey Business: his father's! Gnwmx fISKI 9pm Ultimate Guide: Great Apes
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  • 700 36  -  Venue Thailand is not just about girlie bars and cheap shopping. There is another side to this beautiful country that remains unexplored, says ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF Text and pictures Zaihan Mohd Yusof THIS is the side of Thailand that I've not seen. Missing
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  • Feature
    • 626 37  -  They bought us time time away from housework to do other things like going to work or spending more time with our spouses and our kids. It's time that we give foreign maids their due, in this special series in The New Paper on Sunday
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    • 190 37 EVERYTHING still worked like clockwork when Madam Jaleelah Beevi, 28, had her first child four years ago. She had no worries about leaving her daughter, Umi Maisarah, at home, as she went about her duties as a staff nurse. And even though she works shifts,
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    • 237 37 THE needs of another mother, though, were slightly different. Ms Wee Soon Hui, 39, who used to play the role of Mrs Tay in the local TV drama "Growing Up", quit full-time acting to devote more time to family life. Her husband, who
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    • Article, Illustration
      94 37 "Just because they stay with us doesn't give us the right to take them for granted." Mr Shriniwas Rai, lawyer and ex-Nominated MP "With an adult at home, parents would feel at ease and have the peace of mind needed to perform their duties at work." Mrs Anamah
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    • 154 37 BUT what do the maids themselves think about this contest? 1 think it's a good gesture but I don't think a bad employer will suddenly turn good after reading this," said Bliss Arau, 40, who started working for Ms Wee about two years ago and has
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  • 539 38  -  SoSueMe SUZANNE WALKER WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Suzanne Walker WHEN I hear there might be a Speakers' Comer in Singapore a la Hyde Park in London, where people can stand on a podium amidst a park setting and speak their minds, my first thoughts
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  • 699 40  -  Column ACTOR LIM KAY TONG WRITES A FORTNIGHTLY COLUMN by Lim Kay Tong WHEN I was living in Los Angeles, an Oscar party at someone's apartment was customary. The reason for this was that most of the group were writers and actors and we had nothing
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  • 463 45  -  CookieJar THE PLACE TO DIP FOR TIPS By Trudy Lim trudy@sph.com.sg ITS time to get fit. Pete and Pepe are looking at firming up those muscles and perhaps working off all the good food consumed during the school holidays. But can they do it at home,
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  • 1556 46 TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD Going forecast: Yielding the new paper RACING No. L—16 rum How W> Wabnj Jocfcay Barrier (Apatortglnfrei, trainer-owner) 1 CHEERS AGAIN 57 (57) *J Chuah 10 (3ag Tiang-Cheers Again) 2 -6900 CfTY CHIEF 57 (49) TMWan 6 (3ag B Chua-Cily) 3 GENUINE MILLER 57 (57) lAzhar 9
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  • RACING
    • 666 47  -  BY Tan Thean Loon BOTH are game and consistent. Both are definitely on the upgrade. So take your pick Rapdancer or Storm General for the Class 2 Perak Special Stakes in Race 6 at Ipoh today. Since Rapdancer has lost to Storm General once before, I'm
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    • 68 47 RACE 3: Sharp Strike, Mr Innovative, Ooatari, Hula Fighter, Better Health. RACE 4: Night Man, Breezy Vee, Western Hero. RACE 5: The First Smile, Cepat-Cepat, Hashing Rocket, His Highness. RACE 6: I'll Make It, Pride Of Glory, Victory Pet, Big Thinker. RACE 8: Imperial Scholar, Boy Emperor, Comrade-ln-Armst Great
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    • 125 48  -  By Lionel Lee THINGS are certainly looking up for apprentice Richard Lim (right). Just last Wednesday, the young rookie's career reached its first milestone when he rode his 10th winner aboard the John Brink-trained General Joe at Kraiyi. General Joe was also his first winner at
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    • 961 48 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS Going Yielding 7 KARMA 54 (20-9) DO'Heare (11) 9 5 1 (492) 1 ALMA MATER 57 c 54.5 (15-7) *RUm (13) 8 6 2 (510) 4 NASEEBWALA 57 (47-13) L Rutherford (2) 1 3 3 (441) 16 CENTAINES PRIDE 50 (62-17) 'BShahrul (4)10 4 4 (493)
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    • 736 49 PERAK TURF CLUB STIPENDIARY STEWARDS' REPORT JOCKEY Lee Rutherford was yesterday suspended for four race days over her handling of Olympic Legend in Race 6. Her action in shifting in subsequently caused The Guru to fall. RACE 1: Trainer Lim Kwee Huat was
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    • 329 49 Race 4 Monday Feb 7, Selangor February Meeting 2000: The stipendary stewards yester adjourned an inquiry to a date to be fixed into a report from the analyst that the post-race urine sample take from NORDIC CAP was found positive to nandrolone. Race 7 second day March 19, Selangor
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    • 165 49 THE following horses who have been scratched from all engagements from the current meeting, must pass a 1,000m gallop trial and veterinary examination each before they can race again: 1. AL-JABBAR (trainer YF Lee) sore right foot 2. BLUE GRASS (KC Hang) loss of condition 3. BEAUTIFUL (Boyle
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    • 440 50  -  Favourite Big And Bold loses by a nose but gets verdict after 15-minute deliberation in the stewards' room By Danny Khoo BIG AND BOLD and Brixton Gold fought out a titanic tussle for most of the straight in Race 6 last night. The crucial battle, however, was not
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    • 1383 51 RACE 1: STAR ATTACKER was lame off-fore and was withdrawn. Heavy rain fell prior to and during the the race and all riders returned to scale an average of 3kgs overweight. HE'S A NATURAL and CASH FORTUNE were slow to begin. EQUAL RIGHTS jumped
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    • 263 52  -  GODOLPHIN MILE IN DUBAI By Tan Thean Loon OUZO ran unplaced in the U*****,000 (*****,000) Godolphin Mile at the famed Nad al Sheba racetrack in Dubai yesterday but his trainer Malcolm Thwaites was a happy man all the same. Most important of all,
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    • 458 52 3 IRON QUEEN 54.5 (35-10) TroyTurntr (4) 1 7 RAGING RIETTA 52 (47-11) Paul Dyson (6) 2 4 FIERCELY MATERNAL 52 (82-14) Daniel Staeck (8) 3 Also ran: MISTY FOR ME Ivo Fry, PARISIAN PRINCESS Clint Harvey. MINI PARK Knstian Hawkins. PAGO BLOSSOM Chad Davies. TACO BELLE
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  • sports
    • 706 53 DO you ever wonder if sportsmen are a different breed, even from another world? The Formula One Grand Prix motor racing circus has pulled into Interlagos, the circuit at Sao Paulo in Brazil. It is a teeming industrial metropolis where you can just
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    • 62 53 EVEN before Arsenal's resounding Uefa Cup victory in Germany, the Werder Bremen general manager Willi Lemke paid this tribute to Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger: "Arsene is almost toe good to be true. He is such a respectable, decent person. "You would not expect somebody like him in a
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    • 184 54 LIVERPOOL 2 Titi Camara 51, Jamie Redknapp 88 NEWCASTLE 1 Alan Shearer 67 Crowd: 44,743 BRADFORD 0 MANCHESTER UNITED 4 PAUL Scholes scored one of the best goals of the season as Manchester United eased seven points clear at the top of the Premiership. The England midfielder lashed
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    • 57 54 ASTON VILLA 2 Carbone 40, Boateng 57 DERBY COUNTY 0 Crowd: 28,613 CHELSEA 1 Richards 75, own goal SOUTHAMPTON 1 Tessem 69 Crowd: 34,956 MIDDLESBROUGH 1 Campbell 11 SHEFF WEDNESDAY 0 Crowd: 32,748 SUNDERLAND 2 Summerbee 7, Phillips 77 EVERTON 1 Barmby 38 Crowd: 41,934 WATFORD 1 Smart
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    • 488 54  -  ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE 1999/2000 COMMENT EDWIN YEO By Edwin Yeo IF I were Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, I would think long and hard about pushing for a place in the Champions League. Settling for the less glamorous Uefa Cup might save the oncegreat club a lot of
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    • 645 55 ZOOM IN ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE 1999/2000 We zero in on an issue from last night's Premiership action LIVERPOOL versus Newcastle was never going to match the two sevengoal thrillers and the six-goal haul we have witnessed between these two sides at Anfield over the last three years. But
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    • 138 55 LEICESTER v LEEDS: Skysports. WHEN Martin O'Neill meets Peter Ridsdale today, he will take the opportunity of congratulating the Leeds chairman for appointing the right manager in David O'Leary. Ironically, it was O'Neill who was initially head-hunted by Ridsdale as his prime target for the Leeds manager's
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    • 595 56 ON BOB BEAMON AND THE LONG JUMP RECORD... I love Bob (Beamon). He's a great guy. Of course I wanted his record but it was just beyond my reach. There has been plenty of talk about how the high altitude of Mexico helped Bob soar
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    • 1280 56  -  INTERVIEW BRIAN MILLER CARL Lewis was slow off the blocks. How else could he be running so late? It is 11.20 am. His scheduled start was 11am. But there is
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    • 642 57  -  TIGER BEER S-LEAGUE: BALESTIER CENTRAL 0 JURONG 1 (Palis Supiat, 29th min) By Peter Siow IT will be a very long time before this happens again. Fifa referee R Vyay had a hand, or rather a foot, in helping Jurong Football Club to a slim 1-0
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    • 117 57 YOU may think it is easy to give away a Rolex watch. Not quite. Last night, Balestier Central held a lucky draw to reward one of its fans with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch worth $3,200. But surprise, surprise, there were no takers. After
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    • 260 58 OH, I sure hate to be in the shoes of Fifa referee R Vijay. Never in my refereeing career has this happened to me. And it is always considered the freakest of incidents when the referee "plays" a distinct role in scoring a goal.
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    • 36 58 TAN JONG Pagar scored its biggest win with a 4-1 beating of Sembawang Rangers at Queenstown Stadium. Nicodeme Boucher scored a hat-trick with Steven Tan adding the fourth goal. Sembawang scored through Ibrahim Noh.
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    • 388 58  -  BY Wang Meng Meng BOTAK is the in-thing in football today. Several stars are now sporting that aerodynamic look that stands up to the sternest tests in a wind tunnel. Over here, in hot and humid Singapore, the botak revolution is slowly catching up with
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    • 149 58 From today to March 30, you can make as many calls as you want to register your vote for the player you want to see go bald. The player with the most votes will be invited to shave his head bald at WSA Sport's expense. His club
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    • 355 55 INFOUNE: Call 1900-*****13 after 6.30 am tomorrow for results of today's matches. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. KK WOMEyS AND CHILDREyS HOSPITAL. the Hospital of Choice for Women and Children, invites you to join us. WALK-IN INTERVIEW 27 (Mon) 28 (I\ie) March 2000 9am 12pm, 2pm 4.30pm Admissions Assistants
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    • 54 58 Sufi BALESTIER [iMiJONG PAGAPI MATCH VS MS JURONG SEMBAWANG STADIUM TOA PAYQH QUEENSTOWN I DATE 25/3/2000 25/3/2000 •FULL-TIME n 7T~ VATCH 0-1 4-1 RESULTS '"Full-Time" Includes Injury time but not extra time or penalty shoot-out». SCORE RESULTS 1 X 2 I 1/2 OPAL "fly TOTAL i c OOALS 1 1
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