The New Paper, 9 December 2000

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  • 30 1 the new paper SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2000 Singapore Press Holdings Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg MITA (P) 058/04/2000 60 CENTS 1111 8 *****1 *****1
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    • 252 2  -  MORNING LATEST By Tanya Fong AN explosion involving a steamboiler in Jurong Island this morning caused a fire at the Exxon-Mobil Chemical Plant. This is believed to be the first major fire at Jurong Island. When the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), which received the
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    • 113 2 HE came into this worid, only to die. The newborn baby boy was found by a government worker at a park near Kompleks Islam atJalan Abu Bakarin Johor Barn yesterday. Part of his body, which was wrapped in a batik cloth, was buried in the soil.
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    • 1054 4  -  The oldest survivor How desperate they are By Desmond Ng PLEASE help him get better. Don't take him away. Not now when he is just nine years into his second lease of life. You can almost hear their pleas as the three women pray. The
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    • 198 5 HIS HEART is doing fine. Mr Chandrasegaran is doing very well for a heart transplant patient, said Dr Tan Yong Seng. Dr Tan is a senior consultant from the department of cardiothoracic surgery (National Heart Centre). Said Dr Tan: "It has been almost 10
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    • 146 5 Celebrate life and hope with the Multi-Organ Donation Development team of NKFon Dec 14. A one-day affair, The New Paper-MODD Viva Life! will kick off with an outreach programme at Wheelock Place from 10am to 7pm. Then, catch celebrities like Annabelle Francis, Shayn Phua and
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 272 6 H T PAP tells the young: The People's Action Party (PAP) wants to hear you even if what you think is not quite what the Government is thinking. Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said last night that young Singaporeans owed it to themselves and their fellow
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    • News Break
      • 62 6 SQ 006 THE three Singapore Airlines pilots involved in the SQ 006 crash would be allowed to return home, perhaps as early as next Friday, according to Taiwanese officials. The pilots, Mr Foong Chee Kong, Mr Latiff Cyrano and Mr Ng Kheng Leng, will be allowed to
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      • 54 6 PUB THE Public Utilities Board, in coping with the increasing demand for water, has several development projects on the anvil. And a big budget too. The PUB will spend more than $147 million on these projects next year. This is besides a $25 million budget set aside to
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      • 51 6 ASSAULT ABOUT 20-odd youths barged into the Singapore General Hospital on Thursday morning and beat up a man there. Brandishing wooden poles and shouting Hokkien vulgarities, they searched the accident-and-emergency department, then cornered a man in a driveway and beat him unconscious. No arrests have yet been
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      • 62 6 SISTIC STARTING from this month, people who buy tickets through Sistic and have them delivered in the mail will pay a $1 surcharge for each ticket. Previously, customers were charged $3 for handling if they ordered tickets over the Internet or through their hotline. But if you pick
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      • 58 7 RAMADAN THE Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) will distribute $603,000 to more than 18,000 poor and needy Muslims. These funds come from the zakat (tithe) given by Muslims. Part of the funds will go to buying food for prison inmates and the poor. The rest $566,400 will
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      • 52 7 SINGAPORE POST SINGAPORE Post has suspended all air mail services to India. The reason given for the temporary suspension? A postal strike in India. Hence, Singapore Post says all air letters, parcels and Speedpost courier items posted before the suspension may be delayed or returned to
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      • 65 7 COURTS MR Hiroo Mizushima, the former top executive of major Japanese retailer Sogo, has to bear the brunt of it. A court ordered him yesterday to pay 6.02 billion yen ($94.4 million) in damages over losses related to the company's collapse earlier this year. He was told
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      • 56 7 JAILED S-LEAGUE footballer Mirko Jurilj (right) was sentenced to five months' jail for match-fixing. "Self-confessed bookie" M Sivakumar testified how the Sembawang Rangers footballer had agreed to influence the outcome of matches in return for money. Mirko is out on $120,000 bail to spend time with his family,
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    • 31 6 New Straits Times: Civil service must be neutral international Herald Tribune: Legislature meets in Florida drama BBC news: The American presidential election has been thrown wide open again
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    • 74 7 The Straits Times: Taiwan will let pilots come home The Business Times: Travel agents threaten to throw out SIA Lianhe Zaobao: Taiwan allows three SIA pilots to come back on Dec 15 Berita Harlan: Ramadan charity drive targets even bigger collection PCS morning news: The three pilots
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 7 mm > Pi Qure This Disaster is the order of the day after a crane rams this tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht. In yesterday's incident, 38 passengers were injured, three of them seriously. Picture/ Afp
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    • 76 7 STOCKS spiked dramatically after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan suggested an interest rate cut might be a possibility early next year. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 10,712.91, up 339.37 or 3.3 per cent. The Nasdaq composite index rose 272.14 or 10.3 per cent to 2,917.43. SINGAPORE
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    • 55 7 Quote worthy Look at our weather, what can we do other than have children? How long can you sit in a cafe and have beers and coffee? They cost so much. Anyway, the town is dead by Bpm. Ms Liselotte Lyngso, a Danish research chief, finding another reason to
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  • 249 8  -  SINGAPORE' n B6 By Michelle Choh IT was raining when two South African tourists left the Mustafa Centre on Wednesday afternoon. So Mr Travis Singh, 38, a public relations officer, and Mr Ramdheep Maharaj (above), 51, an insurance broker, walked along the
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  • 567 10 SINGAPORE Irene OngMin Mei, 43, was fined $1,500 on Wednesday for splashing urine on her neighbour's door. Why did she do it? How did the neighbour feel? JASON TAN speaks to both parties I DID it out of sheer frustration, said Irene Ong, a youthful-looking managing
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  • 365 12  -  SINGAPORE By Lee Tee Jong SHE's a 14-year-old terror. She's had sex. She smoked. She had late night outings. Even her mother gave up on her, and filed a beyond parental control (BPC) complaint. When a BPC is filed,
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 461 14 CHILD MOLEST VICTIMS: On Wednesday, we reported on the serial child molester who wrote to his victim from behind bars. The 32-year-old molester has written two letters since he was jailed for 40years. Will the letters have any impact on the boy? GENEVIEVE JIANG talks
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      95 15 A HOMOSEXUAL paedophile who performed oral sex on eight young boys got a record 40-yearjail sentence on Monday for what the court described as "abhorrent" offences. Most of the boys who came to know him through playing soccer at a street soccer court were lured to his flat
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    • 77 15 Department does not interfere leQfajgisoners' correspondence unless we sm&jo& that there is a threat to the security in prwims. For example, we suspect that an escape plan is being hatched. In this instance, both letters sent by the prisoner appear not to have any security
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  • THE NEW PAPER FINALS
    • 630 18  -  By Carol Leong THE girl with the liveliest eyes won our New Face competition. Frankly, Callie Roberts wasn't regarded as a hot favourite. Yes, she's pretty, but what clinched the title for this 18-year-old student was the lively spirit in her eyes they
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      78 20 BRIGHT LIGHTS, DAZZLING WINNERS: a view of what the three finalists see from onstage, facing a barrage of cameramen, ail clicking away frantically. So this is what winners see... DO BEAUTY CONTESTANTS SNORE WHILE SNATCHING 40 WINKS?: Michelle Tsai (left), one of the top 10 finalists, trying to get
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  • SINGAPORETODAY
    • 125 21 SENTOSA'S 40 Days 40 Nights is now on, with a host of activities organised for all fun seekers. Happening tonight will be Thai Night. This will feature nifty Muaythai moves and upbeat numbers brought to you by Sawasdee Band. There's also a biathlon and a beach
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    • 62 21 ntuv^ui* i A Media Works artiste Adrian Pang on his "very, very minor" role in "The Spy Game", a new movie starring Brad Pitt and Robert Redford: Tony Scott (the director) is known to edit like a madman, because he likes his movies fast
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    • 358 23 Customer: No bills, late bills, bloated bills. And rude service staff. These are some of the complaints The New Paper has received over the last few months from irate Power Supply customers. One reader pours out her frustrations to DESMOND NG NO bill. And that is
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    • 190 23 Power Supply: POWER Supply explained the problem. In June the company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Power, installed a new computer system. According to spokesman Sarah Koh, glitches in their billing system followed. She said: "This is a computer bug. We employed Deloitte Consulting three months
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    • 196 23 Case: SO, when will the problem be solved? That's the most important question for the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case). Mr Stephen Loke, chairman of Case's consumer affairs committee, told The New Paper yesterday: "Looking at the barrage of complaints, they can't resolve their problems.
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  • WORLDTODAY
    • 237 29 Wire services. VICE-PRESIDENT A 1 Gore stands a chance to be the President of the United States, thanks to Florida's Supreme Court ruling that hand recounts of thousands of votes must begin immediately. The decision, given by a majority of four to three, ordered
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    • 345 30 Wire services. PEOPLE all over the world look forward to Christmas, even if they do not attach any religious significance to it. But US lawyer Richard Ganulin has gone to court in a bid to ban the celebration. Mr Richard Ganulin thinks Christmas should no longer
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    • 264 30 IN the swirl of Indonesian politics, the plot has just thickened. As a result, the credibility of the country's central financial institution has never been lower. In the latest development, the stand-off between President Abdurrahman Wahid (popularly known as Gus Dur) and Indonesia's
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    • 290 32 Reuters. BRING on Celine Dion and George Michael, ex-Russian President Boris Yeltsin now prefers watching concerts at home to public life. In a candid interview with a popular Russian tabloid published on yesterday, Mr Yeltsin admitted: "I watch concerts on DVD Sting, George Michael, Whitney
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    • 475 33 They used to hate her, but now... WELL, well, we 11... this baby has come a long way. Barely a year ago, Ms Monica Lewinsky was THE pariah. The former White House intern cum Clinton's cigar-girl was mercilessly ripped apart by the media as she tried
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    • 331 34 AP. THATS what this mum claims a prestigious ballet school said to her eight-year-old daughter. Mrs Krissy Keefer alleged that the San Francisco Ballet School rejected Fredrika because she lacks a dancer's shape. Fredrika is 1.14 m tall and weighs 29kg. Mrs Keefer said
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    • 55 36 muifmui* Actor Dudley Moore, battfing a rare, tacurabte brain disorder, is outraged over media reports that he's on his deathbed:" I suppose my imminent death will sell papers, while my positive and life-affirming work is of no interest... I challenge you to set the record
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    • 313 36 What nonsense, say Russians A TITANIC treasure has been found. Rumours are flying that a South Korean shipping company has discovered a loot of gold worth $125 billion ($217 billion) in a sunken wreck, reported The Independent. The wreck is supposedly a Russian warship
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    • 375 37 HE was obsessed with the new woman in his life. So a former Australian Air Force sergeant burnt his baby son to death and tried to kill his wife. Mark Smith had tired of his wife. He plotted to kill her and their
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    • 225 39 Source: Wire services. YOU'VE heard and heard of million dollar prizes. And of Caribbean cruises and luxury cars being tossed up by gameshows. But all that's old hat now. A German television company is now offering a trip to outer space as it first prize.
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    • 342 40 Brazil agrees to send Mexico's Madonna home to face sex abuse charges BRAZIL has ordered the extradition of the Mexican pop star Gloria Trevi, so she can face sex abuse charges in her home country. The singer, known as the Mexican Madonna for her
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    • 112 40 A JAPANESE shopowner has been arrested for allegedly threatening a woman and browsing in his store. Yokohama shop owner Akira Ishiguro is said to have been so fed-up with browsers, he even put a sign up that read: "Entry strictly prohibited
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    • 264 41 THE youth, 19, admitted it: Yes, he did bash his one-month-old daughter as she lay ill in a hospital in Maebashi, about 120 km north-west of Tokyo, last month. He was arrested on Thursday and charged with inflicting bodily injury. He could face more
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    • 128 41 AP. PRINCE Charles enjoying a scotch with landlady Natalie Barnes (played by Denise Welch, right) was the sight the production crew of British soapie Coronation Street caught yesterday. The Prince of Wales made his cameo appearance in Britain's longest-running soap opera to help celebrate the
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  • 1201 43 1 f I I \m 1f B WMMia Time It was the 20tli anniversary of John Lennon's death yesterday. JOANNA HUGHES, who once saw him in a peace march in New York, remembers him PERHAPS it says something about our world that what
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  • 562 45 IN the blockbuster movie Whiteout, he plays a die-hard superman who braves snow storms and dodges a hail of bullets to fight terrorists. And in real life too, Japanese actor Yuji Oda is a hero of sorts. What else would you call someone who is
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  • SHOWTIME
    • 262 46 WANT to bask in the sun with Taiwanese singer Kang Jingchun on Sentosa? And play beach volleyball with her on Siloso Beach. Just call 1900-*****01 by midnight on Monday and answer an easy question. Six winners will join Jingchun on an excursion to Sentosa on
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    • 804 47 and got a lot more than a million bucks Hot on the heels of reality series Survivor comes Tom Hanks' latest outing, Castaway. Many actors would have killed for the role, but it was simply screaming out Hanks' name. WENDY TEO finds out why he's always a
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  • the new paper RACING
    • 198 60 RESULTS of four barrier trials conducted over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Marshal James (KB Soo) 2 Big Timer (G Carter) 3 Cyber Kid (D Holland) 4 Casino Killer (J Sainul) 5 Mega Victory (E Marchant) 6 Enjoleur (apprentice
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    • 385 60 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK Newcomer super Leo, named after one of Star Cruises' popular fleet, looks set for a winning debut. With jockey Soo Khoon Beng atop yesterday, the Keltrice three-year-old underlined his forwardness when he reeled off 600 m in a swift
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    • 239 60  -  By Lionel Lee SINGAPORE'S star sprinter Superb Effect stepped out brilliantly in a barrier trial yesterday at Kranji, raising hopes of a good showing in the Hong Kong Sprint on Sunday week. The four-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Bletchley Park hardly raised a sweat when he
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    • 764 61  -  By Danny Khoo BY HIS impressive past record, Frenchman Olivier Doleuze (left) has had a rather quiet outing so far. But with several good mounts in the seven-race programme at Kranji tonight, the flamboyant rider looks set for a swift change of fortune. Victory in the $100,000
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    • 281 61 MARCTAN Bocelli (Race 6 No. 1) There's no telling how good Bocelli is. But if his two wins over the 1,400 m are any indication, then the top impost of 59kg is unlikely to stop him from registering a treble on the trot and in fine fashion again.
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    • 1047 62 TONIGHT'S KRANJI (LONG COURSE, B) RACE CARD —GOING FORECAST: GOOD No. Last 6 runs Horse Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 7- CRAIC OF THUNDER 57 (53) Flovine 11 (3amc Busuttin-AES) 2 78 AMARILLO 53 (51) JSaimee 12 (3ag Thwaites-Productive) 3 DANCE OF THE SKY 53 (53) ADelpech 14
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    • 82 62 THE Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) uses four courses—A, B, C and D —to differentiate the location of the rails. For Course A, the rails are at their original position. For Course B, they are four metres away from the original position. For Courses C and D, they are
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    • 808 63  -  By Michael Lee Mention Italy and the first things that spring to mind are pizza, the Squadra Azzura and maybe Luciano Pavarotti for the culture vultures. Horse-racing? Sure Ben Hur was Roman, but that was centuries ago and he was a charioteer. Of
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    • 138 63 FIVE unraced newcomers have been entered for next Wednesday's Kranji meeting. Class 4 newcomer Hawld is a three-year-old chestnut Australian-bred gelding by Made Of Gold out of Nacre Rose. He is prepared by John Meagher, who has also entered Condor Hero and Secret Budget in the Maidens'
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    • 14574 64 MUST RESPECT: South African jockey Patrick Wynne has a good chance to salute aboard the John Sargent-trained Roman Ore. STRONG CLAIMS: Apprentice Richard Lim can do his master, trainer Lim Hoon Hooi, proud by booting home Yellow Bee. Picture/ Zaihan Mohd Yusof TOP CHANCE: Rapdancer
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    • 175 64 E 1 STAR GENERAL 57 (48) Wilkinson (4) (4nze Baertschieer-Star General By Waikiki Star-Maazel; bay; landed 6.1.98; 8r 1-0-0 (KRsl700fl:49.153.5) 12.12.99 C5 Soo 55 (42) (5) 9 9 4/11 ($23) 1 ParisAmour KRb1800g 1:52.1 (415) 05.01.00 C5 Wilkinson 53.5 (40) (1) 5 3 1/8
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    • 397 74 NST. Essence of deer looks ready for a comeback win in the Class 4 Div 3 event over 1,400 m in Race 11 tomorrow, going by her two-round workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the six-year-old New Zealand-bred mare
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  • SPORTSTODAY
    • 660 75 SINGAPORE GOLF OPEN WHILE South African Henrik Buhrmann was the toast of Upper Thomson so far, it was two Thais who signalled that they could be his main challengers in the Singapore Open. Earlier, veteran Thai Boonchu Ruangkit flexed his muscles when he tore up the Singapore
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    • 74 75 Leading scores after second round: 132 Hendrik Buhrmann (SA) 66,66. 135—Ahmad Bateman (US) 68,67; Ted Purdy (US) 67, 68. 136—Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 72,64; Amandeep Johl (Ind) 68,68; Mardan Mamat (Sin) 67,69; Boonchu Ruangkit (Thai) 65, 71. 137 Charlie Wi (Kor) 69, 68. 138—Simon Yates (Scot) 72,66; Mo
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    • 159 75 Reuters NEW Zealand took an early lead in the World Cup of Golf yesterday, but the Tiger Woods-led US team and seven other countries lay within five strokes of the pacesetters. Frank Nobilo and Greg Turner birdied three of their first six holes to go 18
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    • 652 76 He goes down with cramps after Hewitt wins 5-set thriller DAVIS CUP: SPAIN 1 AUSTRALIA 1 Wire services. LAST year Pat Rafter missed out on Australia's Davis Cup triumph over France because of injury. This year, he returned as Australia's big hope but was forced to
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    • 777 77 ARSENAL v NEWCASTLE Arsenal is back on track. It might have laboured to a 1-0 victory over Southampton last week, but it put in a superb display against Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Newcastle, for all its grit, just isn't in the
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    • 303 77 LIVERPOOL v IPSWICH Shaky defence or not, Liverpool's attack is on song right now. Emile Heskey can't stop scoring, so that means either Robbie Fowler or Michael Owen, both world-class strikers, will have to start on the bench. It will be a true test for Ipswich, which has
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    • 31 77 ON TV TDDAY: Sunderland v Middlesbrough (LIVE, Football Channel, 10.30pm) TOMORROW: Charlton v Man United (DELAYED, FC, lam) Saints v Leeds (DELAYED, FC, 3.25 am Coventry v Leicester (LIVE, FC, 11.55pm)
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    • 655 78  -  A point for Biyan COMMENT EDWIN YEO WHEN my colleague saw that the live match tonight was going to be Sunderland versus Middlesbrough, he was sympathetic. "Poor Boro needs another north-east derby like it needs a hole in the head," he said. But then, I thought to
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    • 121 78 The Reds completed the £5.5 million ($13.75 m) signing of Croatian midfielder Igor Biscan. The Liverpool boss first stumbled upon the 22-year-old Croatian international by accident when sending scouts to watch Dynamo Zagreb in a Champions League game. 4 They came back and said the player I
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    • 144 78 WIN DARK MOON SWATCH WATCHES TERRY Venables is like the Duracell battery despite all his troubles, he keeps coming back for more. These days, the former England supremo has re-acquainted himself with his former assistant, Bryan Robson, at Middlesbrough. Boro is in almost as
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      159 79 Supergoals.com. WANT Emmanuel Petit? You can have him for a cut-price £1 million ($2.5m) says Barcelona. Petit's career nose-dived after he quit Arsenal for Barcelona in a £5m swap last season. The World Cup winner is no longer a regular in the French international side and has
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    • 239 79 MIDDLESBROUGH wants to spend big. And it will hand Terry Venables and Bryan Robson a massive £25 million ($62.5 m) transfer kitty to save the club from relegation in the next five months, reports Football 365. Top of the Boro wanted list are unsettled Barcelona midfielder
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    • 121 79 NEW Middlesbrough coach Terry Venables is keen to link up again with Darren Anderton (above), a mainstay of his England teams. Tottenham would be willing to sell Anderton for around £3 million as it grows frustrated with his refusal to commit himself
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    • 98 79 A WINE list. That's how Tottenham Hotspur chairman Alan Sugar describes Chelsea's team sheet which comprises mostly foreigners. Hitting out at Chelsea's foreign policy, Sugar insisted his club would never follow the spend, spend philosophy of Stamford Bridge counterpart Ken Bates. Sun
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    • 259 80 JUVENTUS v PARMA Juventus beat Parma 1-0 on the penultimate day of last season and arguably cost it a place in this season's Champions League. "We have to make up for last year's blow," said Parma's Brazilian striker Amoroso. Third-placed Parma is the in-form side and will be
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    • 495 80  -  Six players dropped from national squad, but new coach tells them; Never give up and you can get back in IN YOUR SUNDAY PAPER Hasrin Jailani: The Tiger' who roared COMMENT/ Suresh Nair JAN Poulsen could make a living as a psychologist. After
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    • 208 81 The Fife survey gave voters a choice of 27 candidates, including seven Brazilians and two Argentines —Maradona and Di Stefano The controversy rages as Eife. prepares to release its survey, results on Monday 4 At the speed I played, they hit me 25
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    • 411 81 PSST! THE secret's out: Chelsea has the most expensive seats in football. The Millennium boxes at Stamford Bridge are the ultimate in luxury for the well-heeled fan each costs a staggering £10 million (s2sm), reports News of the World. The boxes are for sale on
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