The New Paper, 25 April 2001

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    10 1 the new paper WENDESDAY, APRIL 25, 2001 the new paper
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      Lock icon Dog killer told to read Lassie books
      199 2 A US teenager who beheaded and skinned a pet dog has been ordered to re-read the Lassie (left) books. Jason Revels, 19, from North Carolina, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty. Superior Court Judge Claude Sitton sentenced him to three years probation and ordered
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      Lock icon Single dad Outspoken ‘Weirdo’
      275 2 WHO IS THIS MAH? MR Junichiro Koizumi, that's who. And he's going to be Japan's next boss. But just who is this prime minister-elect? He will be Japan's first bachelor to get the top job since Mr Shigeru Yoshida left the post in the '50s. Mr
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      Lock icon BREATH OF FRESH AIR
      188 2 Wire services. MR Koizumi is from the traditional party of government, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He secured a clear-cut victory in elections for the LDP leadership held in Tokyo yesterday. And he's proved to be a breath of fresh air for Japan. Politicians there are
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      Lock icon Fancy flying on air-breathing surfboard?
      451 3 London to New York in 40 minutes? Maybe, if an experimental unpiioted jet fiies successfully this May. Infographics journalist PATRICK CHI A reports Sources: The Sunday Times of London, Reuters, AFP, AP and Nasa s website V.:v p*. nl> m>M<l .->"r D 0 protectoo irorti
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      10 2 Leisure Hey! Pages 26-34 Comics: Page 25 TV: Page 59
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon He uses tin foil to shape twins’ brains
      967 4 The humble kitchen tin foil came to the rescue during the 97-hour operation to separate Siamese twins with two brains and only one skull Dr Vincent Yeow tells NG WAN CHING about the drama that unfolded on the operating table —and the
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      85 4 GANGA is in stable condition and breathing b> herself with minimal respiratory support. But she is still running a fever, likely due to an infection from her wound. She is receiving antibiotics for it. Jamuna is feeding and responding very well. Her fever is coming down. But she
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  • QUICKNEWS
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      Lock icon HDB flat sellers offer ‘cash back’
      273 6 But be warned, they can be jailed I BAD times are giving rise to desperate measures by HDB flat sellers. Property agents say HDB owners have started giving illegal cash "incentives" to buyers just so they can sell their flats, reported The Straits Times.
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        Lock icon S'pore is No. 2
        58 6 BUSINESS SINGAPORE is still second only to the US in competitiveness. This is thanks to efficient government and strong economic growth, said the Swiss-based International Institute for Management. Its competitive rankings out yesterday had Singapore at No. 2 for the fifth year. However, the nation had
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        Lock icon New polyclinic
        66 6 HEALTH PASIR Ris residents can look forward to a new polyclinic by the end of this year. The clinic, located at the junction of Pasir Ris Drive 1 and Drive 4, will be open at night too. Also, lower-income elderly residents above 65 in Pasir Ris can apply
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        Lock icon Back to mum
        70 7 US ECONOMY MILLIONS of young adults in the US are not going anywhere to seek their fortune but staying home longer with their parents. The US Census Bureau said about 18 million adults aged 18 to 34 live with their parents. The figure is up from about
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        Lock icon More pay fines
        58 7 JOHOR MORE and more Singaporeans are going to Johor Baru to pay up their traffic fines. This is since Johor launched a campaign to enforce harsh measures on non-payers, including arrest. Many fines had been outstanding from 1995. The traffic police said they were collecting an average
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        Lock icon Wife stabbed
        59 7 EAST TIMOR THE Australian wife of East Timor independence leader Jose Xanana Gusmao has been stabbed. Unknown attackers in East Timor used a screwdriver to stab Mrs Kirsty Sword Gusmao in the leg and punched her. She was holding their baby son who was not hurt, said her
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        Lock icon Mum jailed
        61 7 MALAYSIA HOUSEWIFE Ruhayati Muda, 30, locked her son in a I.3sqm cubicle in Serdang, Malaysia. She said she had two illegitimate children including the boy, Muhamad Hakim Ruhimin Abdullah, nine. She was poor and had no family support, she added. Not good enough. She was jailed her six
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      39 6 New Straits Times: Go-ahead for gas pipeline International Herald Tribune: Where will Koizumi take Japan? Asian Wall Street Journal: Beijing denounces Taiwan arms package BBC news: Yugoslavia charges its own soldiers with crimes committed in Kosovo
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      Lock icon Soon, you can buy power directly
      179 7 FOCUS YOUR employer will soon be able to buy power directly from power generation companies, under a market liberalisation plan. And two years later, you will be able to do the same for your household. To start off, 100 of Singapore's larger companies have
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      69 7 Hie Straits Times: No Aegis destroyers for Taiwan Hie Business Times: Heads roll at Easy Call after Boustead takeover Lianhe Zaobao: US sells a large number of advanced weapons to Taiwan Berita Italian: 12,500 lower primary pupils given special coaching every year PCS morning news: Economic reform
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      100 7 STOCKS closed moderately lower as reports of poor earnings weighed on investors, prompting them to cash in on recent profits. The Nasdaq composite index sank 42.71 points (2 per cent), to close at 2,016.61. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 77.89 points (0.7 per cent) to 10,454.34. The
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      Lock icon PRETTY IN PINK
      22 7 Picture This Miss Singapore A Jaime Teo, 24, in Puerto Rico J where 77 otlj£r ?fj J Picture/ Reuters
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    • Article
      Lock icon NO MORE CHANCES
      75 7 Quote Wworthy IVs gone past the return. The political elite does not trust Gus Dur any more. Whatever he does now won't win him any support because they seem to have already made up their minds about getting rid of him. A senior Indonesian Cabinet minister on
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Baby is born... in HDB corridor
      930 8  -  By Amrit Kaur THIS baby really had her parents fooled. Twice in March Mr Andrew Sim, 21, had rushed his pregnant wife, Mrs Creswell Sim, to hospital, only to be told that it was a false alarm. The baby wasn't ready to leave the
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      Lock icon He fails to pay fees, then lies to school
      616 10  -  I Raffles LaSaSfe I International Desiqn School I Memorandum To: All Staff Fran: Josie Wang Date: 23* March 2001 Re: Huang Jian Mio 0021D700 Please be informed that the above-mentioned student has been terminated by the School for non-payment of tuition
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      Lock icon WHAT SCHOOL SAYS:
      179 10 THE student should have reported his financial difficulties to them earlier, the school said. Miss Josie Wang, the manager of administration and student affairs, said the school had already given Mr Huang enough time to raise the money. "He made no effort to inform the school that
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      205 10 Week Buffet Luncheon (23 to 27 April 2001) Secretaries will be glad to know that our culinary team of chefs have prepared a 5-day buffet celebration for your dining pleasure. The menu changes daily. During the Secretaries' Week, Jeffrey Chung Fashion Show and Lucky Draw will be conducted daily. Priced
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    Lock icon Man lands in court after dirty trip to Haadyai
    481 12  -  SINGAPORE By Joycelyn Wong THE air-con technician was off on an overseas trip. A learning trip, in fact, to pick up new skills. But his quest for knowledge landed him in court yesterday. You see, Tan Choon Nguan, 35, had accompanied
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      Lock icon What crash crew can opt for
      404 14 SQOO6 Singapore Airlines yesterday released a statement on the plight of the injured crew of Flight SQOO6 which crashed while taking off at Taiwan's Chiang Kai-shek airport on Oct 31. Here's an excerpt: CABIN Crew are paid special allowances that are related to flying
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      Lock icon Take the bus, catch a TV show
      61 15 muifmui* Mexican Ambassador Eduardo Ramospßomez, M how Ms ton, Sebastian, 11, aad Gabriel, 10, enjoyed taking the bos on Car Free Day: 1 They called me on my mobile phone to say that they want to take the bus more often now. Mainly
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    Lock icon Abducted for 2 years but parents didn’t know
    811 16  -  mm By Seto Nu-Wen LIES, lies, lies. For two years, he tried to reassure his parents with his lies. He lied that his younger brother was fine, but was too busy to come home. But Mr William Tee, 36, didn't have a
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      121 18 onniversory Co-organised by. v -:'<■: IW. j pf<t%^\^Bj^m Whassup? It's Philips X'pressfon, So get down to Youth Park (across Orchard Cineleisure) cm April 28 for some serious fun. You'll catch some of Singapore's finest graffiti artists battling it ■Bjlß out for spray-can supremacy at the Graffiti Art Competition. There'll be
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon ‘The butler did it’
      422 19 Police accuse late Princess Diana's butler of stealing her gems and trinkets Wire services. PRINCESS Diana trusted her assistants so much that she called one of them "my rock". Little did she know that her rocks were what they were after. Yesterday, London police charged one
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      Lock icon Cops busted for breast implant fraud
      210 19 AFP. THE 10 Argentine policewomen obviously wanted to look good up front. Who says female police officers cannot look curvaceous while going on patrol, they must have said among themselves. So, j Argentines' firm belief in the power of plastic surgery, they decided to
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      Lock icon China: Taiwan is committing suicide
      235 19 Wire services. BUYING weapons from the US is a very dangerous game, even suicidal, China has told Taiwan. This warning came in the Chinese army's paper, the People's Liberation Army Daily. It comes after the US said yesterday that it will sell Taiwan weapons to
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      Lock icon A mother of a demo
      65 20 muifmui* A DaHy Telegraph journalist who covered the Summit of the Americas had this to say about the violent protesters: There was a radical women's group which decorated the security fence with their slogan-bearing bras. The stand-out, in every sense, was a huge underwired thing.
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      Lock icon Father walks 50km with dead son in arms
      397 20 THE April sun can be very, very cruel. But Fate even more so. Tribal labourer Shega Irma Paradke is a man who cries even in his sleep. Every night the same vision haunts him. Holding the lifeless body of his own son
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      Lock icon ‘Explosive’ Eminem bares all
      232 21 FOR the next UK edition of woman's magazine Cosmopolitan, rapper Eminem (right) is going to exchange that massive chainsaw for a strategically placed stick of dynamite when he poses nude. A spokesman for Cosmopolitan told Sky News: "He will be appearing naked in a sealed section
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      Lock icon Music industiy slammed for ‘violent and lewd’ lyrics
      232 21 Reuters. MUSIC companies in the US were labeled the bad boys of the entertainment world for marketing songs with violent and lewd lyrics to children, according to a government report released yesterday. The entertainment sector as a whole has been accused of
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      Lock icon Air Force One gives X-rated films the axe
      140 21 BESIDES clearing out the Oval Office, US President George Bush has also revamped the in-flight movies on Air Force One. Reporters flying with Mr Bush noted that X-rated sex and violence had now been censored, whereas his predecessor Mr Bill Clinton always
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      Lock icon 'IT'S A JOKE!'
      406 22 Sources: AP, Dallas Morning News HIS website offers convicted wife beaters a discount if they buy one of his T-shirts, they get the second one at half price with proof of their conviction. But that's not all. The Dallas-based website also features a picture of Mr James
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      Lock icon Remember this picture?
      125 22 It was published in yesterday's The New Paper Okay, was it a teaser? Or was it the printer's devil? You be the judge... but here's Hie information on the picture we published yesterday: It's not cheap at US$2 million ($3.6 m) per unit. But hey, it comes
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      Lock icon Bush girl ‘gave agents the slip’
      447 23 HE is one of the powerful men in the world. But like most fathers, he can't seem to get his young daughter to obey house rules. White House rules, in US President George Bush's case. His determination to keep his 20-year-old twin girls out
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    Lock icon Her father died before she was born
    649 24 GIRL, 3, STARVED TO DEATH MALAYSIA NO food. No water. And so, poor three-year-old Huang Enqi starved to death. Hers was a sad and short life. The poor little girl was suspected to have been abused too. Her skinny and frail body was
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    Lock icon ‘Chicken and duck’ friendship of 15 years
    492 25  -  ET CETERA ET CETERA DINAH LEE FOR the past 15 years, I have been corresponding with a journalist in Shanghai, China. He writes in Chinese, which I cannot read. I reply in simple English, and I don't know how he deciphers my letters
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      337 25 S SUMMIT OFTHE AMERICAS Big hoo-hah and little else... THEY came. They blabbed. They Action Plan... left. The Summit of the It does give government Americas ended after three officials a definite deadline for days of street violence, concluding free-trade dozens of political speeches, negotiations—the year hundreds of arrests, thousands
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      Lock icon The Ricky thunders into town
      556 26  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck THE Ricky is here, all hail The Ricky. Ricky Martin, 29, stormed into Singapore for an invitation-only concert at the Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel last night. He presented a special Live and Loaded showcase for MTV Asia's sixth birthday. And after
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      Lock icon HEY! IT’S COCO
      358 27 THERE'S no denying it The Ricky is a fabulous performer. He has spent 17 years of his life on stage and his experience shows. He started off his half-hour set with She Bangs, before going on to hits like Maria, Living La Vida Loca and Cup of
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      Lock icon Don't worry if you missed the concert
      122 27 THIS may get confusing, so read carefully so you don't miss out on The Ricky's performances. Live and Loaded, the concert, will be shown on MTV Asia (Channel 11) at 8.30pm on Friday, and Bpm on Sunday. You can also catch it on
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      Lock icon The best in the land?
      931 28 When US contestants are breezing through questions such as arranging their states from East to West, we are struggling with alphabetical orders... somehow, our education system has produced a crop of 20somethmgs stumped by simple general knowledge questions. Dear Director of Education, I am writing
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    Lock icon Why can't you step into Di’s shoes, Sophie?
    871 30 lsipiqitiimgihitj The British had such high hopes for the Countess of Wessex when she breezed into Buckingham Palace after marrying Prince Edward. Would she replace Princess Diana in the people's hearts? Or unite the royal family? Ifs been three years and the
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon What did viewers think?
      372 31 Last week, millionaire hopeful YEOH WEE TECKslammed Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for having dumb questions and clueless contestants. Three readers write in: No more trees, please IF The Flying Dutchman (right) says one more time "Imagine this is a tree..." I will throw a
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      Lock icon Let’s get serious...
      512 32 THEY were in the cinema and the dialogue was penetrating. Unfortunately, it wasn't the dialogue he had paid to listen to. It was the guy in the seat in front of him jabbering away on his handphone. So, Y.E.S 93.3FM radio deejay Danny Yeo did the one
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      Lock icon Bite into Drowning Prata...
      660 33 It was only his second day in Singapore—but a tourist from Madras, India, was so impressed with an Indian meal he had at a food court here that he called The New Paper hotline to sing its praises. JACQUELINE LEE checks out the Indian stall-with-a-dijference EVERYTHING
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        169 48 IMAGINE an athlete smashing into a sharp edge such as a table corner and asked to run a race shortly after. That is probably how Ballina Park felt last Friday after he "turned side-wards and banged the rear gate" whilst being loaded during the last race.
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        166 48 THERE are eight good reasons why the turnout and turnover —may double at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ltd's Singapore Ready To Run Sale on May 8. From the 19 youngsters sold at last year's inaugural edition, 13 have raced with eight of them having already found
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        191 48 THOSE lucky punters who have been following The New Paper's tipster Tan Thean Loon's selections since racing resumed on April 7, must have hit pay-dirt. The 44-year-old Penangite, who has been a racing journalist for about 25 years, topscored last Saturday's TNP's tipping panel with five
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      732 49 ON THE KRANJI TRACK with DANNY KHOO TRAINER Malcolm Thwaites' Cash Fortune looks set for a comeback win in the Class 4 I,Boom event on Friday. At Kranji yesterday morning, he signalled his return to form with an eye-catching workout in the company of Saafend
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      84 49 AP STREET CRY, Godolphin's top hope for next month's Kentucky Derby, has been withdrawn after suffering a leg injury during his regular workout, his trainer, Saeed Suroor, said on Monday. The three-year-old Machiavellian colt, winner of the 2000 UAE Guineas and third-place finisher in
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      240 49 RESULTS of yesterday morning's five trials over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji. The going was good. TRIAL 1 1 Return To Melbourne (A Delpech) 2 Tapildo (E Wilkinson) 3 Ballygunner (M du Plessis) 4 Kranji Hero (B Woodworth) S Boss Magic 6 Kim Wonder (apprentice CT
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      532 50  -  By Lionel Lee TRAINER John Meagher will introduce a smart Class 1 newcomer at Friday's Kranji meeting on turf. Petroselli, a four-year-old bay Irish-bred entire by Grand Lodge out of Will Be Blue, has placed four times at Group level in France. Petroselli's
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      548 50 YESTERDAY'S GOING AT IPOH TRACKWORK: SOFT NST. TUNKU Gold Cup winner Saddle Up geared up for a back-to-back classic success in the RM250,000 ($112,500) Perak Derby over 2,400 m on Sunday with a dashing two-round workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by visiting
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      370 51  -  SINGAPORE CUP: HOME UNITED 3 JURONG FC 0 By Wang Meng Meng MONEY, money, money... In the blue corner stands Home United. This mighty club is an S-League heavyweight, backed by sponsors Super Coffeemix, Emirates Airlines and Diadora. The Home Protectors has paid top
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      221 51 IT was dull football at the Bishan Stadium with the Home sewing up the tie before half-time. Indra Sahdan scored his fifth goal in seven games in the 23rd minute. Peres Oliveira's ended his diagonal run with a cheeky backheel which found Egmar Goncalves.
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      380 52 EDGAR DAVIDS DOPING SCANDAL: THE AFTERMATH onefootball.com. ITALY stars Alessandro Nesta and Alessandro Del Piero have admitted that they are terrified about testing positive for nandrolone. This followed the disclosure on Monday night by the Italian Olympic Committee that Juventus' Edgar Davids had failed
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      242 52 Wire Services. THE Association of Italian Footballers (AIC), which represents Italy's soccer players, yesterday hinted it was contemplating a strike in protest at the lack of confidentiality when a player tests positive for a banned substance. A strongly-worded statement called on footballers to debate possible industrial
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      86 52 Onefootball.com. INTER-MILAN coach Marco Tardelli claimed yesterday that the number of players taking drugs in Serie A is no different to when he was a player in the early eighties. "Cases did not come out then because there were fewer controls," he said. "It is all so unfair.
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      405 53 ENGLISH CLUBS LEFT IN EUROPEAN COMPEVfTION LIVERPOOL IN UEFA CUP FINAL: Versus Alaves. May 16, Dortmund LEEDS IN EUROPEAN CUP SEMIS: Versus Valencia. 1st leg: May 2; 2nd leg: May 9 [ff LIVERPOOL Reuters. NOT many teams can reach three Cup finals in one season
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      215 53 LEEDS UNITED The Mirror. PETER Ridsdale has pledged to pay out £2.5 million ($6.5 m) if his beloved Leeds, continues its Champions League fairytale by reaching the final in Milan next month. The Leeds chairman agreed bonuses of £125,000 a man at the
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      105 53 LEEDS United's magnificent success has provided Olivier Dacourt the perfect answer to the sceptics. When Dacourt agreed his £7m ($18.2 m) transfer from Lens his fellow-countrymen told him he was mad to join Leeds when he could have moved to one of England's bigger clubs. But
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      270 54 MAN UNITED'S GRATEFUL AND LOYAL STARS NEW SIGNING VAN NISTELROOV ONE-YEAR-OLD FABIEN BARTHEZ Football365. RUUD van Nistelrooy has thanked Manchester United for sticking by him through his year-long injury nightmare. The Dutch striker insists he feels as good as
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      173 54 Reuters. FRANCE goalkeeper Fabien Barthez praised Alex Ferguson and Man U yesterday saying the English champion is the best side he has ever played with. "They are true professionnals. It was the first thing which impressed me," Barthez said. "They just treat you
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      615 55  -  SOUTH AMERICA WORLD CUP QUALIFIER BOLIVIA V ARGENTINA LIVE, FC22,4am, TOMORROW IN LA PAZ, ALTITUDE: 3,600 METRES ABOVE SEA LEVEL By Edwin Yeo EACH time we look at the South American World Cup Qualifiers, we always say: "Who's Brazil playing next?" Of course. Who isn't
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      216 55 SPECIAL favour for special people. The Agrentinians like it that way. Four Argentina players who ply their trade in Italy were allowed to join the national squad as late as Monday after their club, Lazio, offered to hire a chartered plane to fly them in.
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      307 56 MORE ON SOUTH AMERICAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS MORNING LATEST Other result: VENEZUELA f<M OMfflfl 2 Reuters. ECUADOR pulled off a heroic win over Paraguay this morning, coming from behind to win 2-1. It played more than two thirds of the game with 10 men
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      640 56 BRAZIL V PERU LIVE, FC 22.8.45. tomorrow Brasilfutebol.com BRAZIL coach Emerson Leao was visibly pleased after his team's training session yesterday afternoon. In a press interview later he spoke about his optimism for the World Cup Qualifier against Peru. The most significant moment during the interview
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      355 59 ROBERTO BAGGIO AP. WHEN national soccer teams travel to face Italy these days, fans back home often scan their television screens asking, "Where's Robbie Baggio?" After a lull in the legendary striker's career, now the answer may be: "He's on his way back!" At 34, Baggio was again
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