The New Paper, 23 May 2001

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  • NEWS
    • 532 2 TOP DOLLAR FOR TOP TALENT IF you perform, you get paid handsomely. If you don't, you get the axe. DBS Bank has asked several of its managing directors to leave, according to a report in The Business Times today. This news comes on the same day
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    • 128 2 AFP. POP star Christina Aguilera (above) has filed a lawsuit to stop Warlock Records and its affiliates using material she recorded before she was famous. She has accused the company of improper use of her name on the album Just Be
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    • 167 2 AP. IT was an unusual race: A fleet-footed greyhound pitted against a racing pigeon. And the dog pipped the bird to become winner of the race held at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium in south-west London yesterday. Anthea Storm, the greyhound, sprinted the 80m
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    • 397 3  -  Meanwhile, two doors away a stroke victim is sleeping... By Genevieve Jiang THICK black smoke billowed from the window of the two-storey Geylang shophouse. Inside, a fire raged on the second floor. Yet two shophouses away, Mr Leek Gek Ser, 78, remained blissfully asleep. Unaware
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  • SINGAPORE
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      616 4 ird! He went missing aurtnga leisure awe nttarrutau Attron zuiuwy. for a everyone waited anxiously while he struggled alone against theeleMt Mr LatiffMohd, a 39year-old airport fireman, tellsAZHAR GHANJkitm de^ce)tofend THAT bite. P gjyjj, "But atnight, you can't. AntTyour mind plays tricks on you. That was why I
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    • 282 5 HER son's ordeal lasted some 30 hours. Hers that of worrying about him however, lasted just five hours. Mr Latiff's 64-year-old mother, Madam Yati Suradi, wasn't told of her son's disappearance until around noon on Monday. By then, Mr Latiff (right) had been missing for
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  • QUICKNEWS
    • 334 6 WoJ ...they were bought with GlC's $180b fund THE AT&T Corporate Centre in Chicago, the Amex Centre in Sydney... Few people might know, but these landmark buildings in international cities are just some of the 120 property investments in 25 countries around the world owned by
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    • News Break
      • 86 6 I MARRIAGES MORE divorcees are tying the knot again, compared to 10 years ago. Last year, 5,100 people remarried, up from 3,100 in 1990. They were mostly men, reports the Singapore Department of Statistics. A second marriage carried less stigma among younger people, who could be remarrying for
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      • 74 6 LIFESTYLE IF you are Cantonese, you probably still chatter in dialect. But if you are Hokkien or Teochew, Mandarin has most likely displaced dialect as the language closest to your heart and hearth. In general, fewer Chinese Singaporeans are using their native dialect, according to figures released by
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      • 71 6 I RETAIL I DESIGNER goods, liquor, fashion items and food these are among the things purchased by Singaporeans when travelling. In a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of Asia-Pacific travellers, more than half of those interviewed also said they spent money in duty-free shops. This is good news for tax-free retailers
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      • 78 6 I CRIME I A MALAYSIAN wanted for manslaughter was arrested yesterday after being on the run for more than 10 years. A court heard that police had been looking for Sadasivam Nagapen, 37, since December 1987. Yesterday, Sadasivam was jailed for 15 months on a re-amended
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      • 80 7 I COURTS I HE was the undertaker helping the police with a woman's body at the Singapore General Hospital. But Loh Thye Fong, 34, helped himself to her jewellery a pair of ear studs and a ring worth a total of $100. Loh, who was working with
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      • 73 7 I HOUSING LOANS I CASH-STRAPPED flat owners wary of loansharks have fallen victim to a group of unscrupulous licensed moneylenders. They thought they had "insured" themselves against being ripped off. However, they ended up paying large amounts in interest, which was deducted directly from the cash proceeds of
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      • 85 7 I LAWYER MISSING I THE search for the lawyer who disappeared on a fishing trip over the weekend near Horsburgh Lighthouse has been called off. But the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore is sending out radio broadcasts to ships in the area to keep a lookout for
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      • 70 7 I GUN CASE I THE policeman who allegedly brandished his gun after he was caught shoplifting was charged in court with criminal intimidation yesterday. Lim Kok Thai, 42, was arrested on Sunday, six hours after the incident at ABC Supermarket in Yishun. Yesterday the prosecutor applied for Lim
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    • 57 6 International Herald Tribune: China sees a new pole poke in the eye: Bush to meet Dalai Lama Asian Wall Street Journal: Confrontation brews in Jakarta as Wahid's options narrow New Straits Times: Zainol clings to posts BBC news: Israeli Prime Minister gives his verdict on the US
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    • 101 7 ONE SORRY 'STUD' I know I was a stud in New York City, but I pretty much get about, on average,five to eight phone numbers a night and at least three hot chicks who say that they want to go home with me every night Igo out. The
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    • 77 7 THE Dow Jones industrials gained 8.26 points (0.36 per cent) to close at 2,313.85. The Nasdaq jumped 80.68 points (0.71 per cent) to 11,257.24. Declining issues led advancers 15 to 14 on the New York Stock Exchange where volume was 984.04 million shares. SINGAPORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ Close
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    • 78 7 The Straits Times: A-G hands Gus Dur legal lifeline The Business Times: GIC fund managers consistently beat benchmark Lianhe Zaobao: This year's overall wage-rise should be lower than 6.6 percent Berita Harian: NWC recommends lower wage increase for this year RCS morning news: Senior Minister explains why
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    • 206 7 f6cus WITH growth to slow down from 3.5 to 5.5 per cent this year, workers should expect smaller wage increases. The National Wages Council said this yesterday when giving its latest annual guidelines to keep Singapore competitive and preserve jobs. Other recommendations include giving wage
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 31 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams THIS IS STRICTLY I YOU'RE A HANSHUfA BUSINESS. RIGHT? JBET I CAN AND SO ISH WE'RE GOING TO TALK rHARnONNAY t YOUR TUJIN BRUVER. ABOUT YOUR COMPANY'S 3
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 571 8  -  On a quiet weekday, it is like a tucked-away resort. Actually, it is Singapore's biggest hospital situated on sprawling grounds. With a capacity of more than 3,000 beds, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) is almost full. Nearly 2,800 beds are occupied, says Associate
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    • 219 9 IN Miss Lim's case, at least the social workers know whom to contact. In some cases, the situation is far worse. Said senior medical social worker Viven Quek: "Some are dumped in the hospital. The families just leave them outside and scoot. "Some are left
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    • 307 9 FAMILIES need to be extremely patient and the best resource they can draw on is love. But that can run out when they are faced with the daily realities of living with someone who is mentally ill. Senior medical social worker Viven Quek said that besides
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    • 427 10 These women are turning an old skill into new economy business —sewing for a living. Why not, especially when they are good at it and can make some money? SORAYA SALlMfinds out more SHE had to learn to sew coming from a family of 12 children.
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    • 493 12  -  By Lingam Ppnnampalam SHE came staggering out of the void deck just past midnight. Clutching desperately to her ripped tank-top strap and trying to cover herself up with a maroon cardigan. She was limping painfully and shivering in shock. "Call the police, call
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    • 258 13 W 3 YOUR FORUM Ho Joo Chan (e-mail) I AM a Sing Net Internet subscriber (56k). But ever since I moved into my new flat, at Blk 14A Lor 7 Toa Payoh in July last year, my Internet connection has been very poor.
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    • 84 13 Francis Huan Corporate ComnwnicatxMis, Sing Tel SINGTEL has sent an engineering team to investigate Mr Ho's problems. After checking and improving the condition of the cables, our engineering team was able to access Internet speeds up to 49,000 bps by using our own equipment, which we demonstrated to
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    • 553 14  -  WOMAN SET ON HRE Br Tanya Fong HE was in a business meeting when his handphone started beeping. It was his wife. But she sounded different. "Someone burnt me," whispered the tremulous voice. A stunned Mr Kong Chee Seng immediately dropped everything
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    • 221 11 MISIA CONTEST RESULTS IN last week's contest, we asked you to name Misia's latest CD and one of her songs. The answer is Marvelous and Everything respectively. Five callers, who answered correctly, each won for themselves Misia's latest CD Marvelous and a limited edition mouse pad. And the winners are
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  • 280 15 MALAYSIA TWO men. A convincing woman. And a "Datuk". Together, the four managed to con a man whose land had been acquired for the East Coast Highway project. They got him to invest his RM240,000 (about $114,000) compensation in a fake project, reports the New
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  • WORLD
    • 417 17  -  Bus driver and helpers force her to drink alcohol, strip her and take turns to rape her in moving bus They slap and threaten to kill her if she disobeys them They take her to a secluded spot where her ordeal begins all over again
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    • 273 18 LRT ACCIDENT IN KL NOT only did she survive, she emerged unscathed and calm. The woman, in her 40s, had been dragged about 3m by the train. She then spent 45 minutes trapped under it while rescue workers tried to free her. The woman,
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    • 67 18 Check out these two anti-President George Bush postcards. They were released yesterday by European French socialist MP Bernard Poignant in his campaign to protest some of the US President's decisions. The two cards read: Stop funding humanitarian organisations supporting abortion The US are
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    • 240 19 NEW accusations have just added fuel to fire in the Mideast. British online news agency, Ananova, reported that Palestinian newspapers had come up with allegations that Israelis have been distributing radioactive sweets after a number of people fell ill in Gaza. Samples of the so-called poisoned
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    • Article, Illustration
      72 19 muifmui* Six months after a nasty accident, Rama IX Is coming out of his shell. The 20-year-old nude turtle, named after a busy road In Bangkok, became the first turtle in Thailand to get a synthetic shell, this week. Vet Nantarika Chansue said: His eyes were running with
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    • 432 20 I KIDNAP SCARE FOR CABBAGE PATCH TYCOON'S SON THE son of Hongkong's Cabbage Patch tycoon escaped a dramatic kidnap attempt yesterday. He was just 100 m away from his luxury Sha Tin house when the private van he was in was seized and its windscreen
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    • 94 20 CABBAGE Patch toy king Francis Choi (left), 55, is rolling in the green stuff. He has assets estimated at HK$l5 billion ($3.5 billion), mostly from being chairman of toys business Early Light International. He opened his first factory in 1972, but his business took
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    • 264 20 IT was high street drama in the busy streets of Hongkong yesterday. It began when a team of three plain-clothes police officers were tailing four men on foot in Waterloo Road. The officers stopped the suspects under a railway overpass at about
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    • 65 18 c ggr ;ygv-£- I am very knowledgeable and 1 love reading. You con me 11 am Thumbs Up's IT Ambassador, updating you JJ a the latest developments in Information Technology. I JF Vou can find me in Thumbs Up's IT page. I remind i f )um our readers of the
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    • 384 19 JfsL AUSTRALIA'S The University FIRST UNIVERSITY of Sydney Dr. Lan Spence, Associate Dean (International) of The Faculty of Science will be available to meet prospective students who are interested to study at The University of Sydney for the July 2001 or February 2002 intake on: Sunday 27 May 2001 from
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  • 522 21  -  ET CETERA WITH V K SANTOSH KUMAR WHEN it comes to discipline, there is none to beat Singaporeans. Standing in line, awaiting their turn, taking their place, leaving at the right time...without a swear word expressed, come naturally to the people
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  • 248 21 On thm 5i MALAYSIA is paying a high price for keeping the ringgit pegged at 3.80 to the US dollar, says Asiaweek. The removal of the 10 per cent tax on repatriation of stock market profits has not brought the desired results either. Says the
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  • 189 21 CERTAIN vitamins may help prevent the dreaded Alzheimer's disease, reported the journal Neurology. Swedish researchers selected 370 elderly people with no signs of dementia, and measured the levels of vitamin 812 and folate (a water-soluble vitamin B) in their blood. After three years, the
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 60 21 COMICS The Concrete Jungle/ Col in Goh TOMUWg I «WL IbUOSC A LOTOF J Calvin and Hobbes /Bill Watterson SOS\E OERVONS SMS 100 I |WE WStSEmM&f VCU. STOP 1 *M CAH TELL "Wfi K I WERE THfcSWNS VWSM AWES R\OCF SLWft It.' SOO ju3& GREAT CLUB BECAUSE WE AT HER!
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    • 795 22  -  mtlimnmWaUWb if IB WmM%Mg!k By Yeoh Wee Teck REPORTING FROM PHUKET YOU are the most popular, most visible member of your group, and you are left voiceless because of a throat infection. Well, you can still let other group members gush about you. Michelle
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    • Article, Illustration
      416 24  -  Her look was all glamour at Cannes, but her attitude sucked By Serene Foo THE international press is smitten with Shu Qi, according to her manager. At the recent Cannes Film Festival in France, her manager said that many directors expressed interest in working with her. But
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      88 24 INDEED, Shu Qi's attitude seems more in-your-face these days. In more ways than one. The sex kitten's gothic makeup in her new horror flick, Visible Secret, will send chills up your spine. It shocked some among the production crew, according to reports. For no rhyme or reason, they
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    • 631 25 Three weeks ago, we reported how a Hongkong variety show had its contestants drink wine with baby mice in it. On Sunday, it moved up a notch having contestants eat maggot sandwiches and put wriggly worms on their cleavage. TEO KUAN YEE
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    • 844 26 Part two of Edwin's interview on the unheard Perfect 10 morning show, Five Guys and a Girl Edwin: So, what's this obsession with sex that you guys have, man? I've got to ask this. As a reporter, I don't get many fans. But radio personalities
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    • 1036 28 MAY 2001 A NEWSLETTER ON THE TOTAL DEFENCE OF SINGAPORE r i r What have they got to do with defence? jttgigtej Heidi Ho One is an Indian lecturer who became a Singapore citizen only two years ago. Another is a 73-year-old grandmother who lived in Australia for 20 years.
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  • HEY!
    • 304 29 HE tried doing an Eric Khoo and failed. It's awful to think that a bright young talent like Ethan Hawke is behind a lousy movie like Chelsea Walls. I have friends who actually named their sons after him. Hawke attended Cannes Film Festival, fell for
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    • 654 30 SUBTLE —almost spartan. The interiors of some new shops are so minimalist, you may not even know what they are. JACQUELINE LEE and PRISCILLA FOO report DRAW attention by using next to nothing. Huh? No signboard, white walls, a few silver tables and tiny
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    • 211 30 WHILE other shops would be more than happy to get publicity, this high-end boutique is not. Set up last June, the Helmut Lang boutique here is minimal to the max just like its branches in New York and Milan. Four long black shelves with colour co-ordinated clothes in
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    • 361 31  -  PRIME-TIME TV wvrr U IP it chang may cboon IF you think only Westerners are open-minded about sex, you haven't watched a Taiwanese TV talkshow yet. The matchmaking show About Romance (Fei Chang Nan Nu in Mandarin) has discussions about love and relationships
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 172 31 Highlights ChanneKJ, 9pm E22H33 Star Movies (Ch 56), 7.15pm 1 Celebrity hairdresser David Gan (left) is made to A gambler risks his life to win a fight and enough 4 suffer quite a bit on a rough-it-out trip to Nepal. money to free himself from an evil mobster. t J
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    • 148 45 DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK Trainer Patrick Busuttin's Bocelli continued to show outstanding form at Kranji yesterday morning. Taken out in the company of stablemate Just Bananas, the promising son of Lord Ballina underlined his chances with an impressive 37.35 ec workout on the
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    • 237 45 CHAMPION jockey Saimee Jumaat took his first step towards his much-anticipated comeback yesterday. The 29-year-old Singaporean was back in the saddle for the first time since his race fall at Penang on April 1. "It feels really good," he said, after his workout on the Malcolm
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    • 359 45 CLASS 3 1,200 m: Yzerman and Ingenious Star (Maiden 1,100 m) canter/37.9, shaped well. Super Leo (E Wilkinson) and Silent Star (KB Soo) 35.9, matched strides. El Gigalo (J Geroudis) 35.9, nice turn of foot. Bocelli (G Cooksley, Patrons' Bowl) and Just Bananas 37.3,
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    • 377 45 PATRONS' BOWL 1,400 m: Arabian Commander 38.5. Big Boris 37.4. Bright Era 40.9, not extended. Classic Sport, Red Hot (Chavez, Casino Raider Handicap) and Shanghai Boss trot/38, drew clear of Star Attacker. The latter two are engaged in the Lotsagelt Handicap. Crypto Charge, Golden
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      • 125 46 FORMER Kranji-based gallopers have given a new twist to the saying: "If you can't beat them, join them." In their case, it's more like "If you can't beat them, leave them". Last weekend at Penang, Wingo Star, Norway Forest and the vastly-improved Megasa Abjar continued the
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      • 113 46 JOCKEY Moses Kway must have heaved a huge sigh of relief after booting home 22-1 long shot Told To Rule in Race 6 at Penang last Sunday. For it's been nearly four months since the 35-year-old hoop scored his last victory aboard Sphritzer on Jan 27.
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    • 330 46 GUIDE TO PENANG TRACKWORK COOL MILLER impressed in a two-round workout yesterday and looks set to make his presence felt in the Class 5 Div 2 event over the Penang 1,700 m on Sunday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding by
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  • SPORTS
    • 97 47  -  SEASe N '00 '01: THE REVIEW It has been a strange old season, not least in as much as the undeniable Team of the Year could only finish third in the one competition that really mattered —the Premiership. Try telling that to an
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    • 201 47 POST PREMIER LEAGUE AFP. ARSENAL midfielder Patrick Vieira was named Player of the Year by the Premier League's sponsor yesterday. The Carling awards panel said in a statement: "Vieira has it all skill on the ball, pace and the ability to score and create goals. "He has also
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    • 551 48 The end to Manchester United's season and I am not talking about the three irrelevant defeats which brought its season to a close has been so anti-climactic that it seems to have taken all the gloss off another remarkably easy victory in the Premiership, the competition by which
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    • 109 48 Talking of doubles, Liverpool was the only team to do one over United, while its own nemesis was Leeds United. Gerard Houllier's side definitely seems to have acquired the old Liverpool knack of winning when not playing well. It could easily have lost all three cup finals, yet somehow
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    • 110 48 Leeds' absence from that competition could be to its advantage. This will enable it to focus completely on the league the Uefa Cup which it will be in is nowhere near as demanding a competition mentally and physically as the Champions League. In the season just ended, it
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    • 189 48 Every season for the last half-dozen, the critics have been forecasting that the end of the Premiership world was nigh for Arsenal's defenders and each season they proved them wrong. Last season, they were at least half right as the Gunners' famous old rearguard began to creak under duress.
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    • 102 48 Arsenal may not have things quite all its own way in north London never mind nationally. It will take more than smelling salts for Wenger's one-time protege Glenn Hoddle to revive the sleeping giant of Tottenham Hotspur. But if Hoddle proved one thing during his short spell at Southampton,
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    • 108 48 American observers of the English game may also have been tickled by the fact that England's Manager of the Year was not Ferguson, nor Wenger, nor Houllier, nor even Leeds' David O'Leary, but that he was in charge of the team who finished fifth! Yes, Ipswich Town's George Burley
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    • 190 48 So well did Burley do that it made the efforts of people like Joe Royle, whose Manchester City side had been promoted ahead of Ipswich the previous season, look pathetic by comparison. Of course, Royle had not done that badly, but the demands made upon Premiership managers these
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    • 100 48 WORLDCUPWARM-UP: ENGLAND V MEXICO Live on FC 22,2.55 am. Saturday Reuters. LEEDS fullback Danny Mills was called to the England squad yesterday as cover for Man Us Wes Brown. Manager Sven Goran Eriksson named a 24-man squad for Friday's friendly against Mexico and Wednesday's World Cup
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    • 156 48 PICK the Liverpool front-line for England. That's Robbie Fowler's call to England manager Sven Goran Eriksson. Fowler believes he and Liverpool team-mates Michael Owen and Emile Heskey could form a formidable strike partnership for England, reports football36s. Fowler reckons the Anfield trio could all play for
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    • 707 49  -  EUROPEAN CUP FINAL: BAYERN MUNICH v VALENCIA LIVE ON ESPN. 2.30 am. TOMORROW By Edwin Yeo BEWARE the Bayern Machine. It's a warning that Valencia manager Hector Cuper should take seriously. As much as Valencia doesn't want to end up losing European Cup finalists
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    • 218 49 Reuters. BAYERN coach Ottmar Hitzfeld must choose between youth or experience as he seeks a replacement for injured midfielder Jens Jeremies in tomorrow's European Cup final against Valencia. Jeremies is ruled out with injury but Hitzfeld said that he had not decided whether England Under-21
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    • 166 51 ■ARSENAL 0 BARCELONA 2 AFP. BARCELONA may have spoiled David Seaman's testimonial party when it beat his Arsenal side 2-0. But it is the potential signing of Polish 'keeper Jerzy Dudek from Feyenoord that could spell his end at Highbury. Seaman, 37, who told Sky Sports that he
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    • 428 51 TREVOR Brooking has called for an overhaul of the testimonial match system, claiming that £1 million ($2.6 m) and over tax-free payments to super-rich players could jeopardise loyalty rewards for lower-division footballers. He called on the Professional Footballers' Association to bring millionaire players to book, claiming
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    • 399 52  -  SINGAPORE CUBS 1 FULHAM U-214 COMMENT ERNEST LUIS IS it time for a relook at the Prime League, the S-League's youth league? National coach Jan Poulsen and national Under-23 coach Flemming Nielsen think so. Yesterday, the Singapore U-23s were beaten 4-1 by Fulham's U-21 boys at
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    • 461 53  -  Fast Indra scores both on and off the field TIGER BEER CHALLENGE; LIONS 3 Indra Sahdan 46th min, 67 Rafi AN 60 NEW ZEALAND 0 The Singapore Lions, ranked 107 th in the world by Fifa, walloped 97th-ranked New Zealand 3-0 yesterday. Is this the start of
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      356 54 ...MORE ON THE LIONS v NEW ZEALAND MATCHPOINTS: STADIUM FULL The grandstand has been filled up during the earlier game between the Singapore U-23s and the Fulham U-21s. By the time the Lions walk out to face New Zealand, 4,800 are gathered, making it a full house. Another
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    • 151 54 GOH Tat Chuan finally made his national team debut last night. He played for the first 45 minutes against New Zealand before being substituted. The Jurong FC midfielder worked hard to win the ball and managed some good one-twos with Mohd Noor Ali and Lions captain Nazri
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    289 55 AFP, Ananova. FLOPPY-cropped boyish look in 1997. Blond-bombshell appearance in 1998. Stark-shaved "botak" show in 2000. What next, David Beckham? A Mohican haircut, of course. The England captain, circa 2001, wants to appear like a "native American" on the field. Invention, they say, is the mother of necessity.
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