The New Paper, 31 July 2001

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  • NEWS
    • 233 2 FROM battling mythical monsters to searching for the truth out there. That's the path for Lucy Lawless (below). The former star of Xena: Warrior Princess has signed to appear in the first two episodes of the new series of The X-Files, reports BBC. Despite speculation
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    • 437 2 But China officials say it didn't happen THE reports were sketchy. A leak here and there. Something had happened in a tin mine and people were trapped. China's official Xinhua News Agency made no mention of the tragedy. Then the local media got wind
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    • 284 2 Bernama. DESPITE their party leader's apparent unhappiness with the complacency of the Malaysian Malays, the youth wing of the nation's ruling party believes it is not time for drastic changes yet. Yesterday, Datuk Hishammuddin Hussein, chief of Umno Youth, said the existing race-based
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    • 283 3 HER boyfriend wanted to break up with her. Another boyfriend beat her up and took money from her. Yesterday, the disillusioned 18-year-old schoolgirl was seen perched on the 35th-floor ledge of a Hongkong building. Then she fe11... and miraculously survived. An air cushion
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    • 9 2 What's on TV? TV Comics on Pages 26 27
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 813 4 TORMENT FOR POLY GIRL There's something strange going on here. A caller answering an advertisement for tutors was diverted to other numbers. Then she found her number posted on the Net... she tells AMY CHIEW and SHEILA MURUGASU about her phone
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    • 104 4 THE New Paper called the number Sharon had been given by the tuition agency and a man answered. He said he had nothing to do with the agency. According to him, it was Sharon who was playing a prank on him and he had "nothing to
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    • 205 4 SINGNETS classified ad service is free and open to general users, said a fax The New Paper got in reply to our questions. Sing Net says that to place an ad, the e-mail has to come from a registered Internet service provider here, or a
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    • 337 5 The Marie France Body It's Every Woman's Dream And It's About To Become Your Reality. I Chun^ J Christy, Cass and Flora each had their own weight-loss and body-shaping targets. They came to Marie TWO WAYS TO BENEFIT! France for a specific program to meet their needs, and found our
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 324 6 SILICON VALLEY STINT FOR NUS UNPERGRAPS COME January next year, 10 bright students from the National University of Singapore will start their new term in Silicon Valley instead of Kent Ridge. The university's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Shih Choon Fong announced the project yesterday in his
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    • 42 6 HCTURBHIS m fn| riClUie/ A iUCI LURID LIDS I These were some of the handphone casings seized in Johor Baru yesterday during a raid by the Home Ministry. Also seized were casings with Black Metal motifs. Picture/ Harian Metro
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    • 74 6 THE fate of the elephant which gored its Night Safari handler will be decided this week. But the handler, Mr Gopal Krishnan, 45, who is now in stable condition in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, doesn't want the animal, which he has worked with for 18 years, killed. His
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    • 67 6 DBS GROUP HOLDINGS will not revise its $9.4-billion offer for Overseas Union Bank (OUB), ending a potential bidding war. Now, rival bidder United Overseas Bank (UOB), with its $10-billion counter-offer, will almost certainly take over OUB. DBS maintains that its offer values OUB at a fair
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    • 66 6 THE merger is off between retailers FJ Benjamin and Royal Clicks. No specific reasons were given but analysts suggested the Benjamins were worried about losing control of their flagship company. Others said FJ Benjamin found a "white knight" in former remisier Peter Lim. Mr Lim, together with
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    • 74 6 LOOK out for the new MRT map in an illuminated box when you go to the train station today. Replacing the old map, there is now only one colour for each line an numbers between one and five signify the direction in which the trains are going.
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    • 65 6 PERTH airport is Australia's most dangerous, many pilots say. On Sunday, wet conditions made it even more dangerous and cloud in some places reduced visibility to 200 m. That day, eight planes were involved in several aborted landings All needed help from the control tower to land,
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    • 74 6 A MAN forged his handicapped niece's parking label to try and have three parking summonses waived. Lee Lay Huat, 51, who has polio, is wheelchair bound. But he had a label only from the Registry of Vehicles when he parked in spaces that needed a label from
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    • 71 7 QUOTE WORTHY The thought of something chasing them down the pool certainly improves the speed of my swimmers. Australian swim coach Mark Davies, on why he is using a I.Bm long crocodile in his training. Mr Davies, who coaches at the aptly named Casuarina Crocs Swimming
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    • 126 7 #mfocus THE relationship between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Sir Richard Branson looks decidedly frosty after the flamboyant Briton okayed plans to move into the New Zealand domestic market with his Australia-based discount carrier Virgin Blue. SIA owns 49 per cent of Sir Richard's
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    • 102 7 STOCKS drifted lower during a quiet session Monday as more companies indicated that tough times will continue for at least another quarter. The Nasdaq composite index lost 11.23 points, or 0.55 per cent, to 2,017.84 and the Dow Jones industrial average fell 14.95 points, or 0.14 per cent,
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    • 246 7 ON THE RACK TAIWAN'S economy is passing through a cloud. The country's officials attribute it to the global tech slump. But this is only part of the problem, reports the Far Eastern Economic Review. Taiwan's political paralysis, it says, has prevented action to stop the rot. And
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    • 67 7 The Straits Times: Silicon Valley stint for NUS undergrads The Business Times: DBS won't sweeten OUB offer: Dhana Lianhe Zaobao: NUS sets up "NUS Enterprise" to spur entrepreneurial spirit among undergrads Berita Hanan: Pay retail and service bills by handphone NewsRadio 93.8FM: The World Trade Organisation chief has
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    • 37 7 International Herald Tribune: Markets temper Koizumi's victory Asian Wall Street Journal: Hynix dilemma is testing Seoul New Straits Times: Umno committed to BN BBC news: Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at police headquarters in Gaza
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 49 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams virginmue THE EXIT INTERVIEW III I i YEP I'fA GLAD I CANT STAND 8 PERSONAL THAT WE WHAT WOULD YOU WORKING FOR 1 PROBLEMS rr>i i pct SAY IS YOUR NAIN AN UNETHICAL TH tc, help REASON FOR 1 WEASEL. 4 f I Flll nATA J
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  • SPEAKUP
    • SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM
      • 289 8 Frustrated (e-mail) YOUR report on Mrs Jesudhass' case was interesting. I'm in a similar situation and know others who are in the same plight. I find it ironic and laughable that a country such as ours, which values academic excellence, is so
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      • 100 8 Damsel (e-mail) STRAIGHT after my 0 levels, I left for Australia. I came back recently with a degree in Marketing and Public Relations from a renowned university in Western Australia. After reading the article, I am hesitant to apply for a teaching position. I have my O-level certificate.
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      • 74 8 Darren (e-mail) FRIENDS of mine returned from overseas holding good degrees and really wanted to teach here, but were all turned down by the MOE. It's sad, but very true. I would like to read more reports on such issues. And I hope more reports
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  • 623 10  -  SINGAPORE BY Amy Chiew Students know ail about evening parties and evening movies. Now some of them are likely to get a taste of evening exams as well. Starting this semester, some undergraduates of the National University of Singapore (NUS) may have to sit
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  • COMMENT
    • 358 11 slice of life RECENTLY, a friend told me that she couldn't bear to read some newspaper articles because their subject matter was simply too sad. I can understand why she feels this way. When the story about an American mother who killed all her
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    • 94 11 CONTEST#! In Friday's Meteor Garden contest, we asked you how many hunks are there in Meteor Garden. The answer is four. And the winners are (IC numbers): *****96,*****12, *****94,*****43,*****69, *****30,*****12,*****74, *****67 and *****31. They each win the soundtrack of Meteor Garden. CONTEST #2 In Saturday's Hybrid
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  • 611 12  -  JB 7-MURDER MYSTERY MALAYSIA BY Amrit Kaur AS grieving relatives and friends laid to rest the seven family members who were slashed to death in their Taman Johor Jay a home, Johor police established a task force to investigate what is being
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  • NEWS
    • 210 13 Reuters. THE US claims China had agreed to broadcast a television interview with US Secretary of State Colin Powell in full. But the whole interview wasn't aired when Mr Powell was in China last week. Now, the US embassy
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    • 321 13 But he's also making money from tips IF you have been to Geylang Serai market on Sundays, you might have seen him. Bangladeshi worker Jahid Hussein, 36, offers his help to women carrying heavy bags. If they accept his offer, he carries the bags
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    • 74 13 A FOREIGN worker cannot carry out work other than the job specified in his work permit said the Ministry of Manpower. Foreign workers can only work for their employers and cannot take on any other work at all. A foreign worker who takes on other jobs can be
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  • WORLD
    • 106 15 THE tourists on board the Kampuchean Airlines plane were fed-up with the delay and the heat. The pilot found a faulty switch and aborted take-off. They complained. He told them to get off. And 39 South Korean tourists were left standing on the
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    • 291 15 AP. THE six-year-old boy had survived surgery. But he died when undergoing what was supposed to be a routine Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) examination in a US medical centre. While the boy was in the magnetic-imaging machine, his skull was fractured by a flying
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    • 213 15 WELL, when it comes to autographs, that is. And this comes straight from the fans' mouths. Britney Spears (below, right) may be one of the biggest pop stars today. But fans say she rarely stops to sign autographs and her bodyguards are overzealous, reports Ananova. Other "offenders"
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  • Hey! Showtime & Lefestyle
    • 821 16  -  Avid fan gets to meet her idol By Eri Akbar YES, it was the men who went ballistic when the Scorpions rocked the stage at Suntec last night. But the women were just as enthusiastic. When the doors opened at Bpm, the gentlemen, some holding
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    • 483 18 Looking at photos of Sakura, such as the one on her CD cover (right) you'd think she's the havoc sort who hangs out at clubs. Wrong! The R&B queen in Japan is more likely to be home playing with her baby son,
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    • 103 18 ALSO a happy mum is singer Shizuka Kudo (left). After all, she has snagged the "sexiest man alive" Takuya Kimura, and they have a cute daughter born in May. Her only grouse is how Takuya is too busy to be home with her. No wonder she
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    • 351 19  -  By Eri Akbar CHRISTIAN Wunderlich (above) is close to conquering his first love, writing, and becoming a published novelist. The German singer began writing poems and short stories from the age of eight. He got down to serious novel writing only three years
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    • 69 19 YOU can win one of five autographed CDs and posters of Christian Wunderlich's latest single, So In Love? Call our infoline on 1900-914-0801 and answer this question. What is the name of Christian Wunderlich's novel? 1) The Poetry off Autumn 2) The Autumn off Poetry 3)
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    • Article, Illustration
      691 20 ERIC Khoo's next production is a TV movie which deals with a four letter word: love. Scripted by James Toh and directed by Wei Koh, We Do is a story about a young couple whose relationship runs into complications when they decide to get married. The trio
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  • NEW FACE 2001
    • Article, Illustration
      235 21 Lew beaut^r* s& 'f, n uiL >.o <->•-' Gould a modelling career be in Colleen Pereira's future? is* JOANNA 111 (HIES consults the stars mf. COLLEEN Pereira, all 1.73 m of her most of it shapely legs was discovered at the Orchard MRT station. Late last year, a
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    • 317 22 COLLEEN certainly loves the Destiny's Child look: Tight, tight hipsters, halter tops and lots of attitude. Usually, her long wavy hair is tied up under a scarf, a hip-hop "head rag". And with legs that go on and on, she doesn't need heels it's trainers and sandals
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    • 212 22 Darker-skinned beauties should look for foundation with orange or gold tones in them. Cool undertones make dark skin look ashy. Use translucent, not tinted powders, to set foundation and control shine. Match your foundation to your skin tone. "Don't try to be fair; be proud
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    • 137 23 COLLEEN has a soft spot for animals. She has a cocker spaniel, and her home is a mini-menagerie of other pets, from common geckos to more exotic pet lizards. And she collects butterflies, too. But she doesn't go after them with a net, though. "Oh, I have
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  • 345 24  -  HEY! By Eugene Wee THE uninitiated will think it is an over-sized chopstick. Fanatics will see it as an extension of an arm. Like Luke Skywalker and The Force, scholars of the game aim to be at one with it. It is the humble pool
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  • 477 25 Don't laugh Indian movies are now a must-see PRIME-TIME TV THANK goodness for subtitles. Without them, watching Indian movies would be like watching a Greek play. In Greek. I am a monolinguist. I barely speak Tamil. I have almost zero knowledge of Hindi (unless you count raita, naan and tandoori).
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 273 25 Highlights Ah Girl TV Works, 9.30pm Ah Girl resolves that her 49th boyfriend will be the last, even though her new work uniform is seriously cramping her style. Her daddy tries to order flowers for his fen by phone without a credit card. Anugerah (Live) SuHa, 930pm Anugerah kicks off
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  • SPORTS
    • Article, Illustration
      654 35 Part I L I Part II Different kick show off on another stage AP. ANDRE Agassi and girlfriend Steffi Graf are expecting a baby boy in December this year. Back in the days when the 31-year-old American wore denim shorts and long hair, the notion of Agassi as
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    • 535 36 THORPFS TRIUMPHS 200 m free (1:44.06 WR) 400 m free (3:40.17 WR) 800 m free (7:39.16 WR) 4xloo free relay 4xloo medley relay 4x200 free relay AP. IN 1997, lan Thorpe was a scrawny 14-year-old who came to Japan for his first international swim meet with his
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    • 201 36 Reuters. LAN Thorpe says his life is like the hit TV show "Big Brother", where a national audience devours the every move of participants, 24 hours a day. 'It's very hard to explain, you know the way that I live," the 18-year-old told Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC). "It's
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    • 372 37 ffIVALPO-BARCELONA PAY DISPUTE Reuters, onefootball. com Brazilian international Rivaldo has rejected claims of holding Barcelona to ransom in a dispute over his salary. "I am not a money-grabber," Rivaldo was quoted as
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    • 126 37 WHAT BARCA MEANS TO RIVALDO onefootball.com. RIVALDO'S rift over wages with Barcelona has clearly left a scar. This despite the Brazilian's claim that the matter is now closed. But Rivaldo says he still believes that there was a strong possibility that the club would
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    • 117 37 AFTER its recent poor run of results, Brazil wants its big guns back. Even for a friendly against Panama, on Aug 9. As a result, Barcelona may be without Rivaldo for its Champions League first-leg Qualifier against Wisla de Cracovia-Skonto de Riga the day before.
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    • 147 37  -  SINGAPORE CUP By Ernest Luis THE SAF Warriors and the Tanjong Pagar Jaguars aim to meet the Geylang Eagles and the Home Protectors, respectively in next month's Singapore Cup semi-finals. All the Warriors need to do is beat the Bulls tonight whom they are tied with
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    • 362 38 Britain, Brazil the (not so) Beautiful game Reuters. ONE is the "home" of football. The other is the repository of the game's graces. Together they have contributed immensely to making the sport the most popular in the world. So, what would you expect when the heads of governments of Britain
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    • 133 38 March 28 (World Cup Qualifier): lost 0-1 to Ecuador April 25 (WCQ): drew 1-1 with Peru May 26 (Friendly): beat Tokyo Verdy 2-0 May 31 (Confederations Cup): beat Cameroon 2-0 June 2 (Confed Cup): drew 0-0 with Canada June 4 (Confed Cup): drew 0-0 with Japan
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    • 231 38 Reuters. BRAZILIANS credit teenager Charles Miller, a native-born son of British parents, for introducing foootball to their country in 1894. Miller is said to have brought two balls and a rule book back from a trip to England. The first football players in Brazil
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    • 214 38 35 years ago England was world champion AP. GEOFF Hurst, the only player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final, got his hands on the Jules Rimet trophy once again. He and seven members of England's 1966 team celebrated the 35th anniversary of their dramatic victory over West
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    • 328 39 liverpoolfc.tv YNICS will probably call it I back-pedalling. But Gerard Houllier (left) insisted he had not already surrendered next season's Premiership trophy to Manchester United. The Liverpool boss was quoted as having already given up on the title, but he
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    • 307 39 LIVERPOOL'S new "signing" for the season is no star player. But he is a star to the Catholic world. Pope John Paxil 11, the ailing leader of the Catholic church, who is a keen football fan, is thought to be one of six priests
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    • PRE-SEASON WARM-UPS
      • 284 40 I Bolton's new Japanese I■a•#l a a I star makes stunning debut I BOLTON WANDERERS 4 BOSTON UNfTED 3 IV A f HERE other Asians uU have failed, Akinori W W Nishizawa (right) seems to be thriving. India's Bhaichung Bhutia, Thailand's Kiatisuk Senamuang and Saudi Arabia's Sameer Al-Jabbar
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      • 160 40 PORT VALE 0 BLACKBURN 2 Matt Jansen 37, Nathan Blake 89 Skysports. GRAEME Souness decided to put out his strongest available Blackburn side in their friendly against Port Vale. And he was rewarded with goals in each half against tough opposition last night. Rovers took a
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      • 150 40 BODEN 1 CHARLTON 5 Charlton: Rufus, Euell, Newton, Shileds, Svensson Football365. CHARLTON continued its build-up to the new Premiership season with a 5-1 victory against Swedish second division side Boden. The Addicks stunned the 5,000-strong home crowd into silence within two minutes as they took a swift 2-0
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      • 172 40 Football365. RONALDO continues his long awaited road to recovery. This time he moves to England where his team, Inter-Milan, takes on Gianluca Vialli's Watford in a pre-season friendly tonight. Ronaldo is desperate to play after recovering from the knee injury which ruined his World Cup final
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      • 503 41 MALLORCA 0 ARSENAL 2 (Fatih 29min, og Van Bronckhorst 71st) ARSENAL'S "seriously hard" training camp in Austria was well worth it after all. An excellent 2-0 win over Spanish side Real Mallorca in a keenly-contested friendly in Kufstein was just reward for the Gunners,
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      • 107 41 MALLORCA: Leo Franco (Carlos Roa 46), Javier Olaizola, Fernando Nino (Julian Robles 60), Miguel Nadal (Vicente Fernandez 60), Akyel Fatih (Jorge Cordero 84), Vicente Engonga, Alvaro Novo (Alejandro Campano 68), Marcos Martin (Fransisco Soler 77), Ariel Ibagaza, Samuel Eto'o (Carlos Dominguez 60), Alberto Luque (Daniel Guiza 72). ARSENAL
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      • 210 41 TOP GUNNER; First half—Patrick Vieira: A dominant figure in midfield, felled by a cynical Engongo challenge after 22 minutes, recovered to play a key role in Bergkamp's goal. Second half—Jermaine Pennant: Instrumental in Arsenal's second goal, posed a threat down the right wing every time he
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      • 194 41 AFP. ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger hit out at the English Football Association (FA) yesterday. He was upset by the manner in which the FA has handled a disciplinary charge against his club's centre-back Martin Keown (right). Keown has been charged with violent conduct during Arsenal's
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    • Wenger on Vieira, his signings, his stars... and we future
      • 525 42 Arsenal promised so much last season but ended up without a single cup to show for its efforts. This season, it is again pinning its hopes on manager Arsene Wenger to take the fight to League champion Man U and other contenders
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      • 416 42 ARSENAL'S side has two distinct blocks: French and English. Last season, Wenger tended to place more faith on the French, his countrymen, to take Arsenal to greater heights. This season, in contrast, Arsenal has mainly bought British. Wenger explained: "The English block is relatively old.
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