The New Paper, 7 August 2001

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1 51 The New Paper
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Two DBS managers hop to UOB
      361 2 THE plot thickens. The saga of DBS Bank's bid for Overseas Union Bank (OUB) has hit an interesting turn offshore. The Business Times reports that not one, not two, but three veteran DBS bankers in senior positions have left the DBS group's Greater China
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      Lock icon Goldman chief due in S'pore today
      140 2 THAT S2MIL APOLOGY Goldman Sachs chairman and chief executive Henry Paulson Jr is flying into Singapore today to discuss with DBS Bank the part played by his investment bank in the fiasco over DBS' takeover bid for Overseas Union Bank (OUB). The Business Times
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      Lock icon They died still chained to their beds
      148 2 AFP. FIRE at a mental asylum in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu yesterday killed 25 inmates many of whom had been chained to their beds (left). The privately-run asylum was one of more than a dozen located in the Muslim pilgrimage
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      59 2 Clarification Big Business in Small Samples (The New Paper, Aug 4): We quoted Madam Sally Lee as saying that Beauty French Enterprises in Lucky Plaza makes at least $5,000 a day selling cosmetic samples. It should have been $5,000 in total daily sales of beauty products, including cosmetic samples. I
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    Lock icon Is this man the London bomber?
    284 3 WORLD Detectives release CCTV footage of a man suspected of setting off a bomb near Ealing Broadway train station, just before midnight on Thursday in London. Picture/ Ap 1: The video footage shows the grey Saab (left) packed with explosives. It stops near traffic
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Mr Europa goes from pub empire to Man U cafe
      804 4 He was the face of the Europa Group of Companies but he had to give it all up after a bitter legal battle over Raffles Town Club. Mr Dennis Foo (above) talks to WONG KIM HOH about the pain, the
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      Lock icon SETTLING DUES
      185 4 THE Europa conglomerate includes the Europa pubs in East Coast and Changi, the Pleasuredrome, the Roar disco on Orchard Road as well as the Europa Country Club in Thomson Road. It also has links with the food and entertainment company ABR Holdings. The Europa Group of Companies, ABR
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      729 5 "Like many Singapore women, LA I've big doubts about slimming centres. Jmgm I only trust Marie France." "In Singapore, it that every day a new "YOU Only look great when slimming centre opens with even more x k extravagant weight-loss promises, or claims you feel healthy, happy and about an
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      Lock icon Varsity points for NSmen
      195 6 DO well in full-time national service, and you will earn bonus points for entry into the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. The points will be added to those earned for co-curricular activities (CCA). Under the scheme, servicemen can earn up to 10 "CCA
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      Lock icon Ice art recalls blasts
      45 6 PICTURETHIS This drawing, in charcoal dust on an ice floe, recalls the shadows cast on buildings by Japanese civilians during the nuclear explosions 56 years ago. Canadian artist Bernard McLeod drew the icy reminder off the coast off Greenland. Picture/ Reuters
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      Lock icon Fake Viagra sold
      72 6 ONE laksa, and some Viagra please. That could well be the order at some hawker centres at Jurong East, Boon Lay and Bukit Merah where fake Viagra pills are being sold at $10 each. The genuine anti-impotence pills cost between $15 and $20 each and can be
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      Lock icon New SDP book
      69 6 SINGAPORE Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan has launched a new book. He said the book, Your Future, My Faith, Our Freedom: A Democratic Blueprint For Singapore, would be the basis of the party's manifesto for the coming General Election. The book, written in the US, is
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      Lock icon I have an idea...
      61 6 SINGAPOREANS have many ideas on how to improve public services. Between January 1999 and April last year, they gave more than 27,000 such suggestions. And 2,345 of these ideas were adopted. When the Excellence in Public Suggestion scheme by PS2I Quality Service Committee was started in
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      Lock icon Ratnam dies
      59 6 THE father of test-tube babies in Singapore has died. Professor S S Ratnam died of pneumonia yesterday at the age of 73. Prof Ratnam was active in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. He introduced in-vitro fertilisation, and frozen-embryo research for test-tube babies here. Prof Ratnam is survived
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      Lock icon Teen sells girlfriend
      77 6 A TEENAGER in Okinawa, Japan, sold his 16-year-old girlfriend to a sex-shop operator for 100,000 yen ($1,455). He beat her and told her he would do worse if she did not comply. The 18-year-old boyfriend was arrested and sent to a reform centre last week, said the
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      Lock icon Online service
      72 6 THE Civil Service College has launched a service that is the first of its kind in the region. The Singapore Learning Exchange is an Internet-based service. Its software will help trainees sort out training needs, search for the right courses, apply for them, get approvals from their bosses,
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      Lock icon KEEP FIT FOR A BETTER DRESS FIT
      67 7 QUOTE WORTHY Although my husband never says anything, I know from the way he looks at my body that he is happy. Housewife Mariamma Suppiah, 39, who visits the gym every morning. Her aim: To reduce her "elephant thighs" so she can fit
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      Lock icon Long wait for place in home
      127 7 IN FOCUS TOO many people are waiting for too few beds. That is the situation at many nursing homes run by voluntary welfare organisations (VWO). The Health Ministry said that between June last year and April this year, there were about 420 people waiting
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      Lock icon Stock watch
      92 7 RENEWED fears over corporate profits and a sell-off of tech stocks sent share prices downward yesterday on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 111.47 points or 1.06 per cent to close at 10,401.31. The Nasdaq composite index slipped 32.07 or 1.55 per cent to 2,034.26 points.
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      Lock icon Let the people decide
      259 7 OH THE RACK EAST Timor is getting ready to elect an assembly on August 30. The assembly will draft a new constitution and set a timetable for independence. That may be easier than creating a viable economy, reports Asiaweek magazine. East Timor is one of the
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      Lock icon LOCAL HEADLINERS
      69 7 The Straits Times: Bonus university points for NSmen The Business Times: Goldman chief due in today to discuss OUB takeover fiasco Lianhe Zaobao: NSmen who performed well will be given bonus points when they enter local universities from 2003 Berita Harian: NSmen with good performance to get bonus
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      40 7 International Herald Tribune: North's reversal on GIs jolts Seoul Asian Wall Street Journal: EchoStar revives pursuit of Hughes New Straits Times: Reviewing juvenile law BBC news: British and Irish governments hail a long-awaited disarmament plan from the IRA
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    Lock icon Once a lecturer, now a blind, lonely man
    383 8 SINGAPORE HE was once an antique dealer, book editor, author and lecturer. Now, at 89, Mr Liu Tianzhong is a blind and lonely old man. He has no family. And on Saturday, he was evicted from his rented apartment. But the elderly
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    Lock icon Come and visit our little post office!
    581 9 NEWS That's the wish of the letter-writing children of the Soka Kindergarten. JOYCE KOH reports that they also post, sort and deliver the letters THE little girl protested hotly as her friends teased her about writing to her "boyfriend". Blushing, six-year old Vernetta
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    Lock icon 'We will not put it down'
    299 11 ELEPHANT THAT GORED TRAINER AT NIGHT SAFARI \JSJ I SPEAKUP YOUR FORUM Bernard Harrison Chief Executive Officer Wildlife Reserves Singapore IT is heartening to have received such support for our staff Gopal Krishnan and his family. Gopal underwent a second surgery on Friday and
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon What's going on?
      627 12  -  By Santokh Singh TRISHA Choo helped raise funds for her new school building. She was looking forward to moving into a modern classroom in June last year. That was the original date for the completion of the new CHIJ Our Lady of the Nativity school on Upper
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      Lock icon Marsiling also affected
      195 13 IF it is any consolation for CHIJ, it is not the only school left in the lurch by Pilecon. Over in the north, the pupils of Marsiling Secondary School were looking forward to their own premises after having to share Woodgrove Secondary School's premises for one year.
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      Lock icon EDUCATION MINISTRY SAYS
      114 13 A STATEMENT from the Ministry of Education (MOE) said that Pilecon "had difficulty meeting the project's completion date because of its own internal operational and financial problems". The MOE added that these problems were unforeseen when the contract was awarded. It had communicated its unhappiness with the
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      Lock icon Gone out of business
      165 13 PILECON Engineering Berhad, the Malaysian listed company which got the contract for the projects, may have stopped all work in Singapore, Hie Y Scene discovered. A call to its office in Geylang Lorong 23 showed it was no longer operating there. The last known address filed
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      Lock icon How 13 metal 'toothpicks' got him in jail
      314 14  -  BY Arul John THE number 13 certainly brought the Indonesian no luck. There were the 13 sharp metal objects in his bag, each no longer than a toothpick. Not that Danu Tamara used them to clean his teeth, as a police officer
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon Residents irked by amorous pair
      402 16 THIS couple thought a secluded staircase landing in Sengkang would be private enough to get intimate six nights in a row. Yes, six consecutive nights on the same 11th floor landing in Block 119D, Rivervale Drive. Well, they were wrong about it being secluded. One
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      Lock icon One special birthday girl
      80 17 MORE than 25 years ago, she graced Years of Independence The New Nation's front page on National Day. The now defunct afternoon tabloid—one of Singapore's most popular newspapers—featured the then lO-year-otd as its cover girl because she shared her birthday with Singapore—Aug9,1965. The New Paper tracks
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    Lock icon Of Chinese tea and English Breakfast
    430 18 slice COMMENT WHEN I was a kid, I drew pictures of houses with smoking chimneys. Bathrooms with bath tubs. Mountains covered in "Christmas" trees and rivers filled with fat fish. I wrote stories which included spring, summer, autumn and winter. There's none of the
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    471 20 When global companies are forced to cut jobs... WORLD THE correct, or rather the smart, answer is Europe. Although the flexibility of labour laws in the United States have made it the preferred place to create jobs, it also makes it
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon 'Rigged to be exploded by handphone'
      557 22 TOMMY'S SECRET ARMS STASH Wire services. IT was quite an impressive arsenal guns, bombs and other explosives. Add to that fake identity cards. But one stood out. The colour photo showed Tommy Suharto, whose real name is Hutomo Mandala Putera, sporting a beard. The
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      Lock icon WHERE'S TOMMY? NO ONE KNOWS
      124 22 THE youngest and favourite son of former president Suharto has been on the run since Nov 3 last year. He vanished when he failed to win a presidential pardon after being sentenced to 18 months'jail for a land scam. Reports had him in Bali, central
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon This rubber tree is on the drip...
      42 25 ...and it is showing signs of being much stronger now. The unusual approach by a Malaysian company of passing a chemical into the tree has tripled the tree's latex output Picture/ Sin Chew Jrr Poh
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      Lock icon Air-rage man grabs knife on MAS plane
      231 25 TWO hours before the plane landed in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, the passenger "suddenly" became unruly. The Briton, 28, a businessman, began harassing a few other travellers on board the Malaysia Airlines plane. A steward then approached the man. The passenger allegedly grabbed
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      Lock icon BATTLE OF THE HUNKS
      288 26 Showtime&Lifestyle Who's the next king of local television after established ah-ge Li Nanxing andXie Shaoguang? Will it be suave Christopher Lee or babyfaced Chew ChorMeng? Or perhaps cool man IxShen orhunky Adam Chen? CHANG MAYCHOON invites you to pick your choice IF popularity can be judged
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      Lock icon THE SUAVE
      159 26 IT could be a fight between leading men Christopher Lee (No 04) and Ix Shen (No 02). They have been rivals since Star Search 1995 when Ix won, but sank, and runner-up Christopher rose, and then began to drop. The rivalry is more intense now that the hot
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      Lock icon THE BOYISH
      252 26 TUESDAYS are Chew Chor Meng (No 06) days. First the babyface tickles you as the comic book character Mr Kiasu on Channel 5. Then he leads you on a search for nocturnal stories in Tonight With IF you like the rugged and manly sort of leading man, take
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      Lock icon THE WACKY
      97 26 WHO can forget Bryan Wong (Noll) as the silly ah-beng on the magazine TV show City Beat? Now that he's matured into more serious acting (Healing Hearts) and hosting, like Dream Challengers on Channel U, can he be the next King of TV? Do viewers prefer him acting
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      Lock icon THE SMOOTH TALKER
      128 26 WHEN it comes to talking, who else comes to mind but Channel U's Quo Liang (No 13) and Danny Yeo (No 15), and Channel 8's Mark Lee (No 16) and Dasmond Koh (No 14)? Guo Liang is like the big brother of hosting, always stable and reliable,
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      Lock icon Pick your King of TV and win food vouchers
      83 26 CALL 1900-914-0801 and pick the King of TV out of 16 nominees. Just key in the number next to the picture of your favourite hunk, and you may win a $50 dining voucher at Sakae Sushi restaurant! Ten vouchers will given
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      Lock icon Nothing Original in their Sin
      275 27 SPANISH hunk Antonio Banderas baring his butt, pouty vamp Angelina Jolie exposing her top. And the pair of them steaming up the screen to the point of making Mrs Banderas, Melanie Griffith, see red. Sounds absolutely sinful. But it seems that sin doesn't sell these
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      Lock icon So long boss, we'll miss you
      409 28  -  By Yeoh Wee Teck GEORGINA Chang (above) perhaps Singapore's most famous and visible radio boss dropped a bomb on her staff a few days ago: That she's quitting her job as Perfect 10's programme director. The 30-year-old, who has been in the post for
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      Lock icon Smiling Namie
      155 29 J-POP queen Namie Amuro (right) seems so happy these days. When she was in Taipei last week to promote her September concert, the sunshine smile never left her face. Which gave reporters a pleasant surprise, as she used to be known as the equivalent of icy Cantopop queen
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      Lock icon Charming Takashi
      116 29 HIS aloofness some called it arrogance once earned him the title of "most hated Japanese artiste" in Hongkong. But when Takashi Sorimachi (below) met reporters there again last week, he charmed them with his humour. He could even turn sensitive questions into jokes! Like when they asked whether
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      Lock icon Weird Ryoko
      163 30 SWEETIE-PIE Ryoko Hirosue (right) apparently has been acting strange recently. Talk was rife that she was seen screaming in a drunken state, borrowing money from people in the streets, and chasing after her new boyfriend in a cab after a big fight. It didn't help that her beau,
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      Lock icon Royal Kyoko
      147 30 FIRST, Kyoko Fukada (right) said she was a French princess two lifetimes ago. Then she added: "But I lived too extravagantly and made others suffer, so I was condemned to become a dolphin in my (next) life. "Now I'm Kyoko Fukada. Tm happy but I don't have much
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      Lock icon DysFUNotional family
      434 31  -  WATCH jEANMAJUE TM KIDS normally annoy me with their bratty behaviour. But Malcolm In The Middle has managed the impossible made me think sibling rivalry is cool. It's like a live-action version of The Simpsons, putting the fun back in dysfunctional. The suburban clan of this breakout hit
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      165 38 Reuters. PREAKNESS and Belmont Stakes winner Point Given prevailed in a thrilling finish to win the US$1.5 million ($2.67 million) Grade I Haskell Handicap before a crowd of 47,127 at Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey, last Sunday. The 1-5 favourite went all out
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      801 38 *****- Silver Native 59 (74) (6rug Yeoh-Spectacular Romance) Realistic 58.5 (73) (4rug Leck-Realistic) 2086-4 River Phoenix 58.5 (73) (5ag Kent-Lucky Phoenix) -***** Danswinner 58 (72) (4ah Leek-Lucky) *****0 Marshal James 58 (72) (5ag Laxon-James Joshua) -7 Powerful Effect 58 (72) (5ag Leck-Effect) 4346-Tax
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      822 38 Kranji Mile 0-3695 Beyond Expectation ...58 (110) (5irh Thwaites-Fairdeal) *****3 Bo Mag 58 (107) (6amg Read-Magical) *****- Carry The Flag 58 (110) (6eh Thwaites-Dragon) -***** Cyber King 58 (77) (5nzg Leck-Dragon) 2-113- Ouzo 58 (126) (8nzg Thwaites-Eres Tu No. 2) *****5 Pacific
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      1078 39 I ll II Mill 1MI II III -10-09 Gold King 57 (70) (4nzg Comer-Stanley Ho) 1-1-8 Chevochelle 56.5 (69) (4am Loh-Chen) 03-700 Happy N Successful 56.5 (69) (6nzg B Chua-Resourcetul) -28-20 Summertime Blues 56.5 (69) (5mm Nicholls-Tan Eng Tiong) *****0 Trust N' Reward 56.5 (69)
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      1128 39 Ipoh Special Stakes Our Magic King 57 (74) (6ag S8 Tan-KC See) 4-1-5 Pampanito 57 (74) (6ag KL Chong-BS Tan) Richness Of Life 57 (74) (5nzg B Chua-Resourceful) *****-D Unknown 56.5 (73) (5ag Robert-Han Emperor) 11-7- Megasa Abjar 56.5 (73) (5nzg KH Urn-Kingdom) 4— Unbeatable
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      591 40  -  BOWLING: CHINA MASTERS FINAL YAP SEOK KIM M HUNG SU CHUN (HK) 174-159 By Brian Miller IT IS not often that the national bowling coach Ron Hoppe is at a loss for words. The American is always beaming from ear to ear and, if
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      185 40 YAP Seok Kim victory in China yesterday was the bowling fraternity's third big success in as many overseas tournaments. Early last month, in Manila, Jennifer Tan claimed top spot on the podium when she won the Philippine Open. A day later, World Masters champion Jesmine Ho added
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      330 42 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (3rd ROUND QUALIFYING) RIVALDO'S CLUB OR COUNTRY DISPUTE TODAY: Shakhtar Donetsk v Dortmund Lokomotiv Moscou v FC Tirol TOMORROW Ajax v Celtic Galatasaray v Levski Sofia Red Star Belgrade v Bayer Leverkusen Wisla Krakow v Barcelona Halmstad BKv Anderlecht FC Porto v Grasshopper
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      113 42 Reuters. ISRAELI soccer club Maccabi Haifa has lost its appeal against disqualification from the Champions League qualifying competition for fielding a suspended player. The decision means Finnish side Haka Valkeakoski faces England's Liverpool in the third qualifying round, a Uefa spokesman said. Haka will host the first
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      349 43 Page 44 SPORTS THE NEW PAPER/Tuesday, August 7,2001 Imi wmmmmwMHm<i 'jmnm "77 vmsvs mu/mur sent ROVERS |Hj£A(/G 01 I Derby I a j I fg| 22 AUG 01 T Man Utd H I J|| 25 AUG 01 Spurs H I ||g| 08 SEP 01~lSunderland a I 16 SEP 01 Ipswich
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      140 45 BECKHAM BAITING: IT WAS all about getting one back. Chris Sutton has revealed Celtic deliberately targeted Manchester United's top stars for rough treatment in Ryan Giggs' testimonial which the Scots won 4-3. The Celtic striker slapped David Beckham in the face and the England captain was also
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      699 45 But the captain is cool DAVID Beckham had to endure vicious taunts including abuse about his wife Victoria from Celtic players during Ryan Giggs' testimonial match. Beckham, England's Captain Marvel, is said to have been "ready to explode" at the taunts, before being substituted. The
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      393 46 MORE ON DAVID BECKHAM: BECKHAMSPEAK DAVID Beckham admits Sir Alex Ferguson's final season in charge at Old Trafford will be a weird one. "The real test will come when Alex Ferguson leaves Old Trafford at the end of the season," he said. "It will be
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      316 46 INTER-TOTO FINALS: VILLA v BASEL BBC Sport. ASTON Villa will be without legendary Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel for the InterToto Cup final first-leg against Basel tonight, but he intends to be in Switzerland anyway. The former Manchester United star is sidelined with the calf muscle
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        214 46 RUSHEN DIAMOND 1 WEST HAM 3 A STRONG West Ham side had to come from behind to win a testimonial match for long-serving Rushen midfielder Gary Butterworth at Nene Park last night. A crowd of more than 5,000 saw the Nationwide League newcomer take a surprise lead when Tarkan Mustafa
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        174 46 FABRIZIO Ravanelli claimed his first goal for Derby County while its other summer "signing" Stefano Eranio, also scored as the Rams registered their first pre-season win. Eranio, who returned to Pride Park after agreeing to a new one-year deal last week, opened the scoring in
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        133 46 Skysports. ROBBIE Savage and Ade Akinbiyi scored as Leicester edged Northampton in its pre-season friendly. The Premiership side had to fight all the way after Jamie Forrester had cancelled out Savage's opener. However, Akinbiyi's strike midway through the second-half earned a win for Leicester, in which
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      259 47 DONOVAN Bailey bids farewell to Canadian fans after running his final 100-metre race of his long and illustrious career. At 33, he can't run with the young any more. But when Donovan Bailey walked around the Commonwealth Stadium track for one final lap, the youngsters stopped their strutting around and
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      866 47 NOW: He's the fastest Reuters. AP. FIVE years ago, a tearful Maurice Greene sat anonymous in the stands at the Atlanta Olympics watching the US fail to win a single medal in the 100 metres. Never again, he vowed two
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      426 48 man on planet Earth AP. IN his heart, Greene feels he is there. But he knows the sporting public probably perceives nine-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis to be the greatest. Give Greene another Olympics and one more World Championships and the public might agree with Greene.
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      478 49 WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS: WOMEN'S 100 m FINAL MARION JONES: THE FINISH IZhanna IK—a., L nrvoisewcnBock(Ukr) 10.82 sees 2 Marion Jones (US) 10.85 3Ekaterini Thanou iGre) 10.91 4 Chandra Sturrup (Bah) 11.02 5 Chyrste Gaines (US) 11M 6 Debbie Ferguson (Bah) 11.13 7 KeHi White (US)
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      199 50 THE FASTEST WOMAN ON PLANET EARTH Ddte, p4dce of birth. Nezhin, Ukraine; July 6, 1972 1993: Sets world indoor 50 metres record of 6.09 seconds 1995: Fifth in world 100 metres final in Gothenburg. Eliminated in the 200 heats. 1996: Eighth in the 100 metres final
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      306 50 The newly-crowned queen of sprint is on cloud nine. Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine, the surprise winner of the women's 100m final today at the World Championships, said she was so happy to beat Marion Jones and win her first world champion title. "I can't
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      351 50 Wire services. AVARD MONCUR WINS 400m: Avard Moncur of the Bahamas clinched his first major title when he won the men's 400m in the World Athletics Championships this morning. In the absence of Michael Johnson, who has dominated the event at the last four championships, Moncur stepped forward
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