The New Paper, 22 January 2002

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    • 346 2 Plush pad Car Gym membership Exotic holidays £22,000, plus bonus YES, she has changed! And she's no longer just household help in London. There she can command a plush apartment, an average salary of £22,000 ($58,000) a year with regular increases and bonuses a gym
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    • 220 2 JAPANESE companies were dropping like flies last year. With more companies gone bankrupt in 2001 than in the past 17 years, it became the second worst year in Japan for corporate failures since World War 11. A private research company released data yesterday that 19,441
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    • 683 3 I 111 I Advertisement Celebrities Delighted With Amazing New Slimming Concept set to revolutionise slimming! Contributed by Jessica Lee j I Christy Chun% yc breakthrough, only from Marie France. And there's -SLjB "I'd just returned from shooting a movie in 006 more SLT gives you skin retexturing Thailand. My role
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  • 435 4  - Plug in for the sake of Singapore's future SINGAPORE By Azhar Ghani PENNILESS refugees and savvy Silicon Valley technopreneurs. What's the link? They've both benefited from networking. Senior Minister of State and Information, Communications and the Arts) Khaw Boon Wan weaved in these examples of positive networking when he spoke
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    • 762 5 Lost or stolen Singapore ICs used to apply for lines Phones passed to foreign workers to make overseas calls PSST! Want to make a cheap call home? With no cards and no hassles? Just hand over $20, take this handphone and you can yak for
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    • 97 5 WE also checked with a service-based operator which allows subscribers to make overseas calls, including on their handphones, by using an access code. ZONE Telecom, which has more than 25,000 subscribers, sets a credit limit of $300. Said Mr Peter Ong, the country manager: "We have an
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    • 29 5 Singaporean loses IC. Scam member gets hold He lends phone to foreign Singaporean gets shocking I off IC and registers workers for a fee. phone bill. I handphone. B
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  • NEWS 10
    • 311 6 HOW does Cashew district sound to you? Or districts Zhenghua, Keat Hong and Punggol North? According to Berita Harian, parts of Singapore have been carved up into new districts. This move follows the redrawing of electoral boundaries during the November elections. The dissolvement of the
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    • 141 6 PICTURE THIS YES, but this one comes with either an 18 carat gold or platinum casing, scratch-proof sapphire crystal screen, and sounds as clear as a Mozart symphony. The world's largest handphone manufacturer, Nokia, hopes that super-rich towkays and CEOs will want to flash this latest
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    • 71 6 ABOUT 3,850 Singaporeans will go for the haj this year. This number includes the 80 who are taking the places of those who had registered but not responded when the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) issued the offer letters. Initially, about 4,900 had registered
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    • 53 6 MALAYSIA could change the rules governing madrasahs (Islamic schools) in order to prevent them being used as breeding grounds for extremism. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the government was considering changing existing laws or creating new legislation to govern the schools. He drew parallels with a crackdown on
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    • 55 6 JOHOR has announced two infrastructure projects to transform itself into a major transportation hub and petrochemical centre, rivalling Singapore. The multi-million dollar plans include a petrochemical plant in Pontian. Senai Airport is to be turned into a hub by creating major freight facilities and links with various seaports
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    • 64 6 GRADUATES with non-medical degrees may be able to become doctors after all. Responding to a shortage of doctors here, the National University of Singapore plans to open a graduate-entry medical school as early as July next year. Details of the four-year course have yet to be drawn up,
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    • 68 6 ITS been operating for selected commuters for just five days, but already the new smart card system has been used for nearly 60,000 MRT and bus rides. The cards use radio-wave technology. Passengers must simply tap an electronic reader when they board and leave the bus or MRT
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    • 69 6 MALAYSIA'S half of the Causeway will be replaced with a bridge that will connect to the road link on the Singapore side. The bridge would be 25m high, allowing pleasure crafts and barges to pass underneath. The project, expected to cost RM2 billion ($968.4 m), will also include
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    • 79 7 I was shocked when I realised the bird was gone. It had been in the corridor all these years. It responds only to "Parrot". It wouldflap its wings and play with you. Call it any other name and it wouldn't respond. Pasirßis parrot owner Mr Lian Boon Eng, 58,
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    • 283 7 mm rack FOR nearly a century, suspects have lived in fear that their fingerprints will match those found at crime scenes. But those in the US can breathe a little easier now. In a ruling on Jan 7, judge Louis Pollak decided that fingerprint evidence
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    • 70 7 The Straits Times: Schools top Afghan wish list The Business Times: Johor makes further moves to become transport hub Lianhe Zaobao: South-east Asia will be the next target of terrorists, warns Philippines Defence Minister Berita Harian: USs4b pledge to rebuild Afghanistan Newsßadio 93.8FM: The shortage of doctors likely
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    • 53 7 International Herald Tribune: Donor nations vow billions for Kabul Asian Wall Street Journal* Beijing outlines terrorist links New Straits Times: Forestry offences rampant BBC news: Israeli army tightens grip on the West Bank town of Tulkarm in its biggest incursion into Palestinian territory since Ariel Sharon became prime
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    • 267 7 11l FOCUS SEVERAL Malay/Muslim organisations have taken Muslim group Fateha to task for comments made to the British Broadcasting Corporation: Thoughtless: Fateha's attacks on Singapore's support for the US war against terrorism, they said, were thoughtless, divisive and did Muslim Singaporeans a disservice. Minor view: Fateha's
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  • 508 8  -  NTU STUDENTS' UNION MYSTERY SINGAPORE By! Santokh Singh CONTROVERSY has TechnoljjEcal l Diversity's Students r TTnion (NTUSU) the past month. Its president, Mr JonathaiSlVfrg who was in office for only five months resigned abruptly on Dec 20. Mr Pang, ?r second-year student from the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 778 10 THE BANKER WHffHfD FOR 17 years he lived in a luxurious bungalow at 25 Ewart Park, a posh private estate off Holland Road. The cottage-style bungalow has a driveway lined with coconut trees and palm trees, ferns and a lush garden. The rent, $15,000
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    • 153 11 HIS career blazed like a shooting star, court documents revealed. Mr Liu, a Chinese American, was hired by Arab Bank as a senior vice-president and area head for the Asia-Pacific region in 1984. In 1995, he became the executive vice-president and regional manager. He was also
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    • 159 11 MR Khalid Shoman and his older brother, Mr Abdul Majeed, took over sifter their father, Mr Abdul Hameed, the founder of the bank, died in 1974. The pair succeeded in steering Arab Bank ahead despite the challenges it faced, and built one of the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 414 13 Last October we carried a report about a senior citizens'corner of an HDB block that had been turned into a gambling den. Last week, we visited Block 62 at New Upper Changi Road and found that the old folks are back. KELVIN
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    • 1059 14 Mostly relationship problems Counselling is now just a click away. But how effective is cyber counselling at beating the blues? IRENE KEWfinds out MONEY MATTERS Seventy-five per cent of the capital funding for the project comes from South-east CDC, and 25 per cent from Singapore
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  • 289 17  -  SINGAPORE By Sheela Narayanan AUSSIE bush fires in Tampines? That's what residents of Tampines Street 43 might have thought they had in their backyard on Sunday. A five-hour lalang (tall grass) fire broke out at about Bpm in a large field, opposite their apartment
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  • WORLD
    • 228 18 MALAYSIAN police believe they have crippled a football betting syndicate. Seven suspected football bookies, including five Chinese nationals, were arrested in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend. The arrests were the result of a two-month-long investigation into illegal bets worth RM4.B million ($2.3 m), reported
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    • 114 18 AP. FOR years, it had been used as a site for public executions under the Taliban rule. But come Feb 15, Afghanistan's national stadium will host a soccer match between British troops and a local Afghan team. The match is arranged by the British Ministry of
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    • 443 19 They are protesting against pay cuts and corrupt bosses THREE times, the police tried to expel them from the factory. Three times, the workers managed to hold on. On the fourth night of the strike, the management cut off the heat. The 2,000
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    • 141 19 Reuters. THERE was no need for her to fasten her seatbelt on the flight. She was too firmly stuck on the toilet seat. Every air passenger's nightmare came true for a US woman when a high-pressure vacuum flush sealed her to the toilet seat of
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    • 335 20 for poor marks Efrom 24TH STOREY^ THIS is stress in its ugliest form. A nine-year-old boy in Hongkong had scored 27 points for his Chinese dictation. His score for other subjects were also poor. And this almost cost him his life. His mother, enraged
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    • 154 20 FROM k 4TH HOW safe is it to play along the corridors outisde your flat? Ng Tai Hai, six, found out that the unexpected can happen. He was playing with his peers on the second floor of an apartment block in Seberang Jaya, Penang when danger
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    • 360 21 HAVING exhausted the works of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, Hollywood is returning to the myths, legends and heroes of ancient Greece in search of a new generation of blockbusters. Titanic director James Cameron is planning to make another larger-than-life movie this time about the Amazons,
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    • 291 22 THE camp exists. It was stumbled upon by a member of human rights group Elsham, based in the Papuan capital of Jayapura. The Elsham activist, who worked for the Indonesian government in Fak Fak, told the police about the training camp being run by
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  • 265 23 beboMebe mm warn COMMENT THE toymaker put down his tools and removed his glasses. Before him stood a giraffe. Its long neck gracefully etched in wood. The pink dots on its body glistened with paint. The toymaker had taken a month, painstaking
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    • 578 24 Red carpet? Check. Evening gowns dusted off after going unused at the Emmys? Check. But Hollywood's Golden Globes awards notorious for raucous boozed-up acceptance speeches—was disappointingly dull. JEANMARIE TAN takes potshots on the night's winners and losers REMEMBER Renee Zellweger and Christine Lahti who came running
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    • 64 24 ITS her third Golden Globe for Sex and the City, but Sarah Jessica Parker (right) still can't get it Chopping off her long, curly locks for a straight chin-length bob screams "the bomb", but Parker's bouffant black nightmare which barely covers her pale A cleavage
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    • 85 25 BRING on the brave rainbow-hued brigade who bucked the black trend. A giggly, intoxicated Cameron Diaz (second from right) radiated with haphazard hipness in a red-and-blue striped dress. Reese Witherspoon (left), Calista Flockheart and Heather Locklear were proof that Hollywood's sexy sparkle hadn't completely diminished. Said
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    • 107 25 THE SCORECARP AT A GLANCE Film Best Motion Picture, Drama: A Beautiful Mind Best Actor, Drama: Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) Best Actress, Drama: Sissy Spacek (In The Bedroom) Best Motion Picture, Musical/Comedy: Moulin Rouge Best Actor, Musical/Comedy: Gene Hackman (The Royal Tenenbaums) Best Actress, Musical/Comedy: Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge)
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    • 239 26 And we're not talking about their popularity ONE is pudgy and the other is puffy. To think the two leading stars of the Japanese hit drama, To Heart, used to be fit and trim (right). But now, Kyoko Fukada and Tsuyoshi Domoto have both piled on kilos.
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    • 95 27 THEIR eagle eyes were glued to J-pop singer Tomoya Nagase's neck. Or rather, the reporters were staring at the dazzling diamond pendant hanging there, a gift from his girlfriend, Ayumi Hamasaki. Tomoya (left) soon realised it and quickly buttoned up his shirt. He was meeting reporters
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    • 84 27 WHEN a star goes missing, speculation flies. Sweetie-pie actress Ai Kato (right), for one, started shunning the media two months ago. Besides turning down an acting job, the star of Merry Christmas In Summer also skipped two major press conferences. That naturally got people talking. Some say
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    • 61 27 JAPANESE-CHINESE hunk Takeshi Kaneshiro (left) is a joker. Or rather, that's his way of evading questions from reporters. Like when asked by Person magazine if he got worked up during the filming of his latest movie, Returner, the 28-year-old replied: "There are times when I'm angry,
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    • 68 27 HERE'S a chance to win a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Hikaru Utada, as seen on the»cover of her latest CD single, Travelling. We have three to give away, courtesy of EMI Singapore. Just call 1900-914-0801 before midnight tomorrow and answer the following question: What is
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    • 188 28 FILMMAKERS The Hughes brothers were amazed by Johnny Depp while making their new movie, From Hell. Because of his lack of ego and fat. The movie-making siblings, Allen and Albert, marvelled at how humble their leading man and woman, Heather Graham,
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    • 151 28 BRAZILIAN supermodel Gisele Bundchen, 21, has issued a serious warning to Leonardo DiCaprio after rekindling her romance with him cheat on me and 111 dump you again. The catwalk queen had split from Hollywood heart-throb DiCaprio in November after he went to a Lennox Lewis boxing
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    • 108 28 JANET Jackson has taken her sibling rivalry with sister LaToya into the shopping lanes. Browsing alone after lam in the makeup department at the 24-hour Rite Aid in ►i Beverly Hills, Jackson was picking ■k out mascara when MdV she literally bumped into her look-alike
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    • 124 29 FRIENDS actor Matt Leßlanc says he "honestly" doesn't know if the cast wants to make a ninth series. The show will go on only if he and co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry agree to prolong their reel
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      120 29 SOME celebs are just suckers for punishment. Troubled songstress Mariah Carey has vowed to use bad reviews for "wrapping fish" in the future because she's a "fighter". Of late, Carey has suffered the flop of her debut movie and soundtrack album Glitter, a nervous breakdown and a
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    • 68 29 BEFORE Beyonce Knowles fights baddies with Mike Myers in her first big movie, Austin Powers' third instalment, she faces another battle of the bulge. The seemingly-svelte Destiny's Child frontwoman who's penned hits such as Survivor wasn't too happy when she was told to lose weight for her role.
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    • 213 30  - Let Maddie I I WOW you! PRIME-TIME TV WATCH VSOtt WEETECK OH what fun it is to party with Madonna! Especially since she's so generous in giving her guests a great time. And she makes up for her shortcomings in delivery by over-compensating on the "wow" factor. Wow! Madonna can
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    • 313 40 -~a-L LvLIzUV Vw-\^jLL|^L^£i^^g^^ifl GHANA 0 MOROCCO 0 Reuters. GHANA and Morocco battled to convert goal scoring chances as they played out a goalless draw in their opening match. It was the second successive 0-0 draw in Group B after Burkina Faso held World Cup finalist South
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    • 515 40 with confident victory NIGERIA 1 ALGERIA 0 Wire services. Nigeria opened its Nations Cup campaign with a stylish 1-0 win over Algeria, but the Super Eagles should have won by more. Nigeria, twice Nations Cup winners and runners-up on four occasions, took control of the game early
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    • 341 41 j 9HHi R TUNISIA 0 ZAMBIA 0 AFP. WORLD Cup qualifier Tunisia was given a nasty shock in its Group D opener here Monday, held 0-0 by malaria-stricken Zambia. Despite dominating long periods of play at the Modibo Keita Stadium, the north Africans could find
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    • 283 41 TOGO 0 IVORY COAST 0 AFP. TOGO goalkeeper Kossi Agassa was the hero as he kept out the Ivory Coast. Agassa, who leaves Ivorian club Afiica Sports for Metz in France after this tournament, produced a string of fine first-half saves as the "Elephants" threatened
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    • 226 41 GULF CUP 2002 CONTROVERSY Wire Services. KUWAITI players have appealed to their bosses to sack their head coach Berti Vogts (left). Kuwait was humiliatingly beaten by Oman on Saturday and midfielder Abdullah Wabran believes the team has had enough. Wabran told gulfonline: "We
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    • 830 42 jgPfef CONCACAF GOLD CUP HAITI 2 ECUADOR 0 SOUTHAMPTON striker Agustin Delgado, who is thinking of joining Ecuador only at the quarter-final stage, may have to put on hold his ticket to Miami. World Cup Finalist Ecuador suffered the biggest shock of the Concacaf Gold Cup with
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    • 810 43 1*) CHARLTON 1 Graham Stuart 88 ASTON VILLA 2 Darius Vassell 8. Juan Pablo Angel 42 Reuters. ASTON Villa is onaroll. Juan Pablo Angel's 10th Premiership goal of the season emphasised Aston Villa's dominance as it moved back to seventh place in the Premiership table with
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    • 666 44 I —L^ Although Sven Goran Eriksson spends much time watching as many matches, the one team he really should spend more time watching right now is Newcastle. Because believe it or not, the one player who might just make England a serious challenger at this year's
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    • 770 45 RESULTS: SATURDAY: Derby 1 Ipswich 3 Leicester 0 Newcastle 0 Liverpool 1 Southampton 1 Man U 2 Blackburn 1 Middlesbrough 1 Bolton 1 Sunderland 1 Fulham 1 Tottenham 1 Everton 1 SUNDAY: Chelsea 5 West Ham 1 Leeds 1 Arsenal 1 TODAY: Charlton 1 Aston Villa
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    • 489 46 TH ILL last Friday it looked certain Middlesbrough was going to be Diego Forlan's destination. The club's chief executive Keith Lamb had flown to Buenos Aires early last week and agreed terms with Independiente. the Argentinian club which had the young striker on its rolls. Lamb, accompanied
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    • 308 47 ...MORE ON DIEGO FORLAN MANCHESTER United was better at negotiating with the agents who thrive in the murky world of South American football transfers. Diego Forlan's joint ownership had complicated his move to England. His transfer fee had increased manifold since he was put up for sale.
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    • 144 47 Reuters MANCHESTER United is expected to unveil latest signing Diego Forlan today once it successfully complete the £6.9 million deal. The Uruguayan underwent a medical yesterday as United officials checked his Spanish passport and tied up paperwork with Forlan's club in Argentina, Independiente. Forlan, 22, is expected
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    • 207 47 TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN AP A FRUSTRATED Pete Sampras took on a heckler as well as Marat Safin during his fourth-round loss yesterday. An 18-year-old Australian fan shouted "Yes" when Sampras served a fault in the second set, and the Grand Slam record-holder turned to the stands
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    • 901 48 WINNER in 1998. Second in the Premiership since. This is the best season yet for Arsenal to topple Manchester United from the champion pedestal. United's faltering start to the season had given the Gunners the ideal opening to wrest the initiative and zip through. They did show
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    • 171 48 LEAGUE CUP; BLACKBURN v SHEFF WED CRAIG Hignett (left) is aiming to help Blackburn beat a path to Cardiff and end his cup jinx. The 32-year-old midfielder wants to banish the memory of a double heartache five years ago, reports sportinglife. Hignett was in the Middlesbrough
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    • 954 49 it-ni'ivi TWO Manchester United fans sit at the next table. They are Man U fans because like all others of their kind, they are wearing the Red Devils jersey so the rest of us have no doubt about their identity. R
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    • 244 52 We need a scrappy win' PHIL THOMPSON (right), as reported on the Liverpool website: Manchester United, and the way they have hit back, are our inspiration. Everybody was criticising them, jumping on the bandwagon and saying it was impossible for them to win the
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