The New Paper, 26 February 2002

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    • 47 1 nP fficici harmony < Rookie MP Irene Ng L the ingredients Page is Burgers and Buicks are big in Beijing Page 20 III Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I com. sg Email: tnp@sph.com. sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 106/03/2001 60 CENTS j| |ji 8 *****1%0000r
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  • NEWS
    • 333 2 IN THE US They went on a shopping spree last month in the US. Americans snapped up resale homes in January, a fresh sign that the country may be pulling out of a recession. And a record was set in the process. Sales
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    • 382 2 IN SINGAPORE IT'S a jittery new world for property analysts in Singapore. If they don't show up for a couple of company briefings, the rumours start flying about what might have become of them. And the number of those there to
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      363 3 The new HDB Centre in Toa Payoh, expected to be ready by the middle of this year, will be a one-stop location for housing matters, food and shopping. LEE HUP KHENG shows you what it's going to be like Picture this. You get off the train at
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 863 4 AT 14. SHE'S SISTER. FRIEND. SURROGATE MUM AND LIFESAVER. YET. SHE SAYS. Much has been written about Singapore's spoilt kids in the newspapers these days. But Regina Lim proves there are exceptions. GENEVIEVE JIANG reports BIG sister, friend and, at times, surrogate mother. Regina Lim, 14,
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    • 173 4 JUST before the transplant, Regina will undergo a bone marrow harvest. This usually takes place under anaesthesia in an operating room. Once the anaesthetic has been given, a needle is inserted into the cavity of the hip bone. The bone marrow, mixed with blood, is withdrawn through the
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 256 6 YOUR employer is asking you to clear all of your annual leave by a certain date. Does this mean you are about to be retrenched? Many Singapore companies have been forcing their employees to take all the days they are owed. And some
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      38 6 PICTURE THIS Forget The Love Boat, cruise ships are changing fast. On this Royal Caribbean Voyager Class ship, passengers can climb a special rock-climbing wall. Others offer wedding chapels, and thrill-seeking shore excursions. Picture/ Ap
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    • 59 6 AN independent advisory board yesterday began reviewing the cases of the 13 Jemaah Islamiyah members who were detained under the Internal Security Act for terrorist-related activities in December. The board will hear from the detainees, Internal Security Department officers and witnesses, and review the evidence and
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    • 72 6 MORE than 180,000 women here have a problem with leaks, otherwise called stress-urinary incontinence. They cannot make it to the 100 in time to urinate. And when they sneeze, they wet their panties. But last year, only 1,300 of them sought treatment. The rest simply live with
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    • 70 6 THE slowdown hasn't dampened polytechnics graduates' employment chances and salaries. A survey showed that as of Sept 1, 2001 (three months after graduation) their average monthly starting salary had gone up by $1 to $1,536, compared to 2000. Some 75 per cent of the 5,012 grads
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    • 86 6 NTUC chief Lim Boon Heng has warned of more layoffs in the coming weeks as bosses may have been waiting for the festive season to end. He said that unemployment figures could go as high as 6 per cent, up from 4.7 per cent in December.
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    • 63 6 SINGAPORE and China have signed an "open skies" accord, which will allow more passengers and goods to flow between them. Signed yesterday, the memorandum of understanding allows passenger services to increase by 75 per cent and cargo services to double in size. This will give a boost to
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    • 67 6 NEEDY residents in Hougang, Punggol and Sengkang will now pay less for health care at some private medical and dental clinics. This is because more than 30 doctors and dentists have volunteered to help patients under the Northeast Community Development Council pay their fees. Northeast CDC
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    • 63 7 (Reclamation works) cannot in any way affect the territorial waters boundary delineation agreed to between Singapore and Malaysia. Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, saying the Government had informed the Malaysian government that reclamation activities were all completely within Singapore's territorial waters. A Malaysian newspaper had reported that the Johor
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    • 209 7 OLD economy stocks took the lead in New York yesterday. Wall Street cheered as a wide range of companies offered upbeat corporate forecasts. They included wdreless technology firm Qualcomm, home products retailer Williams-Sonoma and car-maker General Motors. Traders said the market has seen lots of volatility this month.
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    • 274 7 OH THE RACK US President George Bush has no problem expressing his personal feelings about foreign policy. He often uses the first person when talking about US aims, as he did when he talked about North Korea, reported Time. "I believe in freedom," he said,
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    • 70 7 The Straits Times: S'pore, China ink "open skies" accord The Business Times: New accounting rule behind forced leave for staff Lianhe Zaobao: Singapore's reclamation works did not encroach upon Malaysia's territory Berita Harian: Mendaki to review economic programme NewsRadio 93.8FM: Steps are to be taken to move Singapore's
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    • 40 7 International Herald Tribune: The shine of success, dulled by misbehaviour Asian Wall Street Journal: Japan's economic package may not make the grade New Straits Times: Corporate mess clean-up BBC news: Zimbabwe opposition leader faces a charge of treason
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    • 40 7 Dilbert /Scott Adams IS THIS NUMBER J WHY ARE YOU I THINK IT'S TOO ACCURATE? IT I ATTACKING THE LATE TO SEEfAS LOW. I ttE? STOP NUMBER APOLOGIZE, i ATTACKING IAE! IS LOW. NOW I HATE J j VOUR GUTS.
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    • 270 8 11 w T i! IBIOMETRIC ACCESS INSTEAD of keypads, flu 11n .1 M*m 1 m HS nngerpriin or iitS scanners win be used to restrict access to the cockpit "With keypads, anyone can witch i pcnon pnnch hi i four-digit code and remember the number,"
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    • 193 10  -  English channel TV Works gets new name, new logo By Wendy Teo TELEVISION programmes for you and I? That's what SPH Media Works is promising because Channel U will now have an English-language stablemate called Channel i. Yesterday, CEO Lee Cheok Yew announced at
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    • 704 11 Kranji Secondary School, founded in 1995, is already taking on some of the more established schools in attracting better students. Its PSLE cut-off rose from 203 in 1996 to 233 last year. KOH TSINZHEN looks at its recipe for success THIS neighbourhood school is making
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    • 354 12 IT was Christmas Day and the thief thought the warehouse would be deserted just like it had been on his previous 15 visits. But it was not and Peter Tan Chee Hong, 27 (right), was caught. Assistant warehouse manager Anthony Chuan, 39, had returned to rush
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    • 380 14  -  By Michael Lee SAY "TB (tuberculosis)" and some people will hardly bat an eyelid. But TB is surprisingly the world's leading infectious killer, even more lethal than Aids and malaria. According to the BBC, the disease now kills two million people a year
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    • 100 14 PEOPLE are infected when they inhale TB germs expelled through the coughs or sneezes of an infected person. Among symptoms: A cough that persists for three to four weeks, phlegm, blood-streaked spittle, fever, weight loss and tiredness. But after a week or more of taking effective
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    • 575 15  -  ROOKIE MP IRENE NG 0N... By Sheela Narayanan SITTING together at the same table for a meal. How hard could that be? Well, difficult if you want halal and non-halal diners at the same table. Ms Irene Ng, Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC,
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    • 164 16  -  By Larry Haverkamp DIDN'T hit the jackpot for the $12 million Toto lottery last night? Not surprising. To win the grand prize, Group 1, you would really have needed a lot of luck your chances were exactly one in 8,145,060.
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  • WORLD
    • 278 17 IN a move to bury the hatchet, East Timor has invited Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri to its independence celebrations. Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri said that East Timor, which will become a new state in May, wants to develop a "special and very important
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    • 219 17 IS the security you employ really secure? Well, it wasn't for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt when a security guard staged a hold-up on the very van he was supposed to be guarding. He made off with at least 10 million euros ($16,030,730),
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    • 454 18 AP. HE may not be able to speak. But he's got a tale to tell about his owner. Yesterday, Igwig the iguana made legal history when he was called as a witness in a UK trial to "give evidence". His
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    • 141 18 Reuters. UNBELIEVABLE perhaps, but New York City's new mayor wants to sell you the historic Brooklyn Bridge. In fact, he wants to sell three other bridges in New York anything to raise cash in a city reeling from the economic
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  • WORLD
    • 481 20 CHINA'S President Jiang Zemin and US President George Bush may not have agreed on political issues when they met last week. But the people in China's cities seem to have found much in common with the Americans taking a liking for things American and
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    • 238 21 Families thought their loved-ones had been cremated. They even received ashes, packaged in a pretty urn. But Californian police are now saying that a funeral-home owner has been dissecting corpses and selling body parts to researchers and drug companies without the consent of
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    • 422 22 HK Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa reveals his 'softer' side THEY met in England, where they were both studying in the *****. It was then that he fell in love with his wife. After dating for six years, they married in the US. This was just
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    • 136 22 Distinguish yourself obp Be a Mentor Investment Project by BP Bring cheer to a child This new year, add value to yourself. Text-book learning and good grades are no longer trusted adviser enough to get good jobs: you need a high "eq" on top of good "iq". fTCrailTEl: a child
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  • 477 23 slice of life CRISPINA ROBERT COMMENT THE flyers and brochures are collecting at my door. The real estate agents, with their handphones and clipboards, mill around the void deck looking for an opportunity to strike up a conversation with residents. And the residents open
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      694 24 After an almost two-year hiatus from showbiz, ex-singer Shirley Yee makes a comeback in Channel U drama Cash Is King. But her return to showbiz might just have to be delayed a little more, now that she's expecting a delivery from the stork. WENDYTEO reports... WHEN models have
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    • 186 24 BEFORE he went to Hongkong to film a new variety show, radio DJ Dasmond Koh (above in a file picture with ex-girlfriend, Nnadia Chan), promised his listeners that he'd phone in to report star sightings. Who would have thought that he'd become the star instead? The Hongkong
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    • 144 24 FROM being the most downloaded Net sex star, ex-Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng (left), 36, is now planning to become an ambassador for charity. Show promoter Jackson Yew told The New Paper that Ms Chu has requested for visits to nursing homes and orphanages to be included in
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    • 492 25  -  Fans'sadness at deejay Lim You-fa's entry into monkhood quickly turned into outrage when he renounced the austere life three months later. But who are they to cast the first stone? COMMENT WENDY TEO WHEN he became a monk, former radio deejay Lim You-fa's fans wept.
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    • 136 25 "How can he treat religion as a game?" Cai Guo Xiong, 18 "You-fa's shameless! When he entered monkhood, he created such an uproar. And though he's out off it now, he's still in the news." A Lianhe Wanbao reader "People at
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    • 587 26  -  The audience was less than enthusiastic when she won Best Child Performer at Pesta Perdana... A classmate even said she shouldn't have won, but.. By Eri Akbar ALYSAEUDORA won the coveted Best Child Performer award at Pesta Perdana. But the 10-year-old (above) was obviously
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    • 128 26 WATCHING Dora crooning along to Doaku Harapanku (My Prayers, My Hopes) by her favourite Indonesian artiste Kris Dayanti on a karaoke machine made me feel a little melancholic. She released her self-titled debut album in the middle of last year. Her mother, Madam Rosanna
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    • 257 27 IF you are J-pop queen Ayumi Hamasaki, you can be as outrageous as you want. Even to the point of transforming yourself into a punk sex kitten and sitting irreverantly on the lap of a God Of Fortune statue! That's what she did when she was shooting a
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    • 125 28 OOPS, the secret is out. J-pop spice babe Hiroko Anzai has admitted that she is dating Chemistry member Kaname Kawabata. Word has it that Kaname has admired the actress-singer for a long time. He even told reporters that she is his
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    • 97 28 POOR Kyoko Fukada. She has ballooned so much in the past few months that non-fans call her nasty names like "Fat Pig Kyoko". And now she's so stressed over losing weight in the midst of filming that she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown, reported the Japanese
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    • 143 28 MENTION the sci-fi movie 2046 and Takuya Kimura (right) pulls a long face. The Japanese sex icon is apparently frustrated with the erratic filming, which started in 1999 and is now put on hold. "Maybe itll film until the year 2046!" he once said on a
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    • 317 29  -  PRIME-TIME TV WATCH IT pammmvm WATCHING the new season of Spin City has become mostly an expectations game. When Michael J Fox retired from the sharply-written sitcom to battle Parkinson's disease, it was thought that the departure of the beloved star would surely sink
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    • 242 29 Really Something TV Works, 8.30pm Hosts Neo Swee Lin and Ivan Heng check out some theme park rides and get acquainted with neighbourhood parking attendants who like to eat food cooked by a Korean chef called Buffy the Vampire Slayer Channel 5, 10pm Buffy has to tackle some personal issues
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    • 384 38 WORLD CUP HOCKEY: KUALA LUMPUR Reuters. A LAST-MINUTE goal from Teun de Nooijer gave defending champion Holland a 2-1 victory over Argentina in Group A at the men's hockey World Cup yesterday. "We are thrilled to have got six points which could be expensive for our
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    • 666 39  - Atwal's win Asians GOLF: REVIEW OF CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS By Brian Miller WHEN Aijun Atwal knocked in that last putt to win the Caltex Singapore Masters title on Sunday, he didn't just knock in a little white ball. In my mind, at least, he knocked home an important message to
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    • 104 39 CALTEX'S SUCCESS MORE GOOD GOLF FOR SINGAPORE THERE'S more good golf coming to Singapore. In November, Ballantine's the third largest scotch in the world will be sponsoring the first-ever European Senior PGA Tour event in Asia. Called Ballantine's Legends of Golf, it will showcase Europe's finest senior professionals. It is
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    • 574 40  -  ...MORE ON CALTEX SINGAPORE MASTERS By Sumit Mukherjee TILL Sunday, the only Aijun the Indian masses knew about was the legendary warrior in the epic called Mahabharata. Post Sunday they are talking about another Aijun the one who scripted history by winning the Caltex Singapore Masters golf
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    • 187 40 CHARITY events formed a big part of the Caltex Singapore Masters. The Charity Pro-Am golf was a big hit as it allowed local amateurs to team up with pros and celebrities for a date on the greens. The presence of top former sportspersons like
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    • 114 40 CALTEX is doing it again. According to Caltex's general manager Glenn Weckerlin, Caltex is in it for the long haul. "The best sponsorships are the ones that people invest in over time," he said. "And we are definitely in for the next year." Caltex was the main
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      • 86 41 (Premiership 2001/02) 20: Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 19: Ruud van Nistelrooy (Man U) 18: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Chelsea) 15: Alan Shearer (Newcastle) 14: Michael Owen (Liverpool) 12: Michael Ricketts (Bolton), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (Man U) 11: Eidur Gudjohnsen (Chelsea), Robbie Fowler (Leeds, includes 3 for Liverpool), Marian Pahars (Saints)
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      • 63 41 LAST week, we asked you for the outcome of the Liverpool v Everton match. The result: Liverpool 1 Everton 1 Five callers who answered correctly each win a set of EPL figurines, a six-can pack of beer and a Polo shirt, all courtesy of Tiger Beer. They are
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      • 89 41 Best goal: Very little to choose from this week, but this goal stands out for the outstanding movement which led to Lauren (above) simply sweeping the ball in from close range in the fifth minute. Robert Pires won the ball
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      • 65 41 Best player: It's no exaggeration to say that the American goalkeeper won the trophy for Blackburn. He single-handedly stopped a Les Ferdinand hat-trick which would have most definitely sealed the game for Spurs. Right up to the 90th
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      • 106 41 Worst miss: Perhaps it was complacency as Arsenal was leading 3-1, but that's no excuse for Wiltord (left) to miss a chance which even a primary school kid would have put in. It was the 43rd minute and Robert Pires
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      • 69 41 Best team performance: The ease with which the Gunners took apart Fulham, which is a good passing side itself, sounded a huge warning bell to the rest of the Premiership. The ball movement was fabulous and like another team decked in red, Arsenal just kept
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      • 61 41 Luckiest goal: knew very little about it. Lucky Henry. Lucky Arsenal. In the 61st minute, Lauren headed a cross onto the post and the rebound hit Henry (left) on the knee and went into goal. The French international
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      599 42 YOUR SAY: CALL IN THE FOURTH REFEREE I SERIOUSLY think there should be a fourth official watching TV replays. There are three officials in a match, but there are 22 players on the pitch. Can three pairs of eyes get a whole view of what's happening on the pitch?
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    • 136 42 I FEEL a fourth official watching TV replays should not be introduced. If there's a fourth official watching TV replays, there would not be any controversies which will make the beautiful game rather boring. Certainly, goals would also be disallowed. Famous yet controversial goals like Geoff Hurst's second goal
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    • 566 42 THERE really isn't a terribly good reason why there shouldn't be a fourth official watching television replays in football matches. It's probably the most baffling mystery in football today. Former England captain Bryan Robson and ex-Newcastle player John Beresford told me it
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        583 43 FOR Home Team MGl Away Team JIDE Comments GROUP B Bayern Munich Boavista After all of its recent troubles, Bayern Munich is finally getting it right again. It won two games in a row in the Bundesliga, including a weekend 6-0 thrashing of Energie Cottbus and it
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        331 43 Wire services. MAN Uv NANTES Midfielder Paul Scholes, who has a chest infection, is in doubt for tonight's Champions League clash with Nantes at Old Trafford. David Beckham and Nicky Butt also have minor injuries, but manager Alex Ferguson says they should both be fit. Phil Neville, who
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    • 522 44 ...MORE ON GALATASARAY v LIVERPOOL Wire agencies. SELF-CONFIDENCE is the key to success. Liverpool assistant manager Phil Thompson has stressed that the Reds are on course to revive their Champions League hopes with a victory in Istanbul. That's if his team can keep
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    • 131 44 Reuters. INEXPERIENCED? Oh, boy, no. Not young goalkeeper Chris Kirkland. He will not be fazed by Galatasaray's notoriously hostile supporters, according to Liverpool's assistant manager Phil Thompson. The England Under-21 international will start only his second Champions League match after Liverpool's Polish first-choice goalkeeper Jerzy
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    • 669 45 HAMPIONS LEAGUE: GALATASARAY v LIVERPOOL PREVIOUS MEETING: LIVERPOOL 0 GALATASARAY 0 IT will take a lot more than a bunch of noisy Galatasaray fans to faze Michael Owen Qeft). Liverpool plays Galatasaray tonight at the fearsome Ali Sami Yen Stadium in Istanbul and the English club is
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    • 309 46 HAMPIONS LEAGUE: MANCHESTER UNITED v NANTES PREVIOUS MEETING: NANTES 1 MAN U 1 Reuters. HIS manager admires his superstar striker's humility. And that is what will help him develop into one of the game's greats. That's what Man United manager Sir
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    • 434 46 SIR Alex Ferguson will urge his men to put themselves within a point of last eight qualification with a win against Nantes at home. The French side did put up a fierce fight in France last week despite struggling badly in its domestic campaign.
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      521 47 ...says the President of Brazil AP THE national campaign to bring Romario back to the Brazilian team has picked up an important ally: President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. On an official trip to Poland last Sunday, Cardoso was asked what he thought of the clamour to summon Romario for
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    • 195 47 Reuters. ROMARIO missed the 1998 World Cup when he was axed on the eve of the tournament by coach Mario Zagallo, who believed the striker had not recovered sufficiently from a calf-muscle injury. Last year, former Brazil coach Wanderley Luxemburgo, fired in Sept 2000,
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