The New Paper, 14 April 2002

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  • NEWS
    • 572 2 COME Tuesday, it will be exactly nine years since the first Palestine blew himself apart with the purpose of maiming and killing Israelis. According to the April 15 issue of Time magazine, Sahar Tamam Nabulsi, then 22, filled a van with cooking-gas canisters
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    • 102 2 WITHIN the United Nations Security Council, one thing is clear: The final settlement in the Middle East will see the Palestinians and Israelis coexisting, side by side, in two separate states. Israel must have security and the Palestinians, independence, reported The Times. The bargaining has been
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  • NEWS
    • 1074 4  -  REPORT JASON TAN HIDDEN among River Valley Road's million-dollar condominiums is a forgotten house. A fading white house, fenced off with rusty zinc sheets, with a soggy, brown mattress as a make-shift door. There is no electricity or water and the ceiling
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    • 395 5 THOUSANDS of Chinese characters are scribbled on the wall and pillars of the two-storey house at No 1, Kim Yam Road. The words do not make sense. But, someone must have spent months, if not years, writing them in pencil. The characters are about 1 cm
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    • 845 6  -  IN MALAYSIA By< CL Tan REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR ITS not unusual for Malaysian politicians to go on pub crawls with journalists. Far from viewing them as "wild animals", they actively seek them out. "There's nothing wrong with having a
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    • 510 7  -  IN SINGAPORE BY Lee Tee Jong SINGAPORE'S political leaders have a different style when interacting with the media. Contact is often at a formal level at functions, briefings, media lunches or cocktails. Press secretaries serve as the go-between in many cases. But that's
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  • NEWS
    • 702 10  -  REPORTS IRENE KEW EVERY bride wants her big day to be perfect, and Miss Savannah Hyder, 24, is no different. When she saw the wedding ring of her dreams, she was delighted. The only problem was, it was too big. So, she asked the shop, Lee
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    • 487 10 THE company has offered to give Miss Savannah Hyder and her fiance the rings. Mr Koh Wee Seng, president and chief executive officer of Aspial Corporation Limited, which owns Lee Hwa Jewellery stores, explained it was a case of
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    • 643 12  -  By Jason Tan SOME Singaporean women are not content with washing their dirty linen in public. They are selling it online. They're auctioning on the Internet intimate items of clothing such as bras, panties and pantyhose. Most are worn. Some are
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    • 183 13 MEN who buy women's used lingerie are likely to suffer from fetishism, said The New Paper's sex counsellor Lim Su Min. A fetish is an unusual practice or desire for an unusual object for sexual arousal. "The causes of fetishism are not clearly understood," Dr Lim
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    • 117 13 SOILED lingerie are not allowed on Yahoo! auctions, said Ms Mabel Tan, electronic commerce development manager for Yahoo! Singapore. She said that all users of the No 1 auction site here have to abide by its terms of service which includes not selling "goods not appropriate for resale
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    • 498 14 Huge crabs and baby sharks on sale at 'unusual' market IS that really a fish? Yes, it's a stone fish, and when cooked properly, it's quite a delicacy. But if you find that hard to stomach, stick to the crabs. This one (right) should
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    • 181 16 NEED another reason to sign up for TNFs The Big Walk? Well give you one you can't resist besides the usual good ones about walking for fitness and having fun with family and friends, that is. The T-shirt. This tee is hot property, especially in June, because
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    • 680 17 Vancouver man is alleged to have: killed 54 women minced them fed them to pigs which were then made into sausages Think of your worst nightmare, the grisliest horror film that you have ever seen or the most stomach churning story you have ever read. Now,
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    • 390 18 What does matter is class management, a US survey finds PARENTS in Singapore are always complaining that the average class size of 40 here is too big for their children to receive adequate attention from teachers. They believe their children will do better in smaller
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    • 379 19  -  Report and picture/. Desmond Ng SHE HAS never touched a Scrabble board, much less played the game. Yet she managed to win a Scrabble competition. But then, this was one competition where you can win even if you don't know how to play
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    • 160 19 If this goodwill can be transferred across the street (to the club), the SRC looks well on the road to becoming a great club. SRC member N Raj, on the surprisingly tame leadership vote during last night's four-hour Annual General Meeting for the Singapore Recreation Club.
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    • 117 20  -  YOU don't have to rub your eyes. Yes, that's blood on the spectacles blood shed by Beatle John Lennon when he was shot dead in December 1980. This poignant image, marking Lennon's death, will be auctioned next week, London auction house Bonhams said
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    • 421 20 MERRILL LYNCH CO US PROBE THE straight-talking banter was like coffeeshop talk about work. Except it was done via e-mail, which allowed the US state to take it as evidence to show that analysts may be biased in rating stocks. In January last year, an
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    • 243 21 THE dream of perpetual youth could soon become reality thanks to cloning. The Cell Storage System, being developed by the US biotechnology firm, Isolagen, could give ageing adults smooth and glowing skin, reported The Observer. Scientists are devising ways to take a sample of someone's
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    • 243 21 AND he got caught only when he bragged about it. The eight-year-old, who could barely see above the dashboard, hopped behind the wheel of a Ford, picked up a friend, crossed at least two major intersections and made it to
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    • 346 22 GONE are the days when you browsed through hundreds of dusty newspaper files to look for information. These days, chances are, you will just log on and type one simple word to answer all your myriad questions Google. And, it would be just
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    • 474 23 AP. HERMAN'S no ordinary bull. For one, he's 12 years old and has fathered 55 offspring. Not bad, considering that most bulls are slaughtered when they are four. He is also the first farm animal to carry a human gene. Because of that unique honour, Herman gets
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    • 335 24 BRITISH backpacker Caroline Stuttle (in picture) wanted to use a phonecard to call her boyfriend back home to say she loved him. And this decision might have led to her death. The telephone at the Queensland town's caravan park, where she was staying, only
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 330 26 Minister Not a loosening, not a tightening, but... OVER the past decade, Singaporeans have had a taste of nudity at the cinema, and adult language and themes on stage. And it was thanks to the last Censorship Review Committee, set up in 1991 and chaired
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    • 65 26 you'll become food for the table. A man sits on a 6m-long crocodile caught in Tagbuaya Creek, in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, last week as his fellow villagers watch. They trapped the giant reptile as it had been devouring their catches of fish and
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    • 417 26 OH What A Lovely War. That's the title of British director Richard Attenborough's classic 1969 film, which was a reflection on the horrors of World War I (1914-18). But no such war-weariness haunts the Middle East. The Palestinians are as resolute in their intifada
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 92 27 SINGAPORE has the right to operate the lighthouse on Pulau Pisang in the Straits of Johor, so long as it abides by the present agreement. This was stated by Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar yesterday following a local report of alleged encroachment on the island. "The island
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      • 84 27 ONE in 10 Singaporeans suffer from diabetes, and one in five of them are aged 50 and older. If not properly controlled, the disease can lead to blocked blood vessels, nerve damage and infections which turn gangrenous, resulting in the loss of a limb. Yesterday, Alexandra Hospital launched
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      • 94 27 WHEN Kuala Lumpur's Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman opens its doors in June, it will not impose a quota system on admissions. Only merit not race, religion or political connection will decide admissions to the country's only university to be affiliated with a political party, the Malaysian Chinese Association
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      • 97 27 MORE than 7,000 foreign workers went to the Ministry of Manpower to file complaints against their employers last year, up from about 4,300 the year before. Their grouses include unpaid wages, deductions they did not agree to and having to work overtime, sometimes on rest days and public
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      • 87 27 A SENIOR Chinese official says cracks have appeared in the controversial Three Gorges hydroelectric dam being built on the Yangtze River. Mr Qian Zhengying, the former minister of water resources who heads an expert group on the dam, has demanded that the cracks be repaired, according
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      • 103 27 OIL giant Shell's new chairman, Mr Philip Watts, picked up more than £1.5 million ($3.95 m) in pay and share options last year. This makes him the latest executive whose pay has topped the £1 million mark. However, his pay deal has been dwarfed by that of his
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    • 273 27 INFOCUS ITS a question that comes after every Internal Security arrest: Why not prosecute the person in court? Yesterday, Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng gave the answer, reported The Sunday Times. The Internal Security Act is dictated by preventive, not punitive considerations. So those suspected of
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous

  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 1227 28 AT the end of last month, the pregnant Estee Lauder model, Liz Hurley, walked into an exclusive London baby boutique alone to shop for a few hours. With only days to go to the expected arrival of her first child, Ms Hurley lavished around $26,000
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    • 161 29 IF you are a girl and between two to eight years old, you are among the lucky ones. Mothers love best to dress their daughters in this age group. That's when they can indulge in the cutest, most beautiful things, like chiffon butterflies bouncing on
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    • Article, Illustration
      65 30 The hot new Asian flavour in Hollywood is Donnie Yen, the man responsible for the sharp moves in Blade 2. SYLVIA TOH PAIKCHOO gets on the line with the gongfu kid Donnie plays Snowman, one of the elite guards known as the Bloodpack in Blade 2 (left).
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    • 946 31 WOULD Jet Li aand Jackie Chan start to lose sleep over Donnie's foray into Hollywood? Roar of laughter from martialmeister Yuen Wo-ping's disciple: "Jet is master," Donnie said in his Chinese-born-American accent. Donnie's experience with stunts has been 15 years in the honing, mentored by Yuen (Tiger
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    • 704 32  -  By! Simon Ang ASTROBOY on a Singapore space scooter? And why not, if you're Astroboy, you can do anything, and Marvin Chan, true to Singapore's entrepreneurial spirit, has given everyone's favourite Japanese little boy hero new "wings." Marvin, 37, collected antique play things for 10 years before creating
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    • 301 32 CALL it irony. Barely six years after the atomic destruction of Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka created a tiny atomic-powered robot which would go on to capture the hearts of millions worldwide. Betsuwan Atomu or Mighty Atom, as Astroboy is commonly known
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    • 166 32 1) How did Toby die? Car crash Murdered I I Illness 2) Who gave Astro boy his name! I IDr 80/ ton I IDr Eiefun EHKathy 3) Who gave Astroboy his red boots? I I The Robot circus [Z]Dr Eiefun I llJran (Astroboy's sister) 4) What is
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  • HEY!
    • 630 33 i HEY/ Spin Darren Hayes IF it sounds like Savage Garden, then it must be Savage Garden. And no surprises, it actually is. All that hype about the duo from Down Under going their separate ways along the garden patch doesn't really seem that way. It
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    • 327 33 CLASSIC OF THE WEEK Prince Sign O' The Times, 1987 WHAT can you say about a man who taught himself to play more than 20 instruments by ear alone? Heck, most people out there can't even name more than 20 instruments. That's
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    • 400 35 EVAN cannot help feeling that he's riding an endless emotional rollercoaster. Experiencing constant mood swings has become his only certainty. Communicating with others has also become increasingly difficult. But does one really have to overcome such feelings of helplessness by oneself? According to Mr
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    • 462 35 I AM 26 and unhappily married. I am only happy when I am with my daughter, but not with my husband. He works shifts while I work office hours and although we sleep in the same room, I sleep on the bed and he,
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    • 179 36 IN Uganda, a traditional wedding gift is a goat. But now it seems, it is a television set. But only if the bride is a virgin. To stem the spread of Aids in the country, a moral committee has been set up. Incentives to girls
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    • 139 36 THE kind of pie you eat may hint at the type of lover you are, says a new study. Commissioned by food firm Holland's, the study identifies seven key types of personalities among UK's pie-eaters. Among the seven types, men who chomp on meat
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    • 215 36 SHOULD one have sex during pregnancy? According to the Sex and Health website, sexual practices during pregnancy depend on several factors: Your previous beliefs about sex Your partner's previous beliefs Physical aspects of your pregnancy Emotional aspects of your pregnancy There are many reasons why sex during
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    • 149 36 I AM 50 years old and have sex twice a week. During sex, ejacuation lasts one minute. Is there any medication to help prolong this and would applying medicated oil help? Robert DR LIM SU MIN replies: What you describe is medically called "premature ejacuation". It
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    • 680 37 MOST expats agree that time passes more quickly in Singapore, given the lack of seasons. However, I am still surprised at how clearly I remember flight from HE jf\k. IV\ i London and that first glimpse, 14 hours later, of an island of flats, streets and
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    • 71 37 EXPATVIEW: DO you agree with what Richard Mort has written? Have you experienced this syndrome? How did you deal with it? Or, did you leave because Singapore has become over-familiar? Share your thoughts with Gus, at Or write to him at: The New Paper
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    • 276 37 I AM not a sociologist, but this is what I've compiled from my interaction with fellow expats and from my own experience. Honeymoon period (0-6 weeks) There is generally a honeymoon period where the simmering smorgasbord of world cuisines, east meeting west in
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    • 449 38 Can't write or create? Turn to the... A FRIEND who writes sci-fi for a living called me. He was trying to work out what noise a stormtrooper in full repulsar body armour makes, when falling backwards down a flight of retro-stairs in zero gravity. I was
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    • 319 41 w K« HEY/ PAM OEI has been busy pigging out. No, not stuffing her face with food, but playing a nefarious pig called Squealer in Ivan Heng's upcoming stage adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm, alongside Lim Yu Beng and Lim Kay Siu.
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    • 342 41 Highlights Forrest Gump Channel 5,1 Opm A slow-witted man lives through the early 1960s in the US, through the Vietnam war, desegregation, Watergate and more, and finds himself embroiled in situations he cannot quite comprehend. Stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise. A Kindred Spirit Channel U, 7pm Biaobing and
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      322 44  -  By Santokh Singh IT was really no hardship to find ourselves "imprisoned" on Nusa Dua in Bali. Think of it as a tender trap. The Melia Benoa package was just that a weekend living in a state of tidak-apa-ology (carefreeness) induced by food, drink, entertainment, and more food, drink
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    • 452 45 POSH NOSH WHAT: It's: "A New-York-style cafe turned into a tearoom with well-being in mind and an influence of Asian touches," said Tea Spa's owner Serene Sorensen, a trained herbalist. Half the space is devoted to teas and herbal infusions, the other half a
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    • 350 45 CHEAP CHOW NASI lemak "kosong" (empty) is what you eat on the run unwrap banana leaf, wolf down equal parts from mound of rice, daub of sambal, sliver of omelette and shrivel of fish. A gargle of mouth and you're ready to face the
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  • RACING
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      377 46  -  By Danny Khoo JOCKEYS Lao Weng Hong and Eddie Wilkinson, who took their battle from the track to the stewards' room last Friday night, can be expected to play key roles in the $100,000 JRA Trophy (Race 8) at Kranji tonight. For in Classic Marco and Chief Emperor,
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    • 1636 47 Wo. LmI 6 run« Hor»e Wt Rating Jockey Bintef trairw-ownef) 1 -***** ALCAZAR 57 (46) 0 Chavez 10 (3ag Thwaites-Eres Tu No 2) 2 0-97- BRAINWORK 57 (42) ISaifudin 11 (3ag Bhnk-Teck Three No 2) 3 9-0 CELEBRITY GORGEOUS 57 (0) JSaimee 16
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    • 1503 49 4 HIGHLAND GEM 57 (202-36) BWoodworth (4) 1 1 1 (451) 6 SECRET MISSION 57 (22-8) VSIvan (7) 3 3 2 (470) 11 PACIFIC CROWN 54 (18-7) MduPlessis (6) 5 5 3 (469) 7 THE GUN 57 (18-8) JSaimee (1) 4 4 4
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    • 366 49  -  By Danny Khoo CHAMPION jockeys Saimee Jumaat and Benny Woodworth grabbed the spoils at the second mixed meeting at Kranji yesterday. The two local riders booted home three winners apiece to account for two thirds of the nine-race programme. Woodworth, the 1995 Malayan Racing Association
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    • 201 49 THAT proud record was achieved by trainer John Meagher's Pan Express in Race 4 at Kranji yesterday. The four-year-old by Swamp King is now unbeaten in his last four starts, all over the 1,200 m. Ridden by Soo Khoon Beng, Pan Express came from
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    • 1570 50 RACE 1: Sonic Angel (lame off-fore) was scratched. Secret Mission was examined by the vet at the start and declared fit to race. Kowioon Pride fly-jumped at the start. Code Of Conduct was slow to begin. Approaching the I,loom, Pacific Crown laid inwards
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  • SPORTS
    • 753 51 ...MORE ON FA CUP SEMI-FINAL: FULHAM v CHELSEA TONIGHT FULHAM is the most successful football team in Britain. It has won all of its matches this season, scoring 197 goals with only six against and is set to win the
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    • 446 52 On Friday, S-League fans at the Choa Chu Kang Stadium witnessed the best match of the season so far. A resurgent Woodlands Rams drew 3-3 with league leader SAF Warriors in a nail-biting showdown. ERNEST LUIS rates both teams. ATTACK: Mirko Gr&bovac
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    • 262 52 ATTACK: Agu Casmir is possibly the most exciting new African player in the S-League. He showed his potential in pre-season and since he was recently registered, he has matured quickly in the last few games to emerge as his team's top scorer. He was definitely the biggest
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    • 660 53 AP. WATCHING Phil Mickelson play the Masters is like watching a lousy gambler play blackjack. You want to look. You can't. You want to cheer. You want to cry. You start out fascinated. You end up furious. Mickelson, the Masters Disaster,
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    • 280 53 AFP. VIJAY Singh goes into the rain-delayed Masters third round with a slender one-shot lead over South Africa's Retief Goosen and two ahead of Ernie Els. The 39-year-old Singh snatched the lead yesterday with his best round at Augusta, a blistering seven-under par
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    • 144 54 A II 111 ///■/•> X V k ww K y* Jr jt M m AAA iW N 22! 'Mir x\N 555 /3E i i f Watch the giants of rugby between 20th 21st April 2002 in some sweat-slinging, teeth-rattling/ bone-crushing action. Fiji, Australia/ New Zealand, Singapore and the latest champion
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  • SPORTS
    • 604 55 We thought that, with the retirement of John Stockton and Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz in the near future, we'll see the demise of one of the NBA's deadliest plays. Then, Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash of the Dallas Mavericks unleashed on the league
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    • 437 56 FORMULA ONE: SAN MARINO GRAND PRIX TODAY AP. GRID positions for today's San Marino Grand Prix after qualifying: 1 Michael Schumacher (Germany) Ferrari, 1:21.091 2 Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) Ferrari, 1:21.155 3 Ralf Schumacher (Germany) Williams, 1:21.473 41uan Pablo Montoya (Colombia) Williams, 1:21.605 5 Kimi Raikkonen
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    • 178 57 Reuters. FORMER Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel is joining Manchester City, the First Division champion which will be in the Premiership next season. The 38-year-old Schmeichel, who spent eight years at Old Trafford in the *****, was released by Aston Villa
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    • 161 57 Reuters. DUTCH midfielder Edgar Davids has pledged his future to Juventus, closing the door on lucrative moves to Lazio or Manchester City. Davids had been expected to leave the Italian giant this summer in the annual merry-go-round of the Serie A transfer market. And Manchester City manager Kevin
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    • BECKHAM'S HEARTBREAK
      • 443 58 AFP PEDRO Duscher, the Argentinian player whose tackle broke a bone in David Beckham's foot, personally apologised to the England captain in a telephone call on Friday. Manchester United midfielder Beckham's participation in the World Cup Finals is in doubt after breaking the second metatarsal bone
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      • 71 58 JUAN Sebastian Veron (left) may join Barcelona FC, reported Daily Soccer. According to Spanish newspaper AS, the Manchester United and Argentinean star wants to leave England because he hasn't managed to adapt to life there and to realize himself at Old Trafford. INTENTIONS Neither does the former
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    • SUNDAY SHOWDOWN
      • 236 59  -  By Edwin Yeo AMIDST the excitement of the Champions League and the closest Premiership race in recent history, the FA Cup is almost forgotten. Before you know it, the semi-finals of England's most prestigious cup tournament has crept up on us. And while
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      • 283 59 MIDDLESBROUGH v ARSENAL ON paper, Arsenal should finish this tie within half an hour, and that's what I think will happen. But there's this little nagging statistic that refused to go away. And that is the scoreline of the fourth round which read:
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    • 317 60 ALAN HUBBARD: Play like the Fulham Ladies! 52 Fulham v Chelsea CHELSEA has been just as impessive as Arsenal in its run-up to the semi-final, scoring 15 and conceding just four. But of late, it has stuttered a bit in its away games, drawing
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    • 97 60 Arsenal v Watford (a) 4-2 v Liverpool (h) 1-0 vGillingham (h) 5-2 v Newcastle (a) 1-1 v Newcastle (h) 3-0 Middlesbrough v Wimbledon (a) 0-0 v Wimbledon (h) 2-0 v Man United (h) 2-0 v Blackburn (h) 1-0 v Everton (h) 3-0 Chelsea v Norwich (a) 0-0
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    • 338 60 Reuters PATRICK Vieira has turned over a new leaf just in time to help Arsenal's season reach full bloom, according to boss Arsene Wenger. The threat of suspension will hang over the French international when he and his Arsenal team-mates face Middlesbrough in the FA
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    • 200 60 P W D L F APts 1 Arsenal 33 21 9 3 68 33 72 2 Man U 34 22 4 8 83 44 70 3 Liverpool 33 20 8 5 55 26 68 4 Newcastle 34 19 7 8 65 46 64 5 Chelsea 35 16
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      228 61 Viduka trick fools Villa ...MORE ON VILLA 0 LEEDS 1 MARK Viduka grabbed the vital goal that kept Leeds in the hunt for a European place. Viduka struck on 29 minutes with a piece of individual skill in the penalty box that possibly no-one in England Dennis Bergkamp
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    • SATURDAY SHOWDOWN: VILLA 0 LEEDS 1
      • 442 62 WHEN you're hot, you're hot and right now, Mark Viduka is on fire. The Leeds United striker struck his 16th goal of the season to bolster his side's claim for a place in Europe next season, reported sportinglife.com. But the Champions League dream looks dead
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      • 307 62 MORE ON DERBY 2 NEWCASTLE 3 Reuters NEWCASTLE United boss Bobby Robso called the win over Derby "inspirational". His team stayed on course for a place in next season's Champions League after scoring three goals in the last 17 minutes to earn a dramatic 3-2 win
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