The New Paper, 20 April 2002

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  • 33 1 the new paper SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2002 Singapore Press Holdings Website newpaperasia I comsg Email tnp@sph com.sg Tel: 1800-7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 044/03/2002 60 CENTS m 8 "88 71 81 %*****
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    • 30 1 RFrpc/r-> n ELt!.'.n r w iJ rt ?33? y ■/(!i■ih n, WA*" yA^7 A i^ii'mm yflBp Hougang Stadium drama last night 58 Handphones from S 'pore smuggled into India 2
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  • NEWS
    • 132 2 CLIMB into the "grave" to experience death and the wortd of burial. This is an interactive exhibit available at an exhibition in Hall 6 at the Singapore Expo. It is offered by a South-east Asian Muslim youth organisation, reported Berita Harian.
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    • 337 2 HANDPHONES FROM S'PORE SMUGGLED INTO INDIA THEY fly twice a week from Chennai to Singapore and get paid between 5,000 and 10,000 rupees ($lB7 to $374) for each return trip. Sounds like easy money? Well, the catch is that these passengers will
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 695 4 SINGAPORE'S SINGLE MUMS THEIR FOREIGN BABIES While the focus is on the diving birth rates and the failure of married couples to bite the baby bonus bait, another group of people are finding great joy in having children. TANYA FONG reports SINGLE, successful but lonely.
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    • 185 4 Miss Joanna Tan, 39, also a single mother, has her parents take care of her baby when she is working. Miss Tan, 39, a hawker, adopted a month-old baby girl two months ago. She didn't really shop around, she just called the agency,
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    • 327 5 THEY said they have not faced any social stigma because of their choice to adopt. Yet they refused to meet us and spoke to us only on the phone. Tliey said they just wanted to keep a low profile. Miss Teo did consider what people might
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    • 510 5 SLOWLY, but surely, the numbers of singles adopting babies from overseas are climbing. At least three adoption agencies cite growing interest among singles to adopt babies from overseas. We couldn't get official figures, though. A Ministry of Community Development and Sports source said they don't
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    • 262 6 THEY sell their services door-to-door, carrying stacks of flies with them. They are maid agents, and they are unlicensed, reported Berita Harian. The handphone is their link to their clients, and files containing the biodata of maids are delivered to the clients' homes. As
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    • 72 6 TAXjaiANGES Jam referring not just to foreigners, but to Singaporeans who can jolly well shift their operations to Hongkong, where taxes are lower. But the message that must be understood by Singaporeans is that the end result is to create investment, economic growth and jobs for Singaporeans. Prime Minister
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    • 74 6 SINGAPORE Airlines may partially restore wage cuts. That's because it is "very likely" to keep its loss-free record intact, the airline said. This would pave the way for at least a partial restoration of wage cuts first announced last year. SIA had said it would restore half
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    • 64 6 CLEMENCEAU Avenue could become a showcase for new, unique building designs. That's because the Urban Redevelopment Authority may tender out relatively small plots to give architects more opportunity to "test out their creative ideas", said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan last night. The proposal might be ready
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    • 70 6 E-FILING is catching on. Half of Singapore's 1.8 million taxpayers took the paperless route when filing their income-tax returns this year, saving the taxman nearly $2 million. And seven out of eight of those who e-filed did it online; the rest did it by phone. Each return filed
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    • 67 6 A MAJOR local contractor, SAL Construction faces multiple lawsuits, and this has brought work on at least 10 public-sector projects, including the building of new schools and Housing Board upgrading works, to a standstill. The projects affected include HDB upgrading projects in Geylang East and Ang Mo Kio,
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    • 64 6 CHINATOWN traffic should return to normal today, after more than four years of construction and congestion, because the new Chinatown MRT station was being built. Work began in November 1997. The four-lane stretch of New Bridge Road between Keong Saik Road and Upper Pickering Street reopens today. Eu
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    • 65 6 IT aims at protecting your privacy when you shop online. The Data Protection Code will be a code of conduct that online merchants can choose to adopt to protect consumers' privacy. The National Trust Council, an industry-led body, is asking the public for their views on what should
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    • 159 7 A NEW terrorism warning, and a slew of unfavourable earnings reports drove technology stocks down yesterday, although some blue chip£ rose on the US stock market. The Dow outperformed the Nasdaq, as investors appeared to display a preference for blue-chip shares with solid new earnings results. The major
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    • 54 7 PICTURE THIS These colourful origami paper cranes, folded by Japanese children, will soon take flight as part of the World Cup soccer celebrations. Two million such cranes will float down into the International Stadium Yokohama in the Wings Of A Dream Project, part of the World
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    • 268 7 OH THE RACK ISRAEL'S finance minister Silvan Shalom believes that a peace settlement with the Palestinians will never happen as long as Yasser Arafat is their leader. And the war is worsening Israel's widening budget deficit as it drags on. Mr Shalom, a member of
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    • 61 7 The Straits Times: Bush draws Palestinian fury The Business Times: SGX raps Keppel T&T but lets off KepCorp Lianhe Zaobao: A "designer street" may be set up in Singapore Berita Harian: China is biggest challenge for Asean NewsRadio 93.8FM: Trade and Industry Minister, George Yeo said Malaysia's government
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    • 33 7 International Herald Tribune: Boeing wins order for Korean fighter New Straits Times: MCA's Team B calls off EGM BBC news: The Bush administration issues another warning of a possible terrorist attack
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 53 6 Dilbert /Scott Adams HOW ABOUT 8 YOU HAVE THE DOES ANY TUESDAY HIGHEST RATIO OF THAT THIS YEAR? aooKpn J UNAVAILABILITY SOUND DO BOO J TQ USEFULNESS rvE s LIKE AN I WOULDN T I E VER 5 INSULT? BE WORKING /VA A c SEEN f\ 1 v IN HUMAN
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 559 8 Some secondary schools have started using a 'smokalyser'to test if their students have had a puff. GENEVIEVE JIANG speaks to one underaged smoker who needs help to give up the habit HE picked up his first cigarette when he was only 12. It
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    • 81 8 THE 'smokalyser' can detect whether a student has smoked, for up to 12 hours. This device requires students to blow hard into it. The Health Promotion Board (HPB) has made teenagers who smoke the target of its anti-smoking campaign this year. According to the Health Sciences Authority's Tobacco
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 551 10  -  KRANJI DROWNINGS By Joycelyn Wong WHAT happened is the one question on the mind of Mr Ling Siew Siong, 34, a car mechanic. What caused his wife, Mrs Ling Sow Yong, 32, a housewife, and two children, Wan Ting, nine, and Ming
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    • 561 11  -  By Arul John THE water released from the Kranji tide gates on Sunday was not enough to sweep the three victims away, says the Public Utilities Board (PUB). It said the water let out raised the level very slightly, too
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    • 257 12  -  By Andre Yeo IT is believed to be the first case of its kind here. A man is scheduled to stand trial in the Subordinate Courts on Monday for voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a woman by forcing his fingers into her anus.
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 457 14  -  Creative answer to bizarre question wins him a free trip to Stanford university By Jessica Cheam HOW would a bowl of laksa lead to World War III? If your answer can get you an all expenses paid trip to a US university, what would
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    • 138 14 THE Stanford Book Prize is an annual competition for first year JC students. It has been held for six years. The chairman of the book prize committee, Mr Donald J Huse, 58, said: "It is organised so that we can have contact with the young people in Singapore.
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    • 249 14 Excerpts from the award winning essay written by Temasak Junior College's Loy Xing Hai: WHILE I have read many books covering a broad range of categories and topics, the two books which stand out foremost in my list of favourites are also among the ones I have most
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 555 16  -  What are you waiting for? By. Jessica Cheam SIGN up for TNP's Jfc Big Walk for only ]r* $4 and get a goodies bag, U chances to win prizes and an SCV World Cup T-shirt with our TNP Big Walk 2002 logo on it! Go
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    • 428 18  -  SECRETARIES' WEEK FLORENCE TAN THERE'S going to be beefcake on the menu for Secretaries' Week. Yes, skimpily dressed male models will be strutting around at Hotel Phoenix's Garden Cafe every day next week. The mere mention of a swimming trunks fashion show teamed up with
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    • 489 19 Let's have our own sex education on TV. That's what the Advisory Committee On Chinese Programmes suggested in its annual report. But are Singaporeans ready for this? CHANG MAYCHOONfinds out WOULD you talk about sex on TV? The New Paper asked 10
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 444 21  -  WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? WHY, EDUCATION, WHAT ELSE? By Azhar Ghani PERHAPS it showed just how much Singaporeans love their cars. For, in a dialogue session about
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    • 74 21 The over-emphasis of the education system on academic achievement: Several participants wanted other aspects of a child's development like character-building to be given a stronger push. Ranking of schools Teacher Santha Sukumaran suggested ranking schools in bands instead of single rankings. This way, the need for incremental improvement
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  • 339 23 'Effective, timely good communication helps build trust' SINGAPORE WHEN, how much and how well do we speak when we talk to one another? A great deal depends on these factors. Building trust amongst individuals, across communities, groups, ranks, even ministries needs more, better and clear conversation. Associate Professor Yaacob Ibrahim,
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  • 342 25 slice of life COMMENT SOME days, I wish I were a child again. Robert Frost once said "Nothing gold can stay particularly the green of youth". And the green of my youth was spent with my grandmother, who taught me much
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 645 26  -  Only woman in M'sian sweep of suspected militants told TNP before her arrest REPORTS AZHAR GHANI SHE didn't pull her punches when protesting her husband's innocence. It's all a government conspiracy, she said. Her husband's alleged links to players in the Sept 11 attacks in
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    • 142 27 ACCORDING to Yazid Sufaat's detention order, the former army captain had donated cash to buy weapons and bomb-making supplies for rebels fighting government troops in the Philippines and also for those fighting Christians on Indonesia's Ambon island. The 37-year-old was among 23 suspected Islamic militants arrested in
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  • WORLD
    • 147 28 HE had a thermometer inside him for 27 years. And no, it didn't really raise his temperature. Mr Probir Das, 34, has just been operated in Mumbai, India, to remove the thermometer. And, he is just fine, reported Ananova. Mr
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    • 284 28 Fake cheques used to deposit $391,000 into students' accounts Students withdraw cash and give to members of syndicate THERE have probably been bigger scams in the world in terms of the money involved. But, this RM816,000 ($391,000) scam in Penang, Malaysia, is one for the record books
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    • Article, Illustration
      235 29 Prof compiling Doraemon 'bible' THIS little blue robot-cat will ring many a bell in our childhood memories. Once found in faded comic books and grainy TV serials, Doraemon has not only withstood the test of time it has simply outdone itself. Doraemon-mania has taken Japan by storm.
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    • 161 30 THE police in US county Fort Pierce have a new weapon to fight criminals music. In the next few weeks, they will mount speakers onto buildings commonly regarded as the base for crime in the city's north-west section, reported the Palm Beach Post. All day, every day, the
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    • 263 30 Survey shows Silicon Valley immigrants are taking the spirit of the Valley home THOSE worried that Silicon Valley may be draining Asian talent may put their fears to rest. A US survey of more than 2,000 Silicon Valley immigrants suggests that it is common for immigrants to export
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    • Article, Illustration
      457 31 500,000 refugees have returned to Afghanistan WHEN they left Afghanistan in droves during the Soviet-occupation and later the Taliban rule, the displaced Afghans made headlines around the world. But little known is the fact that thousands are returning to post-Taliban Afghanistan at lightning speed. In fact, nearly
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    • 546 32 HE literally vanished after speculations that he had shot his wife last May. Actor Robert Blake, 68, fled from all the unwanted attention abandoning all old haunts and habits. But the long arm of the law finally caught up with him. He
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    • 248 32 Sky News LEGAL proceedings have started to establish whether tycoon Steve Bing is the father of actress and model Liz Hurley's (left) baby son Damian. Mr Bing had issued proceedings in the Family Division, his spokeswoman said. "Now
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    • 316 33 IT was a routine drill for the Hongkong Swat team an elite team of specially-trained police officers. Everything went with clockwork precision, except for the unexpected grenade blast. The grenade was supposed to have gone off only when it hit its
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    • 945 34 Toby Young made his mark in the New York publishing world as a balding flirt, a failed journalist and a raving alcoholic. Hugh Grant has flatly refused to play the bad boy of glossies in the movie adaptation of his tell-all book. Just who is this guy?
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    • 557 34 HE may come across as a loser in his book. But Toby Young is actually quite a charmer, with his self-deprecating wit. During a phone interview from London, the 38-year-old didn't seem to mind being called a loser very much. He
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    • 585 36  -  What do columnist Sumiko Tan, actress Lina Ng and drag queen Kumar have in common? They are strong contenders if FHM Singapore's list of 100 Sexiest Women in the world By Yeoh Wee Teck ONE worries if she is the oldest on the list, another almost always
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    • 118 37 Australian actress Toni Collette (right) has caused a storm in Hollywood over her underarm hair. Her refusal to shave her armpits led to hysteria in Tinseltown just as Julia Roberts caused worldwide debate by flashing hairy pits at Notting Hill's premiere in 1999. Collette, 29, said:
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    • 192 37 COURTNEY Love (right) has not mended her bad girl ways. She passed out during a flight to Dallas and, when her jet landed, needed a wheelchair to get off the plane. The downward spiral started when she arrived in Texas for a talk on
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      58 37 SOMEBODY should teach Macy Gray (left) some manners. She nearly got herself thrown out of a play when she and her three friends couldn't stop giggling. It turned out that a loud and drawn-out act of flatulence set them off. A witness said: "Management was about to
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    • 68 37 SEXY actress Cameron Diaz (right) had to be seriously convinced to appear in the sequel to Charlie's Angels. Diaz was reluctant to retread old ground, but relented at being given a US$2O million ($36.5 m) paycheck. But she claims it was because looking at
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    • 331 50  -  By Danny Khoo RISING star Blizz Bless staked his claim for a berth in next month's Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Sprint in the best possible way by taking the Group 3 $150,000 Fischer Stakes at Kranji last night. Stepping over the 1,200 m
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    • 203 50 While Blizz Bless should earn a well-deserved call up in the $1 million sprint on May 11 after his win last night, Smart Bet will skip the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup despite his brilliant win in the Jumbo
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    • 874 51 RACE 1: Forbern scratched (lame both-fore). Golden Delight jumped awkwardly, was crowded between Mr Lancet, who jumped awkwardly out, and Singing The Blues, who jumped awkwardly in. At the 1,700 m, Kazam, Golden Delight and Sir Nature were crowded between Singing The Blues,
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    • 309 52 NST. CENTRAL BANK wrapped up his preparations for Race 5 tomorrow with a stylish workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the Catrail five-year-old sprinted keenly over the final 600 m to clock 39sec. The going was good Workouts by horses running today:
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    • 81 52 RACE 1: Sphritzer, Mammoni, Crystal Crown, United Tycoon, Victory Wang. RACE 2: Victory Warrior, Blue Fountain, Gold Mountain, Our Super Gold. RACE 5: Lady Kingdom, Big Phoenix, United Naga. RACE 6: Time Breaker, Justbell, Kiko's Destiny, Trust In Me, Victory Ranger, Hot Striker. RACE 7: Twin Fortune, Blue Grass,
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    • 56 52 This youngster is quality material. With three wins from as many starts, Inazuma will be aiming to make it four on the trot. It's a big step-up in class for the Is It True three-year-old this afternoon but, with Saimee Jumaat guiding him, he should be in safe
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    • 507 55  -  By Ernest Luis HER husband is a member of the Home Protectors S-League team. But she is bored of being a literal "home protector" herself. Meet Ezreen Taib Zohri, who has been married to Protectors and national defender Aide Iskandar for two years
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    • 156 56 EagMONMPTSHOBWES He's always watching soccer matches on cable television. Otherwise, he reads the newspapers very carefully, especially stories about local soccer. EZRgNomypes PIE-MATCH MOOP He doesn't like to be bothered before games, so I'll do my own things. He'll just watch TV the night
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    • 693 57 S-LEAGUE SHOWDOWN OF THE WEEK: SENGKANG 2 SAFFC 3 The undefeated SAF Warriors hung on for a 3-2 win despite a dominating performance by the spirited Sengkang Marine Dolphins last night at Hougang Stadium. But dubious refereeing decisions caused the Dolphins crowd to react in disgust
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    • 522 58 ...MORE ON THE S-LEAGUE WERE enough precautions taken to ensure the safety of the referees at the Hougang Stadium last night? Clearly, in the second-half, all signs pointed to potential crowd unrest because of the refereeing decisions. Just after the final whistle, someone from
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    • 560 59 ®SATURDAY It's the last lap of the title race, and it looks like a photo-finish for the top three clubs. EDWIN YEO looks at their games this weekend to see if anybody will lag behind come Monday. ARSENAL v IPSWICH EVERYBODY, including me, is sure that
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    • 431 60 SHOWDOWN <3 Tiger CHELSEA v MANCHESTER UNITED UP to the 1999/2000 season, Stamford Bridge was one of Manchester United's favourite hunting ground. Man U had won five out of nine visits from the beginning of the Premiership until then, and lost only once in that time. Then
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    • 640 62 wo rid Wdmsmr*— <Pi IT was the comeback the world was waiting for. No other player has kept the world in anticipation for so long. Since France 98, the world has been waiting for the beauty and invention that Ronaldo was going to bring to the footballing
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    • 669 63 FORM GUIDE Tiger Home Team Away Team Last Comments Mima time they bm met Chelsea Man utd 3-0 Chelsea always raises Its game against Man U, and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink always scores against the Red Devils. This is a bad fixture for Man U to have at
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    • 194 65 The TNP Man U Challenge Colour-ful words! That's what U K Shy am, Singapore's fastest man, and Jean Ng, national netball star, are engaged in as they predict the outcome of tonight's Chelsea-Man U match. The loser's dare: J (They will do another forfeit if
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    • 532 65 And no, Wenger is not boasting about how good his country's national team is Wire services. ARSENAL forward Sylvain Wiltord is confirmed out for at least three weeks, prompting Gunners' manager Arsene Wenger to criticize France's football federation. Wenger, a Frenchman, said yesterday that Wiltord's injury
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