The New Paper, 8 July 2002

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  • 35 1 the new paper MONDAY, JULY 8, 2002 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 60 CENTS MITA(P) 044/03/2002 II I I 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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    • 55 1 Starting today: PSLE EXAM GUIDE Get smart the Raffles Girls' way "Mil- W COMPULSORY EDUCATION ISPPili >«2 I I kids ■h I I kids Charity workers: Schools for disabled should be under ministry's wing Education Ministry: Current system works well Adam King is finally here. Meet him inside. YOU CAN
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  • NEWS
    • 514 2 Sneakers with wheels not safe, say school authorities AT first glance, they look like normal sneakers. But attached to the heel is a wheel that helps the wearer to zoom around. It is the latest teen craze which has taken Hong Kong by storm.
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    • 145 2 THE man claimed to be a prince. He drove around Klang, Selangor, in a luxury car with the royal insignia and his purported royal title. On Friday, the law finally caught up with him, reported The Star. The police also seized an array of swords and
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 537 3 Little Diinabandhu Chia kept his cool yesterday, despite the hot weather and the many stares he got from people. His head, looking like a cross between a colourful road sign and a well-kept hedge, attracted a lot of attention. It was his mother's
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    • 890 4  -  Reports// Amrit Kaur NOOR Hidayah Abdul Wahab was 10, but she had yet to master the letters of the alphabet. Her only problem was that she could not hear her intelligence was that of any normal child. She was born hearing-impaired and
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    • 122 4 THIS year, the Community Chest will raise $42 million to fund 130 programmes to benefit more than 314,000 beneficiaries. About a third of this will go to schools for the intellectually disabled. Another third will go to services for the physically and mentally disabled, such as day
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    • 409 4 EDUCATION MINISTRY SAYS: IN reply to The New Paper's queries on the issue, the Ministry of Education said the current system has worked well. A spokesman said: "The MOE recognises the need to provide additional support and resources for pupils with special needs
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 371 5 M'sia wants 100 times what S'pore pays now FROM three sen per 1,000 gallons to RM3 ($1.40), that's a big jump. For the first time, Malaysia has revealed publicly its new pricing plan for raw water. Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar told the Malaysian Berita Minggu
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    • 54 5 PICTURE THIS Guess which family will be having fish for dinner? US President George Bush pulls in a striped bass hooked by his daughter, Jenna (right), on their fishing boat in Kennebunkport, Maine. Mr Bush and his family are spending the weekend in Kennebunkport to celebrate the
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    • 73 5 THERE are still places in popular primary schools after the second round of the primary school registration ended last Friday. CHIJ St Nicholas Girls', Anglo-Chinese (Primary), Raffles Girls' Primary, Tao Nan, De La Salle, Rosyth and Pei Chun Public say less than half their places are filled. The
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    • 61 5 NEW blood donors are no longer eligible for discounts on medical treatment. The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has stopped offering incentives, to ensure that blood is donated only on a voluntary basis. There is also a lower risk of contamination when donors come forward for altruistic reasons.
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    • 67 5 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) plan to increase the number of solar-powered bus shelters and carpark signs here. In some cases, it is cheaper to install solar panels than lay down new electricity cables. Another project being studied now is whether solar panels
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    • 80 5 LETS get tough on Internet chatroom users who lure children to meet them, then sexually abuse them, says the Parents Advisory Group for the Internet. It suggests following Britain's example, where anyone who uses e-mail, text messages or Internet chatrooms to pick up minors for sex may
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    • 63 5 RESIDENTS have been slamming the new Sengkang HDB blocks for being impractical. Covered linkways let rain in, number signs are hidden from visitors, and lift lobbies are in constant darkness. Fixing the design flaws may cost the town council at least $230,000. Dr Michael Lim, an MP
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    • 69 5 THIS year's NDP tickets were snapped up by 10 am yesterday four hours before they were supposed to be distributed. By 12.30am, queues had already formed at the seven sports halls when people spotted more than 600 military men setting up barricades and direct ional signs. Unlike
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    • 64 6 They ask more questions when buying a $500 piece of sound equipment. —Automobile Association of Singapore president Gerard Ee, on how car buyers should be more careful and their homework before getting a car. The Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) has reesgstclose to 2,500 complaints about car dealers'unsatisfactory service
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    • 255 6 ON THE RACK CAMPERS may soon be turning to a tomato extract to fight mosquitoes. Mr Michael Roe, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, was designing synthetic insecticides when he realised their structures resembled an oily organic compound that occurs in tomatoes, reported Discover.
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    • 71 6 The Straits Times: NDP tickets snapped up within hours The Business Times: Panel won't ask that legal sector be fully opened Lianhe Zaobao: Asean to set up committee in charge of regional natural gas pipeline project Berita Hanan: Asia hit by natural disasters u NewsRadio 93.8FM: NDP organisers
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    • 44 6 International Herald Tribune: Top aide's slaying unsettles Karzai an w a Street Journal: US order makes CEOs swear by tbe j r num bers New Straits Times: DrM: Najib 1 most experienced BBC news: The 14th International! Aids Conference opens in Barcelona
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    • 253 6 HI FOCUS SINGAPOREANS will know later today if the decision to raise transport fares will be reversed when the matter is discussed in Parliament. Six MPs are going to question the increase during tough economic times, as well as the purpose of the Public
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  • 406 7 SINGAPORE THE window pane came crashing down from a seventh floor flat of an HDB block and broke into bits when it hit the ground. The glass shutter, which fell with the frame, was about four times the size of this page. Sharp
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 649 9 Police taking tougher action against vendors of fake goods PRODUCT pirates who think they can make easy money selling fake handphone accessories should think again. The police are getting tougher on vendors who sell imitation Nokia handphone covers and hands-free sets. In the biggest raid this year, the
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    • 65 10 THE police raided 11 stalls on Saturday night. They seized 13,850 pirated CD-ROMs and music CDs, 875 uncensored VCDs, and 2,870 Nokia accessories. The items were valued at $200,000. The 14 men and 5 women who were arrested were between 15 and 57 years old. It was the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 413 12  -  Product specialist finds it strange that his car was targeted over two Mercs By Dawn Chia THIS man's car was stolen recently. And he was surprised the thief had picked his ageing Ford when there was a new Mercedes next to it. But,
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    • 880 13  -  BY Michael Lee long-sleeved shirt and tie, as he climbs onto the rostrum in the afternoon heat. "Standby for the start," announces the on-course race commentator as a hushed silence sweeps over the grandstand crowd. The next three seconds or so are the most critical.
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    • 230 13 THERE is no better course for a race-starter than what he can do at the racecourse itself, said Mr Philip Sia. His training as an "upstart" was all hands-on: Helping his mentor, Mr Albert Lopez, during races and barrier trials (practice races conducted during
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  • ASK DR MONEY
    • 365 16  -  DR MONEY LARRY HAVERKAMP Mail@ AskDr Money, com El read about accounting scandals all over the world, but none in Singapore. Are we really so clean and pure? There isn't one set of rules for accounting: (i) Companies can choose conservative accounting, which recognizes revenues quickly
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    • 107 16 LAST WEEK: US markets fell early in the shortened holiday week but ended strong on Friday. Even with Nasdaq's 5 per cent rise on Friday, the high-tech index still ended down 1 per cent for the week. Singapore markets performed spectacularly, with a 43 point rise
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  • SINGAPORE
    • the new paper GET SMART AT Exams PRIMARY 6 ENGLISH
      • 456 18  -  The Raffles Girls' Primary way THIS special series by The New Paper offers handy tips for the major exams, starting with the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) in October. We'll tackle one key subject a week. First, we'll present tips from the subject experts
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        43 19 thing to read, &wr *r is V another to read widely. Mrs Luwena Ngoh, 32, HOD English at RGPS. < Read different styles of writing, not just plenty of storybooks. That way, you get used to different expressions and ways of writing.
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      • 234 19 1 RAFFLES Girls' Primary School has maintained an average of 80 per cent and above for the number of students scoring either an A* or A at the PSLE the last five years. And the school points to especially good performances In one key component of the
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    • 199 19 One day, Sir Alan Bingley went out of his study, leaving his little dog before the fire. On the table lay a (1) of manuscripts containing notes (2) all the discoveries which Bingley had (3) during the last twenty years. (4) his master had gone, (5) rose little Rover. He
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  • WORLD
    • 166 21 AP. THERE are surely better things to do in Florida than to make nuisance calls to 911. Not so for Michael Holmes, who faked more than 1,100 calls, tying up emergency service lines for two days. All because the 20-year-old prankster was bored.
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    • 474 22 INDIAN BILLIONAIRE AMBANI DIES ON SATURDAY AFTER BATTLING A STROKE Wire services. BORN into poverty, industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, went on to build India's largest business empire that has almost as many shareholders as the population of Singapore. Family members, including sons Mukesh, 45,
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  • 387 24 When their portfolios are depressed... WORLD LOST money on the markets? It's twice as painful as pleasure from an equivalent gain. While using market psychology is nothing new for Wall Street warriors, traders and hedge fund managers are seeking therapy because portfolios are depressed, reported
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  • WORLD
    • 345 26 It asks for pumps after hitting rocks off Aussie coast AFP. A BRITISH warship is taking in water and in "serious trouble" after hitting rocks 360 km north east of Sydney. The Australian authorities have begun a full scale rescue operation. The 3,560-tonne HMS Nottingham struck
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    • 173 26 Reuters. A GANG of armed men, including two bogus policemen, robbed more than 40 Taiwanese businessmen of two million rand ($3.4 million) in South Africa yesterday. Police said the armed men, in four cars, stopped the tourist bus just after midnight. Two
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  • 330 28 WORLD CRIME rates in Britain are at their highest in 10 years. To cope with the rising crime, Scotland Yard, London's police force, has started its biggest recruitment drive ever. It is hoping to hire 3,400 policemen during the next nine months, reported The
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    • 58 28 Grand Prize Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Malaysia Second Prize Ong Teck Meng Victor, Singapore Other Prizes Daniel Mulcahy, Australia Belen Y. Chug, Hong Kong Sethuram Seshadri, India Shanmugam, Malaysia Robin Rund, New Zealand David Paul, New Zealand Ali Jawad Hansraj, Pakistan Raul G. Ragay, Philippines Roberto P. Bonoan, Philippines Myung-Gon Hong,
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 744 31  -  MANNING THE BARRICADES As crucial by-elections near, the power of women in Malaysian politics has been rising. The rating Umno party's new young-females Puteri wing is a success. The Islamic PAS party has voted a woman on to its top council for the first
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    • 124 31 EVEN as Puteri Umno makes its mark, its leader has had to fend off extremely personal attacks. A tabloid claimed earlier this year that Miss Azalina Othman, 37, is a lesbian and even published photos of her alleged lover. Perdana Sari's chief editor and publisher is the
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    • 320 32 SHE deftly tweaks her tudung into place before opening the door. 'Tour card, please?", Dr Lo' Lo' Ghazali, 45, begins confidently. In the '70s, this locally-trained medical doctor was active in dissident Islamic youth group Abim, then led by a future Deputy Premier
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  • Hey!
    • 1134 33  -  ...So doting boyfriend visits k film sets to bring Sharon Sk food By Wendy Teo APRIL 27 is a very "important" date to Sharon Au. It's not her birthday, nor is it an occasion for celebration. It's the day that Sharon's personal life came to a
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    • 857 35  -  By Seto Nu-Wen OVER a century ago, the Red Indians sold the island of Manhattan for US$24 ($42). The Red Hot Chili Peppers sold its first gig for a measly US$5O. These days, the rock band easily rakes in US$B million in
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    • 192 36 YOU can smell the success factor of By The Way a mile away. In fact, Kiedis and his Chili chums can kick back and relax. The band's latest album looks set to follow in the hit-spinning, money-raking footsteps of previous release Californication. The
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    • 68 36 WANT a copy of Red Hot Chili Peppers' latest album By The Way? The New Paper has 10 sets of CDs and RHCP posters to give away, courtesy of Warner Music* lust call 1900-914-0801 before midnight tomorrow and answer an easy question. Who is the lead
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    • 93 37 JULIA Roberts will end all speculation of her wedding dress by releasing one photo this week. But a county clerk who was summoned hours before the July 4 midnight wedding revealed that Roberts and hubby Danny Moder wore casual clothes. The Oscar-winning actress and her cameraman hubby
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    • 125 37 R&B diva Alicia Keys (right) must be supremely confident of her street cred. She has collaborated with pop party animal Christina Aguilera on a big piano ballad in New York. Aguilera was heard saying to Keys: "I like the piano. Now I gotta learn how to play.
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    • 126 38 THE funky set should be well-acquainted with Sylver, who gave us infectious techno club anthems like Forever In Love and more recently, Forgiven. The Belgian outfit comprises vocalist Silvy De Bie, 21, and deejay Wout Van Dessel, 36, who met at a club. They'll be
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    • 213 38 ELVIS may have left the building, but he certainly hasn't left the music charts. The King has pipped pop princesses Kylie Minogue and Sophie Ellis-Bextor to reach No 1 on the UK pop charts. Amazingly, he did it 33 years after his last chart-topper Suspicious
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    • 452 39 PRIME-TIME TV IN his story The Million Pound Banknote, Mark Twain wrote about two businessmen who made a wager on a poor boy, Henry Adams. He was given a £1 million banknote and told to fend for himself. One businessman said the money would
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    • 781 50 YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS GOING: GOOD Ipoh Special Stakes 4 MILITARY TYCOON 57 (223-48) SHLee (13) 11 10 1 (494) 2 EVIL GENERAL 57 (18-8) VSivan (14) 5 3 2 (465) 8 TIN-PAN ALLEY 56.5 c 53.5 (153-33) *ALee (5) 9 8 2 (470) 5 POKEMON 57 (21-9) 'AKumaren (15)
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    • 292 49  -  By Tan Thean Loon FRESH from woman trainer Evelyn Seet's hat-trick last Saturday, fellow Ipoh-based handlers Barry Brogan and Tiang Kim Choi also sent out three winners each on home turf yesterday. Brogan, the leading trainer in Malaysia, kicked further ahead following the wins of
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    • 81 49 AP. HAWK WING led home another Aidan O'Brien one-two in winning the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown last Saturday. The Mick Kinane-ridden favourite coasted to a 2 V2 -length victory over stablemate Sholokhov, who was a 200-1 runner-up in last week's Irish Derby, and Godolphin challenger
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    • 1580 50 RACE 1: Trainer J Nikolic was fined RMIOO ($5O) for failing to produce the declared colours on Mr Fa'Choy. TrainerT Yeoh was fined RMSOO for failing to ensure that the passport of Top Honchowas updated in respect of the compulsory vaccinations. Victory Journey
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    • 482 51 FORMULA ONE: BRITISH GRAND PRIX WHYSCHUMI WON i AP. THE best thing about Michael Schumacher is his simplicity. No complicated wins for him. Neither does he go into lengthy, convoluted explanations for his victories or losses. Usually Formula One races are won or lost
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    • 233 52 ...MORE ON THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX CRICKET'S master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar will soon be seen zooming past in a swanky Ferrari. A keen driver and a motorsport enthusiast, Tendulkar, drove down from Edgbaston to Silverstone after the Indian team's one-day match against Sri
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      321 52 MOTOR racing is not soccer and he is no Ronaldo. That was the painful lesson Ferrari's No 2 Brazilian driver Rubens Barrichello (left) learnt the hard way yesterday. In the run-up to the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone circuit, Barrichello had a message for his German team-mate
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    • 267 52 Reuters. CROSSED radio signals wrecked David Coulthard's hopes of a third win in four years for McLaren in his home British Grand Prix yesterday. The Scot, winner at Silverstone in 1999 and 2000, was the highest finisher of the four home drivers but 10th place Coulthard's worst
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    • 646 53 Hewitt's the best and the baddest TENNIS: THE NEW WIMBLEDON CHAMP AFP. LIKE him or loathe him, you can't ignore Lleyton Hewitt. Brash, confident, controversial few 21-year-old sportsmen create such extremes of admiration or horror than the world Nol, and now the new Wimbledon champion
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      89 53 Name: Lleyton Hewitt Bom: Feb 24,1981, Adelaide, Australia Age: 21 Height 180 cm Turned professional: 1998 Plays: Right-handed, double-handed backhand Slams: Two (2001 U.S. Open, 2002 Wimbledon) Personal: Played Aussie Rules football until he was 13. His girlfriend, Belgian Kim Clysters (left, seen kissing Hewitt yesterday) is a top
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    • 178 53 CASH'S VERDICT: AFP. FORMER title-holder Pat Cash has hailed fellow Aussie Lleyton Hewitt as a worthy Wimbledon champion. Cash, the last Australian to win the title in 1987, admitted that his countryman was in a class of his own at Wimbledon. "There's no doubt about it.
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    • 448 54 -MORE ON WIMBLEDON AP. THEY smacked strokes just as they do against anyone else. They ran down balls aggressively, too. And, even if fleetingly, they showed I-want-to-win emotion. For one glorious set on the world's most famous tennis court, Serena and Venus Williams set
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    • 247 54 WHO'S THE HIGHEST-EARNING SPORTSWOMAN ON THE PLANET? WIMBLEDON glory is set to make her the highest-earning sportswoman on the planet. And that's the other title Serena (left) is happy to snatch from sister Venus, reported The Sunday Mirror. Serena's back-to-back Grand Slam wins
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    • 218 55 THE occasion was special. The bride and the groom were on cloud nine. But the "best man" was conspicuous by his absence. Where was he? It has been well recorded that footballers Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler are the best
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    • 515 55 JUAN Sebastian Veron (right) was the most castigated man in the Premiership last season. He was dubbed by the majority of the fans as the most expensive at £28.1 million (s73m) flop in British football history. Experts said he didn't fit in with the rest
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    • 76 55 6 The others (United team-mates) picked up a series of suspensions and apparently did not have the club's best interests in mind (as they wanted to be in the best ehatth for the World Cup), yet I was singled out for criticism. 6 I want to show the people of
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    • 756 57 LEEDS: THE MANAGERIAL MERRY GO-ROUND Wire services. CANDIDATE 1: Terry Venables FORMER England, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur coach Terry Venables could be the one to take over David O'Leary's job at Leeds. And his appointment would be confirmed as soon as...today. So goes a report
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    • 518 58  -  ...MORE ON LEEDS COMMENT SCOTT WILSON JUST about the only manager in England who hasn't sued me is Terry Venables. That's not strictly true, because most of the cases never actually got to court. My former newspapers would cough up before they got to court usually
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    • 292 58 Argentina captain Roberto Ayala has fuelled speculation that Rio Ferdinand is set to quit Leeds United by admitting that he has received an offer to join the Yorkshire club. "I know that Leeds have made an offer for me and I would very much like to
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      194 59 THE DAVID O'LEARY INTERVIEW SOURCE: SUNDAY PEOPLE ON HIS SACKING My pride has taken a knock because getting the sack from the job you love is never easy, especially if, like me, you thought you were doing a decent job ON THE RIO ROW If my stance
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    • 676 60 THE DAVID O'LEARY INTERVIEW-MORE LEEDS may have sacked him, but David O'Leary is no mood to forget the club that pitchforked him into top-flight football management. In an exclusive interview with the Sunday People, he revealed he has some unfinished business at Leeds...and it
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    • 364 60 IN present-day football management, you only have friends in relation to the job-title you hold. David O'Leary revealed his sacking was a great leveller it opened up the world of real friends to him. "Gerard Houllier rang me from France to offer sympathy," O'Leary said. "Then
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    • 213 60 DAVID O'Leary insisted he might have had something to show for his stint at Leeds had not two fans been stabbed in Istanbul in the 2000-01 season. "If the tragedy hadn't happened, we might have won the Uefa Cup," he said. "Having got to
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      292 61 THE world was turned on by the magic of Brazil at the World Cup in Japan/Korea. Now, Manchester United wants to turn on the rest of England with some samba sorcery of its own, reported Soccernet. The Red Devils manager Sir Alex Ferguson is said to be considering the
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    • 304 61 OLD Trafford is abuzz with excitement And for once, the man at the centre of it is not a player, but Man IFs new assistant manager Carlos Queiroz. According to South Africa's captain Shaun Bartlett, the Portuguese 54-year-old speaks five languages, is a superb man-manager
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