The New Paper, 15 September 2002

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  • NEWS
    • 250 2 AP. FOR the second straight year, the combined net worth of Forbes magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans declined. Their total net worth of US$B72 billion ($1.5 trillion) was down by USs74b from USs946b in 2001, and USsl.2t in 2000. The biggest loser
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    • 558 2 MEANWHILE, POOR JOB-SEEKERS ARE... DESPERATE times call ft5T~ desperate measures. So desperate have job-seekers in the US become that they are adding a dash of creativity to their methods. They are not just sending in their applications and waiting to hear from employers.
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    • 528 3  -  WHAT: Naked Perfection WHEN: Till Nov 10 WHERE: Singapore Art Museum COST: $3 for adults, $1.50 for senior citizens and students PHOTO JOURNALIST ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF THERE are bigger crowds, it appears, at showflats of property developers than at a show of nudes at the
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    • 1023 4  -  REPORTING FROM BEIJING EUGENE WEE HIS Singapore friends call him the Rabbit King. Because while other Singaporeans were jumping into China to set up factories, IT companies, service-providing enterprises and other middle to highend industries, Mr K L Choo hopped in the opposite direction and set
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    • 270 5 STROKING the fur of a Rex rabbit is like running your fingers over a plush velvet carpet. First discovered in France in 1919, the Rex was the result of a mutation of wild rabbits which caused its fur to grow upright and at equal lengths.
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    • 193 5 TO Rex rabbit farmer Wei Zhi Qiang, Mr Choo is a hero. Mr Wei, one of Mr Choo's downline Rex rabbit breeders, went into the industry because of Singapore's Rabbit King. "It was because of him that I decided to start the rabbit farm,"
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    • 1167 6  -  Photojournalist/, Joyce Lim A-T two, most toddlers struggle to string a sentence together. But meet Winston Chee, who's able to converse in three languages English, Mandarin and Malay. And don't think it's baby talk. Winston holds his ground like an adult. Ask him
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    • 158 7 PICK 1,000 children and you might not find a child like Winston. This was an expert's view when told of Winston's linguistic skills. Professor Tara Mohanan of the National University of Singapore said: "It's much rarer than one out of a thousand. He seems like
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    • 252 7  -  By: Seto Nu-wen WINSTON's maid started speaking Malay to him only six months ago. And already, he can converse fluently in the language. She sometimes gives him simple instructions. But both boy and maid will also chatter together in Malay. He speaks Malay
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    • 750 8  -  By Joycelyn Wong ALL it took was a light knock on the back of his left leg and he ended up a quadriplegic. Mr Zhang Wanbo, 47, was on a one-day tourist stopover in Singapore when his life was shattered. He was walking along Circular
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    • 278 9 HE needs his wife's help to bathe and dress. She also massages him so that his muscles do not waste away. These days, Mr Zhang Wanbo can only move his head. Mostly, he just lies there, "staring at the ceiling
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    • 714 10  -  DISABLED BUT DETERMINED I REPORTS AND PICTURES LEE TEE JONG THIS young woman cannot rely on her legs to support her. But, thankfully, her strength is somewhere else. Aged 20 and in Secondary 3, Mary Low is not your average student. She has
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    • 192 10 MISS Ong Siew Hoon, 21, an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore, has cerebral palsy. She is a second-year student in the Arts and Social Science faculty and plans to mayor in Economics and Psychology. Like Mary, she has had to struggle to get
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    • 963 12  -  Reason: To fulfil dad's dying wish DISABLED BUT DETERMINED #2 By Lee Tee Jong HE is a determined young man with a plan. First, this 20-year-old orphan has to fulfil his father's dying wish, which is to make
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    • 61 13 PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities are slower compared to normal people, says consultant psychiatrist Brian Yeo, 40. "However, they are able to follow instructions and discern between right and wrong," he added. In terms of relating to people, some intellectually disabled are quite close to being normal. "They can
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    • 162 13 GOH Ming Gan, 16, appreciates that his eldest brother is the pillar that holds them together. He said: "Going to university will be a dream come true. It is not easy for my brother and I will try my best not to
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    • 764 14  -  As Bush faces off against Saddam, could he be... COMMENT PATRICK JONAS WHY is US President George Bush so keen to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein? Some might argue that it is part of his grand master plan in the battle against terror.
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    • 359 15 If Iraq won't allow full access to United Nations weapons inspectors, the US seems set to launch an invasion —perhaps within a few weeks. WOON WUI TEKandJONATHAN ROBERTS offer four attack scenarios Scenario A 1) Special forces and airborne troops seize Baghdad, killing
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    • 627 16 According to the South Eastern Washington Service Centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 99 per cent of health insurance policies (MMI I cover hearing aids. In Washington, Medicaid covers only a single hearing aid over a person's lifetime. Few hearing aids
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    • 368 17 Is this sign of corruption? Ex-Thai minister charged over $9.8 m allegedly acquired during overseas trips while in office HIGH roller, jet-setter? Former Thai public health minister Rakkiat Sukthana flew 83 times to Australia, Malaysia and Hong Kong between 1997 and 1999. He was
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    • 221 18 lAPANESE INVENTION IMAGINE a computer chip no bigger than your fingernail that could contain a full-length movie like a DVD. Yes, the day is coming when chips will be that small. And a lot more powerful than today's fastest silicon chip.
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  • NEWS
    • 343 21 THE harsh reality of life in Argentina is making its people turn to the TV for an escape to their problems. The economy ,is bad? So its citizens took part in the TV game show, Recursos Humanos (Human Resources), in which participants win
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    • 129 21 Reuters. ARNOLD Schwarzenegger was the "Last Action Hero". Vin Diesel is the latest. Now, US network NBC is planning a reality show to find "The Next Action Star". It has teamed up with Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver to choose 12
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    • 382 22 WILL it be Afghan President Hamid Karzai or Chinese dissidents? Or will the Nobel Peace Prize go to former US president Jimmy Carter? There is no front-runner this time, unlike last year when the US$l million ($1.76 m) award went to United Nations
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    • 348 23 IAPAN'S NEWLY RISEN STAR BLAME it on the bursting of the economic bubble. Being "kawaii" or cute is no longer top priority for stressed-out young women in Japan. Being soothed is. And so, sleepy and portly Winnie-the-Pooh has ambled past longtime Japan favourite toy character, Hello
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    • 717 24 BOOK CAPTURES STRUGGLES OF CHINESE WHO MIGRATED TO JAMAICA THERE'S a whiff of China in the sunny climes of laid-back Jamaica best experienced in the Chinese shops lining her streets. It's a touch of history that harks back to the 1850s when the
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    • 168 26 HE was in a whole lot of trouble. Richard Leendart Schaapveld was dead drunk. And he rammed into a taxi twice. It did not help that Schaapveld, 41, went on to urinate on a breathalyser instead of blowing into it. The breathalyser malfunctioned, and Schaapveld
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    • 298 26 AP. UNLIKE the Singapore $1 coins which are widely used, the US dollar coins have been snubbed by the Americans who prefer the good old greenback. Grouses against the US dollar coins are: They weigh down pockets. They are costly to ship. Introduced three years
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  • 669 29  -  GUEST EDITOR TISA NG President of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) MOONCAKES are out. This year, I decide to go back to basics to good old lotus paste and salted egg yolks. There is so much
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  • AT A GLANCE
    • 310 30 THERE may be a few rotten eggs, but this doesn't mean the whole basket is bad. This is the message that Muslim delegates at a three-day seminar here on harmony and human values want to spread. The 18 educators, academics and community leaders from
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    • 375 30 Cowboy diplomacy the Bush way THE television image of US President George Bush sitting stiffly alone during his speech to the United Nations (UN) spoke no less loudly than his words. "WiU the UN serve the purpose of its founding or will it be irrelevant?" he asked. He was urging
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 81 31 SINGAPOREANS don't scare easily, judging by the number of people who are signing up for tours of local spots believed to be haunted. Local event management company e-Top Singapore has been taking groups of 20 to 40 people on bus tours to cemeteries, derelict colonial bungalows and
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      • 84 31 IT might not have been in time for this year's Hungry Ghosts Festival month—which ended last week—but come next year, the National Environment Agency (NEA) will be able to cut down on the ash from burning incense paper offerings. Every year, there are complaints over the large-scale burning
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      • 98 31 TODAY is his birthday, but the last person Prince Harry (right, at West Ham United's Upton Park ground receiving a "birthday shirt") is thinking about is probably himself. He is using the sale of seven portraits taken to mark his 18th birthday, to benefit some causes once
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      • 93 31 SOUTH Korea announced that it is studying the feasibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the i 0-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). Other East Asian countries like China and japan are already in early stages of talks on forming separate FTAs with Asean. The
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      • 93 31 WANT to check out the latest in the army's military hardware? Then head down to the Safti Military Institute for the army's biannual open house. Highlights include an armoured troop carrier that can fire accurately in the dark and through smoke, as well as computer training games
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      • 100 31 LOOKING for a tiny bottle of moisturiser or suncreen to take along on a holiday? Many women are heading to toiletries shops in Housing Board estates to buy sample-sized cosmetics for between $4 and $20. However, cosmetics companies and the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) say
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      • 86 31 MORE than 200 people were poisoned and up to 30 people have died after eating tainted food in Naqjing, China. It is not clear what was the cause of the poisoning as those affected reportedly ate ordinary Chinese breakfast fare fried bread, sesame cakes and glutinous rice. Town
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    • 45 31 US Open champion Serena Williams thanking Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho after they paired off in a doubles exhibition match in Hong Kong. Williams, who is on a promotional tour, also played with the top tennis players in Hong Kong. Picture/ Afp
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    • 46 30 TONGUE S'pore Hepatitis B virus discovery Partly cloudy and Slightly hazy. Showers Showers with (l thunder are likely 1 ?hi In gg~ the late morning yjv afternoon, Thunderstorms mainly affecting >i ww the northern, x <Jr*i£ western and central miJtr parts of Singapore. .y Partly cloudy
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
    • 924 33  -  CAROL LEONG WHEN it comes to very expensive kitchens, there's no doubt about it, it's a man's world. In this rarified domain, German brands like Balthaup, Gaggenau and Poggenpohl dominate. These designer kitchens cost about $80,000 on average and can go up to $500,000.
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    • 492 32 ITS the world's most famous juicer. Called the Juicy Salif, this lemon squeezer (left), designed by Philippe Starck for Alessi, made its debut in 1990. This month, an Alessi counter opened at Takashimaya and the lemon squeezer is their No 1 traffic stopper. "It's always
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    • 906 34  -  TAN DAWN WEI LIFE has never been easier. We used to think putting a peanut butter and jelly sandwich together was the easiest thing to do. Now, US jam-maker JM Smucker's has gone and done that for us frozen, and with the crusts cut
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    • 316 34 Farmpride Chicken Fun Choy Forthe truly uninitiated, Farmpride's char siew chicken with rice only requires you to stick the plastic container into the microwave oven for three to four minutes, or in the steamer for 20 minutes. And you get a complete meal, halaltoo.
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    • 648 35 Australian film-producer Jo Rowan-Raj tells NANDJE KHIN that expats and locals have much to learn from each other—if only they're willing to Singaporeans shouldn't get hot under the collar about foreign talent. After all, Mrs Jo Rowan-Raj says, they're not here forever.
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    • 98 35 HAVE you got Hght under the skin of Singapore? Has your experience working, resting or playing with Singaporeans given you an insight into what make the place and people tick? Have you seen a side of Singapore that most other expats don't even dream
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      148 36 POSH NOSH E MY theory is that K Western food is eaten K with knife and fork Jtf B because the food's served MP Mm in portions that require And Chinese food is handled with chopsticks because the serving's already cut into manageable bite sizes in the kitchen
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    • 376 36  -  TAN DAWN WEI WHAT: Duo Restaurant and Bar, yet another modern French mid-priced restaurant in town, and in one of those Club Street shophouses too. So, what makes it any different from the rest? This month-old restaurant sells the concept of dining for two selected items on
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    • 220 36 Layered jelly and fruit drinks the next ‘bubble tea’? CHEAP CHOW THE bubble tea bubble has burst. Smoothies are going through a rough patch. The next drink fad? Quite possibly a layered fruit juice sandwiched by jelly at the bottom and fruit chunks on top. Fruttibliss co-owner Kenneth Aug, 28,
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  • 693 39 Many Singaporeans think of this tiny country as little more than a land of foreign workers and floods. TEO YUN YUN pays a visit t0... («HEY/))) IT was in Bangladesh that I had men with guns on my tail for the first time in my
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    454 41 <((HEY/»> STUFF Craig David, Connor Reeves and Brian McKnight into a storeroom, and you may get a vague idea of what singer-songwriter Jai (right) will sound like on his debut Malay album. Formerly of local band Kick, the 28-year-old is releasing his self-titled CD next month, and has
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    • 158 41 Highlights Godzilla Channel I, I Opm An enormous beast is on a terrifying trek, leaving a trail of ruin and panic in its wake and creating a ripple effect of destruction. Stare Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Harry Shearer. Makan Apa? Suria, 8.30pm Join Chef Wan in tonight's final showdown to
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    • 181 43 LADIES, there's a new way to keep tabs on your man. A Romanian electronics engineer has come up with a bracelet that can measure true love, reports Ananova.com. The inventor claims his device works by measuring pulse rate, among other factors, and the results are then transmitted to a
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    • 242 44 MY boyfriend and I were colleagues. After working together for three years, I told him I liked him. We became a couple two months later. But we had a lot of disagreements over work. After one year, we resigned together. He puts in
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    • 871 45 She shot to fame with her urban sexiness in Run Lola Run. Currently steaming up the screens with Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity, Franka Potente opens up with disarming honesty FRANKA Potente sprinted to international stardom as the frenetic, flame-haired heroine of
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    • 570 47  -  By Cynthia Loh Mention mini-golf, and windmills and oversized clown-heads with snapping teeth come to mind. But the game's childish image hasn't stopped a group of devoted mini-golfers here. They're training for the second Asia Mini Golf Championship and Open Invitation Championship 2002, due to
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    • 125 47 WHIPPING the players into form for the 2nd Asia Mini Golf Championship 2002 is trainer Mr Walter Ong (above, guiding a mini-golfer). Hie retiree, in his 60s, used to coach badminton at Punggol Primary School, but gave it up after he became hooked on mini-golf. "When I'm not
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    • 490 51  -  Wong Kim Hoh MONSOON Wedding, says its director Mira Nair, is a "Bollywood movie, made on my own terms". Indeed it is. The movie has elements which border on the soap-operatic and melodramatic, but it also realistically captures nuances of a country and people in the
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    • 473 57  -  GOLF By Lionel Lee FOR the past month or so, a group of boys have been trooping down to Sentosa. For some, like Jonathan Leong, a bus ride can take up to two hours if he is to start the journey from his college at
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    • 186 57 AMERICA'S Tim Montgomery broke the 100 m world record yesterday in Paris running 9.78 sec at the lAAF Grand Prix finals, k r world gilvearin^allißt Greene in Athens in June 1999 while Dwain f!)i am}w>rfl Christie's European record of 9.87 seconds. Montgomery not only
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    • 325 58  -  ASIAN 8-BALL POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS Reports/ Brian Miller THE Filipinos at The Haven" just couldn't get enough of the man they call 'The Kid". If given the chance, they would have asked for the shirt on his back. And, if my reading of the situation was correct, Efren
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    • 229 58 SINGAPORE'S representatives had a more difficult time National 8-Ball champion* didn't have things his way in his match against fellow Singaporean John > Tan. Afterfightmgback from 4-6 to 6-6, he fell at the final hurdle and was beaten 6-7. He will now have to theloser's
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      • 678 59 Hang on to your socks... Tottenham's Robbie Keane (right) is ready to go HE was left on the bench in the agonising 3-2 defeat at Fulham midweek. But will Glenn Hoddle unleash Robbie Keane when Tottenham Hotspur take on West Ham today? Keane is ready to step
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        • 630 60 TOTTENHAM v WEST HAM TO have lost at home to West Brom on Wednesday night was a bitter disappointment and once again our old problem of buckling under the pressure of conceding the first goal came back to haunt us. I felt we actually played
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          623 61 CARLO NASH (Man City) MAN CITY v BLACKBURN RESULTS have been up and down for us in the first few weeks of the season. But I think most people who have seen us play would agree that we've shown enough to suggest that Manchester City won't struggle
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        • 90 61 EURO WCKOFF: ITAL¥ 1 ITALY v 4 «T < C} &k r'*,, r*?, -^/V,~ 7 striker Serie A season. Argentinian striker Gabriel Batistuta put Roma ahead a minute before the break with a penalty after Cafu had been brought down by Bologna defender Miehele Paramatti. But
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        • 124 61 ?1iu*rDi4AUv %>J BAYERN Munich won of two goals from Michael Ballack to move clear at the top of the German First Division for at least 24 hours. The Germany playmaker opened the rznarr-4 goalkeeper Oliver Kahn. Bayern entered tile weekend programme sharing the lead with promoted VfL
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        587 62  -  CHELSEA 3 NEWCASTLE 0 BY Ernest Luis CUNNING Chelsea. Before the season started, manager Claudio Ranieri declared that Chelsea was nowhere near challenging the big guns for the English Premiership title. The critics brought out their knives, especially since Chelsea have been spending millions on their team since
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      • 291 62 hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhbhmhhhhhhhbhhhhhhbhhhhhhhhhhhhhhi MANCHESTER CnY^BtAfiKßUß^Tonight will goal Eoad His side and Blacburn play T, T attacking soccer and he knowsit will be a no-Hoi d ed contest* Given Blackburn's strong forward line, Keegan is toying with the idea of modifying City's all-out attacking style. But even if he
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      • 465 63  -  BOLTON 2 GardneMg4t|n™ LIVERPOOL 3 Barcg(4s^72^^ By Edwin Yeo Liverpool fans will be celebrating with real mixed emotions as a new Anfield hero was revealed last night at the Reebok Stadium. Enter one Milan Baros (right), the young Czech striker who came in as Gerard Houllier dropped
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      • 216 63 --< ~stf^-#'*'£^* 5 s^> xM&jfc -I*' LIVERPOOL boss Gerard Houllier had admitted that a World Cup hangover could be behind Michael Owen's lacklustre start to the new season. The European Player of the Year has managed just one goal in seven appearances for Liverpool and England
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        687 64 MANCHESTER United's style is based on possession football. But at the moment, the team looks like it has reached a erisis point after it suffered its first back-to-back Premiership defeat, going down 1-0 at Leeds. You need Roy Keane for his leadership. You need Juan Sebastian Veron for
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      • 130 64 We rolled our sleeves up and really battled for It. We came back against Newcastle and did what we had to do today. We dug in and got the three points. In the first half we were under pressure. They had world-class players all over the park. We
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        107 65 SPUNKY LEEDS LEEDS 1 MANUNiTEP 0 LEEnK Danny Miits, JonatHj tet Harte, nH Harry :S t Viduka (Ste pMK MAN Ub Fabien O'Shea, Rio Ferdin v Blanc, Mikael Silvestre.^w'! Neville, David Beckham, NicK^Rl" 5 (Luke Chadwick, 63), Ryan Ruud van Nistelrooy (Diego Forlan, 71), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
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      • 260 66 LEEDS UNITED 1 B Harry Kewell, (67th min) MANCHESTER UNITED 0 AFP. LEEDS' Harry Kewell blew another gaping hole in Manchester United's Premiership title ambitions last night. The Australian forward's 67th-minute header was enough to earn Terry Venables' side the three points and ensure an unhappy
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      • 592 66  -  By Edwin Yeo IT seems like just two days ago I was telling Man U fans that it's not losing the game, it's the way you lose it that matters. Oh wait, it was two days ago. And so if we look at Man
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    • 604 67 TOTTENHAM w WEST HAM I'M going to be honest with you. Whatever you read in this article must be taken with a pinch of salt, despite the national campaign to reduce salt intake. Simply because I'm a Spurs fan first and foremost, and I want
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