The New Paper, 8 January 2003

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  • 28 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2003 qJff*Singapore Press Holdings 8 Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 M,TA(P) 044/03/2002 160 CENTS H 8 *****1 *****1 the m* J
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  • NEWS
    • 716 2 THAI MINISTER ON BUDGET AIRLINE FOR PROPOSED CHIANG MAI AIR HUB LAST year, the world's airlines lost US$l3 billion ($31.35b). It was better than the loss of US$lB billion in 2001. But in the midst of this gloom, budget airlines have been making money. So
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    • 66 2 British no frills airline Easyjet recorded a 78 per cent jump in profits during 2002. It made £71.6 million ($200.21m) for the year ending Sept 30 and carried 11.4 million passengers. Also flying high was Ireland-based budget airline Ryanair. It made £96 million during the first half
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    • 6 2 What's on TV? Pages 36 37
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    • 322 3 SONY. M°^ By placing the widest range of high-quality Sony audio-visual components in the lap of your imagination, the WEGA Theatre system lets you personalise your home cinema to match your room, style and budget. And since your WEGA Theatre is attractively priced, you'll never compromise on perfect entertainment in
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 896 4  -  BUYERS OF RESALE FLATS CAN NOW BORROW FROM BANKS By Lee Tee Jong HE wanted to sell his Serangoon Central HDB flat for more than its valuation price. The five-room flat was valued at $340,000 but Mr Mustafar Taib, 34, was
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    • 222 5 IN his Parliament address in July last year, DPM Lee Hsien Loong said that HDB provided a subsidised loan rate to help Singaporeans to own flats as well as to upgrade. However some people appeared to take advantage of such "cheap loans" to buy HDB
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    • 12 4 CANT PAY YOUR HDB LOAN? BANKS WONT SAY WHAT THEY'LL DO/Page 7
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 241 6 CANT PAY YOUR HDB LOAN? THEY may be upfront in fighting for the new Housing Board (HDB) home-loan market, but most banks were reluctant to disclose details of their policies on payment defaults and home repossessions. Only one Dutch bank ABN Amro out of
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    • 75 6 PICTURE THIS US boxing promoter Don King (left) and boxing world champion Roy Jones Jr (right) laugh as they hold up pictures of King with a Mohawk and buzz haircuts during a press conference in Los Angeles yesterday. Jones, who will fight Don King's
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    • 74 6 BANKRUPTCIES in Singapore hit a 17-year high last year as the severe economic slowdown took its toll. But some analysts believe that the worst may be over and they expect fewer bankruptcies this year so long as the economy grows by 2 to 5 per cent. Data given
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    • 72 6 SINGAPORE vehicles entering Johor will now be tracked automatically. Johor has installed a RM2.9 million ($1.32 m) Automatic Vehicle Scanning System to record the time and date Singapore vehicles enter Malaysia as well as their registration numbers, reported Streats. The system is in place at the Tanjung
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    • 65 6 MORE US women are taking over family-owned companies, a trend that could recast businesses there. About 25 per cent of small-company owners are considering daughters as their successors, says a study of 35,000 family-owned firms by Babson College and other researchers. The reason: More women are now
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    • 63 6 NANYANG Technological University (NTU) will become a frilly-fledged university in two years' time, just like the National University of Singapore, when it offers new degrees in physical sciences, humanities and design. Of course, engineering will remain its mainstay. All students will have to study humanities and science
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    • 67 6 PSA Corp chalked up 8 per cent growth in container volumes handled at local ports to hit 16.8 million boxes last year a tad shy of its 17 million target. This reverses PSA's first-ever decline in volumes in 2001 when the volumes handled at local ports fell
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    • 75 6 US President George Bush has unveiled a US$67O billion ($1.17 trillion) economic stimulus package over 10 years to prep up the struggling US economic recovery. But the boost in the form of tax cuts for US consumers and investors may take too long to trickle down to
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    • 69 7 QUOTEWORTHY Most of my friends are very nervous. Previously, when they called, they would ask: 'How are you doing?' Now they ask: 'Have you paid your taxes?' —Beijing real estate magnate Pan Shiyi. China's prosecution of its richest female citizen, actress Liu Xiaoqing
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    • 303 7 ON THE RACK Extract from Time: Acting—that must be fun. You get your chance to inhabit a wide range of humanity, from serial killers to detectives who track serial killers. You get your name above the title and your face in Mount Rushmore dimensions on movie screens
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    • 51 7 The Straits Times: Bush unveils US$670b boost to US economy The Business Times: Jacobs may have walked out with payout from NOL Lianhe Zaobao: Indonesia may revive plans to build a nuclear power plant Berita Harian: North Korea says economic sanctions mean war Streats: China's tax evaders running
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    • 27 7 International Herald Tribune: US seeks to defuse crisis with Pyongyang Asian Wall Street Journal: Manila to revise economic data New Straits Times: Ling announces resignation
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    • 236 7 —r Wire services. WALL Street had little reaction yesterday to President George Bush's proposal to cut taxes, as investors collected some profits from the market's big three-day advance and left stocks narrowly mixed. Analysts said the market had already factored in the proposed cuts during its rally. Downbeat
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 45 7 Pilbert /Scott Adams HOW DO I MAKE THIS SOFTWARE SCHEDULE ONE PERSON TO TWO TASKS AT THE SAME TIME? V I CAN WRITE A PATCH THAT INSERTS NEW MONTHS IN THE TIMELINE. C AND THE SECOND TASK IS DUE ON THE FIFTEENTH OF FLOOPUARY. Q
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 806 8  -  RESIDENTS PETITION NEW RULING Reports and pictures/I Desmond Ng PEACE, quiet, security and some old-fashioned charm. These were some of the reasons why over 200 families chose to live inside Seletar Air Base Camp. But some of those families no longer feel
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    • 147 8 THERE are 303 residential properties (not all occupied) inside the camp, according to the Singapore Land Authority (SLA). These were British properties which have reverted to the State. They include bungalows, semi-detached houses and double-storey terrace houses. Said an SLA spokesman: "The current
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    • 123 9 THE Defence Ministry said the security arrangements at Seletar Air Base were reviewed with the intention of making it more convenient for people to use the public facilities within the compound. The changes have been implemented since November. On the matter of security, a spokesman would only
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    • 547 10  -  By Genevieve Jiang HIS wife signed up for the language improvement course because she was told that it was approved by the Ministry of Education (MOE) only to find out later that the approval was no longer valid. Mr Subash Saminathan, 28,
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    • 93 11 ALL courses conducted by private schools must be registered with and approved by the Ministry of Education. An MOE spokesman said the "curriculum has to be acceptable in the sense that the courses originate from professional bodies". Examples include the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants and the US
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    • 237 11 ALL students in the class were informed of the change in course syllabus, said the assistant director of Thames Business School, Mr Suresh Punjabi. He said: "When Mr Subash complained that his wife did not know about the move from the UNSW course, we went to the class
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    • 542 12  -  By Ian Tan HE WET HIS PANTS RADAR NO SURE INDICATOR THERE was no chilly sea breeze blowing. But the young Korean navigator's blood was frozen cold by the sight. Even though it was in the middle of the night, the third officer who's in
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    • 251 14 THEY are hot toys here, and you can fight them in "stadiums". But you can't fight them in school. Beyblade plastic tops (above) were popular toys during the December school holidays, but primary schools do not allow toys in school and that includes the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 503 16  -  But great report card not likely to attract new wave of investors, say analysts By] Eugene Wee SINGAPORE'S annual report card from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in. And judging by the remarks in this six-page report, the Government has scored close to full marks
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    • 140 16 Good work Can do better Economic Review Committee recommendations expected to be carried out soon, leading to high economic growth Financial stimulus packages in July and October 2001 provided important support for domestic demand Government's revenue base broadened by shifting towards indirect taxes (eg GST) and lowering of
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  • WORLD
    • 424 21 THE NEW PAPER/Wednesday, January 8,2003 THE UK skier was skiing in the Dolomites in Italy when he got lost. And the one he turned to was his mother back home in Derbyshire. He sent her a desperate plea
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    • 154 22 AP. PEOPLE who are overweight at 40 are likely to die at least three years sooner than those who are slim. This means being fat during middle age is just as bad as smoking, Dutch researchers say. The study was published in yesterday's issue of the
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    • 279 23 DESPITE streets protests in Java, Bali, Sulawesi and Sumatra on Monday, the Indonesian government will not reverse its decision to increase fuel and electricity and telephone rates, reported The Jakarta Post. The policy is part of a pledge to gradually reduce costly and misdirected
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    • 382 24 SON FORCES PARALYSED MUM TOBEG HE allegedly left his 80-year-old mother to beg on the streets of Hong Kong (right) while he played mahjong. And yesterday, Lee Pui Sun was jailed for a month for drunk and disorderly behaviour. Lee, 54, made
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    384 26 MALAYSIA Elderly Seremban couple found dead with crushed skull, fractured shoulder bones Married just a year ago THE old couple died a terrible and brutal death. Madam Rodiah Sidek, 75, clad only in a sarong, was believed to have been attacked by drug addicts while taking a bath. Her
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  • WORLD
    • 256 27 Reuters. THAT is the message for US President George Bush from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He warned that Iraq was a rich country with a stable government and a strong military. Talking to his Republican Guards on Monday, the Iraqi leader repeated his allegations that UN
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    • 420 28 Mum had locked them in room before going out Two children died in a pre-dawn fire which gutted more than 50 houses and left about 450 homeless in Penang yesterday. The children were identified as sisters Anatasha Mardiana Abdul Rani, 3, and Alwani Zulaika
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  • 1182 30  -  All his women Hey! Showtime Lifestyle By. Jeanmarie Tan NOT long ago, angry kids and outraged activists seemed to be the only people who cared about Eminem. But almost overnight, the whole world seems to be embracing the former enemy of the state. The
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    • 181 32 IS Channel 8 actress Joey Swee (left) a man-eater? She was romantically linked to Tay Ping Hui a few months ago, and now we hear she's stepping out with China-born Star Search winner Shi Bin. "Why do you keep choosing all the Bings for me?"
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    • 113 32 COMEDIAN Law Kar Ying (left) is a tad afraid of women nowadays. Apparently, he gets too many aunties throwing themselves at him, after appearing in a screen adaptation of Journey To The West as Tripitaka (Sun Wukong's master). He lamented: "The young girls are not interested in
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    • 198 47 SIX unraced three-year-olds have been entered for Friday night's mixed (turf and fibresand tracks) meeting at Kranji. Lining up for the Maiden (Restricted) 1,200 m event are: Artoo Detoo, a chestnut Australian-bred gelding by Semipalatinsk out of Classic Prospect. He landed on May 25 last year and
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    • 174 47 RESULTS of four barrier trials conducted over I,ooom on the fibresand track at Kranji yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Cambrian Knight (J Geroudis) 2 Magic Rainbow (M Kway) 3 Top Peak (J Saimee) 4 Patrizio (A Beitia) 5 Eight Legged (D Azis) 6 Chief Baron (0
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    • 442 47 DANNY KHOO’S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK GOING: GOOD WORKOUTS by horses handicapped on Friday: CLASS 1 1,600 m (turf): Bocelli (G Cooksley) canter/37, fluently. Last Sunday's course scratching Blizz Bless (J Geroudis) 36.7, showing nothing amiss. Bon Amie (J Saimee) 43.2, unextended. Thunderaway (L Cassidy) canter/37, worked better than Hammett
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      • 108 48 JOCKEY Mark du Plessis, who enjoyed his best season at Kranji last year with 55 winners, continued his good run into the new season by bagging two winners over the weekend. Back in town after spending his Christmas holiday in New Zealand, the 27-year-old Zimbabwean had a special
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      • 156 48 TRAINER Paddy Busuttin must be wondering what it will take to end his current lean spell. Since Firetruck's win on Oct 18 last year, the Kiwi has been experiencing a drought. If only Our Sandman had been a little luckier the seven-year-old went down by a mere
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      • 133 48 HE IS the jockey who forgot to complete one race lap. And now Irish jockey Eddie Ahem seems to want to forget about flat racing for a while. Back from last month's ban for finishing a circuit too early, the jockey who rode Smart Bet to victory
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    • 582 48 GUIDE TO IPOH TRACKWORK GOING: GOOD NST. WORKOUTS by horses handicapped on Saturday: CLASS 3 DIV 2 1,200 m: I'von Gold 39.4. Yellow Bee 36.4. Gold Finch, Simply Delight and Hit The Spot (C 3 D 3 1,200 m) trot/36.5. CLASS 3 DIV 3 1,200 m: Proud Tycoon (V Sivan)
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      • 627 50 ENGAGING THE SUPPORTERS THE English Premier League football fan is being targeted. Chan King Fook and David Sim the S-League's new chief executive and chief operating officers respectively want to win them over to fill S-League stadiums. As Sim, 50, a former financial consultant said:
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      • 342 50  -  By Ernest Luis The timing of S-League matches, especially on Saturday, is under scrutiny. You've read about what the S-League's two new "strikers" chief executive Chan King Fook and chief operating officer David Sim have said about their plans to inject life
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    • 356 51 THE KEY CHANGES Man with the overview FAS deputy president, Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, will have an overview of all policy and strategic matters relating to the S-League. New strike partnership Former Lions team manager Chan King Fook will be the new S-League CEO while
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    • 1060 52  -  ...THE REMAKING OF STLc- V By Wang Meng Meng IT was like Christmas, Hari Raya, Deepavali and Chinese New Year all rolled into one. The S-League clubs have rejoiced at the welcome news that subsidies, or seed money, from the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) will
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      • 250 54  -  By Michael Reiziger BARCELONA AS a professional football player, you always read plenty of transfer gossip in the newspapers but the latest story about Manchester City's interest in signing in me is true (see report, left). I heard on Monday from Barcelona about
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      • 480 54 TWO years ago, his career seemed to be over. After all, he was spending more time in the court of law, rather than on a football pitch. The charges against him were pretty damaging as well he and his buddies had allegedly
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    • 780 55 e FOCUS ON SOUTHAMPTON STRIKER JAMES BEATTIE *j||j* PA Sport. IF Southampton are fast becoming one of the Premiership stories of the season, then James Beattie is writing a compelling chapter all his own. At first the sinner, now very much the Saint. Beattie, the Southampton
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    • LEAGUE CUP SEMI-FINAL (IST LEG) SHEFFIELD UTD v LIVERPOOL MATCH PREVIEW
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      • 99 56 SHEFUIDv LIVERPOOL: MICHAEL Owen is set to return for Liverpool even though there is a possibility that Gerrard Houllier may not start with him. But Emile Heskey, who returned from an ankle injury as a substitute at Maine Road in Sunday's 1-0 FA Cup win over Manchester City,
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        618 57  -  BY Michael Tonge SHEFFIELD UNITED PLAYING Liverpool will be far the biggest game of my career to date and right now I'm experiencing a mixture of nerves and excitement. I think all the lads are looking forward to the game but we also know we're tantalisingly close to
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      • 226 57 Reuters. FREEZING temperatures and a hostile 30,000 crowd await Liverpool when they visit English First Division upstarts Sheffield United. Liverpool, despite their poor Premiership form, are clear favourites to progress to a final in Cardiff. But Sheffield United coach Neil Warnock believes the
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        367 58 STUART McCALL v DANNY MURPHY FORMER Scotland midfielder McCall's experience at the highest level might be vital in tackling the experience of Liverpool. At 38, he may struggle for pace. But his vast experience and tactical knowledge could get Sheffield United out of dangerous situations. One of
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      • 105 58 THE little Canadian striker can unlock the best defences with his pace and skill. Peschisolido has been around the English game for a while now and a lot will rest on his slim shoulders. His unpredictability in the penalty-area can be a plus point for
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      • 93 58 AUSTRALIAN defender Shaun Murphy is unlikely to be fazed by the big occasion. A gritty competitor, who likes to get forward as well, he scored against Cheltenham in the FA Cup at the weekend. Watch for his daring overlapping runs from the rear. England striker
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      • 106 58 AFP. STEVEN Gerrard (right) has been charged with violent conduct for a two-footed lunge at Everton's Gary Naysmith. The 22-year-old Liverpool star was captured on video tackling the defender with both feet during the Merseyside derby on Dec 22. Referee Graham Poll missed the incident during
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      • 660 59 THERE is another precocious young talent on the block to rival Wayne Rooney but James McEveley is one that Everton allowed to get away from Goodison Park. McEveley, 17, (left) Liverpool born and bred, played with Rooney during his seven years with
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      • 293 59 PA Sport. BLACKBURN boss Graeme Souness will beg referee Uriah Rennie to have another look at the yellow card which could cost Lucas Neill his League Cup semi-final spot. The Australian defender was cautioned for a dive five minutes from the end of this morning's
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      • 687 60  -  TVVIEW EDWIN YEO NO one has said it so far, but there's something seriously wrong with Ruud Van Nistelrooy. For quite a few games now, he's been missing sitters. And I do mean absolute sitters. Like in this morning's League Cup semi-final tie against Blackburn Rovers,
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      • 304 60 10th minute: A headed clearance reaches Juan Veron outside the penalty-area and he shoots wide of the left post. 14th: Paul Scholes lays the ball off to an onrushing Veron and he shoots from 20m. But the shot is deflected just past the right post. 45th: Scholes' header
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      • 78 61 MAN UTD TAKE THE LEAD Nistelrooy finds Beckham free on the right after to Veron's long ball and shrugging off the attention of the Blackburn defence. Beckham's cross I Into the box hits a Blackburn defender and becomes difficult for 'keeper Friedel to gather. Scholes, running In,
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      • 95 62 tt was a great block from the defender. (See graphics below.) I actually thought it had hit the post. It means we have to go to Ewood Park and win but we are capable of that. Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson Cole puts
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      • 110 62 NAME: James McEveley DATE OF BIRTH: November 2,1985 PLACE OF BIRTH: Liverpool POSITION: Defender SIGNED BY BLACKBURN ON: November 5,2002 SQUAD NUMBER: 34 HOW HE RELAXES: I go around to my mate's house, play some pool, take some girls out sometimes but not
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      • 124 62 In the final minute of the opening half, United create their first meaningful opportunity. Ruud van Nistelrooy is through on goal with an easy chance. His shot is weak though, allowing Brad Friedel to block and then gather easily. Worse is to follow for Man
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      • 579 63 jm mm MAN U Paul Scholes 58th mitt BLACKBURN David Thompson 61 ROOKIES seem to have taken over the Premiership this season. Everton's Wayne Rooney, Leeds' James Milner and Liverpool's Neil Mellor have all made a name for themselves with some sterling performances
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