The New Paper, 4 February 2003

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  • 36 1 the new paper TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2003 Singapore Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asia I .com.sg I Email: tnp@sph.com.sg fr i Hotline: I800- 7 33 44 55 I MITA(P) 044/03/2002 60 CENTS 8 in the new paper
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 671 4  - BANK SENDS HER CARD PIN By ORDINARy MAIL. NOW SHE'S $5,800 POORER A debit card works like a credit card by letting you sign foryour purchases, but it debits the funds from your account. AnOCBC debit card also lets you access your OCBC account from ATMs worldwide. By Teh Jen
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    • 263 4 CHECKS with some of the other banks showed some similarities but also crucial differences in procedures. Like OCBC Bank, DBS Bank sends replacement cards and PINs on different days via normal mail to their customers. For security, plain envelopes with only a PO Box return address
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    • 652 5  -  I WOMAN'S UNUSUAL MOVE TO RECOVER ABORTION 'DEBT' By Dawn Chia IT wasn't an easy decision to make. But at her wits' end, Miss CY Ang approached a debt collection company. With a most unusual request recover from her ex-boyfriend at least
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    • 214 5 WITH 20 years of experience in debt collection, Mr Richard Ang has seen his fair share of bad debts. But this one request by Miss Ang took him by surprise. She had asked him to collect a debt of $250 half of her
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 329 6 HE is wanted in connection with a failed plot to crash a plane into Changi Airport. On Sunday night, Singaporean Mas Selamat Kastari was arrested by the Indonesian police while on a bus in Tanjung Pinang. He was travelling in Bintan with his wife
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    • 322 6 Personal Development For the Individual The way the mystics in the East have categorised the evolution of consciousness is in 7 centers. The seventh is "knowing God", the six is "knowing yourself", the fifth is "being creative", and the fourth is "being loving, sharing and knowing others."
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 6 PICTURE THIS Indian schoolgirls giggle as they look at demonstrative exhibits at Antarang, India's first ever sex musuem in Bombay. Children from different schools in the city are being taken in turn to the musuem for sex education. Picture/ Reuters
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    • 62 6 The Central Provident Fund Investment Scheme (CPFIS) does not offer a wide enough choice of investment options, according to wealth management firm dollarDEX. It also claims that the scheme's focus on equities and Asian-based unit trusts increases the risks for CPF investors. The result is that CPF
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    • 69 6 BULLYING in school is a serious problem. According to a Reader's Digest poll of 2,500 parents of secondary school children in five Asian cities, including Singapore, nearly 20 per cent of the respondents knew of bullying incidents at their children's schools in the past year. Forty-two per cent
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    • 70 6 THE Singapore Environment Council will organise the first national campaign in June to promote worm composting. The worms eat food waste and produce odourless organic fertilisers in return. So less rubbish goes to the dump or incinerator. The National Environment Agency is targeting 30 per cent of food
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    • 76 6 NOW that six independent schools let students bypass O levels, others are still deciding whether and how to play catch-up. St Joseph's Institution and Methodist Girls' School are still considering whether to follow suit and let students go straight on to A levels after a six-year programme, reports
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    • 77 6 SHRINKING land supply could fuel a small rise in 99-year home prices. The stock of units from unlaunched 99-year-leasehold projects built on land sold by the state has shrunk by 42 per cent, to 2,500 units, compared to a year ago, reported the Business Times. Property consultants
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    • 68 6 SUNDAY'S bomb blast near Indonesia's national police headquarters across the street from where terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir, alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, is being detained have raised fears of new terrorist attacks in the country. No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion, the first
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    • 52 7 STORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ Close in US$/Change Pacific Internet 4.3/-0.81 Creative Technology 6.33/-0.15 Flextronics 8.002/-0.068 Chartered Semiconductor 4/+0.03 Stats 6.76/-0.23 Yesterday's Percentage r action change ose Dow Up 0.7% (56.01 pts) 8,109.82 Nasdaq Up 0.22% (2.88 pts) 1,323.79 S+P 500 Up 0.52% (4.46 pts) 860.16 STI Market closed
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    • 256 7 ON THE RACK Extract from The Christian Science Monitor: Some 67 per cent of South Korean households now have broadband, more than in any other country. This high-speed service means that people use the Internet more, spending an average of 1,340 minutes online per month.
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    • 53 7 The Straits Times: S pore JI head arrested in Bintan The Business Times: Infocomm services set for faster growth Lianhe Zaobao: Temperature spike on left wing just before disintegration could be reason behind shuttle tragedy Berita Harian: Indonesian police arrest S'pore Jl leader Streats: Worms at home to
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    • 42 7 International Herald Tribune: First clues to shuttle's end The Asian Wall Street Journal: US plans to boost forces deployed near N Korea New Straits Times: Timetable for priority cases Chief Justice's directive: All courts must be strict to avoid delays
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    • 111 7 ARE BATTERY-OPERATED BICYCLES CLASSED AS MOTORCYCLES? Ws a cat that looks like a tiger. They want toktfc&u) if these bicycles are classified as Tan who sells about 100 battery-powered bicycles a month costing between $300 and $1,500 each. He says his customers are worried about the appearance of the
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    • 77 7 Battery-operated bicycles are classed as motorcycles if they can go faster than 25kmh or have a maximum power output of more than 200 watts. That means they must be inspected for approval and insurance. The rider also has to be licensed and must abide
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 967 8 New car buyers can now get up to 100 per cent financing over 10 years under new Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) rules. But is it really a good deal? LOW CHING LING and BIAN YU WEI ask the experts
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    • 454 9 EXCITED crowds have been thronging car showrooms recently, followed by a flurry of bookings for new cars. And why not? Buyers can now borrow more money, yet have more time to repay the loan. This is thanks to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) scrapping
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    • 891 10 JUST what would you give for this gold? Yes, that's what these people were asked. They were asked to name their own price. But then the seller decided not to sell after all. Yes, it can happen at an auction like this.
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    • 1049 12  -  By Sheela Narayanan THESE hardcore fans (left and facing page) of Taiwanese boyband F4 have already started queueing up to watch their idols in concert next Tuesday. With a mattress and bamboo mat
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    • 457 14 First, there was Aibo, the robot dog that stole our hearts and made its way into our homes a few years ago. Now, here comes another. A robot that sucks! Literally. The Trilobite is the world's first home robot ix The vacuum cleaner from
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    • 329 22 Reuters. THE new anti-impotence drug, Cialis, has finally hit the streets in Europe. It went on sale on Monday, signalling the start of a multi-billion-dollar battle for a market so far dominated by Viagra. British and German men will be
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    • 324 28 Kedah Umno politican is the victim ONE senior Kedah politician has become the victim of slanderous handphone text messages. The New Straits Times reported that copies of the text messages, with lurid details of the Umno politician's allegedly colourful private life, had been received by one of
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  • And baby makes...
    • 811 32  -  Backache after windsurfing made him suspicious By Eri Akbar PREGNANCY has its privileges. Just ask Annabelle Francis. Five-months pregnant with her first bundle of joy with roly-poly, rapper-hubby Sheikh Haikel, the local compere-actress can eat to her heart's content without feeling any guilt. Any dish
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    • 110 34 WHEN Japan's queen of pop meets Thailand's real-life princess, no prizes for guessing who has to take a bow. But when J-pop queen Ayumi Hamasaki (right) was told to kneel and pay respects to Thai princess Übol Ratana when she was in Bangkok to attend a
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    • 111 34 THINK leggy babes appear only on the catwalk? Well, in the Japanese comedy You're Under Arrest (now on JET TV), they're on the roads too, looking out for jaywalkers and speed demons. Salute Misaki Ito and Sachie Hara who play two butt-kicking traffic police officers. Misaki
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    • 173 34 K-POP stars are stirring up a storm in the Fragrant Harbour. Shin Seung Hun, for one, has performed twice in Hong Kong in the past month. And that's during two major media events, no less! The balladeer, who popularised the theme song I Believe for
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    • 148 35 PATIENCE really pays, if you ask Japanese actress Makiko Esumi's new hubby. The TV producer has been carrying a torch for the leggy beauty since they met on the job five years ago, but he never had a chance to woo her. There were
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    • 144 35 DID you spot a few teenage girls crying their eyes out at Fullerton Hotel two weekends ago? They could have been fanatical fans of K-pop trio JTL, who flew here from Beijing just to chase their idols. Some were so overwhelmed to see JTL made up of
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    • 745 36  -  BY Ann-marde Tan DON'T want. Don't care. Don't dare. Are these really the personal thoughts of Debra Teng, Amy Cheng and Suzan Karim respectively? Or are these views more suitable for the three unmarried characters they are playing? In Action Theatre's comedy, Confessions, a young accountant,
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    • 286 37 Hollywood couple sues magazine AP. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones (above) were "deeply distressed" when "stolen" photographs of their wedding appeared in a celebrity magazine, their lawyer told Britain's High Court on Monday. Mr Michael Tugendhat said the couple were the victims of
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    • 83 37 AVRIL Lavigne (right) has revealed that she suffered from depression after splitting with her first love. The SkBr Boi punk princess said: "I had a boyfriend for six months and he was the first guy to break up with me. I thought I was in love.
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    • 129 38 Protection Cinemax (Ch 59), 7.15pm After entering a witness protection programme, Sal, now living in small-town America with a new identity, soon gets caught up with an ambitious realtor and his quest for an urban Utopia. Stars Stephen Baldwin, Peter Gallagher, Carlo Berardinucci. Magical Legend of The Leprechaun (Part
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    • 78 38 Far And Away Channel i, I Opm Ron Howard's epic tale stars Tom Cruise as Joseph Donnely, an ambitious young farmer in western Ireland. Phua Chu Rang Pte Ltd: Year Of The Goat Channel 5,8pm Kang owes a supplier money and has trouble returning it He fears this will
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    • 307 38 THE documentary, Body Benders, offers a rare insight into the world of contortionists. Let's start with Rose Zone, a professional contortionist who makes a living by performing at clubs. And at unusual locations, like the North Pole. Which was exactly what she did for a photo shoot.
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  • RACING
    • 452 43  -  By Danny Khoo BIG-OCCASION trainer John Meagher turned on the style at the Singapore Turf Club's Lunar New Year meeting at Kranji yesterday. The 54-year-old Australian was in terrific form sending out four winners in the bumper 10-race programme with Light Of Asia, Highland Gem, Übolehla
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    • 1737 44 GOING: HEAVY (RACE 1), SOFT (RACES 2-8), YIELDING (RACES 9-10) I 8 RAUL 57 (11-5) ABeitia (8) 3 2 1 (469) 2.75L 9 ROYAL KINGDOM 57 (19-7) FHerholdt (7) 2 3 2 (491) 2.75 14 PACIFIC EXPRESS 53.5 c 52 (18-7) *M Hairin
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    • 220 44 HISTORY was made at Kranji yesterday when the track was rated heavy for the first time since the Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) relocated to its new premises from Bukit Timah more than three years ago. Fortunately, the wet-track conditions brought about by more than 120
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    • 45 44 Trainer HldeyuM Takaoka will be saying hello to KranJI race-goers on Friday, when he makes his Singapore debut The 46-year-old Japanese has filed two entries Haralgoshl and Hommono —In the Open Benchmark 81 event over 1,400m. FRIDAY'S KRANJI WEIGHTS AND RATINGS Page 45
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    • 1515 45 RACE 1: MALO (respiratory disease) was scratched. V Colgan replaced L Cassidy on DOUGLAS as the latter was certified unwell. KATCHA MAX WIN jumped awkwardly in and was slightly slow. DOUGLAS was slow. PACIFIC CONQUEROR was slightly slow. DANCING AUUytand HIDDEN POWER came
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  • SPORTS
    • 543 47 English football's most mercurial talent has at last found a slot with Chinese side Gansu Tianma. And Paul Gascoigne has said that he is determined to show that he can return to a semblance of the form that lit up the 1990 World Cup finals. The
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    • 153 47 BEFORE he has even really started out in China, Paul Gascoigne has fallen off the wagon. The former England player has already been knocking back booze after training for his new Chinese club Gansu Tiama, said the Daily Star. Recovering-alcoholic Gazza, who has previously hogged the
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    • 207 47 PAUL Gascoigne, once regarded a big talent in world soccer, has battled weight and drinking problems, and been branded a wife-beater. He was unsuccessful in joining an English club this season, even though he said he has shed his drinking habit as well as a few
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    • EPL:
      • 46 48 MATCHTAKE WEEK 22 James, Johnson, Repka, Dailly, Winterburn (Brevett 59), Bowyer, Carrick, Cole, Sinclair (Defoe 68), Les Ferdinand (Kanoute 55), Di Canio Dudek, Carragher, Hyypia, Henchoz, Riise, Smicer (Cheyrou 79), Diouf, Murphy (Hamann 82), Gerrard, Heskey, Baros (Owen 72) y T 1
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      • 159 48 n** Mwii r in. :fe ifm 1 dj |UMM 1 f# ft *y f ,l 73 mm* 1 mU wwmm %-ww oh Enckelman, Friedel, Taylor, Seaman, Cole, Taylor, Harley, Jaaskelainen, Bennett, Cudicini, Keller, Carr, Delaney Johansson, Keown, Goma, Djetou, Mendy, Kenna, Gallas, fjf Desailly, Terry, King, Gardner (Staunton 84),
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      • 286 49 WEST Ham's hopes of climbing towards safety with back-to-back home wins were blown away as they slumped to a 3-0 defeat by Liverpool. The defeat left West Ham second bottom while Liverpool boosted their Champions League hopes. Dion Dublin struck twice in the opening 45 minutes to
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      • 144 49 iiV|V B9 1 r ]i '.v.ijii; ri r> t-J Wright, Robinson, Nash, Hoult, Gregan, Niemi (Jones Barthez (Carroll Sorensen, Kiely, Powell, Pistone, Weir, Kelly, Mills, Sommeil, Moore, 86), Telfer, 37), Gary Gray, Babb, Fortune, Rufus, Stubbs, Matteo Distin, Howey, Gilchrist, Adam Lundekvam, Neville, Craddock, Rsh, Jensen Unsworth, (Radebe71), Dunne
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    • Article, Illustration
      345 50 THE SMUGGLERS r -r- v" i "J l -i- $|1 s hsje |5er\and sa<* e l^ otse aSdandt^ ace nS m Igsgsss 1 i*»uai m* v?«s$«* M®®*®*m Wooer's n 5 e W sBSson vea rs TO Sten® b^S^on II 1 ■jpE^ IfwjSS*"? ,o Ijawpsg* 1 imes to come
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    • STAR COLUMN
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        450 52  -  Exclusive to The New Paper The stars talk to us ONE FOR ALL ALL FOR ONE BY Jerzy Dudek LIVERPOOL I AM very pleased that my international team-mate, Piotr Swierczewski, has come to the Premiership. Birmingham bought quite a few players during the transfer window last month, and
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      • 360 52  -  By Paul Warhurst BOLTON WANDERERS THE three new players that our manager brought in, Salva Ballesta, Florent Laville and Pierre-Yves Andre, have all trained with us this week and they look very good. None of us know a lot about them so it'll be interesting
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      • 268 52  -  By Danny Mills Leeds United WITH England's game against Australia fast approaching, there has been talk among the fans that Paul Robinson's performances in goal for Leeds this season deserve international recognition, and I'd certainly agree that he has been in inspired form. I may
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      • 144 53  -  WEEKEND WINNERS By i Gio Van Bronckhorct ADCrKUI Wm The important thing was that we stuck to Pla^e f te^pSc W a a uke bTttowards the didn't gamble, and we didn't play like we thought it was a hopeless task. We kept playing good football, passing and
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      • 344 53  -  WEEKEND LOSERS By Paolo Di Canio WEST HAM LOSING to Liverpool on Sunday was a big blow. We were not just disappointed for ourselves but we were all very disappointed for the West Ham supporters who have been fantastic for us. After
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    • 511 54 PA Sport. Manchester United saved at least £20 million (ss6m) when David Beckham, Paul Scholes and other top players were emerging through the club's youth set-up, according to Sir Alex Ferguson. Beckham, Scholes, Gary Neville, Nicky Butt and Keith Gillespie were part of the team
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    • 419 55 BIRMINGHAM v MANCHESTER UNITED PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson has admitted he is in the dark over Birmingham's likely line-up for tonight's Premiership encounter at St Andrews. Former Old Trafford old-boy Steve Bruce has made six new signings during the January transfer window in a bid
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    • 461 55 SIR Alex Ferguson will hope to keep up his remarkable managerial record going against players he has bossed, as Manchester United travel to Birmingham tonight. Fergie has enjoyed managerial clashes with four different men who have played under him. Mark McGhee, Gordon Strachan, Bryan Robson and
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    • 155 55 BIRMINGHAM striker Christophe Dugarry has been passed fit to face Manchester United tonight at St Andrews. The French star was substituted after a hamstring strain against Bolton last Saturday but he was able to train yesterday and will face the Red Devils. Geoff Horsfield is also available after
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    • LEEDS UNITED CRISIS
      • 427 56 THE last seven days of drama in Yorkshire have led to two very different outcomes. First, Terry Venables has decided to stick it out at Leeds United for the foreseeable future. Second, and most strikingly of all, football has changed forever. Forget romance, passion, endeavour, drama,
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      • 224 56 I am pleased for El Tel, and the players, that they will now have the chance to prove their worth. I am sad, however, that he has not been given the tools to do a proper job. When Ridsdale tempted him out of TV retirement, Venables
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      • 141 56 THE January sales were very much at Elland Road this year. Woodgate's removal was always going to be the one to provoke the deepest anguish of the Leeds faithful. Like having your home burgled by the jolly swagman after leaving the back door on the latch. Even
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      • 308 56 THE full story of exactly what has gone wrong at Leeds is yet to emerge. But what is for sure is that Leeds are a classic example of what happens when old-fashioned patronage is not ready with the hand of rescue. If the sale of more than
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    • 541 57 FA CUP FOURTH-ROUND REPLAY: LEEDS UNITED (PREMIER) vGILLINGHAM (DIV1) PA Sport. ELLAND Road's current crisis offers Terry Venables the toughest challenge of his long career, but one he cannot lose. If he fails, it is understandable. If he hits the jackpot, it could be the
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    • 415 57 Reuters. LEEDS United manager Terry Venables regards tonight's FA Cup replay against Gillmgham as a fresh start for the club. But Leeds must undergo their renaissance with a depleted back line after Lucas Radebe jarred his knee slipping on ice while putting out his dustbin early
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    • 54 57 GILLINGHAM will be without four first-team regulars. Captain Paul Smith (knee), Barry Ashby (foot), Mark Saunders (hamstring) and Paul Shaw (knee) all miss out. Player-boss Andy Hessenthaler said: "Obviously our plans have been badly affected but sometimes you find that adversity can spur you on to a
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    • 461 58 Reuters. DAVID Beckham, idolised by soccer fans and teenage girls across England, has now stolen the hearts of academics at a British university who describe him as a global phenomenon and sporting messiah. In a study entitled "One David Beckham: Celebrity, Masculinity and the Soccerati",
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      490 59 Gerrard misses three games as Pool count down to the title Wire services. STEVEN Gerrard is out of Liverpool's chase for honours temporarily. He has been banned three matches after being found guilty of violent conduct at a FA disciplinary hearing. And because the England midfielder will be serving
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    • 82 59 BLACKBURN manager Graeme Souness could find himself In more hot water with the FA following his verbal blast at Villa defender Ronny Johnsen. Souness has already requested a personal FA hearing after being charged following an altercation with the fourth official during Rovers' League Cup quarter-final
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