The New Paper, 9 April 2003

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    31 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2003 Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia I com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com. sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA(P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 Hi the new paper
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      79 1 r A Btctivt-a I rrft SKStftS*THE BIG SHOWDOWN Outclassed VLllf r ass 75? 2_Ni\\\ d Pagts 64-78 the Sars suspect from tTAUJ S'pore refused entry into Thailand. So SilkAir flies him home after clearing plane. &g* jj k. i5i m -f vl r- L: f v«>. m Mm y 'V
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon So tough when kids get in the way
    645 2 CHILDREN OF WAR WHEN a young Iraqi boy stooped to pick up a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher off the body of a dead US soldier, US Army Private Nick Boggs had to make an agonising decision. Should he wait and risk death
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
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      962 3 DOs DON'T Personal hygiene and social responsibility are the two key weapons in our fight against Sars. This includes taking a closer look at our own hygiene practices and being considerate to those around us. ANGELINE SONG advises how we can live with Sars I SNEEZING AND COUGHING I It
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      745 5  -  Silk Air clears plane to take Sars suspect back to S'pore after Thai authorities refuse him entiy By Faith Teo LAST Sunday, one passenger, flying from Chiang Mai to Singapore, had a whole Silk Air plane to himself. Not because no-one else bought a ticket on
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      Lock icon 2 baffling cases
      761 6  -  They showed no signs of Sars, and yet they were infectious By Seto Nu-Wen FIRST, the authorities warned that some Sars patients can be "super-infectors" who can spread the disease easily to other people. Now, scientists warn that there can be another group of patients who pose
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    Lock icon Times bad, so pay cuts at Mustafa
    572 7  -  SINGAPORE BY Andre Yeo RETAILERS are reeling from the effects of Sars. Hotels have already reported falling occupancy rates, restaurants are seeing more empty tables and travellers have cancelled tour packages. All these point to a drop in tourist arrivals and that means
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    422 9  -  ARTHRITIC PATIENT SINGAPORE PHOTO IOURNAL1ST DOMINIC YING FOR six months, she felt so weak that she had to take taxis to get around. Now, she not only takes the bus, she has even learnt to swim. Miss Lim Sai Luang suffered from eczema,
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  • SINGAPORE
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      Lock icon $118,118 a month for Jalan Besar food court
      803 11  -  By Desmond Ng NO MKT stations nearby. No sizable HDB estates around. And no shopping centres there either. So who would pay over $100,000 a month to operate an open-air food court at Jalan Besar? Especially in today's uncertain times? Try coffeeshop
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      Lock icon New complex
      100 11 THE Jalan Besar Stadium was closed in December 1999 and has been re-developed at a cost of $33.5 million. One of the new features to the area is the Jalan Besar Swimming Complex, which has a 50m competition pool, a 25m training pool and a wading pool. And
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon He seemed unbreakable
      581 12  -  Celest Chong mourns Leslie Cheung's passing at memorial here By Ann-Marie Tan SHE was there to pay her last respects like all the others. Feeling keenly for the late singer, Channel U artiste Celest Chong was all teary-eyed as she stood in front of the portrait of
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      Lock icon A mahjong set, a racket to send him on his way
      356 13  -  By Wendy Teo THEY knew he loved music, mahjong and badminton. So Leslie Cheung's grieving family prepared one of his albums, a mahjong set and a badminton racket to accompany him on his last journey. To set his soul
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  • SINGAPORE
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      705 14  -  CREDIT CARD vs CREDIT UNE: By- Teh Jen Lee FLASHY ads on TV ask: "Are you ready?" You may ask: "For what?" The answer: Unsecured credit schemes, such as Citibank's Ready Credit and UOB's Cash Plus, that allow you to borrow up to twice your
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      Lock icon Teen terror on streets, mouse in court
      558 16  -  By Lee Tee Jong He is a 13-year-old school drop-out who masterminded a string of robberies in Tiong Bahru. His five victims are all younger than he is. His five accomplices are all older. In one week early this year, he and his
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      Lock icon HOW THE TEENS DID IT
      196 16 THEIR methods were simple. They would target a lone youngster, surround him, take him to an isolated void deck, accuse him of staring at them and ask for his gang affiliation. They would then demand that he hand over his wallet and other valuables. Their
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      214 16 deck, accuse mm ot staring at them and ask for his gang affiliation. They would then demand that he hand over his wallet and other valuables. Their loot from the five robberies between Jan 2 and Jan 9, included cash, handphones, and ez-link and CashCards. If the victim resisted, they
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    Lock icon Heavy rain, pitch needs time to drain
    248 17 SPEAKUP SPEAK UP YOUR FORUM Ms Cindy Tan Assistant Director (Corporate Communications) Group Communications Division Singapore Sports Council WE refer to the report "Waterworld at Jalan Besar: How to be sporting hub?" (The New Paper, Apr 7). The recently completed Jalan Besar Stadium
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    251 19 WORLD Hillary clinton (left) was paid one of the biggest advances in publishing history for her memoirs. But publisher Simon Schuster, which gave her a whopping US$4.B million (sB.6m) advance part of a USsBm total deal for the exclusive rights to her life with the ex-president
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Hu steps in to prevent paper's closure
      360 21 CHINESE president, Mr Hu Jintao personally intervened to stop the closure of a controversial weekly, 21st Century World Herald. It's publication was only temporarily suspended on Mar 13. The South China Morning Post reported that propaganda chiefs in Guangdong, where the tabloid is
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      Lock icon Beijing man sues Guinness 'agent' over bungee jump
      305 22 He paid firm that had no licensing rights $11,000 in bid for world record HE wanted his name in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to bungee jump from a moving aircraft. But after paying the Shanghai Great
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      Lock icon Cut perks and we'll quit
      318 23 Israel's spies threaten mass walkout AT stake are cuts to the Israeli spies' pensions under plans for a massive national cost-cutting drive. Among the 155 agents vowing to quit are several senior operatives, according to Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper, sparking fears that a mass walk-out
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon Youth, 20, dies in hot tea challenge
      321 27 All for a 75-cent wager at a Calcutta tea stall IT was a senseless dare: Gulp down an earthern cup of piping hot tea in one go. The "prize": A meagre 20 rupees (75 cents). Mr Sohail Akhtar, 20, took up the challenge
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      Lock icon You're busy... the computer says so
      330 28 IT MIGHT sound like an evil plot to wring every last drop of sweat out of you, but its inventors insist it is here to help. Researchers in Canada have devised a computer that watches you while you work. But rather than check to
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      Lock icon Dads bonding over baby talk
      293 29 THE tip for fatherhood from the spy who always has enough energy after saving the world for the coital fade-out, but has no children of his own is to sing to babies in the womb. Actor Pierce Brosnan, the current James Bond, tells Dad, a
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      Lock icon Cruz sues over Aussie report
      139 30 Actress Penelope Cruz is suing an Australian magazine for defamation over an article it published, her lawyers said yesterday. Lawyers for Cruz, 28, filed defamation proceedings against New Idea in the New South Wales Supreme Court. The case will be heard on May 30, reported
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      Lock icon Accident 'frees' 80 million bees
      232 30 AP. A SWARM of as many as 80 million bees found freedom in central Florida when a truck carrying them on an interstate highway overturned on Monday. The driver, Mr Conrad Cramer, 82, was killed in the midday accident. The escaped bees circled frantically around
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  • NEWS IQ
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      Lock icon 'Sudden and difficult'
      362 31 PPM LEE: GOVT DID NOT EXPECT SLOWDOWN TO BE WHILE the Government had expected slower growth as the economy matured, it did not expect this. Adding to the challenge were a variety of factors, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. These include the rise of
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      Lock icon Planting a test for chemical attacks
      305 31 OH THE RACK Extract from Wired News: GREEN and leafy, working 24 hours a day in a diverse range of environments, the newest recruits in the fight against terrorism could soon be trailing along your windowsill. As concerns grow over the threat of bioterrorism,
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      Lock icon Stock watch
      53 31 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 6.02/-0.12 Creative Technology 6.46/-0.19 Flextronics 8.70/-0.15 Chartered Semiconductor 3.72/-0.08 Stats 7.30/-0.38 1 Yesterday's action Percentage change Close Dow Down 0.02% (1.49 pts) 8,298.92 Nasdaq Down 0.47% (6.57 pts) 1,382.94 S+P 500 Down 0.19% (1.64 pts) 878.29 STI Down 1.55%
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      Lock icon Three quit SGX
      70 31 THREE top managers at the Singapore Exchange (SGX) have quit after being left out of a new inner circle formed by new chief executive Mr Hsieh Fu Hua, reported The Straits Times. They are Executive Vice-President Jimmy Ang, Chief Financial Officer Anderson Tang and human resources head
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      Lock icon Tighter research rules
      65 31 YESTERDAY, the Health Ministry (MOH) released the findings of an inquiry after Dr Simon Shorvon was sacked from his post as National Neuroscience Institute director because of ethical misconduct. Now, MOH has set out tighter rules for medical research. Among other things, it said hospital ethics committees
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      Lock icon Kids score in English
      72 31 SINGAPORE pupils scored as well as their counterparts in Scotland and New Zealand in an international test of reading skills. The Primary 4 pupils who took part were ranked 15th out of 35, even though English is not their native tongue. Only 43 per cent of
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      Lock icon Comfort boss leaves
      65 31 AFTER six years, Mr Goh Chee Wee, 56, is leaving as the head of Singapore's largest taxi operation on Apr 30. Comfort Group said that with the merger of Comfort and DelGro recently, his post has become redundant, and that the employment contract is to be discontinued
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      Lock icon S'pore India FTA soon
      65 31 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong hopes to see a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement between Singapore and India in 12 to 18 months. The enhanced free trade agreement (FTA) will encompass tariff reductions, investment promotion, increased air links and economic cooperation in areas such as tourism. There
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      Lock icon Cancer vaccine?
      72 31 THE first few cancer patients immunised with a new cancer vaccine showed no bad reactions and, in fact, seemed to mount an immune response against their cancers. Researchers at Geron Corp in California said that the vaccine could work against all major types of cancer. The idea behind
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
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      Lock icon ...But who is she really?
      605 33  -  Here comes the bride... A BY Jeanmarie Tan SHE succeeded where Meg Ryan and Courtney Love failed. How? She got Russell Crowe to settle down. The Gladiator star is tamed at last by the woman who has loved him for 13 years. The mature-looking blonde
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      Lock icon Traditional but lavish wedding ceremony caps Parly Central
      239 33 IT is his biggest and most important role by far: that of a responsible husband. Prodigal heartbreaker Russell Crowe married girlfriend Danielle Spencer yesterday in a traditional but swanky ceremony at his Australian country ranch near Coffs Harbour in northern New South
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      Lock icon Bottled up enthusiasm
      480 34  -  THE COCA-COLA DESIGN AWARD ABOUT 510 design students from nine tertiary institutions submitted their entries by Mar 17. Ten finalists were chosen to compete for the winning prize of $2,000 and a two-week unpaid internship in M C Saatchi London. The winning design will also be carried
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      288 49  -  FOCUS ON KRANJI NEWCOMERS By Tan Thean Loon DESPITE two days of racing on the fibresand track at Kranji this weekend, only three newcomers all unraced have been entered. They are Andros and Winning Expert, who will be lining up in the Restricted Maiden event
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      168 49 RESULTS of four barrier trials over I,ooom on the fibresand track yesterday. The going was good. TRIAL 1:1 Exo (M du Plessis) 2 Almosfamous (J Saimee) 3 Yzerman (S John) 4 Swilcan Burn (KB Soo>s Saint Isaac (F Herholdt) 6 Happy Brigadier Unofficial
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      412 50 GOING: GOOD DANNY KHOO'S GUIDE TO KRANJITRACKWORK OPEN BENCHMARK 75 1,000 m: Trust W Reward canter/41.9. Last-start winner Palm Flyer (O Chavez) 38.7, keeping form. She finished 1 '/2 lengths in front of Tutankhanem (Open Benchmark 48 1,600 m). Trust *N* Triumph 42.8. Exhilaration
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        195 50 WHILE concerns are mounting for the impact of Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) on the holding of the HK$l4 million (553.2 million) Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Sha Tin on April 27, one jockey is taking no chances. Eric Saint-Martin returned home to France from Hong
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        91 50 JOCKEY Mick Dittman's comeback to riding didn't last long. The former champion Australian jockey relinquished his riding licence to the Macau Jockey Club, which he obtained in January. The 51-year-old, who won the Singapore Gold Cup aboard Kim Angel in 2000, had retired from riding last year
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        102 50 TRAINER Bernard Ang must be wondering what he needs to do to saddle a winner on the alternative track, which has been a rich source of winners in past seasons. Five meetings into the fibresand season and he has yet to break his duck. Last
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      235 50 OPEN 1,200 m: Always An Angel (M Kellady) and Exotic trot/38.1, kept together. Last-start winner Always Mine canter/36.4, retaining form. Poetic Duke (du Plessis) 36.2. Prinz Oskar 36.3, easily. Slow work: Kingview, last-start winners Angel's Dream (Teck) and Much Coveted, both holding form. OPEN
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        342 51 cricket MOHAMMAD Sami snared four wickets and Shoaib Malik cracked a blistering half century as Pakistan thrashed Kenya by 143 runs in the Sharjah Cup last night. Pakistan, who have won all three of their group games, will take on Zimbabwe in tomorrow's final. Malik
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        152 51 Family Circle Cup, women's singles, second round (South CaroNna): Vera Zvonareva (Rus) bt 8-Patty Schnyder (US) 6-2,4-6,6-4; 3-Lindsay Davenport (US) bt Daja Bedanova (Czech) 6-0,6-1; First round: 12-Anna Pistolesi (Isr) bt Els Callens (Bel) 6-3,6-1; 14-Nathalie Dechy (Fra) bt Anca Barna (Ger) 6-2, 7-5; Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spa) bt
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      789 54 GOLF: US MASTERS AUGUSTA, LIVE, THURSDAY TO SUNDAY TIGER Woods bids to become the first man to win the US Masters three years in a row when he tees off at Augusta on Thursday. If he does so it may well clinch another world title Sportsman
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      441 54 AFP. TIGER Woods takes aim at an unprecedented third consecutive Masters victory with confidence and fitness levels he termed superior to those he displayed in prior triumphs. Woods begins his quest for a ninth career Major at Augusta, having won three of five starts since
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        729 55 (Q FINALS. 1st LEG) TO find a way of predicting the outcome of tomorrow's Champions League matches, one has first to understand the countries where the clubs come from. It just so happens that both fixtures are Italy vs Spain, two countries which I am very
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          383 56  -  JUVENTUSv BARCELONA (Q FINALS. 1st LEG) By PATRICK KLUIVERT BARCELONA WHILE Marcello Lippi's side currently boast a five-point lead at the top of Serie A, Barcelona are languishing in mid-table obscurity in the La Liga. But Kluivert (left) believes that the team's desperation to do well
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          227 56 JUVENTOS v BARCELONA: Juventus coach Marcello Lippi believes his Czech playmaker Pavel Nedved will be fit to face Barcelona. Nedved's right knee had swelled following a challenge from Torino's Stefano Fattori on Saturday's city derby. Said Lippi: "He is a real man. I am optimistic about his recovery."
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        497 57 (Q-FINALS, 1st LEG) INTER-MILAN v VALENCIA After this morning's match-ups, get ready for another two intriguing contests in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals. ERNEST LUIS looks at the Italian and Spanish showdown with TanjongPagar Prime League coach TOHARI"The Storyteller" PAIJAN (right) AIMAR THREAT WITH
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        476 57 TOHARI'S PREDICTION: Inter I Valencia 1 ERNEST'S PREDICTION: Inter 1 Valencia 2 JUVEvBARCA DUTCH PROBLEM GONE BARCA'S Yugoslav coach Radomir Antic seems to be staving off any negative feelings after lifting his ailing team from relegation threat to 9th spot. In the Champions League,
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        1011 58  -  AJAX 0 AC MILAN 0 AJAX 0 AC MILAN 0 (Q-FINALS, 1st LEG) (Q-FINALS, 1st LEG; TV VIEW ERNEST LUIS Reuters. AJAX Amsterdam and AC Milan battled to a goalless stalemate in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final early this morning. But
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        149 58 4th minute: Milan denied. Filippo Inzaghi lays the ball to Andriy Shevchenko who drives the ball at Bogdan Lobont, but he blocks it well. 31>t Afax threaten. Rafael van der Vaart jumps above Massimo Ambrosini and heads the ball towards goal but Dida saves. 56th: Ajax waste chance.
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        152 58 It's a very positive result. Defensively we played well, and gave them any chances, although I don't think we played aggressively enough and we allowed Ajax to control the match. But everything is still open. We have proved in the past that we can play very
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      622 59 The scoreline says it all. LUKE PACHYMUTHU breaks down performances of the world-class stars who were supposed to make an impact in this match. REAL MADRID 3 MAN U 1 ZINEDINE ZIDANE There was probably nothing you can do to fault this great footballing magician. His presence in
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      319 60  -  TIPTALK BY Edwin Yeo WHILE the scoreline was a little bit shocking, Real Madrid's 3-1 victory over Manchester United was not totally unexpected by the punters. A Real Madrid win was, after all, the most heavily punted position according to a UK bookmaker. The same bookmaker
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      204 60 PA Sport. REAL Madrid midfielder Steve McManaman (left) revealed that his team-mates were disappointed not to have kept a clean sheet and that Manchester United were very much still in the tie. "We shouldn't have conceded a goal, it was very quiet in
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      866 61  -  REAL MADRID 3 MAN 1 TV VIEW EDWIN YEO WHO'S the best striker in the world? Ronaldo or Ruud Van Nistelrooy? If you watched Real Madrid demolish Manchester United at the Santiago Bernabeu this morning, you know there can only be one answer. Raul. The question was wrong
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      521 62 Devils miss class of Argentinian SIR Alex Ferguson tried every trick in the box even to the point of landing himself on a Uefa disrepute charge. But in the end it wasn't Uefa, Fifa or a dodgy referee who told Sir Alex what he and every coach in
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      205 62 I'm happy with the result. We suffered a lot but It was still a good game. In Manchester, we will still have to play and try to score. Sometimes it is hard to show your quality in games like these and they have some great players
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        512 63 What United have to d 0... IT seems an impossible task for Manchester United. They were shown Real class this morning. But nothing is beyond the Red Devils. The goal they got through Ruud van Nistelrooy has given them a lifeline. Now it is up to
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        112 63 AFP. MANCHESTER Uriited's Argentinian midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron (left), who missed the loss to Real Madrid this morning, is in Rome for medical treatment. His agent Fernando Hidalgo revealed yesterday that the midfielder will undergo two days of treatment on his injured right knee. Hidalgo
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      873 64  -  WANG MENG MENG MAN United fans, please bear with me. No offence to the great club that you support, but mere is something definitely amiss in the Red Devils' 3-1 defeat by Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final first leg at Bernabeu
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        72 65 1 GOAL 2 GOAL 3 GOAL 4 United are undone as SchQles is caught napping just outside his own box. Zidane plays in Raul who fends off the advances of Ferdinand before burytngalow shot past Barthez. iMhiaiu. H 4iw MINa Figo plays in Raul on the edge
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        193 65 WANGMENGMENG: Accident or pure genius? Only Figo knows. You could interpret that as a cross because Raul is waiting at the far post. But Real Madrid fans will argue that with a magician like Figo in the side, goals like that are very much pre-planned. m
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        223 65 MENG MENG: Full marks to Zidane for his quick thinking and invention. But there's a big question mark over Ferdinand for a poor marking job on Raul. He didn't even put in a meaningful challenge to stop the striker from running away. M EDWIN: It was great
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        211 65 MENG MENG: Great individual play from Figo and positional play from Raul. Raul's shot is unerring but Nicky Butt has to shoulder some responsibility for his half-hearted defending. He was seen jogging as he closed Raul down and just stuck out a lazy leg in an effort
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        607 65 MWiiMe: David Beckham's free-kick smashes against the Real Madrid wall. Fernando Hierro is brave to charge down Nicky Butt's foliowup. lttfc More pressure from the Red Devils as Paul Scholes fires a first-time shot after the Real defence is unable to dear the danger from the box. life The
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        561 66 PA Sport. Manchester united's Champions League dream was left dangling by the thinnest of threads after they were taught a footballing lesson by a classy Real Madrid. A battling last 35 minutes at the Bernabeu, which should have brought them more than Ruud van Nistelrooy's single strike,
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      336 67 PA Sport THE Real Madrid man who said Manchester United's defence would be their weak link, was spot on. Paco Jiminez had been had been sent to spy on United's clash with Liverpool on Saturday and was full of praise for Beckham and Ruud Van
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      612 67 PA Sport SIR Alex Ferguson (left) admitted his side had no answer to the "best player in the world" in the Bernabeu Stadium and jokingly suggested he would prevent Raul from entering England in a fortnight. The Spanish striker scored either side of the
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      22 68 REAL MADRID 3 MAN U 1 lot I ygi mM m BECKS: Will Real Madrid still want him now? Picture/ REUTERS
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      35 69 V r m Real bought Figo, >£ Zidane, Ronaldo but the r best player in the world at the moment is Raul. Man U manager Sir Alex Ferguson RAUL: Two brilliant goals Picture/Ap
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