The New Paper, 19 May 2003

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  • 31 1 the new paper MONDAY, MAY 19, 2003 Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia1.com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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    • 59 1 FIRST QUARTER RESULTS Economic growth down Job losses double Newly discovered data in 'black box' could prove... 5$ 58 to 4 4$/. m mm File picture/ ST m Hj Red Devils want me, claims Real Madrid star FOCUS ON Will Beck's latest hairstyle spark a trend? S; *ys v/ >*M
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    • 531 2 Singapore's growth slows from 3.0% last quarter to 1.6% in Jan to Mar SARS has made it difficult for the Singapore economy to breathe. All major sectors worsened. The economy slowed from 3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2002 to 1.6 per cent in the
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    • 86 2 SINGAPORE'S economy has hit the slow lane in the first quarter of this year. The economy which grew 3 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, grew only 1.6 per cent during the first quarter of this year. But one bright spot was the export front.
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    • 554 3 Singapore's growth slows JOBS TOTAL employment declined for the seventh consecutive quarter, Ql, by 9,400, more than double the 4,100 job losses in the previous quarter. And amid the many uncertainties for the rest of the year, economists noted that almost one thing is for sure: Unemployment
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    • 1037 4  - New data shows rudder may be cause US lawyers Silk Air crash: New evidence may rule out pilot suicide By Karen Wong THE flight data recorder (FDR) did not stop minutes before a Silk Air jet crashed 5 Va years ago, and went on to record what could have been
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    • 488 5 US investigation THE investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the crash was likely to have been caused by an "intentional pilot action" by Captain Tsu Way Ming. The US representative took part in the investigation as the Boeing plane was made in the US.
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  • SARS OUTBREAK
    • 1118 6  -  Across the causeway... REPORTS PICTURES ARUL JOHN ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF in KL SAY you're from Singapore, and some Malaysians ask if you have severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). At the same time, most of the people The New Paper spoke to in Kuala Lumpur think
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    • 373 6  -  STORE NOT CLEAR BY Dawn Chia IT'S still a mystery how Singapore's latest Sars patient contracted the disease. The patient, Malaysian Lee Chong Kian, a 39-year-old permanent resident here, had not been to China, Hongkong or Taiwan recently, though he did travel to Johor. He
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    • 336 7 I WE don't want to go to Singapore because it's just not safe. That's the stand of some Indonesians The New Paper spoke to. But not all. One businessman said he would continue his regular visits. He felt media reports made the situation seem more
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    • 298 7 THAIS FOR Thais The New Paper spoke to, the Sars situation is no big deal. They felt the efficiency, cleanliness and responsibility of both the government and general public are effectively curbing the spread of the virus here. Said Mr Duang Prateeb Charoenchart, a businessman in
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    • 225 7 FILIPINOS SARS or no Sars, we'll go to said some Filipinos The New Paper spoke to. Said Mr Teofilo Duran, who works for Philippines Airlines and plans to be here next month: "I've been reading newspapers and watching CNN and so far, the situation in
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    • 969 9  -  By Carol Leong WHEN Ruby Chen holds a talk, she'd ask a question, "who here is comfortable starting a conversation with a stranger at a cocktail function?" In her experience, 99 per cent of the class (if it's held in Asia) will
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    • 123 9 THERE are several networking organisations in Singapore. An unusual one is Connexions, which held its first lunch in March, at the home of the US ambassador. When its president, Mr Antonio Faillace, came here two years ago, he saw many networking organisations banding around three
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    • 420 10  -  By Cassandra Chew IT HAS been four years and they are still waiting for the amenities promised by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). No wonder the residents of Jurong West Street 61 are fed up. In fact, they have started calling the still uncompleted site
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    • 124 10 WHEN contacted, Ms Sum Foong Yee, HDB's senior executive public relations officer, confirmed that it has changed contractors for the project twice. Wei Sin Construction Pte Ltd began work in October 1999. However, according to Ms Sum, it was declared bankrupt two years later. Another contractor,
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    • 482 11  -  Report and picture Hedy Khoo EVEN with swollen ankles and an aching back, Mr Sarkasi Said labours on to break a Guiness World Record what he hopes is the longest batik painting in the world. The 63-year-old looks exhausted only when he takes short
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    • 544 12  -  But in an unusual twist in court, judge throws out case By Tan Ooi Boon IT started as a routine divorce application, with a woman going to court to seek more maintenance from her ex-husband. But in an unusual twist, the woman left the court empty-handed.
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    • 100 12 ONE in five Singaporeans over the age of 65 will be asset-rich and cash-poor, according to a recent study. The study, done with the support of the WhartonSingapore Management University Research Centre, showed the average worker would have 75 per cent of his assets in housing
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  • 375 14 WORLD Reuters. ARMED with measuring tapes, German tax inspectors are checking out brothels and other sex venues. But it's work, not pleasure. You see, any sex venue that takes up 10 square metres of business space per day is eligible for a "pleasure tax"
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    • 108 17 CHIPE, a 10-year-old Hema militia member, chasing a woman out of a house at gunpoint in the north-eastern Congolese town of Bunia yesterday. Hundreds streamed back to their homes in Bunia as calm returned after more than a week of tribal fighting.
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    • 253 17 HAD this report appeared last month, you would have been tempted to dismiss it as some April Fool's joke. But it is real, reports Indian newspapers. Scientists at India's Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in the state of Gujarat say they have produced salt
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    • 278 20 AP. SHE can't hear any of the tunes she composes. Ms Tammie Willis may have lost all hearing when she was beaten by a robber, but she definitely has a feel for music. She received a master's degree in music composition on Saturday from Virginia
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    • 216 20 Reuters. POLITICIANS lie. That's the verdict of a recent study. Mr Glen Newey, a political scientist at the University of Strathclyde said that lying is an important part of politics in the modern democracy. He told The Observer: "Politicians need to be more
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    • 378 22 LEAVE it to Bollywood to party in style. In an edge-of-the-seat spectacle, the International Indian Film Academy (UFA) Awards 2003 grand finale held in South Africa enthralled thousands of fans including hundreds of Indian South Africans. Dressed in a shimmery white outfit, Akshay Kumar kick-started the
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    • 124 22 INDIAN leading man, Amitabh Bachchan (below, shaking hands with fans) is to star in a film about the life of Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela, based on the latter's autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom. It will be directed by his friend, South African
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    • 164 24 AP. THE men showed up in their swimming trunks and the women wore their bikinis. Okay for the beach, but a polling station in Antwerp, Belgium? They were among the 1,600 people who cast their votes for yesterday's elections in their swimsuits hoping
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    • 479 24 THAI parents who want to get their children into prestigious schools can expect to fork out as much as a million baht ($40,850) up front as a donation. Alternatively, mum and dad might be asked to donate a new mini-van
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    • 388 25 THIS childless couple went for artificial insemination to try for a baby What they got instead was grief: After being fertilised with sperm from an unknown donor, the woman contracted HIV, reported India's Deccan Herald. Termed as Asia's first case of the
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    • 388 26 AP. ALCOHOLICS determined to kick the drinking habit may soon find help in a new drug that was actually developed to fight epilepsy. A recent US study involving 103 alcoholics shows that the anti-seizure drug, topiramate, appears to be very effective. Half the participants
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  • 403 28 Japanese grads turn to vocational schools to boost employment chances WORLD STUDENT Ayumi Tachibana, a representative of her college, yelled lustily, along with her peers at a ceremony in March to kick-off job hunting in Tokyo. But, she, like other graduate students in
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    • 189 30 YOU are dead in Singapore if you are competing on low costs and surviving on thin margins. Professor Philip Poh made this comment about the effects on local firms, due to the sudden sharp fall of the US dollar against the Singapore dollar. Prof
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    • 73 30 THE hand, foot and mouth disease has infected nine children at NTUC Childcare's Jurong West centre. One has now recovered while the others are resting at home. They are expected to return to the centre next week. The first case was discovered on May 9. No
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    • 73 30 WOMEN were the focus at last night's Singapore Aids Candlelight Memorial. The number of women with HIV/Aids here has been rising, with more than 30 new cases each year since 1998. Nominated MP Braema Mathi said women with HIV/Aids, most of whom are infected by their partners,
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    • 73 30 SINGAPORE'S first no-expenses unit trust is being launched by APS Asset Management, which has submitted its proposed fund to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the CPF for inclusion in the CPF Investment Scheme. APS will absorb all charges but will take a performance fee of 30
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    • 71 30 STRUGGLING construction firm Econ International has been granted protection from creditors until next month. It owes around $50 million to suppliers and sub-contractors. But at least a few of the 1,000-odd creditors are upset about the debt revamp scheme, which includes paying a large chunk of
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    • 69 30 DEPUTY Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tony Tan, and Home Affairs Minister, Wong Kan Seng, have refuted KL's claims that Singapore had not done enough in preventing the "export" of Sars to Malaysia. Dr Tan said the government had been open in handling the Sars crisis and
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    • 72 30 A 58-year-old grandfather delivered his granddaughter at home when a private ambulance took 45 mins to arrive. The premature baby remained attached to its mother by the umbilical cord because the attending paramedic didn't know how to cut it. An SCDF paramedic, who arrived later did, and
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    • 246 30 OH THE RACK Extract from The Guardian: Latest figures revealed that there are as many middle-aged music fans downloading music as there are those under 24, fuelling doubts about the wisdom of pushing teen fodder such as Busted over the Internet instead of mature
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    • 183 30 LAST WEEK: Early in the week, the market reacted badly to fears of a Sars outbreak at the Institute of Mental Health. At week's end, hope arose that it was merely flu. This turned out to be the case. A new Sars case, however, has delayed Singapore being
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      • 172 32 ALL applicants will be called in for an audition. For the previous batch, there were over 3,000 applicants (from preteens to a 50-year-old woman, students to working executives, teachers, lawyers, models, and even TV artistes) and over 20 auditions were held in a month. Ocean Butterflies' music director Billy
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      • 78 32 STUDENTS will be split into different classes and will be required to go for lessons (lVa hrs each) twice a week, for three to six months, starting from June or July. You have to pay fees, but no more than $300 a month, said Mr Koh. You will be
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      • 230 32 OF the graduates, only the best will be offered one-year artiste contracts. Ocean Butterflies will provide further training 1 and invest in plans to groom you to be the next pop star. Your contract will be renewed if you show potential. "Everyone can be trained. It's just a matter
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      • 141 32 BY this time, you would have recorded all your songs, shot promotional photos and music videos, and learnt how to handle media interviews. Now it's time to call a press conference and embark on a series of promotional activities on TV and radio to maximise exposure and publicity, from
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      • 167 32 1 Lee Wei Song School Of Music: Started in 1995 by twin brothers Lee Wei Song and i Lee Si Song, the school offers various 1 courses like vocal techniques and pop piano. Its star student is Stefanie Sun, i who enrolled in the school in 1997 when she
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    • 423 33  -  MAKE ME A POP STAR By Chang May Choon THE transformation is startling. When A-do first went for his audition, he was a nerdy construction foreman with an unflattering crewcut and ah pek (old man) striped shirt tucked into gaudy pants. Now the 28-year-old
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    • 132 34 WHAT is it with pop stud Justin Timberlake and his dancers (left)? He is now rumoured to be seeing sexy dancer-model Staci Flood, whom he first met on the music video for Rock Your Body. That's after dumping Jenna Dewan, also a back-up dancer, from his
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    • 56 34 Are wedding bells ringing for Peter Parker and Mary Jane? Kirsten Dunst (above) has been pictured in a wedding dress on the set of the Spider-Man sequel, heightening speculation that her character will marry the web-slinging superhero in the second instalment. However, film insiders have
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    • 170 35 JOLIN Tsai has been dumped by Jay Chou. And this news comes from none other than Jay's mentor, Jacky Wu. According to a Taiwanese report, the big-mouthed Jacky let the cat out of the bag when Jolin was a guest on his show Hello Jacky. Jolin, who
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    • 138 36 NEVER mind if she doesn't have a boyfriend, Cecilia Cheung has her pets. Apparently, Cecilia has quite a zoo of her own. She has eight dogs, 15 tortoises, four lizards and two cats. The 23-year-old actress said: "My dogs are my sons, my cats are my daughters,
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    • 151 35 DRUMMER Ming from Mayday has a new girlfriend again. The 30-year-old has earned himself a Casanova reputation after changing two girlfriends in less than a year. In September last year, Ming ditched his girlfriend of three years, Jieling, for a research student, Xiaoyou,
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  • RACING
    • 689 47 Reuters. LONG odds are part of Funny Cide's make-up. So is overcoming them. Funny Cide shoots for racing immortality in three weeks' time when he attempts to become just the 12th horse in US thoroughbred racing to win the Triple Crown. In an era
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    • 771 47 GENERAL—Jan 26 meeting. Race 1: Further investigation into the withdrawal of RAUL in the race did not reveal any evidence for which the stewards could take action. The matter was concluded. May 9 meeting, Race 1: Last Monday, trainer A Riley, when questioned about
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        392 48 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX AFP. MICHAEL Schumacher is invincible. Or so it seems. Yesterday, Schumacher defied the elements thrown at him, and then scored his third successive victory of the season. Incidentally this was his 67th career win on the Al-Ring track at the Austrian Grand Prix. "What a
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      • 212 48 TENNIS Hamburg Masters Series, final: 12-Guillermo Coria (Arg) bt Agustin Calleri (Arg) 6-3,6-4, 6-4. WTA Rome Masters, flnak 2-Kim Clijsters (Bel) bt 4-Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) 3-6,7-6 (7/3), 6-0. Doubles final: 5-Martina Navratilova (US) and Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) bt Jelena Dokic (Yug) and Nadia Petrova (Rus) 6-4, 5-7,6-2. CRICKET
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      906 49  -  Our girls' amazing fight back WOMEN'S WORLD FLOORBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS REPORTS WANG MENG MENG FOUR times they fell behind. Four times they clawed back. Final score: 8-8. That was the amazing result yielded by the Division B Group B clash between Singapore and Australia at the 4th Women's
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      • 781 51 ...thanks to former Liverpool player SPAIN Wire Services. REAL Madrid, who were knocked out of the Champions League last week, returned to winning ways in style yesterday. They crushed Malaga 5-1 to keep their campaign for a 29th Spanish league title firmly on track. The win
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      • 104 51 BARCELONA'S hopes of European football for next season faded further with a limp performance against Mallorca, who are still very much in the hunt for a Uefa Cup berth. Alvaro Novo's shot deflected in off Patrick Kluivert to put Mallorca ahead after 23 minutes. Barcelona finally started to
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        288 52 ITALY, SCOTLAND, HOLLAND, GERMANY FRANCE AFP. IN Italy, Juventus wrapped up the title last week, so cash-strapped Lazio stepped into the limelight. The Roman club did this by claiming a place in the highly-lucrative Champions League after coming from behind to beat Brescia 3-1. Lazio join Juventus, Inter-Milan and
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      • 130 52 SAMPDORIA are back in Italy's top-flight after a season in Serie B sorting out its financial problems. And they have already begun arming themselves for next season by emerging as favourites to sign Japan star Atsushi Yanagisawa. The Serie B leaders have also entered the race to sign
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      • 154 52 AFP. THE Scottish Premier League title is headed for the wire. Rangers 2-0 win at Hearts yesterday has locked them level with Celtic on 94 points from 37 games. While the two have an identical goal difference, Rangers having scored one more to head the standings. Georgian striker Shota
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      • 162 52 AFP. FEYENOORD's Pierre van Hooijdonk scored a hat-trick against leaders PSV Eindhoven yesterday helping his side to a 3-1 win over the Dutch leaders. But his brace also helped keep his clubs title chances alive. PSV's lead at the top of the First Division was cut to three points
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        144 52 AFP. BAYER Leverkusen moved out of the relegation places in Germany after beating 1860 Munich 3-0. The win gave new coach Klaus Augenthaler (right) a perfect start in his bid to save last season's Champions League finalists from the drop. Daniel Bierofka put Leverkusen on their way with an
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      • 70 52 FRANCE Former France captain Didier Deschamps picked up his first coaching silverware after his classy Monaco side outshone Sochaux in the French League Cup final at the Stade de France. Deschamps watched his side destroy Sochaux 4-1 in a superb second half display and then set his sights on
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    • MANCHESTER UNITED’S TITLE
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        1435 53 Barclaycard Premier League Standings Last 10 Hofr» Away Team (last wk pot) HMo Ft Fta W04.-F-A (top soccer during this period) toak W 0 L F A W D L F h 1 Man Utri (i) (1-101 38 83 9-1-0-298 (13 van Nisteirooy) W4 16 2 1 42 12 9
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        1545 54 Alarm Showever 221 (42 pens) Blackburn 112 (19). Newcastle 109 (23); Maoris 152(0 pens) Blackburn 16 (0), Man Utd 93 (0). Newcastle 43 (0); L« FMmll37 (0 pens) Newcastle 41 (0). QPR 61 (0). Tottenham 33 (0). Wast Ham 2 (0); MM* Footer 136 (12 pens) Leeds 14 (1). Liverpool
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    • FA CUP
      • 295 55 Arsenal\ ARSENAL'S HURRAH 'M] Reuters. I ARSENAL retained their FA Cup in Cardiff with a performance which begged more questions than it answered about their chances of success next season. Their 1-0 victory over a hard-working but strictly mid-table Southampton side showed
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      • 182 55 Reuters. ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger says that better defending will be the key to his team's bid to win back the league title next season. Speaking after they retained the FA Cup against Southampton, Wenger said he was considering his next moves on the transfer
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      • 167 55 Reuters. WHAT will happen to David Seaman (right)? Will he stay on at Arsenal at the Gunners' goalkeeping coach or their No 1 'keeper? Or will he quit Highbury and join another club in order to prolong his playing career? Arsene Wenger is unsure Seaman could
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      • 714 56 Wire Services. I MA f E all talk about the I Uy "romance" of the FA Cup A WW the idea that the world's oldest cup competition allows the small teams to have ago at the big teams. f* But beyond this
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      • 1055 57  -  By Edwin Yeo EVEN though Arsenal finished the season with the FA Cup, let's not pretend that it was a successful season for the Gunners. For a team who, by Christmas, was favourite to win every tournament, ending up with just the FA Cup isn't quite
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    • UEFA CUP FINAL
      • 571 58 CELTIC v PORTO Thursday, 2.30am, (Singapore time) RUI Costa of AC Milan has written off Celtic's chances of a Uefa Cup dream win in Seville and insisted Porto will have too much quality for the Scots. Former Benfica and Fiorentina playmaker Costa helped AC
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      • 379 58 CELTIC star Stilian Petrov (left) says his team-mates will be up against one of the best teams in the world when they take on Porto. Bookies have made the Portuguese team favourites. r i i. But Celtic have sent Liverpool, Celta Vigo, Stuttgart and Blackburn
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      • 250 58 PORTO coach Jose Mourinho believes the pressure is on Celtic when the two clubs lock horns in the Uefa Cup final. Porto rated as marginal favourites to lift the trophy after comfortably beating Lazio in the semi-finals. But Porto chief Mourinho feels the weight of expectation
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    • 632 59 Another fashion statement from the England star or a poke in the nose for Sir Alex Ferguson IS it going to be a season of change for David Beckham? The Manchester United midfielder seems to be mocking his manager Sir Alex Ferguson. Against the stern disciplinarian's attempt to
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    • 394 60 AFP ENGLISH Premiership champions Manchester United have held talks with the agent of Real Madrid's French international midfielder Claude Makelele, the player claimed yesterday. United manager Sir Alex Ferguson may be seeing Makelele as the ideal long-term replacement for skipper Roy Keane, struggling with
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    • 307 60 S AFRICA V ENGLAND Reuters EVERTON's teenage striker Wayne Rooney and Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy are out of England's squad to face South Africa in a friendly in Durban next Thursday, because of injury. Rooney has failed to recover from a knee injury while
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