The New Paper, 25 May 2003

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    • 580 2  -  By Karen Wong WITH Sars, not only are our lives at stake, but also our livelihoods. And this has become even more apparent in the last couple of weeks as the National Wages Council (NWC) released its guidelines and Singapore Airlines holds talks with its unions
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    • 156 2 SINGAPORE'S cost structure must be adjusted for it to stay competitive and attract foreign investors, said PM Goh. Part of those costs are the wage structures, which have to be reinvented, he said. "It's a battle of survival... Unfortunately, there can be no gain
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    • 678 3  -  WAR VICTIM WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD By j Azhar Ghani A LI Ismail Abbas, 12, attracted global attention after suffering horrific injuries in a coalition bomb attack. The boy, who also lost both his arms after an American bomb struck his Baghdad home in early April,
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    • 1231 4  -  Her young life is wasted on drugs and stealing. Then she's sexually assaulted by two boys and attempts suicide 10 times. REPORTS TEO HWEE NAK IT was hard to believe that the SMS came from a 16-year-old girl born and bred here. It said:
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    • 328 4 REVENGE was on Jane's mind when she went to a private investigator (PI) last month. She wanted the PI to tail a teacher and find out where she lived. Said Jane: "She's not my teacher, but my best friend's teacher. "We've been through
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    • 206 4 COUNSELLOR David Kan likens Jane to a tightrope walker. She wants to start with a clean slate and live life anew, but she is still walking in the shadows of her past traumas. Said the executive director of the Family Life Centre: "It's a good sign that she
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    • 1081 5  -  Leslie Kwok and Kenneth Goh are the two oldest swimmers hoping to represent Singapore in the SEA Games REPORTS CALVIN LOW BY his own admission, Kenneth Goh lives to eat. This interview took place at three eateries: A popular laksa joint, a deli, and a gelato parlour, and
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    • 546 6 LET'S face it, if you've been off competitive sport for some 20 years, getting back into the swing of things might result in a painful pull, or worse. Right? Well, the pain might not be as bad as you imagine, if you train right. And,
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    • 995 7  -  PREGNANT WOMAN IN MRT ESCALATOR ACCIDENT I By Aaron Low SHE named her baby girl Joy as she is the first grandchild on either side of the family. But Mrs Juliet Tan had to go through a lot of anxiety before giving birth
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    • 1053 8  -  But she got one with her mum's name REPORTS GLORIA CHANDY SHE thinks it's a pity that she didn't get the street sign. But Ms Margaret Thomas (right, looking at her father's sign) isn't one to fret. "You could
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    • 256 8 WHEN the ComChest-LTA Streets of Singapore e-auction closed at 8pm on Apr 30, $239,000 worth of bids were received. A corporate appeal had already been launched in March. And that netted the Community Chest to which all proceeds of the auction were donated $49,000. Companies
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    • 820 9  -  Punggol upgrade provides pleasant potential Jy Brian Miller I THINK I would like to live in Punggol. And for good reasons. First, the URA's recently-released Draft Master Plan 2003 has conjured up some exciting images of what life could be like in Singapore's often-neglected north-east.
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    • 32 2 Don't stick your fork or chopsticks into the communal dishes. Otherwise, the germs from different people will have a great get-together and take the opportunity to hop from one person to another.
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    • 924 11  -  SARS? JOB WOES? HA HA HA! REPORTS SKYE TAN PAY cut, wage freeze, retrenchment threat. Slower growth, Sars, terrorists... So what's so funny? What's there to laugh about? Tell that to a group of Singaporeans at the East Coast park every Wednesday
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    • 128 12 SINCE emerging in India in 1995, laughter therapy has caught on in various countries, including France, Germany and Denmark. In India alone, there are more than 4,000 laughter clubs, reported www.tribuneindia.com. Laughter therapy is the brainchild of Indian doctor Madan Kataria, who believes one
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    • 291 13 Bridesmaid 'stepped on needle' in her shop YOU can step into her boutique only by appointment. But for one customer, she stepped onto the point of a sharp needle. t And she sued the owner. Wk Bridal gown queen Vera Wang (above right), who
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    • 1371 15 SOCIAL WORKER'S FIGHT FOR THAI GIRLS To numerous girls sold into sexual slavery in Thailand, Sompop Jantrakais their saviour. Twice nominated for' the Nobel Peace Prize, this unassuming man has shown Thai girls a new way of life, reports MARC LERNER, writing for Readers Digest LIKE
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    • 313 16 AP. REMEMBER that ad slogan that asks motorists to "put a tiger in your tank"? Well, now Mr Brian Appel, 44, chief executive of Changing World Technologies, wants you to put a turkey in it. He has developed a process for cooking
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    • 174 18 WOES OF MISS TAIWAN SHE was the first beauty queen to arrive in Panama for the Miss Universe 2003 contest. Never mind the two-day journey from Taiwan and the tests she had to undergo to prove that she was free of Sars. Miss Chen Szu
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    • 468 20 SCHOOL BUDGET CRISES IN UK HE could have retrenched the staff members. This would have eased the school budget crisis while still enjoying his own full pay. But the head teacher of a Norfolk village school chose instead to put himself on a
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    • 209 21 WORST STUDENTS IN UK THEY are the worst students in living memory. So said a survey about the current batch of UK students. Published on Friday in London's Times Higher Education Supplement, it said the reasons were falling standards in final school exams and
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    • 519 24 MURDER OF FILIPINO TV GREAT NIDA BLANCA AP. HE played a teenage killer in the 1963 sci-fi horror flick, The Crawling Hand. Now, four decades later, B-list actor Roger Lawrence Strunk or Rod Lauren as he is better known has found himself embroiled in a
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    • 336 25 POPULAR TV actress Nida Blanca was found stabbed to death in her green Nissan Sentra on Nov 7, 2001. She was 65 years old. More than a week after her murder, Pedro Philip Medel Jr allegedly confessed to stabbing Ms Blanca. He said Roger Lawrence Strunk, her
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    • 154 26 Drivers in Japan startled by... A RUNAWAY horse sparked an hour-long chase down a busy expressway in Japan on Friday. The 8-year-old gelding was among five horses being transported to an equestrian event in Kakegawa when the truck they were travelling in crashed into the centre divider
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  • NEWS
    • 286 31 Great job, join us. That's what the World Health Organisation (WHO), impressed with how Singapore has tackled Sars, is telling the Health Ministry here. The world body wants Singapore to become a full member of its global alert and response network. WHO's Dr David
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    • 206 31 THERE is no alert from the US now about terrorist attacks in Singapore or other South-east Asian countries. "There is no new travel advisory for Singapore," a US embassy spokesman told The Straits Times. Security in the region was stepped up after reports
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    • 71 31 You should not think that your parents and grandparents had all the gooaopportunities and young people today have nothing to do. There are still good opportunities for change in the knowledge economy, banking, biotech and many other fields. Deputy Prime Minster Lee Hsien Loong's advice at a
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    • BRIEFLY
      • 69 31 THE Health and Education ministries will soon announce measures, to ensure that children with higher than normal temperatures are not kept away from school. Acting Manpower minister Dr Ng Eng Hen said that when checking children for fever, the ceiling shouldn't be higher than 37.5 deg C just
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      • 72 31 AN Indian policeman on guard duty at Mumbai airport shot dead his commanding officer yesterday and took six constables hostage In a passenger lounge. "He still has his rifle/' said Mr Sudhir Kumar, director of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. Five of the hostages are women. No passengers were
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      • 73 31 A WEBSITE featuring a database of test papers on mathematics, English, Chinese and science, for Primary 1 to 6 has attracted 7,000 subscribers who pay $60 per year. The site: www.testpapers.com.Bg, has a bank of about 50,000 questions, which a team of five editorial and technical staff, none
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      • 82 31 POP star Michael Jackson, who amassed half a billion dollars over the past 20 years, is saddled with debt and near bankruptcy, his former financial advisers said in a lawsuit. Union Finance and Investment Corp of South Korea filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming
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      • 80 31 US President George W Bush may visit Singapore in October when he attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in Thailand. US officials can't confirm if Singapore is on his itinerary which might also indude a stopover in Manila. Although it is unlikely to happen, there is
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      • 75 31 AN elderly Singaporean was sentenced on Friday to 14 years'jail in Shanghai, for swindling 3.8 million yuan (about $800,000). The court also fined Woo Yoo Long, in his 70s, 200,000 yuan. In May 2002, Woo, in collaboration with Lin Zongxian, of Fujian Province, cheated a businessman from Zhejiang
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      • 84 31 AN 8-year-old boy, a pupil of Anderson Primary School, died at the traffic junction between Ang Mo Kio Avenues 6 and 9 yesterday when he was hit by a private bus. The driver, a 58-year-old Malaysian, arrested for causing death by a rash act, is on $10,000
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      • 75 31 MILLIONS of women and children fleeing the world's conflicts end up in refugee camps where sexual abuse, sometimes by relief workers, is common, a US congressional report said. It said the United Nations had not done enough to fill crucial supervisory positions and train relief workers. The
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    • 951 34 When in France... Who said the Oscars has the best red carpet action? Maybe it's the whole idea of being by the French Riviera, doing the mwah-mwah thing with arty European film types. But it's United Colours at Cannes, where you can wear
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    • 648 35  -  By TAN DAWN WEI YOU don't want to take Confidence too seriously. Because, like all grand-slam heist movies, the story is a little bit over-the-top. As throw-away entertainment for a lazy weekend afternoon, it's perfect. It's a clever-enough crime caper, it's got sexual chemistry,
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    • 160 35 British actress Rachel Weisz, who plays a smooth pickpocket in the movie, worked with a magician to leam how to master wallet-fingering. The cast and crew were tight-lipped about plot details for fear of giving too much of the juicy plot twists away. The crime kingpin that Hoffman
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    • 341 36 YOU'VE seen it before. Guy meets girl, they unwittingly fall in love, break up, then get back together right after telling each other to get lost. But just like a tantalising magazine headline, you can't resist picking up this glossy premise of fun and sweet romance.
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    • 263 36 THIS chick flick comedy should have been called The Princess Diaries 2. It sells us a wish-fulfilment fairy tale brimming with satin ball gowns, diamante tiaras and glass slippers. The only twist is that this Cinderella is searching for her long-lost
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    • 184 36 SHIVER me timbers, Orlando Bloom is hell-bent on making a point. Legolas wants to prove he can wield something other than a bow and arrow and still be a hottie. Shirt unbuttoned, he clashes swords in fierce mortal combat for wine, wenches and wealth. And don't
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    • 669 37 SMALL bug-eyed cartoon fish. Real-life beady-eyed big man with lots of fire in his belly. What's the connection? A liberal interpretation is that they're both swimming the open seas and finding themselves at the jaws of big fish. And here's
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    • 615 38  -  Do you see Sarong Party Girls everywhere you turn? By ELYSA CHEN WE all know what to think when we see an expat ang moh strolling hand in hand with a Singapore girl. SPG. Sarong Party Girl. Yes, it's hard not to jump to
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    • 336 39 PLUG the leak in your life. Last week, Mr David Kan, executive director of the Family Life Centre, said that the essence of life can be likened to a reservoir. We all have our own reservoir inside of us, and from this source
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    • 228 39 I'm male and almost 17. Puberty began for me only when I was almost 16.1 experienced changes like voice deepening and pubic hair growth. But until today, I still have difficulty growing facial hair. Only very short strands of hair can be
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    • 468 40 ONE month ago, I fell in love with a guy and was convinced I wanted to live through life's ups and downs with him. Both of us have had relationship breakdowns before, but we took our past as the
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    • 510 42 9am to 12, I2nn to 3 pm 3pm to Oom Channel i 9.00: Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (Rpt) 9.30: Yu-Gi-O 10.00: Hamtaro 10.30: Crayon Shin Chan 11.00: Power Rangers Time Force i 1.30: Medabots 12.000: The Tribe 2.00: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Channel 5 9.00: Touched
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    • 191 43 O HEY/))! WHAT'S HUP sizzles It's too darn hot these days. Here's a look at the pros and cons of the heatwave. My clothes dry sooner CON s f v V Unfortunately, I end up spending more money on air-conditioning W CABLE THE BEST OF THIS WEEH CABLE TV AT
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    • 174 43 ii: f m My poor plants die faster a cv» m m C* 3k More people hang out at cool shopping centres and cinemas H,? *v Si t. j5fi J highlight Animal Planet Safari: City Slickers The television premiere of City Slickers explores the curious relationship between these African penguins
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    • 147 43 BO increases in these areas River, he sets his hopes on a guided croc tour. But, after he sees only a few crocs from a distance, Hayden decides the only way to get the photos he needs would be to go it alone. Braving the saltie-packed waters in a small
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    • 192 43 Darkside of the Mountain: Beyond the Summit In 1953,Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary became the first people to stand atop the highest point on earth~the summit of Mt Everest Since then, dozens of climbing teams have attempted to match their accomplishment, leaving in their wake tons of debris and contaminated
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      352 45 Abdullah Ibrahim Ekaya PIANIST Abdullah Ibrahim and his septet Ekaya create magic. Their music fuses South African and American jazz for a sound at once majestic and tender. Don't miss this. May 29, 7.30pm, at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Tickets at $11, $31, $46 and $61 from Sistic. Call
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    • 184 45 Belle de jour This classic movie from 1967 is strange, to say the least, and may be interpreted as a commentary on human strangeness. Severine, a beautiful young woman, loves her husband but cannot be physically intimate with him. She has vivid sexual fantasies and eventually becomes a prostitute.
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    • 680 46 Motivational books for adults are a booming business. Browse the shelves and you'll find all manner of nourishing chicken soups for different souls. But just because children are constantly zippy and occasionally a pain in the butt doesn't mean they don't need encouragement and a little inspiration. So
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    • 458 47 CAN there ever be enough radio stations to go around? Never mind that in a country as small as Singapore, there are already 17 local radio stations from three broadcasters offering programmes in seven languages. From the crisp, perfect Mandarin of Capitol 95.8FM to elegant French from
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    • 400 47 HERE'S a guide to some of the English radio stations you can hear from Singapore: Red FM From: Malaysia Frequency: 92.8FM Format: Dance and pop, with a strong R&B slant. Fans of former WKRZ DJ Chris Dripin will rejoice she is now
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    • 102 47 OUR airwaves may boast some heavy traffic. But when it comes to choices, Internet radio where you can tune in to countless radio stations from all parts of the world with a click of the mouse is where you can be truly spoilt. Type "online
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    • 666 48  -  Can an idyllic island resort in the Maldives get any better? Yes, if you are sharing ft with the winners of The New Paper New Face Contest Paradise By, JOYCELYN WONG WHAT, no TV? For a city slicker like me, it was hard to imagine a hotel room
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    • 241 49 I HAVE never gone for a spa session before it's just not my idea of relaxation. But as I trudged into the open-air pavilion, I was hoping a massage would do some good to the muscle ache in my right arm. There was a huge
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      194 50 Life's a beach... Could the winners of The New Paper New Face Contest look any more stunning than they did the night they were crowned? Yes, if photographer Jonathan Choo's holiday snaps are any indication NEW Face 2002 winner Katrina McCrindle joking with the locals (right) and
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    • 103 50 BOOK a travel package to Angsana Resort and Spa at Ihuru in the Maldives with Fascinating Holidays Pte Ltd now and pay $1,358 per person for a SD/3N stay on a twin-share basis. The minimum booking is for two '.people, and prices for children start
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      16 53 Racing Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tanjhean Loon Michael Lee (ft* "jjiadf 1 9 ng
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    • 92 53 BEST BET Since his move up north, Code Of Conduct has thrived under trainer Kevin Coetzee*s care. In three runs there, the Defensive Play gelding, who is raced by big South African owner Alfredo Crabbia, has finally repaid his instalments in oats with
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    • 55 53 RACE 2: Great Machine. RACE 3: Big Victory, Central Bank, Baby Star, Stargate Express. RACE 5: Brimstone, Chevochelle, Caldecott Star, Goldquill. RACE 7: Blade Of Time, Get A Win, Olympic Victory* Ttn-Pan Alley, Quest For Gold, Marsgar. RACE 8: Super City. RACE 9: Mr Kiasu, Citicommander. RACE lOt Ferrybank,
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    • 708 53 GOING FORECAST: GOOD orpr rT/ njl/ P1/1 REST OF TODAY'S KL RACE CARD—SEE PAGE 60 t "ft ■r*r*>TK*Kr 7"*5c. .'tfr- >. I Race 1 w 1 k a* "L jk, 1.00 SukiK ivw No. L*>t 6 ran HOUSE 'j m latina *k*«y Banter (Age/origin/sex.
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    • 1155 54 GOING FORECAST: GOOD JAPANESE HURRAH: Haralgoshl, with Din Azls In the saddle, taking out Race 5 (a Claaa 41,800m event on turf) at KranJI last Friday night to give battling Japanese trainer Hldeyukl Takaoka only his second winner In Singapore. Takaoka broke the duck
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    • 2161 55 GOING: GOOD Race 1 Maiden (Restricted) Div 3 1200m(SC^ 1 BEIHA1 PARK 57 (12-7) R Um (5) 1 1 1 (*95) 4 HIDDEN DRAGON 57 c 54.5 (24-7) „„„.,*D Cftong (2 6 5 2 (449) 3 751 10 JERAM FIGHTER 54.5 (24-8) D Holland (6)
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    • 317 55  -  By Marc Tan JOCKEY Oo Khuang Liang* s industpr and perseverance paid off handsomely at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. And those who kept an eye on his first two mounts of the afternoon were rewarded sweetly as the 43-year-old Penang hoop nicknamed "Double-O" by local race-go-ers drew
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    • 1596 56 RACE 1: Flash Option was slow to begin. Shortly after the start, he was crowded between Chew Ma and Kakimoto, who both shifted ground. Kakimoto, who was slow to begin, and Flash Option raced poorly. Rookie D Chong, the rider of Hidden
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    • 69 56 Reuters. John Egan steered 8-1 chance Indian Haven to victory yesterday In the Irish 2,000 Guineas, a Group 1 race for three-year-olds over 1,600m at The Curragh. The Paul D'Arcy-tralned galloper beat 14-1 shot France (Seamus Heffernan) by one length. Another ZV2 lengths away in third spot came
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    • 34 56 4-D DRAW SATURDAY May 24, 2003 FIRST SECOND THIRD STARTERS 7281 3497 2542 4098 0533 4558 4312 9313 8657 7044 7801 7137 3642 CONSOLATION 2457 2427 2477 6176 1630 9246 9413 7482 2604 8089
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  • SPORTS
    • 284 57 EURO KICKOFF: ITALY GERMANY Reuters. ATALANTA and Reggina must meet in a relegation playoff despite both winning on an exciting final day of the Serie A season yesterday. Reggina won 2-0 at Bologna while Atalanta enjoyed a 2-1 victory away to AS Roma. In the
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    • 471 58 S-LEAGUE 2003: SAFFC 1 HOME UNITED 0 YOU wonder whether to cry or to celebrate for SAF Warriors' hero Jeykanth Jeyapal. He scored a brilliant 42nd-minute solitary match-winner to end Home United's unbeaten run in 11 matches and 26 minutes later he got the marching orders
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    • 53 58 TlicSiniiisTiMM' V V«* t <L Juventus or AC Milan. ROB HUGHES picks the winner in his Champions League final preview from Manchester. Only in The Straits Times on Tuesday. SKCk Mia ho-C/u peujs W IftttW Sports 1 »RJl£*TI°l£8 JW <3 A\«* y m Wolves to end 19 yrs of absence
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  • SPORTS
    • 424 60  -  Ecdestone cites greed as main culprit EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH F1 BOSS Reports Luke Pachymuthu MOVE over Europe. Asia is the new glossy posterboard for Formula One racing. In an exclusive phone interview with The New Paper, Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone said Europe had
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    • 399 61 ...MORE ON BERNIE ECCLESTONE INTERVIEW B ERNIE Eccelestone has never been known to mince his words. And the most powerful man in Formula One proclaimed that the "world should be run the way Singapore runs its country. "It certainly has all the attractive
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    • 293 61 ECCLESTONE may have finally turned Europeans onto Asia, but he still faces opposition. The Andy Warhol lookalike is still dealing with a tug-of-war within the Formula One racing community because of his stronghold on the commercial and marketing rights of the sport. Two
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    • 1122 62  -  fff COMMENT BRIAN MILLER I DONT know why, but Dallas has always been bad news. Forty years ago, and on its Main Street, someone gunned down a president. They say they got their man. But many still ask: Who shot JFK? Years later, Dallas again made the news
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      718 64 HE flew in to Monaco last week hoping to score another hat-trick but, in the end, he had to settle for just a couple of golden goals. Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima is a man who could buy the bank at Monte Carlo, and his presence in the
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    • 665 65 Twists turns in Ro's world RONALDO (below) says he has his heart set on a Spanish La Liga and Champions League Double before he leaves Real Madrid, as he surely will one day such is the pull of the big-money market in football. Inter, rich with Champions League cash themselves,
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    • 552 65 DIVISION ONE PLAYOFF ONE Premiership manager was overheard groaning to another at last week's Football Writers annual dinner in London. "Oh no, I can't bear the thought of a season of bloody Warnock. Let's hope Jonesey sees him off." He was expressing the widely-shared concern
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      • 709 66  -  ENGLISH DIVISION ONE PLAYOFF FINAL: SHEFFIELD UNITED v WOLVES JOHN CURTIS SHEFFIELD UNITED EARLIER this week, Neil Warnock took us away to The Belfry for a nice relaxing weekend of golf and I have to say that we all enjoyed it a lot. It was a
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      • 410 66 PA Sport. SHEFFIELD United midfielder Michael Tonge may still look up to Paul Ince but he is hoping to be poking down on the Wolves star i&er tomorrow. Tonge had only just been taken onby Manchester United when Ince left Old Trafford in
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      614 67 'Warnock is lucky omen for big match' ENGLISH DIVISION ONE PLAYOFF FINAL: INSPIRATIONAL BOSSES SHEFFIELD United owe a debt of honour to inspirational manager Neil Warnock. If they're going to make or break in tomorrow's First Division Playoff Final against Wolverhampton Wanderers at CardifFs Millennium Stadium, the Blades
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    • 172 67 MANAGER David Jones sums up the stirring fighting spirit at Wolverhampton Wanderers. His traumatic life is worth recalling in some detail to inspire the battling Wolves, says former Manchester United manager Ron Atkinson. "Dave ha® done very well to keep the ship afloat and get
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    • 608 68 > TRIBUTE TO TOP RED DEVIL: RUUD VAN NISTELROOY JUVENTUS ace Alessandro Del Piero has admitted that he is a huge fan of Ruud van Nistelrooy. This as he prepares to blow away AC Milan in Van Nistelrooy's own backyard next week. Del Piero, the
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    • 148 68 PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson is backing Jtlventus. He's keeping his fingers crossed that his footballing pal, Marcello Lippi, will lift the Champions League trophy as long as they find an effective replacement for suspended playmaker Pavel Nedved. "I fancied Juventus to get through
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      721 69 CELTIC ZERO? Martin O'Neill may end up with no trophy EURO KICKOFF: FINAL CHASE FOR SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP TITLE AS he continues to wrestle with the of one crushing disappointment, Martin O'Neill is forced to confront the imminent possibility of another. For the Celtic manager, losing the Premier League title to
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    • 633 70 SIR Alex Ferguson has claimed Manchester United can win the Champions Cup within the next two seasons. The United boss will take his seat at Old Trafford on Wednesday knowing his players could easily have been on a familiar stage that'll instead be
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