The New Paper, 29 July 2003

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    • 395 1 Feeling helpless down? Here's something to lift that frown... On dieting: A rather chubby lady walked by and the panhandler went into his pitch and he said: "Ma'am I haven't eaten in three days". She said: "Gee I sure wish I had your willpower". On birthdays: I used to keep
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  • NEWS
    • 182 2 PARKING in Johor Baru will no longer be such a big headache from Sep 1. The authorities have agreed to standardise the outdoor parking system, the first Malaysian state to do so. Parking rates will be fixed at 60 sen (28 cents) per hour, 40
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    • 516 2 Brother marries sister Parents bear witness All are sentenced to jail Clarify Half million missing from Gujarati Society's fund (TNP, Jul 28): The report quoted a police spokesman as saying the Commercial Affairs Department was unable to confirm the details of the case during the weekend.
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    • 850 4  -  CJ Yong on punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder WHEN 10 YEARS IS TOO IMPRISONMENT IS TOO LONG BY Tan Ooi Boon The crime: A man killed another man in a sudden fit of rage, after the victim's friend, who was drunk, started
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    • 238 4 CRIMINAL lawyers praised the Chief Justice's recommendation to amend the archaic homicide law and hoped that the Government would take this up to Parliament. Veteran lawyer Subhas Anandan said: "It's about time for us to be fair to both the judge and the
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 404 5 FOR over a year, the management council (MC) at Gillman Heights estate has been under fire. It has been asked to answer to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau and the Building and Construction Authority because of residents' complaints that it was mismanaging an
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    • 592 5  -  Thankless job of the MC volunteer By Sim Chi Yin IF the many reports of disputes within condominiums are anything to go by, those who volunteer to serve on the management council (MC) must be a brave lot. They have to attend monthly meetings, put up
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  • NEWS
    • 601 6  -  JAPANESE LOOKING FOR WORK HERE IN his dialogue with unionists on Wednesday, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew cited Japan and Germany as economic powerhouses left behind because of their failure to adjust. We talk to a Japanese and a German on how they have
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    • 220 6 JAPAN had become an economic superpower by the 1980s. But in the *****, its property and stock markets plunged, sending it into recession. Now, with spiralling deflation, low consumer spending and high retrenchment rates, there seems to be no end in sight. According to the latest
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    • 579 7  -  GERMAN'S FRIENDS SUFFERING BACK HOME By Sim Chi Yin HE counts himself lucky. Mr Gerd Kienscherff, 55, a Singapore-based German chemical engineer, has escaped Germany's economic downturn with his job and lifestyle intact. The vice-president (Asia) of a German plastics company
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    • 615 8 On Jul 11, The New Paper reported on job opportunities in six countries. LEE TEE JONG speaks to more overseas Singaporeans who are willing to help job-seekers here find work WANTED: Singaporeans to work in China, India, the UK, South Africa
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    • 151 9 ACTING Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen found it heartwarming. He was commenting on the series of reports in The New Paper, on overseas Singaporeans helping job-seekers here look for jobs abroad. In an e-mail reply, he said: "Singaporeans wanting to work overseas can draw
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    • 200 9 OVERSEAS JOBS FOR S'POREANS When approached by The New Paper, these Singapore overseas associations have offered to help Singaporeans look for jobs in their host countries Country: South Africa Jobs available: Telecoms, banking officers, senior tour managers and hotel managers Contact Mr Dhanesh Tewani, president of Singapore Club South Africa
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    • 646 11  -  If the van owner or hirer wishes to use his van to transport workers, he would have to ensure the van is fitted with the necessary air-conditioning or mechanical ventilation system. LTA spokesman BY Lee Sze Yong HOW many workers can a van carry in
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    • 181 11 THE Land Transport Authority (LTA) said that under the Road Traffic Act, an owner or hirer of a lorry or a pick-up is allowed to use his vehicle to transport workers if The workers are seated in a manner that would not cause
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    • 846 12  -  By Brian Miller DON'T for a moment think that talent spotting is something done only in US colleges. It is very much alive in Singapore, particularly in swimming a sport where shelf-life is short and the "best years" go by so quickly. Ask Mr David Tay.
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    • 203 13 HE was 13 when Mr Tay "spotted" him at the swimming trial. Cai Fong, now 18 and a student at Raffles Junior College, was then in Secondary 1. He said: "Mr Tay, the school's swimming coach, organised trials to select swimmers. I
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    • 132 13 THE Singapore Sports School is holding a presentation called The Making Of Champions, at the Singapore Expo from noon to 4.30pm on Saturday. At the event, which is free and open to the public, the school will unveil its academic and training programmes. Registration for the school's
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    • 613 14  -  SLIM 10 TRIAL: RfIYSON TAN GRILLED By Brian Miller HUGE sums of money changed m hands. There was tremendous profit to be made from selling Slim fl On the way to making those big bucks, Mr Ray son Tan even put
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    • 205 17 BOB HOPE: 1903-2003 MANY Singaporeans probably won't know who Bob Hope is. But Americans will never forget him. The master comedian and US entertainment legend died of pneumonia at age 100 yesterday. Americans loved him not just because of his rib-tickling expertise with the comic one-liner
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    • 213 17 CHILDHOOD: It was a typically British birth. They had a strike in the maternity ward. I came out in sympathy. AGEING: I consider myself veiy fortunate. I owe everything to my family and my makeup man. My wonderful family keeps me going and my wonderful makeup man keeps
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    • 490 20 US snuffs roaming service there so it can hold tenders for contracts to be offered Reuters. IT was short-lived joy for the ordinary Iraqi handphone user. Most had never used one until Saddam Hussein who had banned its used to all but some senior officials was
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    • 101 21 THEY can walk, but with difficulty. In steps a powered-suit from Japan, which is said to be able to step up the ease of walking for aged people or gait-disorder persons. Japan's Tsukuba University postgraduate student Hiroald Kawamoto demonstrates the prototype of powered-suit HAL-3
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    • 402 21 Indian police team goes undercover to do this THE women or their husbands are infertile. Yet they go home from hospitals with babies in their arms, complete with official-looking certificates. They are clients of a well-organised ring involved in the sale of babies in Bangalore, India. Not
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    • 276 24 But it's the use and throw away kind HERE'S good news for those who've been mulling over the pros and cons of digital photography and gasping over the price it takes to own one. USA Today reported that the Ritz Camera chain will soon
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    • 370 25 THE Japanese salaryman has long been held up as the very model of an ideal worker. Hardworking, willing to put long hours sometimes, they don't even go home and never complaining. Things are different these days. The Japanese government received a record 30,000 complaints concerning
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  • WORLD
    • 288 28 For an education without fear of discrimination AP THE first public high school for gays, transgender and bisexual students in the US will open its doors in New York when the school year begins in September. The Harvey Milk High School
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    • 404 29 Wire services. MANGLED metal is all that is left of this bus (above) after a powerful bomb blew it apart in the heart of Mumbai's bustling commercial centre during the evening rush yesterday. Four people were killed and 31 injured. The bomb, said to
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    • 412 30 AP. THE teacher with the headache had a problem. Even though he was charming and intelligent, the 40-year-old man couldn't stop leering at female nurses. He had been caught for making sexual advances towards his stepdaughter, and now he was talking about
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    • 200 31 Reuters. THEY may brighten men's outfits. V But the neckties might also dim their v vision. That's if the neckwear is knotted tightly almost noose-like. Research reported in the British Journal of Ophthalmology today showed that a tight necktie raises blood pressure in the
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    • 309 32 Reuters. THEY are famed for their superb voices and equally imposing girths. Now, The Three Tenors Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti have hit the headlines for something shadier, even though it does not concern them directly. Yesterday, charges were upheld against
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    • 295 33 THE Singapore Airlines Staff Union has made its stand clear it is not fair for cabin crew to forfeit their gratuity because of retrenchment. The union said yesterday that it would be pressing Singapore Airlines (SIA) to pay the gratuity due to the crew in
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    • 346 33 OH THE RACK Edited extract from The New York Times: Kraft Foods Inc, the largest food company in the US, said recently it was going to help fight a global epidemic obesity. But how does the maker of Oreo cookies, Velveeta cheese and
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    • 52 33 S'PORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 10.17/+0.82 Creative Technology 8.3/+0.04 Flextronics 11.67/+0.53 Chartered Semiconductor 6.18/+0.2 Stats 11.72/+0.52 Yesterday's Percentage action change Closc Dow Nasdaq S+P 500 STI Down 0.2% (18.06 pts) Up 0.1% (4.66 pts) Down 0.2% (2.16 pts) Up 1.3% (20.23 pts) 9,266.51 1,735.36
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    • 72 33 NTUC Fair Price chairman S Chandra Das has assured its 5,000 staff members that the supermarket giant, which runs 70 outlets here, will not be retrenching workers. It will be hiring instead. Shoppers will also continue to enjoy exemption from the 1 per cent hike in the
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    • 75 33 SINGAPORE is the second most expensive place in the region in which to build a bungalow. Hong Kong tops the list of 11 cities compared in a survey. House-building costs in Singapore have also risen 3 per cent since 2001. Unlike countries such as Australia, builders in
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    • 69 33 A DECISION on the protracted cabling tussle between Sing Tel and Star Hub Cable Vision has been reached. Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts conveyed his decision to the two parties last Wednesday. The ministry declined to dwell on the specifics of the
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    • 62 33 SINGAPORE and Malaysia placed advertisements at the same time in five Malaysian newspapers yesterday to state their positions on the water dispute The advertisements appeared in The Star, The New Straits Times, Berita Harian Malaysia, Sin Chew Daily and Nanyang Siang Pau. The Singapore ad
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    • 58 33 SINGAPOREANS can now pay road fines incurred in Malaysia online. Drivers can log on to one of three websites and pay using Visa or Master Card. The sites are: www.rilek.com.my, www.myeg.com.my, and www.eservices.com.my. Upon registration, the user would also be shown his summons history and blacklist
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    • 64 33 THE Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement will save local firms about $31.6 million a year in tariff concessions. It came into force yesterday and is expected to boost bilateral trade and strengthen already close economic links. Foreign Minister S Jayakumar and his Australian counterpart, Mr Alexander Downer,
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous

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      752 34  -  With High Definition (HD) technology, having a movie-going experience right in your living room is a reality. WENDY TEO tells you why the Next Big Thing on telly is not going to be another nubile young actress By Wendy Teo YOU don't need a close-up to appreciate the
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    • 51 35 HD pictures are composed of 1,080 active lines whereas current standard TV pictures have only 486 active lines. HD has five times as much picture information as conventional TV. So if you have a flawless complexion like Evelyn Tan's (top left), then HD will play it up to
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    • 43 35 Special effects look fake on digital beta because thedigitalised special effects are much clearer than the original images. With HD, the quality of an HD image will match that of the special effects, and so the juxtaposition will be more seamless.
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    • 44 35 HD allows an image to be captured with higher contrast, giving a greater sense of depth. This means that the background remains detailed (left, below), which is not the case with digital beta. The colours also come off richer and more lush.
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    • 35 35 The slo-mo sequences you see in Frontline runs so smoothly because it is filmed in slow motion using the variable speed function of the HD camera. Ordinarily, slow-motion effects are added during post-production.
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    • 29 35 Rim is more expensive than HD tapes. One can of filmstock costs about $300 to $400 and you would need about 100 cans for a feature film.
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    • 51 35 Six-parter Frontline was shot in just 45 days, a record of sorts in the industry. That's like filming three feature films in 45 days, said its director Kelvin Tong. HD tapes, unlike film, is less demanding when it comes to lighting, so less time is spent adjusting the
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    • 306 35 IF YOU thought Frontline looked stunning, you haven't seen anything yet. As Frontline director of photography Lim Ching Leong put it: "To reap the full effects of HD, it is better to have digital transmission." Singapore has two types of TV transmissions. One is analog (the
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    • 478 36  -  But for now, L'Arc-en-Ciel can still deliver pot of gold By Jeanmarie Tan REPORTING FROM tOKYO AFTER almost 13 years on the Japanese music scene, seven has turned out to be L'Arc-en-Ciel's lucky number. Earlier this month, the top J-rock band held seven
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    • 856 38 SOMETIMES a burning passion can take you a long way. Just look at Japanese pop-rock band Gypsy Queen. Comprising five ordinary-looking office workers in their 30s, the group is hardly idol material. You may not have heard of this six-year-old band even, or any of
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    • 722 52  -  S-LEAGUE 2003: REFEREES' MEETING WITH CLUBS By Alvin Chua AFTER enduring a storm of criticism this season, the Referees' Committee has asked the S-League clubs to open their hearts to them in a bid to mend fences. All 12 twelve clubs were invited last
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      401 53 S-LEAGUE2003: HIGHLIGHTS Total attendance: 10,921 S-League topscorers: 19 Peres De Oliveira (Home), 17 Egmar Goncalves (Home), 16 Indra Sahdan (Home), Pitipong Kuldilog (Sembawang) Suspended for next round: Shane Pryce (Sengkang), Shi Ming, (Sinchi), Akihiro Nakamura (SAFFC), Adejumo Smith (Tanjong Pagar), Eric Kwek (Tanjong Pagar) THIS WEEK'S FIXTURES THURSDAY
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    • WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS: THE AFTERMATH
      • 436 54 AFP. MICHAEL Phelps was only seven when Alexander Popov won double gold in the Barcelona Olympics 11 years ago. Phelps has grown up into the new power in world swimming. But even at 31, Popov, the four-time Olympic champion, is still a force. Phelps, 18, set five
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      • 132 54 BASKETBALL Reuters. TORONTO Raptors forward Vince Carter has replaced Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant in the US team for next month's Olympic qualifying tournament. Charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman at a spa, Bryant ruled himself out of the tournament scheduled for August 20-31
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      • 142 54 IN an era when the term "survivor" can be stretched to describe the winner of a TV show, double world record-holder Alexander Popov is a real-life hero. In 1996, just weeks after he claimed his eighth Olympic medal with his second golden double in the 50m
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    • FA PREMIER LEAGUE ASIA CUP
      • 654 55 THE AFTERMATH PA Sport. THE Premier League plan to give the FA Premier League Asia Cup a five-year run, even if the supporters on the ground in Malaysia need a little convincing. Hefty ticket prices and access to players were two areas of concern for the fans.
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      • 144 55 PA Sport LEE Bowyer (left) and Jonathan Woodgate (right) have both started fresh chapters in their lives with moves to Newcastle, but their reputations remain tarnished the world over. As each stepped forward to take a penalty in the dramatic shoot-out that decided Sunday's FA
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      • 205 56  -  KUALA LUMPUR _x There were no pulling punches or playing the end-of-the-season exhibition show from the Premiership stars from Chelsea, Newcastle and Birmingham. They offered value-for-money entertainment with typically British hard-stuff soccer, which won the hearts of thousands of Singaporeans,
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      • 284 57 AP. REAL Madrid will end their Asian tour on Aug 10 with a friendly match against Thailand's national team in Bangkok. The match is being billed as a celebration of Thai Queen Sirikit's birthday on Aug 12. It will also be the first opportunity for soccer-fanatical Thai fans
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      • 403 57 PA Sport. PORTUGUESE star Luis Figo is very easy going. He has told coach Carlos Queiroz he is willing to play anywhere in the Real Madrid team if it means keeping his place following the arrival of David Beckham. On tour
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      • 147 57 DAVID Beckham has been receiving a crash course in Spanish swearing from his new Real Madrid team-mates. While the England skipper will not start formal Spanish language lessons until next month, Brazilian Roberto Carlos Oefi) has revealed he is teaching Beckham the most
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      • 323 58 LEEDS United's Mark Viduka wants to quit Elland Road before the start of the new season. He has held talks with manager Peter Reid and he has made it clear he does not see his long-term future at Leeds, reported the BBC Online. It is learnt the
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      • 146 58 AFP. ARSENAL strike.Sylvain Wiltord was reported to be considering a £5 million ($l4 m) move to French champions Olympique Lyonnais if contract talks at Highbury break down. The 29-year-old Wiltord, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger's record £11 million signing from
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      • 60 58 ISRAELI midfielder Eyal Berkovic (right) has asked Manchester City for a transfer immediately. He made it clear to manager Kevin Keegan that he was unhappy at the club. The club gave no other details. Berkovic, 31, joined City from Celtic two years ago and has
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      • 133 58 Wire Services EVERTON boss David Moyes is looking to boost his strike force before the start of the season. Wayne Rooney will miss the beginning of the campaign after picking up an ankle injury in the friendly against Rangers on Saturday. Duncan Ferguson is also ruled
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      • 59 58 AFP. TOTTENHAM Hotspur's German defender Christian Ziege needs a new operation on his troublesome left thigh. He does not know if the latest surgery could an end to his career. "The doctors noticed that two muscles were stuck together," Ziege, who suffered a horrific injury last December, said.
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      314 59 united! CLUB AMERICA 1 (Patino 87) Diego Forlan turned on the style against Mexico's Club America yesterday. He scored two goals and assisted in another as Manchester United won 3-1. Dl lEGO Forian has scored his way back I into the scheme of things at I Manchester United.
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      • 770 60  -  MATCHPOINTS 46th: GOAL! Long punt from the back is flicked on by Forian and Ruud Van Nistelrooy takes it past his marker with his first touch. He blasts the ball powerfully past an outstretched goalkeeper for his second goal of the pre-season games. 1-0 49th:
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        769 61 Van the Man thanks US Fknee-builderfor his red-hot form PA Sport. RUUD van Nistelrooy has dedicated the goal he scored in Los Angeles yesterday to the man who saved his career. The Manchester United striker then admitted he will never be able to stop thanking Dr Richard
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    • 223 62 USTOUR: MAN UNITED 3 (Van Nistelrooy 46th min, Forlan 49, 79) CLUB AMERICA 1 (Patino 87) Wire Services. AFTER a lacklustre first half, Manchester United clobbered Mexico's Club America yesterday in a friendly. Ruud van Nistelrooy and Diego Forlan scored in a four-minute span early in
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    • 418 62 Wire Services. RUUD van Nistelrooy is destined for greatness. That's the word from Club America coach Leo Beenhakker. He said that van Nistelrooy is capable of becoming a better striker than legendary Dutch international Marco van Basten. Beenhakker is best known for
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    • 223 62 SEEMS like Juan Sebastian Veron (below) will have to clutch the Chelsea straw. The Argentinian midfielder faces the bleak prospect of being turned into a Premiership outcast at Manchester United, reported The Mirror. The club's manager Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted Veron's indifferent play and reluctance
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