The New Paper, 9 January 2004

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  • 34 1 the new paper FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2004 I Website: .com.sc I I I I III Singapore Press Holdings Email:tnp@sp P h P com sg M,TA <P) 025/03/2003 «> CENTS 8 *****1 *****1 the new paper
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  • NEWS
    • 689 2 CULT MAN GROOMED GIRLS FOR SEX AS leader of a quasi-religious sect, he had the power to give out special privileges. Which he did mostly to young girls. But he had a sordid motive. The privileges were to groom the girls, some as
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    • 184 2 The Nuwaubians, primarily consisting of African Americans, first came to Georgia in 1993 from Brooklyn, New York. Its founder, Malachi York set up the sect in 1967. The group was then called Ansaar Pure Sufi. York went to Sudan until 1972. On his return, they were renamed the
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    • 248 3 ®!l FUJIFILM I&I-lmaging Information Fujifilm -/Anniversary Bash i^^^BH 3H| WPflPMpMi^ .<• H^^Hm Lets PrlnteWin! From 4th December 2003 till 31 st January 2004 With every roil of fHm developed printed or And you could walk away with a Digital Camera Or you could win an air ticket to Japan in
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 639 4  -  REPORT AND PHOTOS By Zaihan Mohamed Yusof Zaihan Mohamed Yusof tnp@sph.com.sg THE lorry driver was trapped after his vehicle collided with a bus. Blood was dripping from his right leg and knuckles. His face was pale. But he remained calm. His left leg
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    • 119 4 WHILE the lorry driver was being rescued, the bus driver was talking to investigators. He looked all right as he answered questions for about 20 minutes. But the Tibs driver, a Malaysian, was taken to the National University Hospital (NUH) after complaining of chest and stomach
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    • 675 5  -  By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg THE sales pitch is simply irresistible. Extremely spacious premises at more than 10,000 sq ft, free parking, an attached resting room all set in a tranquil environment surrounded by lush greenery, a short drive to the city. Sounds like an
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    • 155 5 CONVERSE and KAPPA Warehouse Sale! Stock Up For The Festive Season With Items At Unbelievable Prices! Assorted Men Ladies Tees from $5.00 Footwear from $9.90 Polo Shirts from 14.90 Waist Pouch rom $9.90 Canvas shoes from $io Accessories from $s*oo W YOU ■no dS MUST <9.90 BBE here B*V from
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    • 380 7  -  REPORT AND PICTURE By Eunice Lin Eunice Lin tup@sph.com.sg ONE concert, so many famous faces: It looks irresistible. Local stars Sheik Haikel, Tanya Chua, Rui En and Ben Yeung will team up with Hong Kong actor/singer Julian Cheung, Anita Mui protege Remus Choy,
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    • 585 8  -  STOCK WARRANTS: BUY NOW, PAY LATER By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph.com.sg A YEAR ago, Mr E M Chia made $750 from selling off his stock warrants. He bought 50,000 units from Strike Engineering, a construction company at five cents a unit about two years ago. When
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    • 180 9 SCEMMOOA Steve converts his warrants into shares and makes a profit by selling the shares. This happens when the current market price of Company ABC's shares is higher than the fixed price agreed on a year ago. For example, the current market price of one share
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    • 71 9 Fallin ilWMiiwm: ;> f- "*§H^M O Company ABC releases Its warrants on the market. Buyer Steve buys One lot, or 1,000 units. BH| Each unit costs 10 cents. So Steve pays $100. He has the right to convert one unit into one share unit at
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 514 12  -  Customer: I only asked for brochures By Tan May Ping mayping@sph.com.sg HE didn't want insurance. But he got it anyway. And he had to get it cancelled. The bank said he agreed to buy the insurance. (See report at right.) He said he
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    • 304 12 MR Yeo agreed to take up the policy over the phone and told DBS which account to make the deductions from, said a DBS spokesman. "From the notes of the conversation between our sales staff and Mr Yeo, it was clear that Mr Yeo
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    • 225 12 THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) said there appeared to be hardselling in this case. "Hardselling involves pushing a product which the consumer doesn't want. In this case, if the consumer didn't want the insurance, then it seems like it was pushed onto him as
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  • 414 13 WORLD MADE of exquisite French silk, the beautiful ivory-coloured wedding gown looks like a qipao a close-fitting traditional Chinese long dress. But it has also been updated with Western elements, like a bow at the neck and an accompanying white shawl. The simple but stunning
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 490 15 Proposal may curb illegal racing and street crime in KL Bernama. MALAYSIAN bikers are turning streets into race tracks at night. This may have led to the rise of illegal racing and street crime. And it is worrying the government and those in the tourist industry.
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    • 264 15 TWO fist fights broke out on Wednesday between Umno (United Malays National Organisation) members and men accused of impersonating journalists from a private television station. The trouble began at Jerteh, Terengganu; at the house of Terengganu Umno Deputy chairman Datuk Idris Jusoh who
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  • WORLD
    • 600 16 Then... Sunway Lagoon: We will pay for your stay, medical treatment AFTER a 5 Vt -month free stay, a family of three has been told that they have to leave. Mr Rajkumar Daswani, 47, and his wife were allowed to stay in a hotel suite costing
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    • 355 17 Divorced first husband, but records can't be found SHE has been married to her second husband for nearly 12 years, after getting a divorce from her first husband. Now, it seems that Mrs Heather Svendsen and her ex-husband are trapped in a divorce debacle
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    • 469 18 AP. AND the person believed to be responsible for this tragedy in Georgia, US, is the girls' father. The hunt is on for the man the authorities believe shot his in-laws to death, strangled his 10-month-old baby
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    • 299 19 because he wants daughter out of hospital THE polio-stricken child had a leg infection, so her father took her to the hospital for treatment. He stayed with her for a month while she was being treated, but became impatient and asked for her discharge,
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    • 425 20 SHE wanted to clear her house off bugs, but perhaps Mrs Aurelia Oliveras was a little too eager. She used enough pesticide to do the work for a place IV4 times as big as hers. Finding her 470 sq ft home in San Diego infested
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    • 349 21 GUANGDONG GETS NEW PROPAGANDA CHIEF SARS. Police brutality. These are the images that spring to mind when Guangdong is mentioned. Naturally, the province's Communist Party is keen to change this perception. And the first step taken by the party is to appoint a new propaganda
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    • 325 22 NEW HANDPHONE NUMBERS THERE are only 160,000 of the 9-series phone numbers left, so new numbers starting with 8 will be issued. The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) made the announcement yesterday. It added that telco firms here issue 30,000 to 40,000 new numbers each month,
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    • 198 22 A 10-YEAR-OLD who decided to walk to school when her transport was delayed was found murdered and raped 500m from her home in Kampung Ratau, near Kota Kinabalu yesterday. The body of Harirawati Saridi (right), a Primary Four pupil, was found at about 7.30am by
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    • 50 22 s'pore companies on nasdaq (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.29/+O.ll Creative Technology 10.92/+O.Ol Flextronics 16.47/+0.65 Chartered Semiconductor 11.28/+0.49 Stats 14.09/+0.54 Yesterday's action Percentage change Dow Up 0.6% (63.41 pts) 10,592.44 Nasdaq Up 1.09% (22.57 pts) 2,100.25 S+P 500 Up 0.5% (5.59 pts) 1,131.92 Up 0.31% (5.72 pts) 1,841.68
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    • 70 22 A WAITRESS in China is suspected of having Sars after developing a fever on Dec 26. She was working in a restaurant in Guangdong that serves wild animals. And two of three Hong Kong television journalists hospitalised with Sars-like symptoms have tested negative, while results for
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    • 68 22 CHANGI Airport has bagged 18 of the top awards given out last year by aviation organisations and industry magazines, while Singapore Airlines shares top honours as best airline, as ranked by London-based airline consultancy Skytrax Research. Among other awards, the airport was named the best airport
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    • 77 22 SINGAPORE Post may be looking into the possibility of selling unit trusts, insurance and other third-party financial products through its post offices, reported Streats. SingPost declined to confirm this, but it has been looking for ways to boost its non-postal income since last year when
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    • 66 22 MARINA Square, the Marina Centre's main shopping complex is to get a $100 million makeover that will add another 150 outlets to the existing 250. Giant Hypermarket will replace Metro as Marina Square's anchor tenant, bringing competition to Carrefour, the hypermarket across the road at Suntec City
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    • 71 22 NTUC Income has said it will put in a bid to run one of CPF's proposed privately-managed pension plans. It plans to offer its lifestyle or balanced funds, which are three combinations of global equity and bonds, and Singapore equity and bonds. But fund managers are not
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    • 69 22 ELECTRONICS contract manufacturer Venture Corp is charging ahead in the stock market, closing at $21.80 yesterday. Its price has surged an astounding 56 per cent in the past 12 months, making it the highest-priced stock in the Straits Times Index. Venture has overtaken heavyweight stocks such as Singapore
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  • 608 24  -  TECH By Ian Tan tanyhi@sph.com.sg WIDE-ANGLE lenses are vital tools for any photographer. Unfortunately, they are often in the wrong hands. To begin with, any lens that covers more than a focal length of 50mm (eg 35mm, 24mm or a 14mm "fish-eye") is considered a
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  • 1306 33  -  Mm. —g— A Who doesn't love a bout of celebrity musical chairs? Since it is the new year, the celeb relationship switcheroo game is going on fast andfurious. We cast our eye on who's getting together, who's getting dumped and who should join coupledom By Sheela
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    • 263 35  -  REPORT GENEVIEVE JIANG gent^e^sphxanjg ACTION director John Woo was all smiles when he arrived at the gala premiere of his latest Hollywood blockbuster, Paycheck, at the Ambassador Theatre in Taipei on Wednesday evening. He arrived in a white limousine, amidst cheers and applause from excited
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    • 108 36 AFTER wielding a Samurai sword in The Last Samurai, Tom Cruise (left) is ready to don tights and a mask to play Marvel Comics superhero, Iron Man. The Hollywood hottie has expressed interest in giving the comic character a shot. In an
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    • 121 36 NEWLY pregnant and married Gwyneth Paltrow (left) has new priorities now. She's committed to cutting back on her movies, and working only on films she fancies. The 31-year-old said:*! worked so much in my twenties and I really burnt the candle at both
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    • 73 36 SHE was his va-va-voom housemate and object of desire in the sixth season of Friends. Now, Elle McPherson and Matt Le Blanc (right) may reunite in his own spin-off show, reported ITV.com. Producers of the new series, named Joey, are keen to have
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    • 120 36 AFTER years of incessant talk, Jennifer Aniston (left) has finally confirmed that she's ready to start a family with hubby Brad Pitt, now that Friends is over. "We're ready to dive in," she said in an interview in the Daily Mirror. "I have had enough
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    • 735 37  -  Hunky singer Derek McDonald has a taste for hearty food, fitness and Britney By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg SCOTTISH singer Derek McDonald has been up since 4am, thanks to jet-lag. But you can't tell from his fresh face and energetic banter. Then, he revealed he
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    • 263 41 PRIME-TIME TV GIVEN its prim and proper name, I had thought Law Firm would be a serious court drama. But the first 10 minutes proved me wrong. This is a heartwarming Korean comedy about five oddball lawyers who set up their own firm and bend
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    • 104 53 Embassy Suites (Race 5 No. 8) Those who backed this Stephen Gray-trained galloper a fortnight ago were already seen lining up at the betting window half-way down the stretch. The bay gelding by O'Reilly was gobbling up the field so fast on the outside that the race looked
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    • 2475 53  -  COMMENTS FOR ALL RACES BY TAN THEAN LOON Picture/ Kenneth Koh FVWPjH Maiden (Restricted) 630 1200m Stakes: $43,000 Wo. Last 6 rum HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 90 BUCK BERET 57 JSainul 10 (3safg Shaw-ALA Crabbia) Cannot
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    • 379 55  -  DRUG-RELATED AND IMPROPER PRACTICE OFFENCES BY Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph. com. sg PENANG-BASED trainer Yeap Poh Keat has been slapped with a nine-year ban for drug-related and improper practice offences. At the conclusion of an inquiry last Wednesday into an instrument confiscated from the jockey-turned-trainer, it was
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    • 279 55 MUSCLING FORA HAT-TRICK: Muscle Man has a decent chance to make it three on the trot in Race 9 tonight PHMM OpmBcndmarfctt Quartet 1030 1600m Stakes: $75,000 Wo. last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jodcy Banter (Age/oriqin/sex. trainer-owner) 1 2420-2 STEALASaNE 58.5 (89) *KK Ng c2.5
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    • 139 55 LIGHTWEIGHTS Barend Vorster and Manabu Muramatsu are the latest foreign riders to be granted freelance permits, starting next week. For South African Vorster, the three-month stint will be his second at Kranji. The 27-year-old rode at the Raffles Cup meeting last October and was
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    • 476 56 WORKOUTS by horses handicapped tonight: RACE 1: Slow work: Golden Seal (K Sara), newcomer Silent Samurai. RACE 2: Slow work: Very Funny Man (S Cheam), Starmix, back in form, Song Of Belle, Winning Expert, Miracle Power, Mas Q Lyn,
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    • 592 56 NST LUCKY GATHERING, a course scratching last week, showed nothing amiss with a stylish winding-up gallop in Ipoh yesterday, underlining his chances in the Class 5 Div 8 event over 1,600m in Race 1 tomorrow. Taken out by a track rider, the seven-year-old New
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    • 691 57 2.00 RACE 1 C5D8 1600m (LC) 1 Justice Brothers BTai 5) 57 2 Infinite Ties *HKLim (11) 55.5 3 Why Me BWoodworth 1) 55.5 4 Big Return «YAify 9) 55 5 Lucky Gathering MWepner 8) 55 6 Tiger On The Prowl *KT Cheng (12) 54.5 7
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    • 758 57 1.30 RACE 1 MR 02 1200m 1 Akashi Champion M Pegus 5) 55 2 TianPohKing LSofhan 6) 55 3 Shout lAzhar 3) 55 4 DewanSuria RPoobalan 2) 55 5 Green Light KKLoh 8) 55 6 PekingPottlnger *HKLim 7) 55 7 Ranger Warrior A Kumar 1) 55
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    • 184 57 Reuters SEVEN jumps jockeys who took the wrong course during a race at Ludlow last month had their bans cut by the Jockey Club last Tuesday. The riders had appealed a decision to ban them all from competing for 19 days for taking the
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    • 693 59 WE were all expecting the football world to go crazy when the transfer window opened on January 1. But no big signings are on the horizon although there is plenty of action happeningjust underneath the surface. And some of it appears to be a bit shady.
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    • 229 59 TOP of Manchester United's shopping list seems to be PSV Eindhoven's teenage sensation Aijen Robben. Striker Robben, who is 19 but has already played three times for Holland, was spotted at Old Trafford last week discussing a possible move to England. And that seems to spell
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    • 116 60 SHANIA Twain (right) won't be able to get her football fix until next season after announcing a new tour of th US. For some strange reason, the Canadian songbird is a big Tottenham fan yes, I did mean Tottenham fan and has seen her
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    • 206 60 I WOULD have loved to have been there when Bolton boss Sam Allardyce squeezed into tight jeans and a leather jacket to imitate John Travolta in the old film Grease. The beefy Bolton boss slicked up his hair into a quiff and took to the stage
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    • 191 60 LEEDS could be booted out of the League if they go into administration later this month. There is growing hostility towards Leeds going down the same route as Leicester City if the club's mqjor creditors pull the plug on Jan 19 decision day concerning any
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    • 126 60 IT Bounds implausible given the bitter history between former Leeds boss Peter Reid and Elland Road striker Mark Viduka. But Reid recently gave the Aussie a glowing reference. 5.» Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been trying to take Viduka to Old
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    • EXCLUSIVE THE STAR COLUMN
      • 611 61  -  EURO KICKOFF: SCOTLAND SCOTTISH CUP: TOMORROW Hibernian v Rangers Aberdeen v Dundee Arbroath v Spartans Ayr v Falkirk Celtic v Ross Clyde v Gretna Dunfermline v Dundee Utd East Fife v Queen of South Hamilton v Cowdenbeath Hearts v Berwick Inverness v Brechin Livingston v Montrose
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      • 151 62 ENGLAND: DIVISION ONE NEW Bradford manager Bryan Robson (far right) has told his players they must focus on avoiding relegation. The Bantams were demoralised after their 2-1 FA Cup exit at the hands of Division Two Luton Town. Currently second bottom of the Division One table,
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        571 62  -  By JULIAN GRAY CRYSTAL PALACE WE were gutted to lose to Tottenham in the FA Cup last weekend. There can be no excuses. We just didn't play well on the day. Also, full credit to Freddie Kanoute, who was on fire for Tottenham and we couldn't do
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    • 186 63 EURO KICKOFF: FRANCE, SPAIN PA Sport. LEADERS Monaco entertain defending champions Lyon tonight as the French First Division resume following their winter break. Monaco are seven points clear of second-placed Lyon and a win for the hosts would represent a significant step towards them
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    • 803 63 SPAIN: BIG BLOW TO REAL MADRID PA Sport. REAL Madrid midfielder David Beckham has ruled himself out of tomorrow's Primera Liga match at Real Sociedad because of an ankle injury. "I'm definitely out of the game," the England captain told reporters after training yesterday. "I was running
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    • 663 64 EURO KICKOFF: ITALY EURO KICKOFF: ITALY PA Sport. WATCH out for the new star: A tall and powerful Ukrainian wearing the red-and-black striped uniform of AC Milan is taking over Italian soccer. From the decisive shoot-out kick in May's Champions League Final against Italian rivals Juventus
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      592 65 EURO KICKOFF: SPANISH CUP (first LEG) LEVANTEI BARCELONA 0 Reuters. Barcelona continued their poor run of form when they went down 1-0 at Second Division leaders Levante in a King's Cup third-round first-leg match this morning (Singapore time). A ninth-minute penalty converted by former Real Madrid midfielder Alberto
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    • 309 66 THE CHAMPIONSHIP CHASE PA Sport. Manchester United are odds-on for the Premiership title after a near-perfect set of results for the Red Devils on Wednesday. Goals from Paul Scholes and Ruud van Nistelrooy kept United in pole position as they claimed a
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          386 67 That's why United are No 1 HOWARD: PA Sport. AMERICAN hero Tim Howard cannot believe how easily his Manchester United team-mates dismiss outside pressures. He is amazed they remain totally focused on their pursuit of glory. In his first six months at Old Trafford, Howard has already been
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        • 76 67 PA Sport. IS RKC Waalwyk's coach Martin Jol headed towards Old Trafford? He has confirmed he will quit the Dutch club at the end of this season and there is speculation he will move to Manchester United as Sir Alex Ferguson's No 2. Jol has already
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        • 449 67 SIR Alex Ferguson (right) Is a bully. Mohamed al Fayed, as most would know, is not averse to the occasional conspiracy theory. Put the two together and once more the world of football has been presented in an unfavourable light. The latest
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      • 352 68 MANCHESTER UNITED v NEWCASTLE LIVE, ESPN, midnight, Sunday PA Sport. GLASGOW Celtic offered Liam Miller the chance to become one of the best-paid young players in Scottish football history. But that does not look like being enough to stop the 22-year-old from signing for Manchester
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      • 192 68  -  By HENRIK LARSSON CELTIC LIAM Miller is one of the best young talents that I have ever seen. He is a tremendous young player, that is the only word I can use for him. l^r.7 He has shown amazing maturity and confidence. Right from his first game he
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      • 290 68  -  By GARY SPEED NEWCASTLE WE've set our standard for workrate and attitude in the first two games of the year against Southampton in the FA Cup and Leeds on Wednesday. We have to carry that on against Manchester United. We're well aware that to win this
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      • 134 68 PA Sport. rf ./r -Skitv- t NEWCASTLE full-back Olivier Bernard is Jonathan Woodgate to enhance his credentials by shackling Man U hot-shot Ruud van Nisteirooy on Sunday. Bernard needs no reminder of United's potency nor of that of their ace marksman van Nisteirooy. But he
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    • 626 69 PREMIERSHIP FLASHBACK: CHELSEA 0 LIVERPOOL 1 THE FRANK MALLEY COLUMN YOU'VE got to admire the man's style. Seconds after seeing his Chelsea side beaten at home by Liverpool, in what might turn out to be the defining match of their entire season, Claudio Ranieri threw his
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      507 70 LEICESTER v CHELSEA PA Sport. CHELSEA travel to Leicester City on Sunday knowing that they're Premiership title ambitions are in tatters. And while fans of the J West Londgp club drown fc< themselves in season ending champagne dreams, one man who won't be so quick to slump
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      • 412 71 PREMIERSHIP ARSENAL v BORO PA Sport, ARSENE Wenger may yet haul Everton's loan star Francis Jeffers back to Arsenal at the season's end. Wenger saw Jeffers come on as a late substitute at Goodison Park on Wednesday night to create Everton's equaliser in a 1-1
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