The New Paper, 14 January 2004

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  • 31 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2004 Press Holdings I Website: newpaper.asial.com.sg I Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800- 7 33 44 55 MITA (P) 025/03/2003 60 CENTS 8 JB the now paper
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    • 35 1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2004 new per TOA PAYOH OFFICE BLAST WHERE'S L#>'I SON? Heartsick parents of owner of sign company where four died in blaze. None identified yet •w v. I n Picture/ KELVIN CHNG
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  • NEWS
    • 314 2  -  By Michael Lee tnp@sph.com.sg THE New Paper will cost 10 cents more from Friday. The price of the weekday edition will go up from 60 cents to 70 cents. But we hope youll agree that it offers good value. Prices of eight other titles
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    • 496 2 This time as commentator on Abu Dhabi TV HIS outrageous claims earned him a cult following in the US. They also earned him the nicknames "Baghdad Bob" and "Comical Ali". The man was famous for his absurd daily reports that Iraq was winning the war.
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    • 10 2 What's on TV? Pages 42 43 News IQ: Page 24
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 572 4  -  Parents of company owner TO A PAYOH BLAST^ i ANGUISH i By Alvin Chiang alchiang@sph. com.sg THE fire has long been put out. But for one elderly couple, the burning questions remain. "Where is our son?" "Is he dead or alive?" They are the parents
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    • 208 4 THE force of the explosion was so great it caused the front entrance to give way. It was one of the worst industrial fires in recent times, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). SCDFs director of public affairs, Lieutenant Colonel N Subhas,
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    • 411 5  - 'It was either jump or die' Eyewitness on female survivor 'I felt the floor shake' Office worker at opposite block He fled when building shook TERROR FEAR By Zaman Mohamed Yusof zaihan@sph.com.sg HE felt the building shake and looked out of his office window. Mr Jerry Ng, who was alone
      PICTURES KELVIN CHNG; PICTURES ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF  -  411 words
    • 664 6  -  Makeover for malls as economic recovery beckons roperty By Desmond Ng desmondn@sph.com.sg THERE hasn't been so much activity in the malls for years building activity, that is. Several major shopping malls have been undergoing make-overs, with big bucks being pumped in. Harbour Front Mall will be
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    • 102 6 WHO'S getting a makeover? Harbour Front Mall Estimated cost: $250 million Date off completion: Third quarter of 2006 With the construction of a three-storey structure with a two-level basfement, it will be one of the largest malls here, with 1.5 million sq ft of retail, entertainment
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    • 383 8  -  By Karen Wong karen@sph.com.sg LESS than four years after he was struck off the rolls for shoplifting, this ex-lawyer is back in court. And on the wrong side of the law again. It's the third time Lawrence Amdad Hussein (right), 43, has been accused
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 573 10  -  Ex-Miss Singapore wilt still'take part in regatta By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg A fractured wrist won't stop former show host and actress Eunice Olsen from sailing. Miss Olsen, 26, has been training since October for the Singapore Straits Regatta. Under skipper Jeffrey Leow, the avid
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    • 139 10 THE Singapore Straits Regatta, now in its 10th year, is part of the Omega Asian Yachting Circuit. It begins at 2pm today. The trip to Nongsa should take under two hours, and after a rest there, the yachts race off Batam on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday,
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    • 146 11 Magic Kitchen a> junction 8 A -atiifeJKi Ik MEDIA ASIA*CHINESE HEW YEAB BLOCKBUSTER j]P Mil «i > I' taMMMLg ,J Special Appearance by i Jerry *an, Maggie Q Nichola Cheung mUkf 4 r* <«r i% ■■MHF <** n q **'M» is" EIMI Media Conference Date: 14 Jan 2004 (Wed) Time:
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  • SINGAPORE
    • 722 12  -  Principal: Stallholders were kept informed of changes SCHOOL CANTEEN DISPUTE By Michael Lee tnp@sph.com.sg SOME of them have been selling food to schoolchildren for almost 40 years. Now, they claim their rice bowls have suddenly been snatched from them. A group of seven former canteen
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    • Article, Illustration
      169 13 MOE is aware of the dispute at Tanglin Secondary School, but is satisfied that the re-selection process was appropriate and conducted in a proper manner. An MOE spokesman said every school has a committee which has full autonomy to run the day-to-day operation of tuckshops or canteens.
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    • 659 14  -  Hairdressinggoes 24-hours at 7-Eleven By Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg ROUND-the-clock shopping, munchies after midnight, and now haircuts. At one branch of 7-Eleven you can now get your hair cut at any time of the day or night. Since November, the 7-Eleven convenience store at Boon Lay Shopping
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    • 175 15 BUSINESS experts said the new service was an interesting one, which comes with risks. Associate Professor Hooi Den Huan, 48, of the marketing and international business division of Nanyang Business School said: "The joint venture is a novel business and the novelty will create a lot
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    • 403 12 training arm of Singapore Institute of Aerospace Engineers, invites applications for the following courses: MASTER OF Business Administration (Aviation Management) 4 Master program offered jointly by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technd (RMIT) and Air Transport Training College (ATTC) MBA (Aviation Management) is well received in Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan
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    • 126 14 ©UNIVERSITY OF LONDON EXAMINATIONS FOR ALL DEGREES DIPLOMAS Entries for the 2004 examinations will be received from 6to 17 January 2004 between 0900 -1700 hours, Monday to Friday and 0900 to 1200 hours on Saturday at the Orange Grove Room, Level 2, RELC Building. 30 Orange Grove Road Singapore *****2.
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 791 16 Witness thought woman and driver in Proton had 'made out', court heard HE had stopped to take a leak in the wee hours of the morning. Stopping on the left side of the road heading to Klang, Mr Azizan Ismail went
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    • 329 17 Man shot dead, parangs found Bernama. A MAN was shot dead and another injured when police opened fire at a lorry which refused to stop after being ordered to do so. The lorry led the police on a chase and, in the process, rammed
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    • 503 18 HE was hunting for a delicacy. But he ended up starving instead. Lance-Corporal Noor Rashid Mohd Noor was rescued five days after falling into a 7m-deep hole in a limestone cave at Kampung Jambusan, Sarawak, reported Berita Minggu. He
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  • WORLD
    • 447 19 AP MUM Mary Kate Gach hates the thought of daughter Stephanie's (right) killer even talking about her. But, she has to live through the trauma of seeing his twisted writings about how he beat, strangled and stabbed Stephanie. These writings are available on
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      493 20 Democratic Party frontrunner Howard Dean aims to become the most powerful man in the US with an JACKIE Onassis was the style icon of her generation. Current US First Lady Laura Bush is noted for her traditional demeanour. But if the Democratic Party's leading nominee Howard Dean succeeds
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      199 20 Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has taken a AFP. THE millionaire touted as America's most eligible bachelor has finally wed mirroring the plot of his bride's latest novel. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, 69, married novelist Melanie Croft, 35, before Christmas, his company confirmed yesterday. Ms Croft's third novel, Man
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    • 304 21 LAWYERS for Bombay real estate consultant and broker Anees Ahmed have filed criminal charges against Bollywood hunk Shah Rukh Khan. Indian cinema's undisputed leading man, who was in Singapore last month playing to swooning fans at a sellout concert, denies the
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  • 319 23 WORLD THE Muslim insurgents responsible for the attack on an army base in Narathiwat earlier this month had given themselves 1,000 days to take over the province and "plant their flag pole at Thaksin Rajanivej Palace" King Bhumibol Adulyadej's
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  • NEWS IQ
    • 338 24 SOME Singaporeans are so upbeat about their job prospects and the economy that they have started thinking about changing jobs. The latest Straits Times Consumer Confidence Index showed that more than 80 per cent of the 410 people polled think job prospects will improve or
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    • 333 24 I OH THE RACK Edited extract from The Baltimore Sun: Now and then, the words "nifty" or "groovy" might drop into a conversation, instantly identifying the speaker as an old fogey or, worse, an old hippie. But the word "cool" doesn't. Cool is constant. Cool
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    • 52 24 STORE COMPANIES ON NASDAQ (Close in US$/Change) Pacific Internet 9.12/-0.17 Creative Technology 11.96/+0.77 Flextronics 16.25/-0.48 Chartered Semiconductor 10.81/-0.24 Slats 14.13/+0.14 Yesterday's Percentage Plnco action change Dow Down 0.56% (58.59 pts) 10,426.59 Nasdaq Down 0.73% (1&41 pts) 2,096*37 S+P 500 Down 0.54% (5.98 pts) 1,121.24 ST1 Up 1.04% (19.07
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    • 69 24 HEWLETT-PACKARD will invest US$l billion (sl.7b) in Singapore over the next five years as it expands its major manufacturing base and shifts some high-end production here from the US. The investment represents about half of the USs2b that HP has sunk into Singapore, its Asia-Pacific headquarters,
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    • 68 24 SINGAPORE'S official foreign reserves last year rose 17 per cent to U5596.3 billion double the 8.5 per cent growth in 2002. In Sing dollar terms, the rise was even greater 14 per cent to $163.2 billion, against a 2 per cent increase in 2002. Analysts say Asian
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    • 69 24 FINANCIAL portal Sharelnvestor and multimedia technology company SPL Innotech will launch TV-Stocks in March, a TV set-top box that enables access to real-time stock prices, unlike current delayed quotes on TV. The product is expected to be priced at $500 each and will carry a
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    • 72 24 PETROL prices are likely to rise again as open-market rates hit their highest levels in at least 10 years. Global energy information service Platts said that unleaded petrol in Asia costs just below US$5O ($B4) a barrel of 159 litres. The main reasons for the price
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    • 68 24 CATHAY Organisation Holdings may face stiff competition from 110 existing budget hotels here when its budget hotel management arm, Hangout Hotels Pte Ltd, opens its maiden hotel at Mount Emily in early April. And hangout@mt.emily, as the hotel will be known, plans to charge at least
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    • 67 24 THE National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) launched a new bi-monthly magazine called Salt yesterday, so donors will know who they can send their contributions to. Featuring fund raisers and volunteers, it will cost $30,000 to publish the 10,000 issues that will be read by about 50,000 readers.
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 35 24 What a laugh AIRPORT SECURITY Dilbert /Scott Adams m B 1 m. to I i t Si i IT IS A FEDERAL CRItAE TO fAENTION THE NOVIES "ISHTAR r GLITTER* OR-GIGLI/ m v\ > 9A-U .w
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  • TECH
    • 547 26  -  B) Ian Tan tanyhi@sph. com.sg WHEN mini-PCs first arrived here some three years ago, they were scoffed at by many. The size of a small oven toaster, the early models were seen as novelty items for geeks as they were not as powerful as
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    • 139 27 GIVEN the increased acceptance of mini-PCs, manufacturers are throwing every innovation they have at the latest designs. Shuttle has a RefleXion model which already has wireless networking built in, so you can achieve the ultimate in neatness by coupling it with other wireless accessories like
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  • 458 30  -  TECH By Edwin Yeo tnp@sph.com.sg ONE reason why I've never been too keen on the Fifa series of football games from Electronic Arts is that, quite frankly, the gameplay has never been fantastic. Fifa 2004 on the Xbox, however, is a vast improvement.
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  • 277 34 TECH Wire Services. SOFTWARE maker Adobe Systems admitted that it has quietly added in features, at the request of the authorities and banks, to prevent people from making copies of the world's major currencies. The unusual concession has angered scores of customers. Adobe,
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  • Hey! Showtime&Lifestyle
    • 826 36  -  By Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@spkcom.sg IT was the year of R&B and hip-hop. But above all, 2003 was the year of Beyonce Giselle Knowles, whose solo career went into superstar overdrive. Whether it's the pop charts, fashion or movie premieres, everybody was Crazy In Love with this
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    • 274 37 SHE is a squeaky-clean Christian ingenue from Houston, Texas. He is the music mogul with a sordid drug-dealing past, and currently on probation for stabbing an industry exec. Why good girl Beyonce Knowles, 22, hooked up with bad boy rapper Jay-Z, 34, is a head-scratcher. They even
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    • 136 38 IS Taiwanese host Jacky Wu (right) such a big The Lord Of The Rings fan that he's sending his two daughters to New Zealand, where the movie was filmed, to M study? fl Of course not. The doting father just wants to give his precious
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      180 38 HE was not a particularly close friend of Anita Mui's. In fact, David Tao (above) met the late songbird just a few times, and they spoke only briefly. Yet, the Taiwan-based R&B star made it to the list of eight pallbearers for Anita when her other buddies,
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    • 146 38 IT took a monkey face to cheer Sammi Cheng (above) up. Not just any monkey face, mind you, but one made by her hunky Magic Kitchen co-star, Jerry Yan. Sammi was devastated after paying her last respects to Anita Mui on Sunday. She was reportedly inconsolable. But
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      62 38 ELVA Hsiao (above) may look all feminine, but her low, husky voice has often been thought to be masculine. No wonder the R&B songbird was picked to be the voice of the male lead in the animated version of the classic Chinese romance, Butterfly Lovers. She "plays" Liang
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    • 587 39  -  B.A.D.'s latest album, Starting Point Off My Dream, is out in the stores now By Yeoh Wee Teck weeteck@sph.com.sg JUST seven years in the business and currently promoting their fourth album, Taiwan boy band B.A.D. average age 23.6 is ready to
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    • 163 40 AMITABH Bachchan is about to experience a first in his 108-film career. Two of his films, Khakee and Aetbaar, will hit the screens on Jan 23. Indian newspapers reported that this is the first time Amitabh will have two films released on the
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    • 107 41 THE dearth of good scripts in Bollywood has led to a carrot-and-stick solution. After numerous calls for more original and better scripts for Indian cinema, India's National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) is offering cash rewards for the best film scripts in a competition. The five
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    • 116 41 KAMAL Hassan's (below) 3 newest Tamil film, Virumaandi, is to hit three US theatres today. 1 The film created controversy in Chennai because its earlier title, Sandiyar (Rowdy Gangs), offended caste groups and political parties. The two camps said that the title
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    • 126 41 THE current political thaw between usually frosty neighbours India and Pakistan has put producers in a collaborative mood. Screen India reports that Mahesh Bhatt (right) is working with Sevy Ali of Asian Pictures International, a London-based producer, to produce a Hindi film. This will
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      257 53 EURO KICKOFF: ITALIAN CUP UDINESE 0 INTER-MILAN 0 (first 1%) AFP. ASECOND-string Inter-Milan side scraped a 0-0 draw against Udinese in the first leg of their Italian Cup quarter-final last night. With several first-team regulars resting, including Christian Vieri and Fabio Cannavaro, the most impressive visiting player
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    • 262 53 PA Sport. AFP. AC MILAN v ROMA A DEPLETED Roma travel to the San Siro for the first-leg of their Italian Cup quarter-final against AC Milan tonight. ItH be a rematch of last year's final. The current Serie A leaders will be without six regulars for their second
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    • 166 53 FRENCH CUP: LENSOSOCHAUX4 Reuters. STRIKER Pierre-Alain Frau scored a double as Sochaux qualified for the French League Cup semi-finals last night. Sochaux prevailed with a clinical 4-0 win at RC Lens. Sochaux, who had already won 3-0 at Lens before the winter break in a run
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    • 291 54 EURO KICKOFF: SPANISH CUP PA Sport. La Liga leaders Valencia were given a jolt in the first leg of their cup tie against this season's surprise team Osasuna. They travel to Pamplona tonight knowing the home side will be optimistic of causing an upset following a
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    • 173 54 AP BARCELONA president Joan Laporta said Frank Rijkaard will stay on as coach next season irrespective of the team's results before then, news reports said yesterday. Laporta issued Rijkaard with the vote of confidence even though the Dutchman has been unable to improve Barcelona's
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      • 493 55  -  Edgar Davids is set to make his Barcelona debut against Levante tonight [By PHILLIP COCU BARCELONA I'M glad my Holland team-mate Edgar Davids has joined us from Juventus on loan for 5 months. There have been a few financial problems at the club recently and
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      • 386 55  -  I* GIO VAN BRONCKHORST ARSENAL THERE has been speculation that Henrik (Larsson, left) might be coming to Barcelona or another team in Spain. I have no idea what Henrik is thinking or what his plans might be. What I do know is that he is
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      • 51 55 KING'S Cup third round (last 16), second legs TODAY: Barcelona v Levante (Levante lead 1-0) Celta Vigo v Malaga (Celta Vigo lead 1-0) Osasuna v Valencia (2-2) Real Betis vZaragoza (Zaragoza lead 3-1) Valladolid v Alaves (0-0) TOMORROW: Deportivo v Atletico Madrid (00) Sevilla vVillarreal (Sevilla lead
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    • 155 56 Reuters. BRAZILIAN striker Ronaldo has been fined by Real Madrid for making an unauthorised trip to London, the club's sporting director Jorge Valdano said on Tuesday. "Ronaldo made the trip without the permission of the club and the appropriate sanction was applied," Valdano told Telemadrid
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    • 401 56 EURO KICKOFF: SPANISH CUP REAL MADRID 2 EIBAR 0 (Real Madrid win 3-1 on agg) PA Sport. REAL Madrid were given a massive scare by Second Division side Eibar last night. The Spanish champions, however, managed to book their place in the last 16 of the
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    • 120 56 Reuters. REAL Madrid are planning to play an exhibition match in South Africa early in March. If the tentative Mar 2 date is confirmed, the match will be sandwiched between the first and second leg of Real's Champions League tie against Bayern Munich. The
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      • 393 60 PA Sport. PAOLO Vernazza expects to renew a boyhood rivalry with Chelsea's John Terry when Watford visit Stamford Bridge tonight. The pair first locked horns in youth team football when Vernazza was at Arsenal. Later they became England Under-21 team-mates. They were denied a chance
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      • 413 62 PA Sport. LEICESTER defender Steve Howey is "surprised" by Manchester City's dramatic decline in fortunes but wants to prolong the agony when he faces his former club in today's FA Cup third-round replay. Howey believes the Blues have not had the rub of the green
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    • 279 63 FA CUP (3rd Round replay) CHELSEA v WATFORD Chelsea midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron will not be involved. But winger Damien Duff (dislocated shoulder) will be back if he gets medical clearance. Striker Hernan Crespo is out (calf strain), while midfielder Emmanuel Petit is still struggling with knee iiyury.
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      • 270 64 WOLVES 2 KIDDERMINSTER 0 PA Sport. TWO-goal Kenny Miller secured Wolves' FA Cup progression and a fourth-round clash with West Ham last night. Kidderminster were put to the sword by Wolves at Molineux in a replay. Division Three Harriers were undone as Miller produced goals either side
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      • 277 64 PA Sport. Division Three side Northampton landed a home meeting with Manchester United by making light of their Nationwide League Inferiority against Rotherham at Millmoor. The hosts scored first via Paul Hurst in the 19th minute but ended up 2-1 losers following goals either side of
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    • 793 65 FA CUP (3rd Round replay) BOLTON 1 TRANMERE 2 PA Sport. lAIN Hume raised his profile a notch or two by scoring a wonder goal to steer Second Division Tranmere into the fourth round of the FA Cup. The victims: Premier League Bolton Wanderers. The
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    • 199 66 PA Manchester United stalwart Nicky Butt wants to IAAVA He informed manager Sir Alex Ferguson of his desire to leave alter failing to i command a regular f.£ first-team place this season. The 28-year-old midfielder was one of the stars of England's 2002 World Cup campaign
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    • 497 66 PA Sport. ENGLAND assistant manager Tord Grip believeß Nicky Butt's international prospects would benefit from a move away from Manchester United. Grip, England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's right-hand man, feels the time is now right for Butt to seek regular first-XI football if he is to
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    • 199 66 Wire services. UNITED States international Carlos Bocanegra has joined Fulham on a three-year deal, the English Premiership side said. Bocanegra, 24, formerly with Chicago Fire, has completed his contract with Major League Soccer and will arrive on a free transfer that will keep him at the
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