The New Paper, 18 January 2004

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  • 27 1 the new paper MITA (P) 026/03/2003 JANUARY 18, 2004 _80CENTS Singapore Press Holdings Website: newpaper.asia 1. com.sg on sunday Email: tnp@sph.com.sg nil 8 "*****1M***** > the new paper
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  • NEWS
    • 541 2  -  Are virus-spreading animals the enemy? No, say experts. It's our dirty habits... By Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com.sg PEOPLE are killing the animals that are throught to be killing people. Civet cats, chickens, cows... The culling continues as pan-ic-stricken countries strive to contain the spread of
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    • 205 2 BIRD FLU LATEST: ANOTHER 35,000 chickens are being slaughtered to prevent a bird flu outbreak after a strain of the virus was found at a second farm in Taiwan in a week. Officials discovered the HSN2 virus at the farm in central Chiayi County. It is
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    • 171 2 SAP 6 LATEST: TWO suspected Sars cases in Guangdong have been confirmed, China's Health Ministry has said. One is a 20-year-old waitress who worked in an exotic game restaurant who has been discharged from hospital and the other, a 35-year-old businessman who is in a stable condition.
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    • 283 2 DR Paolo Martelli thinks the civet cullings are more a public relations exercise than an effective solution to zoonotic outbreaks. He said: "At this stage, it's a welfare necessity because thousands of civets are rotting and starving in little cages in Chinese markets, and they
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    • 594 3  -  Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph.com.sg ITS a vicious, silly rumour. And it's not funny if you happen to live in the block that is the subject of the email message. Worse, it could affect the property prices at this Bedok North block of
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    • 243 3 IF the price is right, people will buy. So says Mr Nicholas Mak, associate director of Chesterton International. "If it's a particularly sensational case, it can affect the unit but not the whole block," he said. He added that if a rumour is circulated through
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    • 217 3 BACK in the early *****, rumours were rife that another block of flats in Bedok was haunted. At the time, block 611 at Bedok Reservoir had been left unoccupied for several years and windows and doors to the units were boarded up to
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    • Article, Illustration
      793 4 Teens on oral sex: Street romeo calls it fun, conservative girl calls Last week, a man was convicted of having oral sex with a teenager. His case was the second of two. Both victims were girls under 16. The first case forced the issue into the limelight, prompting
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    • 139 5 ORAL sex, defined as "unnatural sex" is illegal in Singapore. The law, which comes under Section 377 of the Penal Code, applies to an act of "carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animals". Those found guilty of this charge can face life
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    • 454 5 it sinful. doII reflects division ORAL sex is as bad as adultery. For 17-year-old Carol (not her real name), it should never be done. While some teenagers told The New Paper on Sunday that oral sex was acceptable after marriage (see other report), Carol disagrees. "I was brought
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    • 393 5 ITS fine, some say. No, if s disgusting, others say. The New Paper on Sunday's street poll of 100 teenagers found them divided about oral sex. About half (48) of the teens aged between 13 and 18 said "No" to oral sex. The remainder said
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    • 1014 6 Loaded with work by unfeeling boss, woman claims: OFFICE SQUEEZE: WORKER WOES A coroner's court recently found that work-place stress was a factor that contributed to an engineer killing his son and himself. How bad can it get at work? SKYETAN (skyetan@ sph.com.sg) and DAWN
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    • 699 6 IF you had to choose between losing your job and forking out $500, which would you pick? When it came to the crunch, one delivery van driver chose to part with his hard-earned cash. There was no choice in the matter, said Mr Tan (not
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    • 1063 7  -  REPORT AND PICTURE By Dawn Chia Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph.com.sg THINK being at the top is all peachy? This company head honcho would argue otherwise. Mr Kenny Yap, executive chairman and managing director of Qian Hu Corporation, believes dealing with employees is always a challenge.
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    • 489 7  -  By Stare Tan skyetan@sph.com.sg EMPLOYEES face more pressure, a more intense need to deliver and an expectation to multi-task. According to a spokesperson for suicide counselling hotline Samaritans of Singapore (SOS): There has been an increased need for employees to perform because of
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  • 516 10 FBI serial killer profiler claims: [NEWS IF you've always had a sneaking j suspicion that your boss is a sadis- J tic control freak, youll soon have I the means to help prove it. A leading expert in the field of identifying psychopaths will
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  • 992 13  -  By Lee Tee Jong teejong@sph. com.sg HEARD the one about the SIA stewardess who studied law before she joined the airline? Here's a twist. Passenger to SIA stewardess: What are you going to do when you quit flying? Stewardess: Study, lor. And Miss Melina
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  • 658 14  -  COMMENT EDWIN YEO inpQ<Ffccom.a( IF I could turn back time, I would have spent Thursday listening to Mr Ngiam Tong Dow give his speech to the Economics Society of Singapore. No, I've not developed a passion for economics (a lacking I fully blame
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    57 14 LAND POLICY: Recent Government land valuations are too high... HDB'S ROLE: The Government should perhaps have closed down the Housing Board long ago... SING DOLLAR: Singapore should peg its currency to the US dollar—just as MaJaysia, China and Hong Kong have done... Who next! Mr Ngiam: He
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  • 252 16 [NEWS] SHE was trying to persuade her 3-year-old son to go into his kindergarten in Taman Johor on Friday morning. So Ms Ang Geek Tiang, 38, got out of her Toyota Unser to reason with the boy. Just as she had persuaded him
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  • 761 18  -  $85 buys you an AK-47 rifle (a favourite with terrorists) on Thai black market [NEWS] By Gary van Zuylen tnp@sph.com.sg THE recent raid on an army barracks in southern Thailand has dumped more automatic assault weapons into the already saturated illegal arms market in the region.
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  • NEWS
    • 306 21 !14 complaints between 2002 and 2003 HI 32 formal hearings I Offences include drug and alcohol abuse, assualt, medical mistakes DRUG and alcohol abuse, assaults on patients and medical mistakes. More than 20 nurses have been reprimanded and fined by the Nurses Board
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    • 438 22 HE INVESTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF HIS OWN MONEY AND CREATED... LESS than four years ago, Mr Jamie Dimon took over a bank that was losing customers and money fast. Investors weren't exactly beating a path to its door. But he obviously believed in it and
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  • NEWS
    • 694 25 IT has been turbulent so far for Mrs Cherie Blair (right)— six years behind the famous closed door of 10 Downing Street and in full view of the public. Mrs Blair has struggled to be a barrister, mother, wife and woman in
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    • 949 26 HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 15 MURDERS AND IS SUSPECTED OF KILLING AT LEAST 215 OF HIS PATIENTS EVEN in death, he was determined not to let control slip out of his hands. Harold Shipman, the UK's worst serial killer, shocked everybody when he killed
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    • 81 27 Harold Shipman hanged himself with torn bedsheets. He had jumped from the water pipe that ran through the cell x Tip smtaecaft was Prison wantons had checked Shipman at sam, than again at ton most of Ms in Ms mI Just before Christmas, the TV was
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    • 260 27 IN prison, Shipman followed a strict time-table. On weekdays at 7.45 am, his cell door on D-wing of the Wakefield Prison was unlocked and he was given his breakfast of cereal, milk, bread and juice. He ate it alone in his cell, which had orange
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    • 44 28 Horrified diners shcoked by Chinatown attack TAIWAN CRIME NIGHTT Near-naked men hide their facee from photographer* Inside a room after they were arrested by police for holding an Illegal drug party. Megal drugs were confiscated during the raid. Picture/ Afp
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    • 315 28 A MAN walked up to a stall assistant at a busy Chinatown food centre on Friday evening and stabbed her several times in the head and back with a kitchen knife. People queueing for chicken rice from the stall scattered in horror as the woman, Madam
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    • at a glance
      • 142 28 Snapshots of the main news to save you time THREE US soldiers and two Iraqis were killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad yesterday, a US military spokesman said. Two US soldiers were also injured in the attack on a Bradley armoured vehicle. It was
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      • 122 28 A group supporting jailed Malaysian ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday that it had defied police orders to end a cross-country vehicle protest. Its convoy of 25 cars was blocked by police who ordered the protesters to disperse after taking down posters and flags, a spokesmaaofthe Free
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      • 82 28 A LETTER received at a South Korean airline office in Bangkok said a mystery group was planning attacks on Singapore Airlines and other flights. Security was stepped up yesterday after the Korean Air office got the warning of attacks on flights to the country. The letter
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      • 118 28 MORE sports and rugged outdoor activities. That is what Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the Acting Minister for Education, wants for schoolchildren. Student athletes with a certain level of playing skill may be selected by their school to be trained as sports officials and coaches, he
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  • 699 31  -  Car windows smashed, daylight robbery sours star's festive shopping spree Forune Health Romance By Tan May Ping mayping@sph.com.sg A FESTIVE shopping trip turned into a nightmare for Media Works artiste Lynn Poh. On Christmas Eve in Johor Baru, her car window was smashed and her
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  • HEY!
    • Article, Illustration
      698 32  -  We poll 200 S'poreans and find that most feel it's safe to visit Festive bargain-hunting in JB? By Fawziah Selamat fawziahs@sph. com.sg IT sometimes seems that only bad news comes out of JB, such as the recent shooting of a Singaporean at a petrol kiosk there. But according
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    • 342 32 Dec 19,2003 Mr Calvin Tan Kok Chye, 28, was dragged out of his Honda Civic and shot twice In the head tta petrol kiosk. His attackers fled In his car. MrTan died later. H Dec 11; 2003 —A 36-year-old factory |S owner was robbed at gunpoint
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    • 583 32  -  We ask the experts how to best prepare yourself to ensure a safe journey By Celine Lim cellsj@sph.com.sg MANY of us travel overseas during the Chinese New Year period. Some just cross the border to JB, others further abroad on holiday. Although some have been alarmed by the
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    • 995 33 Each year, Singapore's top geomancers offer their predictions for the coming year. As the Year of the Goat draws to a close, CELINE LIM checks back with three feng shui experts to see how accurate they turned out to be MASTER GWEE KIM WOON The
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    • 312 33 THE Year of the Monkey belongs to those of the water element, say Master Gwee and Master Huang. But the earth element rules for Master Tan. If you believe in the water element and you are in the transportation, tourism, food and beverage, hotel, medicine,
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    • 238 34 I'm a 21-year-old guy. Recently, I started to like a girl at work and expressed my feelings to her. She said she needed time to think about it. But later I found out she has a boyfriend. I
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    • 259 34 I'm 14 and in Sec One. I seldom talk to girls, but over time I have come to realise that there's one girl in my class who is cute, and I have a big crush on her. I have heard rumours that
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    • 172 35 If I leave him... I'M 23 and I have been working as a domestic maid here for almost three years. Six months ago, I fell in love with a guy. He is a perfect man. Whenever I have a day off, I go out with him. One
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    • 103 35 WHAT do you think Poor Girl should do? Have you ever been in a similar situation? Do you have any advice? We are inviting YOU to act as counsellor to our Dear Aggie advice-seekers. Email us your advice for them before Tuesday to tnp@sph.com.sg, or
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    • 602 35 Confused is happily married with two children, but he has a i problem with a female friend he has known for 10 years. She has formed a strong attachment to him and has threatened to commit suicide or harm his family
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    • 652 36 Now when I hear WTO, I think World Toilet Organisation I NORMALLY don't resort to toilet humour. But every once in a while, I get hit by a bout of desperation. I meant inspiration. Yeah. Hie, ah, inspiration this
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    • 72 33 ttl WmwM Are you prepared to take on Fortune 8? Is your residential property enjoying a favourable position In this new cycle? H—■ Is no came for alarm. Mastor Tan shall guide you through ttio changet of this brand now gaomancy cycla with a Pangshul Ixhlbltlon and a sortos off
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 796 39 TV mmmmm 9 8.00: US PGA 9.00:7 th Heaven 9.30: Guess 9.00: Digimon 9.00: One Piece 10.00: Selamat 9.30: Asian Wok 9.00: XcaUbur 8.00: Billboard Tour 2004— VII (Variety/Rpt) Frontier/In Kids 9.30: Whizzes Pagi Slngapura 10.30: What 10.00: Alias— US Countdown am 1 SonyOpenln 10.00: Six Million ll.oo:WeAre 10.00-.Storm OfTheVoid
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 506 40 ragev) inmtfi nirtnun junimi jaiiudiy io.^va^ WHAT'S HUP VERY WARY Men are now more wary of where they place their hands as they can be accused of all sorts of things. We look at how this is affecting men AT DANCE CLUB AT PARTY Before T AT LIBRARY ON BUS
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  • Page 41 Miscellaneous
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  • RACING
    • 1260 42 HELLO AGAIN: Halo Charles (No. 2), with Soo Khoon Bang timing Ma run to perfection, taking out Race 6 at KranJl last Friday night. TheTanHor Khoon-trained victor had half-a-length to spare from Aussie Edge (along the rails) who, In turn, had his
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    • 916 43 BIG BOOM: Jockey Sam Sublan (astride Just Steel at KranJl last October) has a $210 reason to be Jubilant after steering Winning Aheadtoa thrilling victory at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. 8 KRYPTONTTE 52.5 (9-5) KKLoh (6) 4 4 1 (509) 11 SEAIIUSBENBECCA 51.5 (181-31)
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    • 303 43  -  By Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg SOME horses just have a knack of showing up at generous odds, never mind the fact that they have already proven their mettle on the battlefield. Former Kranji-based galloper Winning Ahead is one such horse. After notching two wins in Singapore
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    • 176 44 TOPTIPS RACINGI Racing Editor RACE Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lcc 1 Hit The Spot 3 Rioli 8 jeram Galaxy 1 JERAM GALAXY* 4 Funny Girl 10 Full Of Magic 3 Rioli 9Vtotd)Me 8 jeram Galaxy 10 FuH Of Magic 8 Jeram Galaxy
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    • 179 44 AFP. GRAND National-winning trainer Nick Gaselee has announced that he will retire at the end of the season owing to his advancing years and a lack of horses in his yard. The 65-year-old experienced his greatest moment when the appropriately
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    • 170 44 NiclM^as Dream (Race 5 No. 4) ■it would seem the blinkers have done the trick for this flashy baybrown galloper as he finished in the money at his last three outings. Jockey Saifudfn Ismail climbs aboard the Racer's Edge gelding fOr the first time. But the astute 35-year-old
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    • 811 46 Supersonics guard mav be team's saviour NBA 2004: RAY ALLEN Wire Services. R AS HARD Lewis smiled mischievously when he saw the growing number of reporters waiting to talk to Ray Allen. "Are you waiting to talk to Jesus?" the SuperSonics' starting small forward asked, knowing full
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      166 47 EURO KICKOFF: ITALY Reuters. AC Milan face a tough test of their title credentials tonight when they take on a resurgent Brescia side galvanised by the return of Roberto Baggio (above). The former Fifa World Player of the Year's appearances have been restricted due to injury this season
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    • 275 47 Reuters. ANCONAv PERUGIA Winless Ancona appear set for a quick return to Serie B after slumping to their sixth defeat in a row last weekend against fellow strugglers Empoli. Perugia are also without a Serie A victory this season, but have done enough in their last two games
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    • 200 48 EURO KICKOFF: SPAIN Reuters. REAL Madrid will be eager to prove that reports of their decline have been greatly exaggerated when they travel to Real Betis tonight. Real's form has dipped since the turn of the year. They managed a streaky 1-0 win at home to relegation candidates
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    • 300 48 Reuters. ATLETICO MADRID v SEVILLA Atletico have moved into the fourth Champions League qualification slot thanks to a five-match unbeaten run. Sevilla have been less consistent but in Julio Cesar Baptista and Jose Antonio Reyes they have two outstanding forwards. DEPORTTVO v REAL ZARAGOZA Deportivo wasted a good
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    • 304 49 TRANSFER TRAIL PA Sport. LIVERPOOL manager Gerard Houllier (above right) is confident Martin O'Neill will no longer be touted as his successor in the Anfield hot-seat. The Celtic boss has been widely tipped to replace the Frenchman during what has been a disappointing campaign so far
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    • 644 50 AP. HERE'S a fashion tip sure to make female soccer players uncomfortable: The sport's chief suggests they slip into something a little tighter on the field. Fifa president Sepp Blatter said on Friday women should consider wearing more revealing uniforms such as skimpier shorts to bring
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      • 91 57 CHELSEA v BIRMINGHAM Reuters. CHELSEA midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron (left) is to return to Argentina to see a doctor about a back problem that has kept him sidelined for two months. Said manager Claudio Ranieri: "He's going to Argentina to see a specialist who knows
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      • 96 57 CHELSEA: England left-back Wayne Bridge will be recalled. He will take over from Celestine Babayaro with manager Claudio Ranieri saying: "I prefer Bridge for this match." Ranieri's decision means that Babayaro has played his final match before he flies out to join the Nigerian squad for the African
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      • 573 57 PA Sport. CHELSEA striker Adrian Mutu has found the target again. And he's a relieved man. Now he has set his sights on continuing his return to scoring form against Birmingham tonight. Mutu had endured the frustration of going 13 games without scoring until
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      • 468 58 ASTON VILLA v ARSENAL FREDRIK Ljungberg accepts that Arsenal must start being more ruthless on their travels to strengthen their title bid as they prepare to visit Villa Park tonight. Arsenal are still unbeaten in domestic action this season. While they have dropped just four points at
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      • 155 58 PA Sport. LEE Hendrie has urged Aston Villa not to let their recent revival "fizzle out" ahead of tonight's big clash against Arsenal. Villa enjoyed the dizzy heights of a top-six place for a 24-hour period last week after a rapid climb away from the
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      • 782 59  -  By Paul Walker SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport CHARLTON extended their unbeaten league run to seven and took a firmer grip on fourth place and the dream of Champions League involvement. Former Everton man Graham Stuart grabbed the first-half goal that secured Charlton's sixth away win
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      • 253 59  -  Bolton ........................1 Portsmouth ................0 By Ken Gaunt SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT BOLTON chalked up only their third home win of the season in the league thanks to Kevin Davies. He grabbed the winner in the 52nd minute after a mistake by keeper Shaka Hislop. Portsmouth's misery was
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      • 440 60  -  By Mike Price SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport DAVID JAMES said hello to Manchester City and David Seaman waved goodbye at Eastlands. After an illustrious 23year career, Seaman quit on Tuesday after deciding it was not worth trying to recover from the shoulder injury he picked
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      • 356 60  -  Middlesbrough 3 Leicester CHy 3 Jurtinho (8), Maccarone (90), Dictov(so,6s), Curtis (90og) Bent (76) MIDDLESBROUGH: Schwarzer. Mills. Cooper (Davtes 31), FUggott, Queudrue, Nemeth. Zenden (Mendieta 61), Boa ten g, Downing, Juninho Pauteta, Job (Maccarone 61). Subs (not used): Jones, Doriva. Booked: Maccarone, Zenden. LEICESTER: Walker, Curtis,
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      • 281 60  -  CAIIUiAMMMIAM doumampton z Leeds United 1 Ormerod (36), Phillips (42) Ngalon (75) SOUTHAMPTON: Niemi, Dodd, Hal (Kenton 80). M Svensson. Higginbotham, Fernandas (Tetter 85), A Svensson, Detap. Prutton, Ormerod, Philhps (Beattte 88). Subs (not used): Biayney, Pahars. Booked: A Svensson LEEDS: Robinson. Ke*y, Camara, Kilgallon, Harte,
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      • 517 61 WOLVES I (Miller 67th min) MANCHESTER UNITED 0 WOLVES I MANCHESTER 0 PA Sport. KENNY Miller (left, with hand raised) turned the Premiership on its head with a stunning second-half winner for Wolves at Molineux yesterday. Miller fired past Tim Howard in the 67th minute to score his
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      • 300 61 AFP. <M GIVING up alcohol saved Alex Rae's career, admitted last night's Man of pnpPf the Match. Jv, The 34-year-old Wolves' leading scorer with eight strikes this term rates Oct 26,1998, as the day that his career was saved when he decided he had to
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      • 404 61 DUN U BOSS MO FERGUSON: I thought we controlled the match in the first half particularly and played some excellent football. We were wasteful with our chances after creating some really good positions and did not really finish them off. Once Wolves did score, they were
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      • 205 61 AFP. MANCHESTER United chief executive David Gin has admitted Rio Ferdinand (right) made "a serious mistake" when he missed his fateful drugs test on Sept 23. United's star defender will on Tuesday begin the eight-month ban that h«« ruled him out of United's domestic campaign as well
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        215 62 WOLVES I (Miller 67th min) MANCHESTER UNITED 0 What will happen when Rio Ferdinand begins his eight-month ban? Man U could get caught short in central defence, like they were here. Wes Brown, who replaced Ferdinand after the latter hobbled off injured, slips as Miller latches on to
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      • 595 63  -  TOTTENHAM 2 (Keane 22nd min pen, Postiga 54) LIVERPOOL I (Kewell 75) RESULTS BOLTON 1 Davies 53 PORTSMOUTH 0 EVERTON 0 CHARLTON 1 Stuart 41 MAN CITY 1 Anelka 54 BLACKBURN 1 Flitcroft 57 BORO 3 Junin.ho 9. Curtrs 90og. Maccarone 90 LEICESTER 3 Dickov 49.
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