The New Paper, 11 July 2004

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    26 1 the new paper JULY 11, 2004 on sunday MITA (P) 024/03/2004 80 CENTS 9tmSing*pon Pnss Holdings Website: newpapcr.asial.com.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg IIIIIIHI 8 *****9 > tte ij L.
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  • NEWS
    • CLASS ANGST
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        Lock icon Does he look down on the poor?
        490 2 RICH MAW He's poised, polished and he's got a ton of cash. Do Singapore' rich snub their poorer neighbours? Yes, says a recent survey, the class divide in Singapore is clear. a LOW CHING LING reports I THEY may be up there on
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        Lock icon Does he look up with envy?
        512 2 POOR MAN More than half in S'pore's lower class think the rich are looking down on them, says a recent survey. Do the less well-off hanker for being seen as high class? THE rich man was asked to donate $10 to charity. But he
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      Lock icon Grace is the word...
      722 3  -  but it’s tough turning a blue-collar worker into a class act, says personal groomer Is class all about cash? By Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com.sg MISS Teo Ser Lee, three times titled beauty queen, is 38 and looks more like a sparkly 26. The head-turner was
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      Lock icon It’s about attitude, says biz whiz
      567 4  -  By Faith Teo wenli@sph.com. sg MS ELIM Chew (above), 77th Street boss and streetwear guru, is one of those who doesn't flaunt her cash. With a multi-million dollar business that has been growing steadily since 1988, she has done well. But she told The
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      Lock icon It’s about confidence, says fish king
      338 4 SUCCESSFUL entrepreneur Qian Hu fish farm boss Kenny Yap (right), 39, should be rolling in cash. But more often than not, you'll still see him pottering around his farm in t-shirt, bermudas and slippers. "It's my occupation. This type of wear is more appropriate.
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      Lock icon I’m low class. Can try BMW or not?
      1128 5  -  CLASS AHCST^ H/\ Can see $28,000 watch? Can rry( Can test $260,000 BMW car? \ZJ Can [7| Can test Porsche car but don't buy? Can rpf Can show 10 units of •—I district lOcondos?Can By Ng Wan Ching tnp@sph.com.sg BE low class.
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      Lock icon First wheelchair Stolen Second wheelchair slashed
      766 6 HEARTLESS HEARTLANDERS Look what they did to paralysed boy home to find the PiWFseat of her crippled son's wheel%o chair slashed. The culprit had also poured oil into the back pocket and on the seat In the end, she had to ca*jy her 32kg
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    • Article
      Lock icon Problems with arms, legs, chest infection
      210 7 CEREBRAL palsy is a chronic disorder of the central nervous system caused by brain damage. It usually occurs as the fetus is developing or during infancy. The condition affects body movement and muscle co-ordination. Those who suffer from it may experience muscle tightness, seizures
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      Lock icon Boss lives in HDB flat Maid lives in condo
      913 8  -  HEARTLANDERS WITH HEART Look what they did for sick maid Boss pays 1,000 for sick maid's surgery Pays her full $250 salary while she recuperates Hires maid for $300 a month to take care of her Lets them stay in late
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      Lock icon They get to use condo’s sauna, gym and pool
      410 9 THEY are like three friends who have moved in together. Ms Kustini, Ms Yasintha, and private nurse Lilis Ahmad are now the sole occupants of Madam Gan's condominium apartment. "It's like living in our own house," said Ms Yasintha. "We've got
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      Lock icon I’ll do it for free
      935 10  -  100 to fix window rivets? That can be plenty for the poor. But take heart, this man says: By Rachel Cheng xinhui@sph.com.sg THIS successful businessman is prepared to pay $200,000 to help the less fortunate. The "challenge" is finding people to take up his offer.
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    • Article
      Lock icon Your windows, your responsibility
      191 10 THERE has been an increase of 50 per cent in the incidence of falling windows in the last quarter of the previous year. And it's now the responsibility of the homeowners to make sure their windows are safe. While details are still being worked out, a
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      Lock icon Little Latvia S’pore how?
      956 11  -  LATVIA'S EURO 2004 LESSON FOR YOUNG LIONS: Smaller population, smaller budget, smaller GDP, higher ranking By Fawziah Selamat fawziahs@sph. com.sg EVEN tiny nations can dare to dream and make it into the big league, thanks to little Latvia's Euro experience. At around the same time the
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      Lock icon ‘When you come from small country, you try harder’
      536 11  -  By Sim Chi Yin simcy@tnp.com.sg NURTURING and rewarding individual talent is the key to how the tiny Baltic state of Latvia has produced international stars in sports and music. When its team made it to the European Championships in Portugal last
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      Lock icon Excuse me, are you a boy!
      735 12  -  That's the question often asked of this woman's football team from China By Sylvia Toh Paik Choo tnp@sph.com. sg JUST when you thought football fever was over, temperatures are rising in the shape of the women's soccer team from Guangzhou Zhenjian, now kicking up
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    • at a glance
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        Lock icon Old fire station on fire
        146 13 Snapshots of the main news to save you time FOR about half a century, fire engines came racing out of this place, to put out fires in various parts of Singapore. Yesterday, the old Serangoon Fire Station was itself on fire. And fire engines from
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        Lock icon DPM to NUS, NTU: Take charge
        311 13 SMU experiment becomes a catalyst for change IT'S new, it's different, and it's a success. So, will the others be a little more like the Singapore Management University (SMU) now? Perhaps. SMU was an experiment that involved some risk and considerable investment, Deputy Prime
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        Lock icon Bird flu spreads
        119 13 THAILAND has confirmed two new cases of the lethal form of bird flu that earlier left 24 people dead in Asia. Agriculture Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said some 1,200 birds had been slaughtered in the provinces of Sukhotai and Uttaradit and laboratory tests were positive for the H5N1
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        Lock icon More ties with India
        113 13 INDIA and Singapore have agreed to widen economic ties and taken a joint stand against terrorism. "Both sides agreed that their strategic and economic interests are convergent," said a joint statement, after talks between Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and his Indian counterpart, Mr Manmohan Singh.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Suspected food poisoning kills worker
        120 13 A BOUT of food poisoning may have killed a 30-year-old man at a Loyang workers' hostel yesterday. His body was found on a sofa yesterday morning by his colleagues. Eighteen other workers at the hostel were also struck with food poisoning and suffered severe diarrhoea
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      Lock icon I needed to hunt for virgins
      643 14 French serial killer Michel Fourniret confesses to a chilling urge that struck him twice a year COLD, remorseless and chilling. The confession of Frenchman Michel Fourniret has sent shivers through France and Belgium, where he has lived. "I needed to hunt virgins twice a
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      Lock icon Used baby son as bait
      172 14 DETAILS of Fourniret's regular "virgin hunting" sessions have emerged from his wife's testimony. The two had a series of ruses for picking up their victims, reported The Guardian. They stalked educational institutions, pretending to be lost and persuaded girls to get in their van to
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      Lock icon He's the man who churns out champs
      927 15 Meet Nick Bollettieri, whose academy once had 32 students playing at Wimbledon AS the rays of the early morning sun fall on the 45-acre campus of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, sleepy-eyed children tumble out of bed, ready for a day
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      Lock icon HIS LATEST STAR
      101 16 HIS OTHER STARS BORN in Novi Sad in Yugoslavia, Monica Seles (right) joined the Bollettieri academy at 12. At 17, she became the youngest top-ranked tennis pro in history and went on to win nine grand slam titles. Andre Agassi (far right) joined the academy at 13
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      Lock icon Would you pay to listen to his son play?
      760 17 One S'pore businessman bid $346,400 to lunch with Warren Buffett RICH AND FAMOUS Nr Warren Buffett has amassed a substantial fortune from astute investments through his company Berkshire Hathaway of which he holds 38 percent. He is known to be frugal,
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      Lock icon Nan U star striker scores a wife
      459 18 Top Euro 2004 Dutch scorer weds in hometown Wire services. THE church was tiny. And the list of invited guests was short. But the wedding turned into a big affair, thanks to hundreds of cheering fans outside. Yesterday, a small group of friends
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  • Tech
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      Lock icon Battle of the browsers
      398 19  -  US government's Net experts tells surfers to switch from the vulnerable Internet Explorer to alternatives like Firefox and Opera TECH BUDDy EUGENE WEE eugenew@spfi.com sg IT WAS a message that probably instilled some level of panic in the folks at Microsoft stop using Internet Explorer (IE)
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      Lock icon There’s more to life than IE
      354 19 Mozilla v1.7 www.mozilla.org When Netscape finally succumbed to Microsoft in the Browser Wars in the late '90s, from its ashes rose Mozilla. Developed by the people who brought you Netscape Navigator, the browser that kept IE from total domination in the mid-90s, Mozilla has
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      Lock icon It’s cool to be a geek
      458 20 LAT-WP ANYONE who wants proof that computer nerds are not uncool need only to look at Hugh Jackman, the techie portrayed in the movie, Swordfish. Maybe that's an exaggeration. But still, computer geeks can no longer be shoved into a locker and left to
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      Lock icon Women want to marry this Geek doll
      276 20 NOW, the once-derideH have their unofficial poster boy: GeekMan. A new action figure available online and in a few local toy stores, GeekMan is here to save the data with his pencil-thin arms, overbite and Dan Dare hairdo. When asked what his hero's
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  • TECH
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      Lock icon Quitting? Don’t take the contacts list
      560 24 Companies in the US sue employees for 'intellectual' theft A WOMAN, who was about to leave her travel agency for a competitor, e-mailed her clients saying she would get them better deals if they followed her to the new agency. Another employee in a
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      304 26 Wire services. WHAT has Crocodile Dundee got to do with Stars Wars? No, the well-loved Australian bushman movie character is not about to jump into another adventure in space. "Dundee" happens to be the name of a secret project that involves the use
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    541 28 German scientists have set up website that predict jams up to an hour before they happen to TECH AS they say,if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Fed-up with the constant traffic snares that clog up the highways, German scientists have found a novel way to solve the
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    800 30 TECH Piracy is rampant in Pakistan PAKISTAN has a problem of gigantic proportions. It has more than 180 million fake DVDs and CDs floating in the market and there is no sign that the situation will improve. And the massive piracy problem has a severe
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  • Hey! SUNDAY YOUR MAGAZINE FOR THE WEEKEND
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      Lock icon good in HOLLYWOOD
      1053 34 Tlk HOLLYWOOD life She left S'pore to chase her Tinseltown dream when she was 18. Now, more than a decade later, Lydia Look is earning big bucks, lives in Beverly Hills and drives a BMW YOU may not have heard of her or watched any of her
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      Lock icon Another Singapore girl seeking stardom
      221 35 Another Singaporean talent, Gwendoline Yeo, also managed to get her foot in the door in Hollywood after she won 1996 Miss Asia America and 1998 Miss Chinatown USA titles. "I had a good year last year. I'm an actress, musician and I do voice-overs. Whatever
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  • HEY!
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      Lock icon NIGHTMARE IN LA
      983 36 XL HOLLYWOOD 14 li e The reality of Hollywood is that acting is a cut-throat business and Tinseltown is not the best hangout for Asian hopefuls. JOYCE LIM talks to some Singaporean actors about their experiences there Hollywood is a place where dreams can come true. But
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      Lock icon For others, it’s a dream
      173 36 ITS not about the money. If the part is right, big or small, some local actors like Melody Chen won't think twice about packing their bags for Tinstletown. "Of course I'd go to Hollywood if it's for small roles," said the 26-year-old stage and TV
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      Lock icon S’pore actors’ fleeting shots at fame
      353 37 Ike HOLLYWOO D life (1) Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) Lydia Look plays Lu Wan Chang in this film directed by S S Wilson. (2) Shanghai Knights (2003) MediaCorp actress Fann Wong plays Jackie Chan's younger sister who uncovers an unroyal plot against
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      Lock icon Teen wants a boy to like her
      299 39 I AM in my early teens and I have a problem. I like this boy in school but he doesn't seem to like me. I have even written a letter to him, telling him that I love him. He replied that he doesn't
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      Lock icon He is forever cheating on me
      728 39 I MARRIED my ex-husband out of obligation. The "marriage first, relationship later" method just did not work out. After 10 years of trying we remained incompatible. I divorced him and plunged into my second marriage with a divorcee whom I loved and whom I
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      Lock icon Can you help this writer?
      102 39 WHAT do you think this writer 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. E-mail us your advice to them before Tuesday to tnp@sph.com.sg or
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      Lock icon One-sided love story
      502 40 Psychologist Danny Ng says: It seems that your interest in H is one sided. She does not seem to have the same intensity or interest towards you. You must keep in perspective that she has not led you on in any way as she has always been
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      268 41 hey/ P 9.00 am: Best Of Euro 2004 Croatia vs England/Golf 9.00 am: Major League Baseball Saturday 2004 Philadelphia, 9.30 am: 2004 Formula One Qualifying Silverstone, Great Hawaii USA Atlanta Braves vs Philadelphia Phillies Britain Foster's British Grand Prix Qualifying 11.30: Nationwide Division One Sunderland vs West 12.00nn: Tour Oe
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      196 41 Highlights Naked Gun Channel i, 6.30pm Starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley. In this police thriller spoof, incompetent cop fVank Drebin has to foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to the US. Instinct Channel 5, 10pm Starring Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr. An aspiring psychologist oversees
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    576 43  -  HEY/ JANICE SEAH tnp@sph.com.sg A FRIEND bought a T-shirt for my son's 14th birthday recently. Like so much teenage merchandise these days, it was made by people who think bad behaviour is a much desired quality in a child. The T-shirt said "Delinquent". A few
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      1011 46 5 EMERGING FORCE 54 (39-12) SSam (9) 1 1 1 (437) 8 TRUE ARISTOCRAT 53.5 (77-15) *KT Cheng (7) 2 2 2 (470) 12 GOLDEN SEED 50 c 51 (198-41) MSuhaimi (10) 4 4 3 (483) Others in finishing order: HEAVEN'S CHILD (30-10) S
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      307 46  -  By Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg THE promising Babe Classic extended his winning streak to five on the trot with an authoritative display on the opening day of the Penang Turf Club's July meeting yesterday. With former champion jockey Oo Khuang Liang (left) in the saddle,
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      1257 47 Race 1 -ijJ il StrtvBoi.M n No. list 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Banter (Age/ortgin/iex. trak»r-own«r) 1 *****0 HIDDEN RESERVE 57 (39) *YAJfyc2.5 6 (4ag S Ho-Owner) 2 -9-09 GOSANKE 56 (37) KWLeong 3 (4nzg PK Leong-Mdm YH Boi) 3
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      81 47 Raftaar (Race 9 No. 10) Fast grey who kept raising a strong gallop to win from start to finish last time out. Penangbased trainer Richard Lines has stepped the son of Bletchley Park (same sire as Superb Effect) up in class but there is no reason why he
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      359 48 Racing Editor Marc Tan Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Michael Lee LEADING TRAINERS 1st 2nd 3rd M Breukelen 30 14 28 R Lines 16 14 18 KHNq 16 12 10 J Brink 16 6 10 SHo 14 3 10 B Brogan 13 27 18 KF Wong
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      888 48 GENERAL Poet-race urine/blood tests, June 2 meeting, Race 1: Trainer C Read exercised his right to have TRIPLE WONDER'S referee sample sent overseas for independent analysis. An inquiry into the matter has been adjourned pending the analysis of the referee sample. Race
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      32 46 4-D DRAW SATURDAY July 10, 2004 FIRST SECOND THIRD 5619 STARTERS CONSOLATION 2885 2355 9120 4668 4094 6604 5279 1952 7148 5192 0164 4807 0439 6219 0943 6570 3683 8805 6252 2694
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  • SPORTS
    • MAN ON THE RUN
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        421 49 ilim i 1' u* @he journal of &me»t Jhtu, r fhut 1 ERNEST LUIS—our man who was on the run in Portugal for the past two-and-a-half weeks covering Euro 2004 muses on his most memorable experiences on the job. WHEN in Portugal, do as the Portuguese do, and use
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        426 49 r Part 2 TWO days after the Euro 2004 final, I was with a Portuguese contact in his car as he drove to Lisbon from Cascais. It was the first time in two and a half weeks I had a lift to Lisbon, and
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        406 50 Qtie journal of £nmt Mm ds TWO and a half weeks ago, you may have seen pictures of my 400 euro (about $840) a night room at Hotel Albatroz in these pages. That's Cascais' swankiest hotel directly facing the sea. Cascais the base from
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        433 51 Qfhe journal of W!*9U>At Midi <Pm€4 WE all heard about Portugal's tough security measures for Euro 2004. And I have to say that generally, they did a good job. Until 7.15 pm that is. When I say 7.15 pm, that's half an
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        576 52 Their superb soccer skills brought them to the famous Luz Stadium in Lisbon. Four Singapore teenagers were at Euro 2004 final as flagbearers. They relate to ERWIN WONG their dream-come-true experiences THEY spent only four days in Portugal and had to dash to the
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        600 53 THEIR main Euro 2004 duty was to escort the national flag of Greece. They held their heads high as they trotted out to the pitch, holding the flag of the giant-killers, before the July 4 final started. The Singapore quartet were joined by their counterparts from
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        296 53 BRITISH GRAND PRIX QUALIFYING RESULTS 1ST ROW: 1. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) McLaren, 1:18.233; 2. Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Ferrari, 1:18.305 2ND ROW: 3. Jenson Button (GBr) BAR, 1:18.580; 4. Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari, 1:18.710 3RD ROW: 5. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Renault, 1:18.715; 6. David Coulthard (GBr)
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    • COPA AMERICA 2004
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        453 54 GROUP C: BRAZIL v COSTA RICA AP. PLAYING without their top stars, Brazil knew the Copa America wouldn't be easy. But fans didn't expect so much anguish, so soon even knowing that the majority of the team were second-stringers. Brazil eked out an injury-time 1-0 win over
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        103 54 PA Sport. THE Copa America should be held on a four-yearly basis rather than the current two to regain its prestige and fulfil its potential. This was the reason why Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira rested the top Europe-based players. He said there was not enough room
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        397 55 PERU 3 VENEZUELA 1 Reuters. PERU captain Claudio Pizarro's sending-off spoilt the party for the Copa America hosts as they beat Venezuela 3-1 for their first win yesterday. The hosts will hope that Bayern Munich striker Pizarro, whose unwavering dedication makes him their inspiration, will
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        170 55 COLUMBIA I BOLIVIA 0 AFP. DEFENDING champions Colombia beat Bolivia 1-0 with a late goal from substitute Edixon Perea (right) to become the first team to make it to the quarter-finals. Perea headed home a cross from Elkin Murillo in the 89th minute to
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      587 56 The Premiership's attacking forces for season 2004/05 PA Sport. Pictures/ Reuters, Afp ARSENAL THIERRY HENRY (above) Age: 26 Premiership goals: 30 Scored eight more Premiership goals than his nearest rival last season and a key member of Arsenal's "Untouchables". Henry could claim to be the best striker in the
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      240 57 PA Sport. EIDUR Gudjohnsen, Mateja Kezman, Adrian Mutu, Hernan Crespo. Now add Didier Drogba. That's the total sum of Chelsea's strike-force for next season. Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, quiet until now, yesterday gave Drogba his seal of approval, claiming the forward would add another dimension to the Stamford
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      139 57 PA Sport. ROMAN Abramovich's takeover at Chelsea grabbed all the headlines last season. And with the Russian billionaire using his vast wealth to fund a series of raids into the transfer market, Stamford Bridge was never far from the back pages. The oil-barron's investment now tops £250
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      113 54 AMERICA (1) Brazil 1.45 (X) Draw 3.88 (2) Costa Rica 5.50 Brazil (-1 1/2) 2.35 Costa Rica (♦ll/2) 1.48 0 8.00 HH 230 1 4.30 HD 10.00 2 3.70 HA 19.00 3 3.90 DH 4.70 4 5.40 DO 7.20 5 7.90 DA 10.00 6 16.00 AH 14.00 7 34.00 AD
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      140 55 League Home Team Away Team Match Kick Off j (Singapore date/Mmrt Copa 2004 Argentina Mexico Sun, 11/7/04 8.45 am Copa 2004 Brazil Costa Rica Mon, 12/7/04 4.00 am Copa 2004 Paraguay Chile Mon, 12/7/04 6.15 am (SCORE Malaysia Singapore Mon, 12/7/04 8.45pm I Copa 2004 Venezuela Bolivia Tue, 13/7/04 6.30
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      91 57 HI COPA AMERICA 2004 BRAZIL v COSTA RICA 3.50 am, tomorrow PARAGUAY v CHILE 6.05 am, tomorrow VENEZUELA v BOLIVIA 6.20 am, Tuesday PERU v COLOMBIA 8.35 am, Tuesday MEXICO v ECUADOR 6.20 am, Wednesday) ARGENTINA v URUGUAY 8.35 am, Wednesday COSTA RICA v CHILE 6.20 am, Thursday BRAZIL v
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