The New Paper, 3 April 2005

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  • 28 1 the new Paper on sunday Singapore Press Holdings HOTLINE 1800 733 44 55 3 APR 2005 •80 cents 1111 8 "*****1M***** > Website: tnp.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg MICA (P) 095/03/2005
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    • 1186 2  -  She does hazardous job to pay off family debt NO WAY OUT? KorKianBeng kianbeng @sph.com.sg HER world used to be bright, cheery and fiillofhope. Candice (above, not her real name) was close to getting her university degree. A promising future lay ahead. But
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    • 228 3 THE New Paper on Sunday learnt about Candice after a concerned reader contacted us about her plight. The reader wrote: "If she is doing her final-year studies as she claims, then she really needs some assistance and counselling help." When Candice turned up for the
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    • 322 4  -  NO WAY OUT? KorKianBeng kianbeng@sph .com.sg WOMEN like Candice (right) need counselling and help. Dr Brian Yeo, a consultant psychiatrist at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, said: "Her situation might not have been desperate but, to her, it might have been very real, like
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    • Seeking a chief justice
      • 539 5 Last Friday We asked: Where s our next PM? Yesterday We considered a presidential poser: Who's next? Today We look at who can fill CJ Yong Pung How's shoes S'pore's chief justice is due to retire soon. Who will succeed him? SINGAPORE has one
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      • 351 5 WHOEVER takes over as chief justice will have big shoes to fill. CJ Yong Pung How has set very high benchmarks for the job. He's the chief architect of numerous policies that gave the judiciary its world-class stature. He's also possibly the world's most
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    • 1500 6 A POPE LIKE NO OTHER ONCE SO ENERGETIC, HE WAS DUBBED 'GOD'S ATHLETE'. IN LATER LIFE, HE SUFFERED HIS hands were trembling. He tried to speak but he could hardly whisper. The Pope was in pain. Stricken by arthiritis and afflicted by Parkinson's he was keen
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      1340 7 A PAST LIKE NO OTHER POPE JOHN PAUL II WAS STEADFAST. BUT SOME POPES OF THE PAST ROCKED THE BOAT WHEN the great bronze door under the portico off St Peter's Square swings shut and the bells of the Vatican begin to toll the death of a
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    • 1054 9  - I'M OLD, FAT UGLY ...BUT WOMEN LOVE ME He's 44, bankrupt and an ex-jailbird. So why do S'pore aunties lavish this pock-marked getai superstar with free holidays, money, jewellery and abalone? JoyceLim joycel@sph.com.sg HIS adoring fans mob him whenever they can and even shower him with expensive jewellery, paid holidays
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    • 127 9 HE was only nine when a businessman paid him $100 to sing in a nightclub, recalled Mr Chen Jin Lang. "My family was very poor and my two elder sisters sang for a living in a nightclub. I would sneak in with them One night, a regular
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    • 1000 10  -  This year's Miss S'pore Universe pageant fizzles as scores dip for contestant after contestant WHERE'S OUR BEAUTY IDOL? JeanmarieTan jeanm® sph.com.sg Criticism may be subjective, but the numbers don't lie. You only have to refer to the judges' brutally low scoring system at last night's Miss
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    • 314 11  -  DominicYing domying @sph.com.sg THEY were prepared for a thousand. But only 400 turned up to queue before the gates were to open at 10am. It was for a free entry into Downtown East's Wild Wild Wet for a splashing good time. The morning downpour, it seems,
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    • 645 12 Caught in money dispute, S'pore businessman holds his partner for 14 hours and beats him S'POREAN KIDNAPS S'POREAN IN CHINA IT started out as a contractual dispute between two Singapore businessman in Chongqing, Sichuan. But it led to one being kidnapped and
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    • SnapShot
      • 52 13 Among the leaders in Singapore, you know who was bom great As to who has achieved greatness, weH, Lee Hsien Loong has become the Prime Minister. And as lor me, alas, I only had responsibiity thrust upon me. -Senior Minister Goh ChokTong at an Indian community dinner in
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      • 85 13 THE popular news website Malaysiakini called it an April Fool's Day joke. But the authorities were not amused. Malaysiakini said on Friday that three ministers and one menteri besar were about to be charged with corruption. The four were not named. The fictitious report was accompanied by
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      • Article, Illustration
        44 13 freed himafter (figging through chunks of concrete and other dribris in a tense, semi-hot operation. Meanwhile, the BSAF has ajrifiad fc tonnes of food and medial supplies for the vkrims who have been without food sinoe the earthquake on Monday night.
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      • 87 13 THE liquid chemical substance was something Federal Express (Fedex) workers had come across before. But when a bottle containing 2.8 litres of it spilled at the courier company's building in Changi South yesterday morning, several workers complained of nausea and giddiness. Five people were immediately rushed to
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      • 104 13 THE Singaporean head of the United Nations watchdog agency, Mr Dileep Nair, has accused UN staff of mounting a smear campaign against him. Mr Nair, head of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), and his attorney released documents from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and
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      • 169 13 SMGOH TELLS MDIANS'POREANS THE Indian community in Singapore should help build closer relations with India. So said Senior Minister Goh Chok Tang at an Indian community dinner in his honour. "I believe that India will emerge as a major economic pomct and geopolitical player," he said.
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      • 147 13 OUR Malay students are much better at maths than the Americans, Australians and Israelis. They are even a little better than the top Europeans —the Belgians and the Dutch This was found in a study of Primary 4 and Secondary 2 students conducted across 49 countries
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      • 48 13 ORGANISERS of a major erotic festival are closing for business in Manchester due to a lack of interest, which they blame on recalcitrant northern English men. Erotica Manchester organisers said northern women wanted to attend the three-day show but were "under the thumb of their other halves".
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      688 15 FCUIC So many labels. It's been a BAD, BAD week. Bold Aspiring Designers, Bright Aspiring Designers. The hype! The buzz! The four-letter words integral to the Singapore-as-hub lexicon lived up to its exclamations as the Tent@NgeeAnnCity parted its skirting to welcome fashion's elite at Singapore Fashion Festival 05. Presented by
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    • 54 15 the cuimlnator of SFF. Inspired by oartaoe bags, ttw 25-y«r-okl laoslntcr^o^ ■SSWS?wt;; Pespftfltlwtoqjiro rff wSStauw^r^r^ad itshair me: "I've never seen so many well-dressed people in one place at the same time before. I'm always Writing about how badly-dressed people are in Singapore." I expect she Included
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    • 306 15 A DOOR gift of flying ducks that produced Z\ golden eggs was one of the talking points of XJLSFFOS. It was in the Felt goodie bag to tie in with the collection 3 Flying Ducks Tour The House. The shop's girls handcut and handstitched 1000 felt duck
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    • 469 16  -  Faith Teo #wenli@sph.com.sg BOY, do I hate rain. It's a recent development, thanks to the arrival of my new black car, my Precious. Who could have thought water could dirty things like that! Gone are the days when I welcomed rain because it meant I
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    • 475 18 A PR man responds to our Confessions story on a PR consultant published last week I READ Confessions Of APR Consultant last week with amusement and amazement. First, hiding behind the cloak of anonymity is not my kind of PR. I am Tang
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    • 623 19  -  KELVIN LOH HAS SEEN ALL KINDS OF CLIENTS. HE SAYS IT'S NOT THE LATEST STYLES BUT THE HUMAN STORIES THAT ARE THE MANE EVENT EmilynNg ngemilyn @sph.com.sg HEADS infested with lice. Heads that have not been washed for a week. Heads with hardly a strand of
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    • 523 20  -  The rest of us are already flushing (with embarrassment) Annette Tan tnp@sph.com.sg THERE is much to be said about a woman's unrelenting love for a man. One of my friends spent years watching her man date (and bed) other women before settling down
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    • 391 21  -  F JaniceWong MY life has come full circle. I freelanced for The New Paper as a columnist while working as a flight attendant from 2000 until 2002 when I joined another newspaper as a full-time business journalist. The events that led me back here are
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    • 361 21  -  Writer's blog WendyCheng tnp@sph.com.sg IT's tough to be an Internet writer, really. Book writers, journalists, and even copywriters don't get the same kind of treatment bloggers do people nitpicking on every grammatical mistake, pre-pubescent teens in forums saying my mum's so fat, if she rolled
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    • 515 22  -  JaniceSech tnp@sph.com.sg OVER in Perth, they're redefining the modern battlefield and it's coming to a birthday party near you! It used to be so easy. Your teenager has a birthday coming up. You organise a party. Friends come, they make a mess, everybody has a howling
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      529 26  -  Oh, you're not Jack? Well, if you've been working as hard as us (or Jade) this weekend, then you'd better loosen up too NG WAN wonchmcdstAcomsg IT can cause your marriage to breakdown. A miscarriage. Less hair, more wrinkles. What to do when modern life is so tough?
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      736 28  -  ACCESS TV, RADIO, MOVIES ALL THROUGH IanTan tanyhi@sph.com.sg WE don't usually review desktop PCs because they are basically boring boxes that scream "commodity product". However, the HP m7oBBd demands to be written about because it's no ordinary home computer. More commonly known as a Media Center PC (MCPC),
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    • 377 29  -  OoGin Lee tnp@sph.com. sg WITH Canon's latest colour inkjet all-in-one Pixma MP76O (picture), the photo labs may well be history. This $699 machine, lets you have your very own idiot-proof photo lab at home. The MP76O prints excellent pictures on good quality glossy photo
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  • Guide
    • 585 32  -  Text by Keith G Emuang SEVEN months ago, Jonathan and April became proud parents for the second time. They have since decided against expanding their family further. But while their lives have mostly returned to normal, the same can't be said about the couple's sex
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    • 572 33 I'M a 29-year-old man and have known my wife since 2001. We got married in 2003. Though we don't live together as we still have not had a traditional marriage, we have been happy—until now. Before we got to know each other, my wife loved
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      382 34 Fore! 3-lron (NCI 6) Here's inventiveness for you. A Korean movie title that gives the weapon away. No, not a lethal dose of iron tablets. Think island country club. A motorbiker drifts from hitherto thither, squatting where he finds an empty house to hang his helmet. What are his chances
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
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    • 235 39 TView MISS CONGENIALITY Chwel 5,7.15pm An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event Starring Sandra Bullock, Benjamin Bratt. TURN LEFT TURN RIGHT aUMMlUrtp* A violinist and a literature translator are destined to be together, but their habits
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  • racing
    • 396 40  -  EASY ALL-THE-WAY WIN IN $125,000 KRANJI SPRINT Dannykhoo dkhoo@sph .com. sg SOUTH AFRICAN trainer Patrick Shaw could not have asked for a better outcome in the Group 3 Kranji Sprint yesterday. Fresh from his grand 1 -2 finish with Que Expresion and Spectro Power in the
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    • 1221 40 ♦RACE 1: After being loaded into the barrier, GREAT HERO became fractious and dislodged T Jackman. GREAT HERO was taken out of the barrier, examined, passed fit to race and reloaded. NINETYFTVE SWORD jumped awkwardly and was slow to begin. KING ARCHER hesitated
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    • 1731 40 12 SWIFT VICTORY 50 c 49 (186-45) *S Kumar (1) 7 5 1 (493) 7 ROYAL PACIFIC 56.5 c 55 (22-8) *HK Lim (5) 2 2 2 (462) Ns 3 GREAT HERO 57 (57-19) TJackman (2) 1 1 3 (469) 3.75L
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    • 287 41  -  ♦$150,000 Chairman's Trophy Singapore Group 3 (1,800 m) DannyKhoo dkhoo@sph .com .sg THE big guns should take the lead in the Chairman's Trophy at Kranji this afternoon after playing the supporting roles in the Committee's Prize last month. Mayo's Music, Raul and Exaggerate the top-rated
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    • 45 41 TOTSIENS (Race 4 No. 6) This Laurie Laxon-trained gelding is as good as a certainty for the day. He has the best form in the race and has only seven rivals to deal with. Expect him to romp home at very skinny odds.
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    • 1469 42 Mo. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Aye/origbVsex, trainer) 1 703-56 HARDWARE 59 (38) *CGoonc2.5 1 (5nzg Gray-Midas Touch No. 2) Only win was over 1,400m on a yielding track in May, 2003; recents runs have
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    • 55 42 RACE 3: Cameron, Emerging Force. RACE 5: Seacucumber, Sky Luck. RACE 6: Fast Eddie, Eastern Sun. RACE 7: Signature Spirit, Always Innocent, The Great Caruso, Villa Verde. RACE 8: Royal Warrant, Shanghai Hero, Strategic Prince. RACE 9: Mayo's Music, Raul, Spectro Power, Que Expresion, Izamaman, Superior Warrior, Imperial Lad.
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    • 1496 43 Good work: Kiwi handler Stephen Gray keeps up his fine trot with a double at Kranji yesterday, courtesy of ReillyGold (Race 3) and Leader Of The Pack (Race 10) for oil trader TangWeng Fei's Hydrocarbon Stable. Race 6
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  • Sports
    • F1-2005 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
      • 633 44  -  By Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg THE chassis' ready. But is the Ferrari engine up to scratch? That's die key question ahead of today's Bahrain Grand Prix—the third race in the 19-race calendar this year. The hype leading up to today's race has been over Ferrari's new F2005
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      • 1201 45 ERNEST: From the oil palms around Sepang, the Grand Prix circuit moves to the sands of Bahrain. These...are the Lives of the Bold and Handsome? IVAN: Gosh you make Formula One racing sound like an afternoon soap. It's much more dangerous than that, and, from
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      812 46 SPORTS SPONSORSHIP: GLOBAL "Keep Discovering". These two words, which appear on most of Emirates Airlines commercials, define their flight into the world of sports sponsorship. In Dubai recently, BRIAN MILLER met up with MIKE SIMON (vice-president of Emirates' Corporate Communications Division) to find out what makes the Middle East
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    • 460 47 THINK hard. When was the last time you did NOT see the colours of Emirates Airlines at a sporting event. Ask a diehard sports fan and he will be hard-pressed to come up with an answer. Why? Because Emirates has got its finger in almost every sports
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    • 214 47 WHAT about the Fife World Cup? "First, let me tefl you that we're all very excited," said Mike Simon. "We're what they call an oflfcial partner of the Fife World Cup. It's the first time that a Middle East airline is involved in football's
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    • 1730 48 SPORTS SPONSORSHIP: SINGAPORE 808 HAKIM (for right, with Caltex Singapore Masters champion Nick Dougherty), vice-president, Asia Pacific Marketing, ChevronTexaco: Caltex, a ChevronTexaco company, has been the title sponsor of the Caltex Masters presented by Carlsberg since 2001. The sponsorship has also allowed us to fully
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    • 703 49  -  SPORTS SPONSORSHIP: SINGAPORE Ernest Luis npsports@ sph.com.sg PUBLIC perception of local sports events used to be lukewarm at best. But that's all changing now. It has been shown that Singaporeans will attend a sports event in good numbers when there's good publicity boosted by media coverage.
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    • 792 51 HE'S the boss all sporty bosses will cast an observant eye on. He's the boss the Singapore sports fraternity will quietly study. That makes Oon Jin Teik—who became chief executive officer of the Singapore Sports Council last May Singapore's No 1 Sporty Boss. Simply because the
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    • 354 52 How can Singapore succeed in sports? THIS sporty boss believes in title concept of a Sporting Singapore that can excel, even at Olympic level. With conviction in his voice, Singapore Sports Council's chief executive officer Oon Jin Teik referred to how, ki 1984, he,AngPeng Siong, David
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    • 838 53  -  Singapore's favourite golf son, Mardan Mamat, will be flying the Republic's flag in China, as a member of Asia's team against an all-star Japanese squad in the Visa Dynasty Cup Asia's equivalent of the Ryder Cup GodheyRobert npsports@ sph.com.sg HE had the whole bay to himself
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    • 149 53 A CONFIDENT birdie-putt in the playoff hole gave Singapore's Melissa Loh the ÜBC Junior International girls' Class A title at Palm Hills Golf Club in Hua Hin yesterday. Melissa (right, hanrfirap 4), who created a stir in February's Samsung i Masters by making
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    • 170 53 Wire Services. THE third round of the Portuguese Open in Cascais was suspended for a second time yesterday due to rain. Play was halted for 90 minutes early yesterday and the bad weather has left parts of the Oitavos course waterlogged. Portugal's Jose-Filipe Lima and
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    • GOLF: THAILAND LADIES OPEN
      • 608 54  -  Aussie Shani Waugh drops her experienced caddit for hor golf-ignorant cousin Tanialla Lloyd bocausa Uoyd makas her laugh and ralax out on tha links. Lim Han Ming npsports@spn.com.sg IN BANGKOK IF SHANI Waugh wins the Thailand Ladies Open today, she will probably be the first professional golfer
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      • 298 54 GQING into the final round, the Thailand Ladies Open tide is as open as the fairways at the Alpine Golf and Country Club in Bangkok. Only three strokes separate the top 12 players on the leaderboard. Yesterday, Australia's Shani Waugh (right) carded a one-under 71 for
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    • EPL SUNDAY CHEERS
      • 136 55 IFULHAM 153 1^3 DRAW Q.OQ C3.0& Portsmouth a.&3 3.53 4 G&) 5 80 5 STST 8.90 6 16.00 16.00 7 30.00 30.00 8 65.00 65.00 9 110.00 110.00 H-H 3.50 3.50 H-O 12.00 12.00 H-A 24.00 24.00 D-H >60 4,60 d-d G-wD D-A d.80 D.BU A-H 18.00 18.00 A-O
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      • MATCH REPORT
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          617 56  -  By Ben Owen SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport Manchester united twice struck the woodwork and Mikael Silvestre had a header cleared off the line as their attempts to overcome hard-working Blackburn met with frustration at Old TYafford. The draw means Arsenal overtake them in the race for second
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        • 687 57  -  By Jim Van Wijk SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THIERRY" HENRY returned from injury to fire a hat-trick as Arsenal thumped relegation-haunted Norwich 4-1 at Highbury. The Frenchman made it 30 goals for the campaign after hitting a first-half brace and adding a third stabbed in from close
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        • 204 57  -  By Luke Thomas SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PA Sport KIERON DYER and Lee Bowyer were sent off in disgrace for fighting with each other as Newcastle imploded at St James' Park. The pair were dismissed by referee Barry Knight after trading punches and
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        • 392 58 CHARLTON 2 (Bartlett 10th min, Perry 90) MAN CITY 2 (Hreidarsson 4og, Fowler 38) PA Sport. STUART Pearce was denied his first win as Manchester City boss after Chris Perry hit a last-minute equaliser to earn a 2-2 draw for Charlton at The Valley yesterday. A
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        • 170 58 PA Sport CHARLTON defender Chife Perry hopes his late against' Manchester City yesterday jjwlkeep his side's European hopes alive. r The Londoners were second-best for the large part of the Premiership dash at The Valley mit Perry struck in time to snatch a 2-2 draw. Perry-said:
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          103 59 LIVERPOOL 1 BOLTON 0 EPL RESULTS ♦ARSENAL 4 Henry 21,22,66, Ljungberg 50 NORWICH 1 Huckerby 30 ♦BIRMINGHAM 1 Carter 68 TOTTENHAM 1 Kelly 59 ♦CHARLTON 2 Bartlett 10, Perry 90 MAN CITY 2 Hreidarsson 4og, Fowler 38 ♦PALACE 0 BOROI Queudrue 35 ♦LIVERPOOL 1 Biscan 85 BOLTON 0
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        • 332 59 ALL Italian sports competitions, including Serie A soccer, have been suspended out of respect for Pope John Paul, who is on die brink of death, the Italian Olympic Committee said yesterday. "In light of the latest health buUetms. which indicate that the
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        • 724 60 Reds learning to adapt toEPL, Europe LIVERPOOL 1 (Igor Biscan 85th min) BOLTON 0 LIVERPOOL are finally learning how to multi-task. That is, learning to adapt to two different mindsets when it comes to applying their football philosophies in England and Europe. As the only other
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    • 87 59 W^JSEM EPL ♦PALACE vBORO Delayed, Ch 23,9 am, today ♦NEWCASTLE v VILLA Delayed, Ch 23, noon, today ♦FULHAMv PORTSMOUTH Ch 23,8.25pm, tonight ♦WEST BROMvEVERTON Ch 23,11pm, tonight SPANISH LEAGUE ♦BARCELONA vBETIS Ch 22,10.55pm, tonight ♦A MADRID vMALLORCA Ch 22,12.55 am, tdmorrow ♦ALBACETE V REAL MADRID Ch 22,2.55 am, tomorrow GOLF:
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