The New Paper, 4 November 2007

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  • 22 1 the new Paper Wmn 4 NOVEMBER 2007 Singapore Press W Holdings MICA (P) 196/12/2006 80 CENTS 1111 8"*****1 *****9 > the new paper
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 940 2  -  Cara Van Miriah earavm@sph. com.sg HE was running an errand for his brother-in-law. On his way back, he was also supposed to buy lunch. It would take Mr Abusali Gani only about 20 minutes to walk from People's Park Centre to The Arcade at
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    • 689 3  -  Coach operators react to challenge from budget airlines Cara van Miriah caravm @sph.com.sg GOOD news for those who travel to Kuala Lumpur frequently luxury coach companies plan to offer cheaper fares and better services. The move comes after news that Malaysian budget airline Air
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 9 5 David Marshall JBJeyaretnam
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    • 722 5  -  NEW FACE OF WP? No Tze Yong tzeyong @sph. com.sg THE new face of opposition politics is one you might miss in a crowd. Mr Koh Choong Yong, the 34-year-old vice-president of the Workers' Party (WP) youth wing, is gently guiding his pregnant wife down the
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 652 7  -  Cara van Miriah caravm @sph. com.sg L IT WILL be Singapore's little "fruit" island, right in the middle of Punggol Reservoir. Visitors will be able to take a scenic stroll to a fruit-themed platform on the island when it is opened to the public in 2009. The
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    • 909 8  -  CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN FARE CHEAT'S APOLOGY TOUCHES BUS COMPANY Reports and Picture Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg SHE regularly cheated on her bus fare. And for years, thought nothing of it. Then, more than a decade later, she was tormented by
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    • 436 9 SBS Transit estimates its annual loss to fare evasion to be a whopping $9 million. Every day, there are an estimated 42,000 cases of cheating on bus fares. But if the cheats are caught, harsh punishment awaits them. Recalcitrant fare evaders may even find
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    • 1128 10  -  r ■Water bag leaks two months before birth Mum and baby at risk At birth, baby about half normal birth weight Tan Mae Lynn maelynn @sph.com.sg DOCTORS told them the baby they were expecting had little chance of surviving. And if
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    • 124 11 Water bag or amniotic sac has amniotic fluid, which protects foetus from injuries, allows movement, permitting physical development, and maintains temperature in uterus. Amniotic fluid can be replenished through placenta. Amount of fluid varies throughout pregnancy. Breaks in water bag occur in about one in 10
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    • 365 12  -  Community Day mobilises 900 volunteers in 25 events Cara van Miriah earavm @sph.com.sg IF you were at Nee Soon yesterday, you may have seen these children with brightly-painted faces. But you may not have realised that they were part of what was possibly Singapore's largest one-day
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    • 81 19 Heartiest Congratulations to the National Library Board, Library Association of Singapore and all partner libraries in celebrating 50 years of National and Public Library Services and the Launch of Singapore Library Week 2007 We applaud your efforts to Bring Knowledge Alive, Spark Imagination and Create Possibility! EMC' where information lives®
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 482 20 Mum of girl taken with hijacked car: IT WAS a mother's worst nightmare. Madam Aminatun Hariah, 38, could only watch in horror when a man hijacked her car with her 5-year-old daughter inside. The thought of murdered child Nurin Jazlin Jazimin was
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    • 259 20 THE prosecution's claims: That karaoke hostess Hui Wing (left) had an affair with a government official, became pregnant and then blackmailed her lover. They also claim that she had threatened him if he failed to pay up. The trial, which is expected to
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    • 715 21 First kidney swap in UK r HE would have gladly given his kidney to his ailing wife. Unfortunately for Englishman Peter Horrell, he wasn't a match for his wife, Roma, who was suffering from kidney failure. Over in Scodand, a woman
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    • 433 22  -  Ng Wan Ching wanchmq@sphcom<>g KIDNEY swapping is done in the US and South Korea. But instances of it happening among two sets of married couples are rare. In Singapore, kidney swapping is yet to happen. But that does not mean it won't Said
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    • 1112 23 From tennis prodigy to coach to paedophile IF you didn't know her history, you might easily have thought Claire Lyte (left) was one of the best tennis coaches in the UK. To her young wards at the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) training academy, she
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    • 420 24 US teacher flees when probed over relationship with boy, 13 AP. HER disappearance sparked off an international manhunt. And the search was all the more urgent because she was believed to have run away with a 13-year-old boy. Kelsey Peterson, a 25-year-old maths teacher
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    • 602 25 Record holder ready for NY Marathon after giving birth PAULA Radcliffe lives, eats, sleeps and breathes running. To the extent that when she was pregnant last year, she continued pounding the tarmac right up to the day before she gave birth to a healthy
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    • SNAPSHOT
      • 50 26 They don't really care what the dollar does, at least within a fairly wide range. What the US government cares about above all is that the changes are orderly. Adam Posen, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, quoted in the International Herald Tribune
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        34 26 AN American car manufacturer yesterday c/rg anises a promotional Elastic Car-jumping for the public in the city of Brussels, Belgium. The car used for the "car jumping" event is a Dodge. picture afp
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      • 101 26 THE labour movement is extending its reach to pull more professionals into its fold, including regulars in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). The move is spurred by its success in attracting almost 8,000 engineers and estate agents over four months, after it opened its doors to professional
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      • 91 26 A NUCLEAR power plant in Arizona was locked down on Friday morning after security guards discovered a pipe bomb in a contract worker's truck, authorities said. Plant operator Arizona Public Service called the discovery an "unusual event" and sealed off the site. The worker was entering
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      • 125 26 CITIGROUP Chief Executive Charles Prince plans to resign, the Wall Street Journal said, as the widening subprime mortgage crisis brings to an end the reign of Mr Sanford Weill's troubled successor. The largest United States bank by assets will hold an emergency board meeting today, at
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      • 175 26 Global warming has caused major floods and rising sea levels PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong says Singapore will do its part to mitigate climate change but the country cannot afford to do so at the cost of its economic growth. This is because Singapore
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      • 222 26 HOLLYWOOD'S two decades of labour peace shattered on Thursday night, as movie and television writers declared they would embark on an industrywide strike for the first time since 1988. The writers' union announced that the strike will begin tomorrow morning. Unless there is a last-minute settlement,
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      • 65 26 A US zoo director who gave LSD to an elephant has topped a list of the maddest scientific experiments. Tusko, of Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma, died an hour after being hit with about 3,000 times the typical human dose of the hallucinogenic drug in 1962. The list is
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    • 1115 27  -  Hotels and restaurants are rolling out year-end menus with hefty price tags. Are customers biting? Elysa Chen and Arul John tnp@sph.com.sg GOURMET goodies like foie gras (goose liver), truffles, whole chestnuts and fresh turkey are baked to perfection in a crisp pastry. But if
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    • 556 29 New series The Universe premieres on the History Channel next Sunday. It aims to bring you up to lightspeed with everything the cosmos has to offer. Here is a quick guide to what lies beyond THE (NOT SO) BIG BANG Most people have heard of the
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    • 140 29 Want to know more? Then catch The Universe, a new documentary series, which premieres over The History Channel (StarHub Ch 8) on 11 Nov at 9pm, featuring explanations from experts, animation and realistic computer reconstructions of space. And what better way to enjoy the educational
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    • 620 30  -  Leong Ching chingl@sph.com.sg WE were driving along a stretch of Farrer Road when my son called out: "Look! A small bird!" I looked over the thick green trees, but didn't see anything. "No bird," I told him. He rolled his eyes. "Over
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 543 32  -  New therapy offered as alternative to current lotions, pills, massage Ng Wan Ching wanching @sph. com.sg WANT to let your hair down and not let it get you down? Dissatisfaction with one's hair is common among those who are conscious about their looks
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      514 33  -  Chua Wei Ynq Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg RAW food is slowly gaining in popularity. In the middle of last year, Mr Paul Yeoh, 27, gave up a banking career to be a raw food instructor and chef. He said he used to live a typical young executive's lifestyle eating
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      247 33  -  Recipe by Chris Turner INGREDIENTS FOR CRUST 2 cups raw wheat germ (or raw almonds processed until mealy) 1 cup desiccated coconut 4 tablespoons cold-pressed vegetable oil 4 tablespoons raw cashew butter (or raw almond butter) INGREDIENTS FOR FILLING 4 tablespoons flax seed powder 4 large apples (or
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    • 823 34  -  KF Seetoh Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg AT ONE stage in my quest for makan nirvana, I had this fear of popping into one of those typically authentic and quaint Japanese omakase-onegaishimasu eateries. The ones where you sit by a counter in front of the chef and he
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    • 734 35  -  Yoga for hypertension 1 Bharat Thakur is a yoga guru and spiritual master. He is the founder of Artistic Yoga, a unique approach based on his training ana research that combines ancient yoga practices with modern exercise principles. It is taught in India, the
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 355 36 Star Search 2007 Final Channel 8, 7pm After three months of facing off in this long-running local acting competition, find out which one of the six finalists Jerry Yeo, Celia Pan, Jackson Tan, Andie Chen, Koh Yah Hwee and Desmond Tan will emerge the champion in this live telecast which
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    344 37 OUR SUNDAY Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpforum@sph.com.sg Submitting vour pictures to Sunday Please make sure that the resolution is at least 200 pixels
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  • SUN RACING
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    • 2366 39 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 08-8 Wonderful Wizard 55 (44) TM Wan 5 (3ac KC Tiang-Ong) 2 457-69 Brilliant Tycoon 55 (41) KEirwanc3*. 3 3nzg KC Tiang-Ong) 3 Always Supreme 55 M Wepner 4' (3ag
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    • 69 40 W JAZZMINT DELIGHT (Race 7 No. 2) is a very smart three-year-old from the yard of Ipoh handler Evert van Breukelen. In four starts so far, the speedy Viking Ruler progeny has done little wrong, chalking up an impressive hat-trick on the back of a debut second. Drawn
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    • 113 40 RACE Zi Mongolia Eagle, Royal General, Sunshine Beauty, Thundershock, Speed Chaser, Northern Music, Onemoretime, Ace Esprit. RACE S< Mr Majestic, Copperfield, Perfect Gold, Asian Tenacity, Dali. RACE 4s Matisse, Jerara Mas, Main Power, Super Fast, Circle Of Life, Speedy Dragon, Lead To Glory. RACE 5: Establish, Break The Bank,
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    • 711 40 RACE l SKY STONE was slow to begin. UP TO YOU and EXPRESSARDO bumped after the start. Passing the I,ooom, SKY STONE was hampered when UP TO YOU shifted out. RACE 2 ACE ARRIBA and ARKADIAN BOY bumped on jumping. MI ANGELTTOS
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    • 922 41 Going: Good (Races 1-3), Yielding (Race 4), Soft (Races 5-10) Race 1 RM 01 (SC) 1100m I 1 BUEHO 2 ATMOV 11 VIVA Ml 4 EA5TEM US TYCOOi 55 c 54 (16-5) IM 55 (128-32) HMM 5619-5) Itcawin 55 c 53 (40-11) nCkni (2) 8 7
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    • 118 41  -  Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg ONE down, two to go. King of Kranji Saimee Jumaat (left) needs only two more winners to reach the illustrious 1,000 winners feat on the Malayan Racing Association (MRA) circuit Fresh from his treble at Kranji on Friday,
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  • SndayPORTS
    • 871 42 Professional golf's no fun when you've... DOWN OUT Mad about golf IT goes without saying that professional golf offers the opportunity to make seriously big money these days. Witness this week's Volvo Masters, where Europe's top money earners for the year are battling it out for serious cash in the
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    • 2007 BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN
      • 230 43  -  Jeffrey Oon npsports@sph.com. sg LONG legs, flawless complexion coupled with a pretty demeanour. Australian model Anneliese Poggensee never made looking good so effortless, despite the stifling heat smothering the Sentosa course. The 27-year-old of mixed German-Chinese parentage was on her way to the BMW
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      • 419 43  -  Gary Lim npsports<3)sph.com.sg THERE have been no lack of stars at the Barclays Singapore Open. But to suggest that little-known Park Jin is outclassed cannot be further off the mark. In second place and four strokes behind leader Angel Cabrera, Park finds himself
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      • 280 43  -  Cheers Quincy, you're the man Gary Lim npsports(3)sph.com.sg THEY were toasting to local amateur golfer Quincy Quek for a superb three rounds at the Barclays Singapore Open. The 20-year-old national serviceman is in line for the amateur crown as his only challenger, Anthony Fernando of the Philippines,
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      • 813 44  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg AND they say the Serapong Course is tough. Well, at least not to Angel Cabrera anyway, if his results have been anything to go by. On a day when the Big Guns faded in the sweltering heat, the man of the moment made
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      • 843 44  -  Godfrey Robert npsports@sph.com.sg WE have yet to see it here at the 2007 Barclays Singapore Open. But leader Angel Cabrera can blow hot and cold. At this year's BMW Championship at Wentworth in May, he lost his second-round joint-lead with a 76 on the third day.
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      927 45 .ffl 09 Why Singapore hockey will benefit from a new international-class stadium Every Sunday in the Singapore at Large column, The New Paper profiles the Singapore sports scene with a national or grassroots perspective. ERNEST LUIS finds out that a new hockey stadium able to host the Junior World
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    • 184 46 JUNIOR WORLD CUP BID FASTFACTS Singapore and Malaysia have recently submitted a joint bid to host the 2009 Men's Junior World Cup Finals. The outcome should be known when the decision is made in two weeks' time after the FIH executive board meets in New Delhi,
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    • 495 46 (THERE are six hockey pitches in Singapore: Delta Stadium, Temasek Polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic, Bedok Camp, Nanyang Technological University and Co-Curricular Activities Branch. Here's why they aren't adequate to meet the demands: DELTA STADIUM I Bookings for Delta Stadium is four times that of any other stadium in Singapore,
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    • 331 47  -  Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg IAIN Ewing our Sporty Boss this week is 62. But he buzzes around like a 32-year-old. When I met him at 10.30am last Wednesday at his three-storey office in Joo Chiat Road, I was stunned when he popped his head
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    • 752 48 SPORTING ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE YOU could even argue that Ewing's attitude towards life keeps him feeling and perhaps looking "younger" than he is. As he said: "I think everyone should take sports seriously and discipline themselves to do it regularly. "We've never had a better chance
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      • 929 49  -  IVe throw the spotlight on the Premiership's technical directors M//?o are //»ey. Dressed in sharp suits, often sitting in the company of the club owner or chief executive, they are known as the technical or sporting director of football. But not every club has
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      • 252 49 If you were a coach, would you accept the help of a technical director? Yes, I would. But first, the job outlines must be spelt out clearly. For example, the head coach should be in charge of all first-team affairs, down to training, team
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      • 186 49 PORTMOUTH manager Harry Redknapp has admitted he's never been a fan of the technical director role. Redknapp, who enjoyed a frosty relationship with Avram Grant when the Israeli filled the role at Fratton Park, said: "I'm still not comfortable with the director
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      • 242 49 What's your opinion of the technical director? The technical director (TD) is basically employed by the chairman and has his backing. He functions as the "eyes and ears" of the chairman, who needs a second opinion and someone to explain team tactics and strategy in
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      • 562 50 What British Sports Minister Gerry Sutdiffe said at a sports industry summit on Thursday: On John Terry's salary, and Chelsea's financial state On Manchester United's act of increasing ticket prices Good luck to John Terry but I think it is obscene to be
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      • 185 50 PA Sport ASTON Villa boss Martin O'Neill insists he does not have a problem with top players earning huge salaries. However, he feels that far too many "average players" are overpaid. Sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe has courted controversy this week by claiming the
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      • 529 51 PA Sport SIR Alex Ferguson has hit back at Gerry Sutcliffe's controversial outburst over Manchester United's season-ticket prices. The United manager even suggested that the British Sports Minister, a United fan, might be better off supporting rebel club FC United. At a
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      • 342 51 PA Sport THE Manchester United Supporters' Trust has come to die defence of Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe, by echoing his criticisms of the club's ticketing policy. A statement by the supporters' trust read: "Comments made by Sports Minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, with regard to the huge increases
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      • 478 52 WEST HAM v BOLTON PA Sport. WEST Ham forward Luis Boa Morte is hoping the club's current injury crisis will double as the time when he finally establishes himself as an Upton Park regular. The Hammers will be without an entire team of
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      • 234 52 PA Sport. NEW manager Gary Megson has vowed not to use a lengthening injury list as an excuse for Bolton's continued troubles. The Trotters head to West Ham tonight without Nicolas Anelka and almost certainly Joey O'Brien, Andy O'Brien and Kevin Davies, as well
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      • 518 53  -  BETTING By Jonathan Turner PA Sport TEAM FACTS: LIM HAN MING BEST PICK: BRIAN MILLER WHO'S HOT, WHO'S HOT: IAIN MACINTOSH (Reporting from London) WEST Ham and Bolton lock horns in tonight's sole Premier League offering but on current form it's hard to make a strong
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      • 40 54 yip you 4 KNOW 7H/JT?;W mm IP HE WERE NOT A FOOTBALLER, ROUTLEDGE WOULD HAVE SEEN WORKING IN THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY I AS A CHILD, 1 HIS FOOTBALL HERO WAS JOHN BARNES ROUTLEDGE'S FAVOURITE DRINK IS PINEAPPLE PUNCH
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        61 54 m LEST HAM HNITED l5 ms pavouptte meal is PIZZA IP HE HAP THE CHANCE, ASHTON WOULD LIKE TO MEET ACTOPS DENZEL WASHINGTON ANO TOM HANKS j his pavoupite book IS LANCE ARMSTRONG'S 2 PIPST BOOK: "IT'S NOT r ABOUT THE BIKE* ■a i ashton's pavoupite 3 holiday
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      • 709 55 Newcastle 1 Portsmouth .4 Newcastle: Campbell (16og) Portsmouth: Pamarot (8), Mwaruwan (9), Utaka (11). Kranjcar (71 NUm) Newcastle Harper. Taylor. Fm. Cacapa (Rozehnal 18). Jose Ennqua (Martins 57). N Zogtxa, Butt. Barton. Mriner (Emre 69). Smith, Owan Sub. not used: orator, Geram Boohed: Butt. Smith
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      • 233 55  -  Everton J Birmingham..............1 Everton: Yakubu (10), Carsley 90, Vaughan (90) Birmingham: Kapo (80) Everton Howard, Neville. Mobo. Stubbs (Jagnika 22), Lascod. Art eta Carsley. Osman (Vaughan 80). Ptenaar (Gravesen 85). CaM. Yakubu Sub* not uMd: Wessels. McFadden Birmingham Taytor. Ka#y. Schmttz, Dpurou. Ridgewel. De Rtdder
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      • 544 56 AMERICAN striker Clint Dempsey broke a six-match duck to score the crucial goal which clinched the second Barclays English Premier League win of the season for Fulham against Reading at Craven Cottage. Before this clash Fulham would have welcomed a win of any description after just
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      • 494 57  -  BORO 1 TOTTENHAM 1 TV VIEW Ernest Luis ipsports@sph.eom.sg Perhaps some Tottenham Hotspur fans are fools. After all, they must be kidding themselves if they think there's a silver lining beneath those dark clouds at the relegation-threatened London club following last night's 1-1 draw with an injury-hit
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      • 182 57 ...DARREN BENT had a more delicate touch on the ball as Jermain Defoe superbly dragged the Boro defence apart before sending a perfect low cross in the 44th minute? Then, Bent would have had two goals before half-time, and sent a strong signal to those who still feel
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      • 640 58 THE BIG SHOWDOWN ARSENAL played their usual style of football but were stopped effectively (most of the time) whenever they got into the six-yard box. Manchester United, however, were just content to sit back and counter-attack. Alvin Urn, 27, self-employed THIS is the
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      • 398 59  -  2 Arsenal THE BIG SHOWDOWN lain Macintosh npsports@sph.com.sg THE last time I was at the Emirates Stadium, Arsene Wenger strolled into the press auditorium with a huge seven-goal smile after his team had routed Slavia Prague. This time he was more penitent,
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      • 303 59 AFP ARSENAL captain William Gallas believes his side's dramatic 2-2 draw against Manchester United showed they have the fighting spirit to win the Premier League. Gallas scored a last-gasp equaliser to preserve Arsenal's unbeaten record and keep them on top of
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      • 668 60  -  ssBssaaaasss^SBsa Iain Macintosh Marry you uf^fnni s a \i>h.i inn s< ARSENE Wenger didn't buy William Galias for his goal-scoring, but it was the French defender who provided a vital point for Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in an extraordinary clash between the Premier
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      • 222 61 Reuters HOLDERS Chelsea will meet Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in the quarter-finals of the League Cup next month following the draw made yesterday. Last season's beaten finalists Arsenal travel to Blackburn Rovers, while Manchester City play Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United host Everton
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      • 74 61 ARSENAL 2 Fabregas 48, Gallas 90 MAMUTD2 Gallas 45og, Ronaldo 82 ASTON VILLA 2 Laursen 57, Young 61 DERBY 0 EVERTON 3 Yakubu 10, Vaughan 90, Carsley 90 BIRMINGHAM 1 Kapo 79 FlILHAM 3 Davles 17, Dempsey 72, Healy 90 READING 1 Doyle 53 B0R01 Young 52 TOTTENHAM
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