The New Paper, 13 April 2009

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    19 1 the new paper 13 Apr 09 mon A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS 3|dJ I PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      106 1 PAGE 6 S’pore student throws chair at vice-principal No noon sports edition today Okay inside, PM? MADNESS IN THAILAND SPARES NO ONE Protesters attack car carrying Prime Minister Abhisit at Interior Ministry in Bangkok yesterday PAGE 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008 PICTURE: REUTERS M Ti Meet the MASSIVE TM $0.50
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      Lock icon Resort spends $5m for them to have fun
      623 2 / 3  -  42 employees from Universal Studios S’poretogoto Orlando theme park for training REPORT: ELYSA CHEN elysac@sph.com.sg WHEN Miss Joanne Phang, 23, visits the US next month, she’ll be very busy with work. She’llbe takingevery ride atthe Universal Studios theme park in Orlando. That’sright,forher,thatwillbework.
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      Lock icon They’re taking a gamble on casino skills
      612 2 / 3  -  REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg CASINO skills are the flavour of the moment. Singaporeans are placing their bets that the upcoming integrated resorts (IRs) will deliver jobs as promised. The two new IRs are expected to create more than 20,000 jobs. One is expected
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      Lock icon Easy, easy...
      258 2 / 3 PICTURE STORY HE heard shouts and thought there was an argument going on. But when Mr Li, a bank executive in his 40s, looked out of the window of his Bishan flat at 11 am last Saturday, he saw only one man creating the ruckus. Mr Li told
      PICTURES: KC LAI  -  258 words
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      Lock icon Touts sell illegal cigarettes at monsoon drain
      917 4 / 5 They feel new spot at Yew Tee is safe; buyers risk heavy fines to get cigs at half price REPORT: SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tnp@sph.com.sg THEY believe it is the safest place to sell contraband cigarettes. A narrow path beside a storm drain at Yew
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      Lock icon Student throws chair, file at VP
      595 6  -  Vice-principal‘scolds’classforpoorresults,then... Joanna Hor Peixin –JoannaHorPeixin,newsroomintern ITwaslikeanyotherroutinevisitbyavice-principaltoaclassduringthePastoralCareperiod.Butonestudentsuddenlywentberserk. Ithappenedwhenthevice-principal,awoman,visit-edaSecondary4Expressclassataschoolintheeaston 2Apr. While she was addressing the class, the student suddenly stood up and threw a file and then a chair in herdirection. He also rushed forward as though he wanted to hit her,butwasquicklyrestrainedbyhisclassmates. Noonewashurtintheincident. A student from
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      Lock icon Still no takers for store where Huang Na died
      594 7  -  Landlord waives rental for 3 months, but to no avail REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg THEstoreroominBlock15atthePasirPanjangWholesaleCentrewaswhere8-year-oldHuangNawassuffocatedon10Oct2004. Now,inthefifthyearsincetheschoolgirlfrom ChinawasmurderedbyMalaysianvegetablepacker TookLengHow,peoplestillstayawayfromtheroom. TenantsatPasirPanjangWholesaleCentre,where stalls sell vegetables and dried goods, told The New Paper that nobody has rented the storeroom at Unit 01-44. A worker who
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      50 8 STARKCONTRAST:WhileBangkokisthethroesoffightingand protests, it was a happier scene at the Royal Thai Embassy in Singapore on Saturday when the Thai Association (Singapore) held its annual Songkran Festival celebration. Here, instead of violence and anger, visitors participated in games for some fun and hilarity. PICTURE: COURTESY OF THAI ASSOCIATION (SINGAPORE)
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      Lock icon MM Lee: S’pore uses ‘the best people’
      240 8 OLD NEW CITIZENS TREATED THE SAME SINGAPORE is a meritocracy that does not distinguish between old or new citizens, said Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew. Whether it comes to giving out jobs, business contracts or scholarships, whoever excels will be rewarded, he said
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      Lock icon 2 more hit by food poisoning in Geylang
      106 8 TWO more people have come down with food poisoning after eating at the steamboat restaurant Ba Shu Ren Jia in Geylang on Friday. This brings the total number of cases to 14. Two people were hospitalised, and one of them has since
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      Lock icon No need for DBS to rush for replacement CEO: Tharman
      83 8 DBS is in good hands though it has lost its CEO, said Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. He added the bank should not hurry to find a replacement, reported Channel NewsAsia. Mr Richard Stanley died on Saturday from an infection arising
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      Lock icon Avoid Bangkok if possible: MFA
      86 8 UNLESS you have a pressing need to do so, avoid travelling to Bangkok and its neighbouring provinces, says the Singapore Foreign Ministry. Yesterday afternoon, the Thai government announced a state of emergency in Bangkok and neighbouring provinces. Singaporeans intending to travel to Thailand should monitor
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      Lock icon Take pictures, but don’t take away parts of grave
      707 9  -  Sikhstatuesat‘landmark’gravedefaced.Grandsonofburiedex-officialsays... REPORT:HOLIAN-YI HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg FOR nearly 70 years, two statues of Sikh guards have stood faithfully over Qing Dynasty magistrate Chew Gek Leng’s grave. The brightly coloured pair are a familiar sight to visitors to Bukit Brown Cemetery, off Sime
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      610 10/11  -  KTSHA U They're HDB terrace houses Don’tjust read thenews, see the news, as the TheNewPaper’s award-winning team brings you their photo essays REPORT AND PICTURES BY GAVIN FOO gavinfoo@sph.com. sg THEYareconsideredgovernmentflats.But each of these homes comes with a front porch,agarden,abackyardandtiledroofs. Howcome? Well,theywerebuiltbytheSingaporeImprovement Trust, the predecessor of the Housing
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      Lock icon Cabby breaks knee chasing snatch thief
      630 12  -  HIT WHILE IN HIS TAXI REPORT: VIVIEN CHAN vivienc@sph.com.sg CABBY Cheong Heng Wah always thought that cases of taxi drivers hit by thieves were few and far between. The cabby of 11/2 years never imagined it would happen to him. But last Tuesday, his
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      Lock icon JB snatch thief on motorbike goes after man on scooter
      506 12  -  REPORT: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg IN his head, he knew what he would do. Mr David Sim had often discussed it with his Malaysian colleagues whenever snatch thefts made the news in Johor Baru. If snatch thieves on a motorcycle
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      Lock icon WEDDING IN PAKISTAN:
      77 13 Nasir Abbas Gabol (centre) with his first wife Shela Kiran (left) and new bride Mukhtar Mai (right), who was gang raped in 2002 on the orders of a village council as a punishment when her younger brother, who was 12 or 13 years old at the time,
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      Lock icon 11 arrested in brawl between gang members
      229 13 BIKER WAR SPREADS DOWN UNDER AFP AUSTRALIAN police deployed their riot squad early yesterday when a brawl involving bikers erupted at a Sydney casino, in the latest skirmish in a bitter war between rival gangs. Police said up to 20 people, both men
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      Lock icon M’sia police faces new claims of suspect abuse
      92 13 AP MALAYSIA’S embattled police faced fresh accusations of abusing detainees yesterday, after a suspect was hospitalised in intensive care for allegedly drinking paint thinner in custody. Authorities claim Anwar Mansor, a 23-year-old man arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession, grabbed a bottle
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      Lock icon US military tracks Somali pirates holding sea captain
      98 13 AP US WARSHIPS and helicopters stalked a lifeboat holding an American sea captain and his four Somali captors yesterday, while his crew briefed FBI agents about how the pirates boarded their ship. The 19 sailors reached safe harbour in Kenya’s northeast port
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      Lock icon First pet: Obama girls select Portuguese water dog
      106 13 AP IT’S decided: The Obamas have chosen a 6-month-old Portuguese water dog to be the first pet. In what was one of the White House’s most tightly kept secrets, President Barack Obama’s daugh- ters, 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, have settled on
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        Lock icon Even Thai PM has to flee
        576 14/15 NO END TO THE MADNESS THEturmoilhassparednoone.Ordinary people, business folk, travellers,visitingheadsofstateandeventhe Thaiprimeminister. Protesters,supporting ousted former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have forcedcurrentprimeminister,MrAbhisitVejjajiva, to flee twice first in Pattaya, and then inBangkok. Just months earlier, Mr Abhisit assured world leaders that the Asean summit, which wasscheduledtobeheldovertheweekendat
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        Lock icon Who will stop protesters from trashing city?
        549 16 PROTESTORS who can paralyse a city might amaze those of us who are used to applying for a licence for almost any public activity. How come the protesters are able to act with seeming impunity? Can no one stop them? But in Thailand,
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      Lock icon They throw bottles, forks at each other
      481 17 Tomb-sweeping trip turns sour whenHKman’s ex-wife (above) meets his lover (far right) ALL he wanted was to have his loved ones visit his late father’s grave during the Qing Ming Festival. But while he remembered to be filial, a Hong Kong man known
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      Lock icon Father sues school after teacher has sex with young son
      154 17 WORLD NEWS THE father of a 15-year-old boy has sued a Chicago school on Friday after a female teacher allegedly drank and had sex with his son, reported newsradio website wbbm780. The teacher, Linda Pithyou, 29, was charged on 13
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      730 18  - Sun, sea dialysis treatment Cruises with dialysis units make it possible for kidney patients to travel and get treated REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg WHEN Mrs Josette Georgin, 72, learnt she had kidney failure, she thought her travel dreams would end. She told Associated Press (AP): “The day the doctor told
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      13 13 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High:32˚,Low24˚ Jakarta:Rain High:32˚,Low26˚ Bangkok:Thunderstorms High:35˚,Low24˚ Manila:Partlycloudy High:35˚,Low27˚
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      47 17 Announcing the winners of the MasterCard-ComfortDelGro Taxis beauty package giveaway! Winners of a $480 beauty package: OCBC Cardholder grand prize draw winner of a 10,000 beauty package: Sangram Kalyan Sengupta SXXXX983D Unclaimed prizes have been donated to charity. nc?" (0 S L 0 IS" Members of COMFORlDELGRO
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      54 19 FROM READER MITESH DESAI NO TALL ORDER: The driver of this truck apparently failed to do a simple check of what the height limit is for a Tampines Mall vehicle entrance. The damage was done and the debris can be seen on the ground. No one was injured. E-mail
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      55 19 Comments on woman jailed for having sex with a 13-year-old boy: “Avery sad case... Theseare lonely women... More people deal with all sorts of personal and financial problems,and havenoone to turnto.” ageless “Disgusting.She is oldenoughto be his mother. Depression is often cited as the cause of crimes,
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      336 19 FROM READER SITI NURHUDA JOHARI MAN NEEDS EMERGENCY OP FOR TEETH BUT... ONE night recently, around 3am, my husband woke up with a toothache. He had already made an appointment with a dentist nearby to get his teeth checked. However, as he said the pain
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      174 19 FROM READER NUR ASSIKIN MOHD ZAMZAM REFLECTINGonMissSimoneErasmus’ reaction on having a stranger apparently snapapictureofher(“Whenisaperson’s modestyinsulted?”TheNewPaper,7Apr), I found it to be neither inappropriate nor excessive. Of course, what happened did not appear to be a case of her modesty having been outraged, but I
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      28 19 Do you think the many courtesy and kindness campaigns have had an effect on Singaporeans’behaviour? “Yes,Ithinkitcreatesawarenessovertime. I think such things are long-term and have anaccumulativeeffect.Wecan’texpect peopletochangeovernight.” –WinstonMinezes,31,softwareengineer
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      59 19 YOUR VIEWS E-mail tnptalk@sph.com.sg or write to The New Paper, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 Forverification,we needthe writer’sfull name andcontact number (preferably a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By your submission, it is deemed that you have granted us the right to
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      661 20/21  -  Jarod Lee wins Campus SuperStar 2009 despite fears of voice breaking soon REPORTS: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg IT MAYbe a case of history repeating itself. After all, another young boy with the sweet falsetto won the Campus SuperStar title last night. Jarod Lee of Ngee Ann Secondary
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      307 20/21 RUNNER-UP RACHEL CHUA: JARODwasn’tthe only onewhothought finalistYap Jia Min, 17, was going to win last night. Finalist Rachel Chua (left) not only thought that Jia Min would win, she even wanted to give her the title. SaidRachel: “JiaMinisnot onlymy bestfriend but she is an amazing
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      Lock icon Mi Lu Bing now willing to‘show face’on TV
      454 22  -  But SuperBand winner (right) stillcan’tbe bothered by album sales REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg THEYhavereleasedtwoalbums,aremanagedbyone of the largest talent agencies in Singapore andhaveacoregroupoffans. ButitappearsthatNicLee,24,ChanWeiqi,24,and Sam Wong, 22, collectively known as Mi Lu Bing (Lost Soldiers), would rather be making music than stoking
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      505 23 New idol Dai Yangtian says he needs time to hone acting skills HE’S had a phenomenal rise in the local entertainment scene. But will Dai Yangtian be Caldecott Hill’s new Ah Ge (Big Brother)? Pundits have been speculating that Yangtian’s new Channel 8 drama Table
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        Lock icon US investors conned by smooth ‘acting’
        515 24 Lawyer allegedly pockets money by using impersonation to fool lenders REMEMBERLeonardo DiCaprio’s character in the movie Catch Me If You Can? He was a crook with nerve and verve. You couldn’t help but secretly admire the guy. Marc Dreier, 58, is like that too.
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        176 24 The men their Ponzi schemes First place: Madoff Fund Fund size: US$50 billion ($75b) Missing money: US$49 billion Bernard (Bernie) Madoff, 70, convinced investors that the Madoff fund earned perpetually high returns of around 10 per cent per year. He made up those numbers. It was a classic Ponzi scam
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        115 35 PERAK Derby winner Kiko's Return produced a blistering run on the far outside to capture the RM600,000 ($252,000) Selangor Gold Cup in Race 8 at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Ridden by jockey Din Azis, who replaced Singapore champion Saimee Jumaat, the Johnny Lim-trained five-year-old came from second last
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        708 35 GOING: YIELDING (RACES 1-5), SOFT (6-11) Race1 C5(LC)1400m 4 ONEMANSHOW56.5(113-36) YFLeong (13) 12 9 1 (538) 13 DILIGENTIA53.5(30-8) BWoodworth (7) 4 4 2 (476) Shd 2 SKYSOLDIER57(25-8) VSivan (8) 1 2 3 (468) 0.75 1 GREATEST57(51-13) IAzhar (6) 8 5 4 (533) 1 ?Winningowner: CLAng. Trainer:KH
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        728 35 RACE1 1st 7 Citatous Spirit ($9-$8) 2nd 13 Miss Blakenhall ($16) 3rd 9 Miss Vertical ($35) 4th 4 Tellustrev. EOB $13. Forecast $23. Place forecast $47 (7-9), $9 (7-13), $69 (9-13). Tierce $1141. Trio $263. Quartet $4475. Scratchings: Cool Force, Last Rites, Cambridge. RACE 2 1st
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        2007 36 FRIDAY RACE1 EMPEROR ROSSINI jumped away awkwardly. In so doing, he got his head up and struck jockey D Cheeintheface. TRUELIFEwas slow intostride. GENTLEMEN’S HONOUR raced wide throughout. BOMBARDIER racedwide from the600m. Shortly after the turn into the straight, SUPERB
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        681 37 AP HISTORY tells us that Tiger Woods has never won a Major championship when trailing after three rounds. The truth is the world’s greatest player isn’t the world’s greatest charger. He plays defence in tough conditions on tough courses, and hasn’t done badly for himself
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        457 37 AP THIS was supposed to be the year the Masters went hip, celebrated youth and turned the keys to Augusta National Golf Club over to the plugged-in generation. But on a sunny, breezy Saturday, the older fellows decided to show the teenagers and 20-some-things
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        900 38 / 39  -  Every week, TheNewPaper investigates the Singapore sports scene from a national or grassroots perspective. ARUNRAJ discovers an uplifting story of how sports helpedoneboy recover from nose cancer ARUN RAJ The writer is a freelancer. AT SIX in the evening, most children his age would be punching the keys
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        387 43 Wire Services SIR ALEX Ferguson wouldn’t be too pleased to see the photo on the right. It is on Federico Macheda’s Facebook page and it shows the boy wonder, looking every inch the Italian stallion in a red silk shirt and medallion, relaxing in the company
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        1466 44/45  -  ThestoryofFedericoMacheda–sofar LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg WHEN Federico Macheda scored the winning goal against Aston Villa two Sundays ago, he ran to the television camera and planted a kiss on it, Steven Gerrard style. Cocky? Arrogant? Maybe. When he repeated his match-winning heroics
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        587 46  -  FRANK MALLEY PA Sport LIKE all good managers Sir Alex Ferguson’s instinct is to protect his players. He might flay them with that machete tongue in private but in public the blade invariably is reserved for referees, reporters and rival managers. Ferguson
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        709 46  -  VIEWPOINT Koo Zheng Xuan KooZheng Xuan,a JC2 student at Raffles Institution (Junior College) WE ALL have our off-days. But then again, not all of us take home £5 million ($11m) a year. It can’t be too unreasonable to demand consistent performances from football superstars who
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        112 47 LIVE TELECASTS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Wednesday: CHELSEA v LIVERPOOL Ch 23,2.40am BAYERN MUNICH v BARCELONA Ch 24,2.40am ThierryHenry,Samuel Eto’o (right) and Lionel Messi have helped Barcelona score more goals than any other team in Europe this season. Thursday: PORTO v MAN UTD Ch 23,2.40am ARSENAL vVILLARREAL Ch 24,2.40am UEFACUP Friday:
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        27 47 MONTE-CARLO ROLEX MASTERS Today: 1ST ROUND (1) Ch 22, 4.30pm Tomorrow: 1ST ROUND (2) Ch 22,4.30pm Wednesday: 2ND ROUND Ch 22,4.30pm Thursday: LAST 16 Ch 22,4.30pm
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        23 47 CHINESE GRAND PRIX Saturday: QUALIFYING Ch 24,1.50pm Sunday: PREVIEW Ch 24, 2pm RACE DAY Ch 24, 2.45pm CHEQUERED FLAG Ch 24, 4.45pm
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        287 47 LOCAL EVENTS GOLF What: SGA 2nd National Ranking Game When: Tomorrow until Thursday Where: Tanah Merah Country Club (Tampines course) and Keppel Golf Club THIS is the second of five national ranking games for the Singapore Golf Association. There are 24 golfers taking part in the
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      560 48 Liverpool face an uphill task intomorrow’squarter-final second leg at Stamford Bridge if they are to keep their Champions League hopes alive. But the competition has seen its fair share of spectacular comebacks. Here are five. PA Sport LIVERPOOL 3 AC MILAN 3 (Liverpool won 3-2
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      18 48 FEDERICO MACHEDA: He’sswanky,he’s cocky,but he’s damn good PAGE44 PICTURE: AFP JOSEMOURINHO:He talksabout Chelsea,Inter, theChampions Leagueand more. PAGE 40
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