Streats, 20 November 2000

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets MONOAY 20 November 2000 Another quality publication of qgg Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon Health at a click
      61 1 YOU will be able to access your own medical records at a click of the mouse in a few years when patient records are stored electronically and shared between government hospitals, polyclinics and specialist centres. The Health Ministry will set up a Health Promotion Board in
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      Lock icon Seniors, get active
      59 1 SENIOR Citizens Week was launched yesterday by the Minister for Community Development and Sports, Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, who urged senior citizens to do volunteer work to keep fit and active. One of 10 booths set up by the’ Ministry, the Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme offers activities
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    Lock icon Human error the cause LRT coaches collide
    408 1  -  by KAREN WONG A HUMAN error caused a driverless Light Transit Rail coach to smash into a stationary one at Phoenix station in Choa Chu Kang yesterday. The accident sent several passengers flying to the floor. Three suffered slight injuries. Two, both middle-aged
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    Lock icon Watch out, world I want to go into politics
    181 1 BACKSTREET Boys'Kevin Richardson I (left) has a plan up his sleeves -he I wants to get into politics. "I have I a voice. I wanna use it,'he said il| in Sydney last night. p» Richardson said his love and concern for
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      Lock icon Owner exchanges words with journalists Pierced nipples bared at disco
      314 2  -  by ARTI MULCHAND YAN has pierced nipples, and flashed them during Ink on Skin a tattoo-cum-body art convention by Fusion Tattoos, held at Venom disco on Saturday night. When Venom’s owner Mr John Lee, saw a camera flash, he realised
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      Lock icon Ex-lawyer back in jail for shoplifting
      198 2 A FORMER lawyer stole a DVD soon after completing a two-month jail term for a similar offence. Lawrence Amdad Hussein, 40, was jailed a year ago after he was caught shoplifting about $4BO worth of goods from Carrefour at Suntec City Mall. On Saturday
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        Lock icon Man found dead
        121 2 A MAN was found lying dead on the roa( near the power station at Pasir Panjang Roac at 1.28 am on Saturday morning. Apart from a packet of cigarettes, he ha( no posssessions on him. As such, his identity could not be established, reported Shin Mit Daily
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        Lock icon Stop family violence
        65 2 FAMILY violence is a community responsibil ity. Some 200 Singaporeans spread that mes sage by taking part in a community walkabou on family violence yesterday morning. The participants knocked on the doors o more than 5000 households in the Ang Me Kio-Cheng San Community Developmen Council District.
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        Lock icon Tekka Market, again
        110 2 TEKKA Market is now officially known by its popular name. It was renamed Zhujiao Centre under the goverment’s drive to promote Mandarin and hanyu pinyin in the 80s. Kreta Ayer-Tanglin GRC MP Mr F Sinnakaruppan announced the restoration o 1 the market’s name when he opened the
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      Lock icon Singtel looks at providing restricted access at home R(A) movies on PCs?
      307 3 R(A) movies on a computer, in the privacy of your own home. That may well be the next change. Sing Tel is exploring how it can provide Restricted (Artistic) content over its Internet service to adults at home,
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      Lock icon Lesson backfired
      79 3 momingsmile A father was trying to teach his young son about the evils of drinking alcohol. He put one worm in a glass of water and another worm in a glass of whiskey. The worm in the water survived, while the one in the whiskey curled up and
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      Lock icon LRT's teething problems
      182 3 TEETHING problems of LRT since Nov 6 last year, when it began operations: Barely a week after it started running, a train broke down between two stations, holding up another which had left the previous station. As a result, 200 passengers were trapped inside the trains for
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        Lock icon Disgraceful, Singaporeans
        92 3 I WOULD like to comment on the two articles in the Nov 16 edition ofStreats about "apathetic passengers and diners" I feel that it is very ironic that while Streats is featuring the "One kind act" article every day, we still have such apathetic behaviour among Singaporeans. We
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        Lock icon Caring commuters
        158 3 SOME people say Singaporeans are not gracious or kind. That isn't true. My own experience tells me so. On Monday, Nov 13,1 fell sick and threw up on a train while heading home from tuition class. I messed up the train with my vomit and a stench filled
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      Lock icon Singapore's bento lady
      355 5  -  Text and pictures/ KENNETH KOH THE next time you pick up a bento lunch from Daimaru, chances are it has been prepared by Yuko Ng Sugimura, whose name is fast becoming synonymous with the Japanese-style lunch box. With sales of up to 400 boxes a day, with
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      69 5 Our weather girl says No need to grapple with the umbrella this morning. But you'll need it in the afternoon and early evening. Skies wilb be partly cloudy with the temperature reaching 31 degrees Celsius Jiigh tide will reach 2.5 m at 7.01 am and2.6m at 6.13 pm. M Weather
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    • Just a minute
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        44 5 A survey on male ageing will be carried out starting today, to uncover information about the prevalence and knowledge of andropause, the male version of menopause. The survey is being carried out by the National University of Singapore and Ministry of Health.
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        Lock icon Remember...
        39 5 If you have ideas on how Singaporeans can be persuaded to get hitched earlier and have kids, the Ministry of Community Development and Sports (MCDS) wants to hear from you. Those interested can e-mail your views to email@mcds.gov.sg.
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        52 5 It's not too soon to start preparing for Hari Raya, so check out a 4-in-1 mega event, including a Hari Raya Trade Expo, at the World Trade Centre Hall 3. There will be2oo booth participants from all over the world. Today's the last day. On from 10am
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      Lock icon Second attack on his Mercedes
      225 6 IT SEEMS he is just not destined to own a shiny Mercedes Benz. Two years ago, someone threw acid on the roof of Mr Yogi Balakrishnan’s prized Mercedes 190 at the open-air carpark near his home on Woodlands Street 31. Then last month, his six-month-old
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      Lock icon A handy buzz
      160 6 onekindact Mr Hendra, 30, software consultant LAST week, l was having lunch at a hawker centre in Far East Square. After lunch, as I was walking with a friend his handphone rang and it showed my name as the caller! Startled, my friend answered the call, and
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      Lock icon SQ006 pilots to have top lawyers
      271 6 ATOP law firm in Taiwan will represent the three pilots of flight SQOO6 if charges are brought against them in relation to the Oct 31 disaster. But there is no indication so far that the Taiwanese authorities plan to press charges against the pilots.
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      216 6 Do You Know Why FANCL products are so popular among Japanese consumers r It was in 1980 that FANCL was founded in Japan. The founder Kenji Ikemori simply wanted to help consumers suffering from skin problems resulting from preservatives, disinfectants, and various other chemicals contained in many, if not all,
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      Lock icon Myth of S'pore Superwoman
      583 7 AN electronic conversation between a fellow writer and myself via e-mail went something like this. He: “I’ve already sent you the pictures. Got one of her (the interviewee) frolicking on the beach very nice, can use.” Me: “Got frolicking on the beach one ah? Okay, set.
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      Lock icon Leadership struggle
      144 7 betweenthelines -The Economist end is nigh for Yoshiro Mori, Japan's unpopular and inept prime minister. A challenge to his rule, led by Koichi Kato from his own Liberal Democratic Party, may come to a head on November 20 (today) when the opposition plans to submit a no-confidence motion
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      Lock icon How fresh is an egg?
      94 8 knowornot Just spin the egg, if it wobbles, it's raw. If it spins easily, it's hard-boiled. A fresh egg will sink in water, a stale one will float. The colour of the egg is not related to quality, nutrients, flavour or cooking characteristics. White-shelled eggs
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      Lock icon Senate set for Estrada's trial
      260 8 -AP Really want to see this nightmare over by the end of December Senate President Aquilino Pimentel, on Mr Estrada's trial MANILA The Philippine Senate is set to convene as a tribunal for President Joseph Estrada’s historic impeachment trial. Senate President Aquilino Pimentel pledged to
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      Lock icon Knocked out thief blacks out M'sia
      86 8 -afp KUALA LUMPUR A thief looking for scrap metal brought down five electricity pylons, blacked out 11,000 consumers and put himself in hospital in the process, an official of Malaysia’s state power firm said yesterday. Shafie Mat Zain, managing director for Tenaga Nasional’s transmission
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        Lock icon Suu Kyi may be at hearing
        82 8 -AFP YANGON Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be allowed to emerge briefly from house arrest tomorrow if she chooses to attend a court hearing. If she answers the summons in person, it will be her first public appearance since Sept 22.
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        Lock icon Boy, 12, dies in quake
        93 8 Reuters BRISBANE A boy has died and more are feared dead in a series of powerful quakes in New Guinea. The PNG Disaster and Emergency Service said a 12-year-old boy was the first reported death in five big quakes that have struck New Britain and
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        Lock icon 2 Filipino rebels held
        76 8 -AFP MANILA Two communist guerillas were captured after an intense firefight with government troops in the northern Philippine province of Isabela. The two New People’s Army members were held when they were abandoned by comrades following a clash with government troops on Saturday in the village
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        Lock icon New central bank line-up
        72 8 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesia was seeking to install a new board of governors for the discredited central bank by today. Less than 24 hours after Bank Indonesia (Bl) senior deputy governor and four other deputy governors announced their resignations on Friday, President Abdurrahman Wahid had recommended three
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      Lock icon Time running out for Mori
      214 10 -AFP Vote on opposition's no-trust motion against Japan PM today TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's political career is over, political analysts said. They said it doesn't matter how a motion of no confidence unfolds in the Japanese Parliament today. The only question is whether
      -AFP  -  214 words
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      Lock icon Man in leaflet stunt nabbed
      190 10 -AFP BANGKOK A Vietnamese man has been charged with forcing the pilot of a chartered plane to buzz Ho Chi Minh City so he could drop anti-communist leaflets ahead of US President Bill Clinton’s visit. Ly Tong has been charged with taking an aircraft out
      -AFP  -  190 words
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      Lock icon Streats wi$e
      102 10 Senior Citizens Week starts today. A look at some retirement issues based on a poll. What is the ideal retirement age? Above 65-17 per cent 60-64 36 per cent 55-59 26 per cent 50-54- 12 per cent Saving for retirement Have you started saving for your retirement? Yes
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      Lock icon Bush, Gore camps gird for fight
      172 12 Reuters TALLAHASSEE, Florida Parties braced yesterday for a legal fight over Florida’s voting results as its biggest county joined the re-counting. With Republican George W Bush ahead by a scant 930 votes, according to unofficial results, lawyers for both Mr Bush and Democrat Vice-President
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      Lock icon 'Castro assassins' still held
      135 12 -AFP PANAMA CITY Four Cubans being held in Panama for their alleged role in a plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro were “still being questioned”. Panamanian Foreign Minister Jose Miguel Aleman quoted the nation’s police chief, Mr Carlos Bares, as saying that some of the
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      55 12 webcites Singapore Infomap www.sg The official national website is perhaps one of the most comprehensive sites dedicated to searching Singapore and Singapore related websites. Government homepage www.gov.sg Homepages of government bodies and statutory boards are all here. You can also read speeches by ministers and press releases
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      Lock icon Tourist dies in Grand Prix crash
      261 13 Reuters MACAU One man died and two others were injured when a racing car suffered an apparent failure at the 47th Macau Grand Prix yesterday. The accident took place in the morning during the warm-up for one of the events, the Guia FIA Super
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      Lock icon Israeli diplomat shot
      174 15 -afp He was hurt when gunmen opened fire on Israeli embassy car in Jordan AMMAN (Jordan) An Israeli diplomat was shot and wounded in the leg and hand in an attack in Amman yesterday, a Jordanian official said. The diplomat, named by Israeli sources as Vice Consul
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      Lock icon Jobless rates
      64 15 gofigure -Business Times The jobless rate in Singapore fell to 2.5 per cent in September from 3,5 per cent in June the lowest in two years. Layoffs also declined to 1,600 from 1,875 in the second quarter. Employment rose by about 26,100 to bring total job gain for
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      103 14 6 out of 10 diabetics in Singapore do not know they have diabetes. Are you one of them? If you’re over 40, overweight, or have a family history of diabetes, go for a blood sugar test every year. People with diabetes often don’t have any symptoms. If left untreated, diabetes
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      Lock icon Elizabeth, the Killer Queen
      247 16 Reuters LONDON Britain’s Queen Elizabeth came under fire from animal rights campaigners yesterday after newspaper pictures showed her wringing the neck of a dying pheasant. Under the headline, The Killer Queen, the Sunday Mirror published photographs which it said showed the Queen putting the bird out
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      Lock icon Tung fusses 'like an old woman'
      203 16 -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa is a good leader but fussy “like an old woman”, said an adviser to a Chinese assembly. Xu Simin, a Hongkong standing committee member of the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference, made the remark on Cable TV on
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      Lock icon Killer nominated for Nobel Prize
      208 16 -AP SAN FRANCISCO Death row inmate and gang leader Stanley Williams has been nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. Swiss Parliament Member Mario Fehr said on Saturday that he had nominated Williams because he had changed his own life and those of others through
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      Lock icon Douglas weds Zeta-Jones in $3.5m ceremony
      155 16 Reuters NEW YORK Actors Michael Douglas and Catherine ZetaJones finally tied the knot in a private ceremony in Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. Fans and photographers crowded the sidewalks around the hotel on Saturday, hoping to catch a glimpse of the high-profile couple and their celebrity
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      Lock icon Phieu spouts rhetoric at Clinton
      289 17 Reuters HANOI Vietnam’s Communist Party chief Le Kha Phieu displayed a conservative attitude and used “the rhetoric of socialism” during US President Bill Clinton’s historic visit to his country. The General-Secretary, considered Vietnam’s most powerful figure, met Mr Clinton on Saturday but did did not
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      Lock icon Jackson plays political hardball
      236 17 -AFP CHICAGO Civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson, who has criticised the fairness of the recent US election, has been accused of being a surrogate of the Gore campaign. In the push for a recount of the vote in Florida, he has compared the fight to the 60s
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      Lock icon Kohl tries to get even
      245 17 Reuters BERLIN Germany’s former Chancellor Helmut Kohl is trying to get even with his enemies in his memoirs, which began newspaper serialisation yesterday. Kohl, whose reputation as the architect of German unity was sullied by a party funding scandal last November, portrays himself as more
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      Lock icon Stand aside Faye Wong
      646 20  -  R&B singer Coco Lee believes she's bigger than the Chinese Empress of Pop by by Yvonne Kwok COCO Lee has two choices and five seconds to decide: Would she like to be bigger than Faye Wong in Asia or as big as Lucy Liu in the
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      Lock icon Russell Wong Gongfu King turns Monkey King
      591 21  -  by by Cara van Miriah Bussell wong mention that name and women may become hysterical. Well, almost. He may look older today, perhaps wiser with streaks of grey showing. But, mind you, he can still work up a frenzy with his cover-boy looks,
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      Lock icon Zoe revs up in Macau
      279 22 MEDIACORP queen Zoe Tay has resigned herself to being treated like a nobody again. In Macau, that is. She has had the honour of being invited by gongfu star Jackie Chan to take part in his Jackie Cup race-car event in Macau, an annual do
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        Lock icon LONG VACATION
        61 22 10.30 pm, TCS 8 Nan meets Zheye, who used to idolise her years ago when he was just a photographer’s assistant. He asks her out and she accepts. Laiming gets jealous when Nan tells him about Zheye. Meanwhile, Laiming realises that he and Liangzi do not see eye-to-eye
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        Lock icon TONY AWARDS 2000
        91 22 10pm, Central The race is on again for American theatre’s most coveted honour Only productions that open in designated Broadway theatres in Manhattan are eligible for a Tonys. Take a look at the contenders for this year’s best play, includ- i ing Copenhagen, I Michael Frayn’s thought-
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        Lock icon JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS -PT 2
        70 22 9.30 pm, Hallmark (SCV 36) Great costumes and sets make this exciting Greek myth a must-watch. To reclaim his father’s kingdom, Jason (Jason London) must retrieve the coveted “Golden Fleece” from the gods. Standing in his way is a whole host of dangers, including
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        Lock icon THERE GOES MY BABY
        57 22 9pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) A feel-good drama about growing up in the early k 60s. Rick Schroder stars in this movie about the lives of eight seniors in high school and I how they tackle issues like the Vietnam War f and what to do
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        Lock icon DENNIS THE MENACE STRIKES AGAIN!
        67 22 10pm, Cinemax (SCV 59) A madcap comedy might be just the thing for your Monday night. Dennis returns to torment his next-door neighbour, Mr Wilson, once more. Only this time, he has his Grandpa for a sidekick, j Together they foil the 1 plans of
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        Lock icon Luscious laksa perfect popiah
        291 23  -  v |ggp ISi Tonmi two shoes »6y Judi Low IT makes the perfect party food this very tasty popiah (spring rolls $2.00 each), with its wonder skin. Yes, it’s the skin that makes or breaks a popiah. And the people at Hock Heng have created a
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        Lock icon where to go
        78 23 Janette Tan recommends you try: 335 Smith Stmt food Centre (Chinatown) Stall No: #O2-616 Janettesays:*What is so speaal about this stall's satay bee boon is their homemade satay sauce. Their sauce is hot and thick with the right amount of spices and ground peanuts, which the seller
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        91 23 How to eat escargot: Escargot (snails) are usually served with a pair of snail tongs, which grip the hot shell so that you can extract the meat whole with a fork. If tongs aren't provided, grip the hot shell with the edge of your napkin. When the shell
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        Lock icon Tigana eyes Premier League crown
        240 32 Reuters PARIS Fulham has the potential to win the English Premier League within five years, its French coach Jean Tigana said in an interview published in yesterday’s edition of Le Journal du Dimanche. Fulham extended its lead at the top of the English first division
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        Lock icon Indian cricketers don't dispute charges
        237 32 -AFP NEW DELHI India’s five tainted cricketers have not disputed match fixing allegations levelled against them by a national police agency, the Indian cricket board’s anti-cor-ruption chief said. K. Madhavan, the anti-cor-ruption commissioner of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), also said
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        Lock icon McEnroe to quit as captain
        122 32 -AFP NEW YORK United States Davis Cup captain John McEnroe is set to resign from that post over frustration with the format of the tournament, a television report said here yesterday. ESPN, without citing sources, reported that McEnroe would announce yesterday his decision to leave
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        389 35 -AP NEW YORK -The Chase Championships at Madison Square Garden has pitted a sentimental favourite against a resident genius in the final. Monica Seles and Martina Hingis have no sizzling rivalry (Hingis has won 11 of their 13 meetings), but it’s easy to
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        331 35 Dokic an Australian for now but things could change -AFP SYDNEY Wimbledon semi-fi-nalist Jelena Dokic says she will continue playing for Australia, but her father Damir has warned his daughter will jump ship to Yugoslavia if media attacks on him persist. The 17-year-old received a Yugoslav passport on Friday and
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