Streats, 21 November 2000

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  • 22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets TUESDAY 21 November 2000 Another quality publication of mS~ Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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  • 482 1 $5 buys her two meal s a day. For $5 she was Robbed bullied A FRAIL old lady was manhandled, pushed and robbed of $5 yesterday. The money was to have paid for two precious meals. Five bucks. A pittance to most, but a precious day’s sustenance for 85-year-old Madam
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  • morning rush
    • 57 1 FROM April 1 next year, if you use Inter-Bank GIRO to pay for your HDB and URA season parking tickets, you will get a 2 per cent rebate. This is part of HDB’s and URA’s efforts to promote the use of electronic payment systems to be in-line with
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    • 48 1 THE number of cancer cases here is rising by 3 per cent each year, the National Cancer Centre says. Singapore is also desperately short of radiation therapists which, at times, leads to a wait of up to four weeks for patients to receive treatment. mm
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 304 2 NEED a doctor in the middle of the night? Don’t fret. Jurong Polyclinic will be launching a pilot night clinic next January. Mr Lim Hng Kiang, Minister for Health and Second Minister for Finance, announced this at the inauguration of the National Healthcare Group
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    • 261 2 SEEKING your roots and building a family tree? If you’re Chinese, a Singaporebased website can help you trace your roots back to China. Enter your parents’ or ancestors’ names, and Chineseroots.com will help you build a family tree that can stretch as far
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    • 195 2 DONATIONS are pouring in to help the Siamese twins from Nepal who are here for a landmark operation to separate them. Generous Singaporeans have contributed nearly half a million dollars to help the six-month old girls, Ganga and Jamuna, who are joined at the
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    • 135 2 TWO Malaysians were caught while attempting to dispose of stolen goods in a shophouse along Hindoo Road. Early Sunday morning, the police arrived at the shophouse after receiving a call. Two men were attempting to sell construction tools to the shopowner. One of them, a 26-year-old,
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    • 135 2 A FOREMAN was fined $20,000 for breaching a safety rule that caused the death of one of his workers, who was crushed by a concrete slab during excavation work. Govindan Perumal was supervising workers digging a tunnel in Changi for the new MRT station there.
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    • 61 2 morningsmile One day, a boy asked his mother: "Mom, how did I get my name?" The mother replied: "I get all my children's names from the first thing I see on the way tathe hospital. "Like your brother Running Deer and your sister Flowing Creek. Why
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    • 369 3  -  by KAREN WONG JOSEPH Lui Hang Yin, 54, probably became the first housing agent successfully prosecuted yesterday in a case of harbouring immigration offenders. The housing agent for a 72-year-old landlady was sentenced to 18 months jail for abetting her in renting
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    • 144 3 THE Government said there are no plans to introduce drivers on Light Rapid Transit trains despite the crash on Sunday that left three passengers injured. The Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Dr John Chen, said having a driver will increase
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    • 148 3 DRTEO Ho Pin, MP for Sembawang GRC, will ask the Minister for Trade and Industry for the government’s stand on the Institute of Estate Agents’ move to restrict its members from waiving their agency commission, when Parliament sits tomorrow. This follows the recent commission
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    • 114 3 onekindact. I WOULD like to thank the owner of vehicle EN 8204 T. Our family car broke down on the road near the Bukit Timah Community Club and we decided to go to a petrol station nearby. We didn't know what to do and
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    • 136 5  -  by VIOLETTA WONG A FIRE gutted a warehouse in Pandan Loop yesterday morning. No one was injured. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived at the sin-gle-storey building at 11.04 am, 15 minutes after receiving a call from a worker in a neighbouring factory. By then,
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    • 76 5 Your day will begin with partly cloudy skies. Then, there'll be showers and thunder over many areas in the afternoon. Skies will finally clear up in the early evening. Temperatures will hit a high of 32 degrees Celsius. High tide will reach 2.5 m at 7.52
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    • 308 5 FASHION hubs of the world beware Singapore is aiming to take its place among you. Fashion Festival 2001 will kick off with a party for 15,000 people on March 16. In the two weeks that follow, Singapore will
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    • Just a minute
      • 66 5 The newly restored Central and Tanjong beaches are all set to transform Sentosa's beach front into one of the region's trendiest tropical coasts. Till the end of the year, the beaches will be serving up a new wave of water sports, Brazilian fanfare, stylish nightbashes and even
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      • 58 5 If you were planning to go for a swim today, remember to give Hougang Swimming Complex a miss. The Swimming Complex will be closed for the upgrading of the electricty upply. If you're M still bent on swimming, l you can head down to nearby swimming complexes in Ang
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      • 60 5 If you're 60 years old and above, you can go down to the Eat Wisely Stay Healthy Workshop today at the Institute of Health. The English workshop from 9.30 am to 10.30 am is full, but there are still vacancies left for the Chinese session from 11am
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  • Streatsmart column
    • 190 6 betweenthelines The Economist the strength of a system could be gauged by electoral landslides, communism would still be around. The election for the presidency of India's venerable Congress party, say many Indians, was as farcical as those under communism. The future of the party seems to them
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    • 708 6 A COUPLE who are close friends of mine found themselves in a terrible dilemma soon after they got married and decided to start a family. Just to be sure they were physically up to the task of procreation, they underwent a thorough physical examination,
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  • Streatsmart regional
    • news scan
      • 58 7 AFP PERTH A man described yesterday how a crocodile lunged out of the water and bit him as he sat in a boat in the far north of Western Australia. Mr Norman Stanley said the attack happened so fast his mates didn’t see the croc. They
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      • 79 7 AFP SHANGHAI -Almost 100 officials have been punished for taking bribes and embezzling public funds since the Three Gorges Dam project was launched, the Shanghai Evening Post reported. Prosecutors in the Three Gorges district have filed 89 cases of corruption against 97 officials involving resettlement funds since
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      • 68 7 AP SEOUL South Korea proposed yesterday that an inter-Korea military meeting, sought by North Korea this week to discuss reconnection of a cross-border railway, be delayed by two days. North Korea had proposed that the meeting be held at the border village of Panmunjom today, but
        – AP  -  68 words
      • 85 7 AFP JAKARTA -A teen injured in a bomb blast in North Sumatra died of her wounds in hospital yesterday, bringing the death toll to two. Ms Sipayung, 16, a student at the hospital’s nursing school, was near a Christian meeting hall just a few metres from the
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    • 289 7 Reuters party r *l>el can't UiQke up his about Voting Q 9ainst homier TOKYO A reformist rival to Japan’s unpopular Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori flip-flopped on whether to vote in favour of a no-confidence motion in his Government. Koichi Kato, a former executive of the long-ruling
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    • 102 7 knowornot bid you know the popular label of "Uncle Sam” derived from a New York meat inspector? r/ »e US nickname Uncle Sam came from Uncle Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York. According to Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts, Sam Wilson stamped the letters
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    • 158 7 Reuters TOKYO Japan’s politicians looked each other in the eye yesterday and said “Go ahead, make my most unlucky day.” It is one of the unluckiest days in the calendar as it is butsumetsu, the day of Buddha’s death. This inauspicious day comes around every six
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    • 148 8 Itisdoingit as a matter of choice, not necessity -ap WELLINGTON US Admiral Dennis Blair thinks New Zealand should contribute more to regional defence. He thinks New Zealand is running down its defence force as a matter of choice, not necessity. In a blunt
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    • 290 8 Reuters, AFP MANILA Philippine Senate Majority Leader Francisco Tatad bolted from President Joseph Estrada’s political coalition yesterday. This came hours before Mr Estrada was to be served a summons to appear at his impeachment trial on corruption charges. “I will
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    • 138 8 -AFP SHANGHAI Shanghai legislators have delayed a proposal to allow organ donations because of concerns that changing the law will open the door to organ smuggling. Doctors are hoping a change in the law will allow them to save lives through donations of
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    • 50 8 webcites. Experience the excitement of desert life a la John Wayne and ride into the American South-west minus the sand storms and the sweltering heat at desertusa.com. This remarkably comprehensive portal has links to national parks, monuments, cities and museums. Take a detour and explore the arid land.
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    • 281 9 AFR Reuters Woye will *nsure Peru's Ability, s oys President LIMA Peru’s president Alberto Fujimori confirmed on Sunday his intention to resign by today. In a fax from Tokyo where Mr Fujimori is now, the Peruvian president said that he will turn in his resignation
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    • 169 9 -AFP SYDNEY Flood-devastated communities were evacuated yesterday as rivers burst their banks in the worst flooding in eastern Australia in 40 years. About 3,000 people in Tamworth in New South Wales were isolated as floodwaters from the Peel River surged through the city, the State
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    • 94 9 -afp &ERN Bruno Manser, a launch defender of tribesmen’s r '9hts in Malaysia, has vanished lri Borneo. The Swiss foreign ministry reports in the weekly Zeitung that Swiss ethologist Mr Manser, 46, had not e en seen or heard from since he sent a letter dated
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    • 70 9 Jofigure. The Business Times About 73 per cent of Singapore firms in China said they are in the black, compared with 58 Per cent of Taiwan firms. On average, Singapore firms took 6.5 years to break even there, compared to five years for Hongkong Qnd Taiwan
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    • 213 10 -AFP US president believes Communist nation is headed towards free society HO CHI MINH CITY Communist Vietnam is on a “virtually irreversible” trend towards a free society, US President Bill Clinton said yesterday. The ecstatic welcome given by crowds of thousands to the first US president
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    • 151 10 -AFP HANOI Vietnam’s communist leader dismissed President Bill Clinton’s call for a freer society on Sunday, hailing the guerrilla resistance in the Vietnam War as the cradle of determined socialism. In the regime’s first response both to Mr Clinton’s live address on Friday and the unprecedented
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 201 13 -AFP GAZA CITY Three separate groups claimed responsibility for an attack on an Israeli school bus in the Gaza Strip which killed two Israelis yesterday. Two adult civilians were killed in the explosion, Palestinian security officials said, while the Israeli army said about
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    • 126 13 justbelieveit Reuters PARIS An elderly French woman cried as she turned on electric lights for the first time in her house where she reared three children, but said she would not rush out to get a television. "It was so odd, I wept You could see
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    • 41 13 Lebanese fashion designer Loulwa Abdel Baki fixes a slingshot on a mannequin displaying her Intifada-style sweaters outside her shop in Beirut's Hamra. The mannequins symbolise the fierce Palestinian stone-throwing uprising against Israeli occupation Pic: AFP
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    • news scan
      • 81 14 AP ATLANTA Spot shortages of this year’s flu vaccine are surfacing across the US and the beginnings of a black market have been reported. Less than half of the 75 million doses of vaccine needed to get the US through flu season have been delivered. To ease
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      • 81 14 -AP GULF BREEZE, Florida Police responding to a frantic emergency call from a 10-year-old girl who found her parents and sister shot to death. Investigators believe Daniel Elowsky shot his wife and teenage daughter on Friday night and then himself, said Santa Rosa County sheriffs spokesman
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      • 77 14 -AFP BANGALORE The government of Indian state of Karnataka called a meeting with opposition leaders yesterday to work out a strategy for catching the bandit who held film icon Rajkumar captive for 108 days. Rajkumar and three others were kidnapped by the bandit, Veerappan, in neighbouring Tamil
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      • 80 14 Reuters LONDON -The Beatles were back at the top of the British album charts 30 years after the legendary band broke up. Their greatest hits album simply titled 1, a compilation of their 27 No 1 singles hits, went straight to the top in its
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    • 294 14 Majority supports including disputed votes in final U 5 election tally Reuters WASHINGTON -Two new polls showed that most Americans believe hand re-counts of Florida votes should be counted. Sixty per cent of the 870 adults polled by Gallup on Sunday for CNN and USA Today said
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    • 177 14 Task perceived as persuading men that women have a valuable contribution to make -AFP STRAUSBERG, Germany Officers sit at a table in a training centre to learn how to live and work with women. “We don’t explain to adult men what women are but how
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    • 114 14 -AFP INNSBRUCK Four people died on Sunday when avalanches swept down mountains in Austria’s Tyrol region. The deaths came at the start of a winter season which has already seen 155 people killed in an Alpine train fire. One person was pulled alive from the
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    • 124 14 -AFP ATHENS Greece’s culture and sports minister Theodore Pangalos, was sacked on Sunday for attacking his own government. Prime Minister Costas Simitis sharply upbraided the former foreign minister, who has repeatedly had a dig at government policy. “Mr Pangalos ceases with effect from today to be
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    • 103 14 It being Senior Citizens'Week, a look at some retirement issues based on a poll. Most preferred way to save for retirement Fixed sum each month 34% Any amount on monthly basis 27 per Any amount with no regular time period 19% Others 20% Main source of financial support
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 211 15 Reuters WASHINGTON k Sheikh Hamad bin Ali bin Jabr al-Thani’s gift %of a jumbo jet to Iraq attract US sancjjlltions against his nation of Qatar. [W The royal family m member, who heads 'the Gulf Falcon air serv- 0r ices company, had presented the
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    • 253 15 Reuters LONDON A day after wringing the neck of a pheasant with her bare hands during a hunt, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth defied those who criticised her action by wearing pheasant feathers in her hat when she went
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    • 205 15 ZOETAYsped at breakneck speed for the first time in her life and said she loved it. Exhilarating! Adrenalin-pumping! That’s how she described her maiden car race at the Jackie Chan Cup in Macau on Sunday. She told Lianhe Wanbao: “I have
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    • 158 15 Tae and Lin the impeccable twins TAIWANESE singer-actor Jimmy Lin has discovered a twin brother in Thailand’s 18-year-old pop star Tae. The Thai pretty boy is a dead ringer for Jimmy. The Taiwanese media has decided to cash in on this “phenomenon” and have cast the two as long-lost twin
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  • easy STREATS
    • 572 17  -  You read about her in Streats yesterday morning. You saw her picture, with her face digitised, on the frontpage of The New Paper in the afternoon. She was at the centre of a storm at a performance at Venom disco, during which she flung off
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    • 443 18  -  pemngmv speaking by Lawrence Chau IT IRKS me that Asia’s entertainment industry is still living quick and cheap, while America’s thrives on the rich and robust. It amazes me that Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh will risk their necks by jumping off a high floor onto a
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    • Article, Illustration
      471 18 ...you might ask But with the release other new album next month it might not be long before the fabulous Ms Soo is once again a household name by YVONNE KWOK THERE is one term to describe Jessica Soo: Low-key. From her lack of make-up to her jeans
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    • 488 19  -  HUb by by Kwok something clicked in my while I was watching Animal Planet's Crocodile Hunter some friends. Usually, when the girls are to watch an animal documentary with the guys, they exhibit several stages of c °ma-like behaviour. The guys, on the
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    • channel scan
      • Article, Illustration
        62 19 Bpm,TCSS Yep, everybody’s favourite local angst-ridden teen drama is back. And this time, someone is going to get seriously hurt. The gang go camping, but of a course, it isn’t smooth M sailing. Things go Jrm missing and everyone E starts suspecting I each other Meanwhile, I some hanky-panky
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      • 48 19 10pm,V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Hitomi’s life is shattered when her fiance dies in a car crash. While visiting Hongkong, she meets 80, a local cop who looks exactly like her late fiance. Will love blossom between them? Starring Leslie Cheung, Takako Tokiwa and Michelle Yeoh.
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        69 19 9pm, TCS 8 Dihui meets Xiao Xiang (Ann Kok) when they are both robbed. He saves her from thugs time and again. However, this gets him in trouble with crime lord Gao Tianyi (Andrew Lien), who captures Dihui and demands to know how long he’s known Xiao
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      • 57 19 WALLACE GROMIT THE WRONG TROUSERS 12.30 pm, Central This is a cult classic clay animation series not to be missed. A mysterious penguin moves into West Wallaby Street and Gromit’s suspicions are aroused. When Wallace’s new automated technok trousers are misused m for a devious robbery, A the plasticine heroes
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      • 56 19 9pm, HBO (SCV 60) The lovable St Bernard falls in love with Missy, another dog, and the result six little St Bernards running about the house, driving their master, George Newton, up the wall. However, love never runs a smooth course, as Missy’s owner plots to nab the
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    • 251 26 r Just one auestionj Haven't really thought about it yet. But; I guess I'll have to be at least 25 years old before I'm ready to take the plunge. Desmond Heng, 15, student There's no such thing as an ideal age. The
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    • easyStreats sports people
      • 132 28 Reuters GLASGOW Chelsea has rejected a bid by Rangers for Norwegian striker Tore Andre Flo, a Scottish newspaper reported on Sunday. The Sunday Mail said Rangers had offered the English Premier League side a Scottish record£ll million ($27.5 million) for Flo. The paper quoted
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      • 233 28 Reuters JERUSALEM The Israeli under-21 squad is being disbanded following allegations that some of the players took part in a sex orgy the night before an international game, officials said on Sunday. The Israeli Football Association (IFA) issued a statement saying: “IFA chairman Gavri
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    • easyStreats sports
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        • 345 29 Reuters LONDON Tottenham Hotspur produced one of its best performances of the season as it came from a goal down to outplay Liverpool and earn a morale-boosting 2-1 Premier League victory at White Hart Lane on Sunday. The Londoners, who have now won six
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        • 184 29 Parma upset by Bologna Juventus held by Brescia Reuters ROME Bologna pulled off a 2-1 derby win over Parma on Sunday to go fourth in the Italian Serie A standings. Carlo Nervo headed the home side ahead in the 56th minute but Parma drew level just five minutes later from
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        • 240 29 Reuters MADRID Lowly Real Zaragoza beat Barcelona 3-1 in the Spanish First Division on Sunday and piled the pressure on coach Llorenc Serra Ferrer as the Catalans slumped to ninth place. It was Barcelona’s second successive league defeat, coming after a disappointing firstround exit from
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      • 500 30 AP LOS ANGELES -It was not a performance to be proud of, and the Los Angeles Lakers knew what the problem was. “They were just playing with a lot more energy than we were,” Kobe Bryant said, after scoring 14 of his 22 points
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      • 230 30 Reuters BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa Allan Donald had South Africa’s disgraced former captain Hansie Cronje on his mind as he captured his 300th test wicket. Fast bowler Donald became the 15th player and the first South African to reach the landmark on Sunday,
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      • 514 31 -AFP LAS VEGAS/ Nevada Australian Open winner Lindsay Davenport and Olympic bronze medallist Monica Seles will lead defending champion United States against three European rivals here in the Federation Cup World Finals. Second seed Spain plays the Czech Republic today while the
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      • 154 31 AP, Reuters COMO, Italy An Italian soccer player went into a coma on Sunday after an opponent punched him following their lower-division game. Francesco Bertolotti, a 33-year-old midfielder for the Serie C squad Modena, was knocked unconscious by a single uppercut punch from
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 209 20 TUESDAY Q 21 November 2000 II 1 H..! x m m m The story is about... Yuan Jian Ping got more than he bargained for when he enrolled at Zhong Ren Pre-U. A natural busybody, he suddenly found himself involved in everything, from girl problems to gang fights; from baseball
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    • 237 22 I ucouht y iNovemper zuuu mmm If it m 11. m. MM M 1 %g# I %'%gF w »*r <s* The story so far... The appearance of Little Fairy Zhang Jing sent chilis down the spines of everyone present. Lee Ba,the head of the Lee Brothers, tried to escape but
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