Streats, 25 November 2000

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    22 1 STREATS Treats for the Streets SATURDAY 25 November 2000 Another quality publication of *Ei~ Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 103/06/2000
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    Lock icon Tell us: How we can help the helpless
    611 1  -  O Granny, 73, robbed O Second case this week %!9 cases this year by VIOLETTA WONG ARTI MULCHAND ANOTHER frail old lady has been victimised, bullied and robbed by a thug the second in a week when Singapore is supposed to cherish
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  • morning rush
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      Lock icon More visitors
      47 1 OCTOBER saw a 5.2 per cent jump in the number of visitors to Singapore, a total of 635,866 arrivals. The top three visiting nationalities were Indonesians, Japanese and Australians. Holiday arrivals went up by 1.2 per cent, while business arrivals were up 8.5 per cent.
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      Lock icon New CPF rates
      57 1 THE CPF Board has announced an interest rate of 2.5 per cent a year for Ordinary and Medisave accounts for the first three months of next year. CPF Special and Retirement accounts will earn interest at 4 per cent a year. The concessionary interest rate for HDB
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      Lock icon S'poreans stranded
      54 1 THAI floods have stranded over 200 Singaporeans. Our embassy in Bangkok is liasing with the Thai authorities to help them return home. The stranded have been asked to stay in their hotels. Embassy officials are in contact with many of them. Relatives can call the Ministry of Foreign
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  • Streatsmart local
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      Lock icon LAWYER IN THE DOCK He had affair with divorce-case client
      336 2  -  by KAREN WONG HE was her divorce lawyer. But before her divorce was finalised, Mr Dennis Mahendran Singham gave in to his urges and they had sex in Kuala Lumpur’s Shangri-la Hotel. That was in May 1995, about a month
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    • LAWYERS IN THE DOCK
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        Lock icon He used clients' money...
        131 2 EMBEZZLING more than $400,000 of his clients’ cash over a period of just a few months got him barred for life yesterday. Lim Yee Kai, 36, a lawyer for 10 years, stole a total of $413,129 between June and September 1997 to pay his credit-card bills,
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        Lock icon He, too
        63 2 LEE Cheong Hoh, 50, used clients’ funds to drum up business for his firm. Lee, a former district judge, handed his law clerk Raymond Mark a total of $175,203 between 1993 and 1996.. He made the payments to get third-party motor insurance claims referred to his company, Cheong
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      Lock icon What some elderly victims have to say
      259 2 I was so scared Why did he have to push me? I'm just an old woman. It's bad enough that he took my money, but what if I had broken something when I fell? Madam Urn Phub, 85, who was attacked and robbed
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      Lock icon Oops!
      44 2 IN our Just a Minute column on Nov 17, we said that the SMCP Facilitator Scheme was meant for individuals in the infocomm industry. The scheme is actually meant to improve the job prospects of non-infocomm professionals. We are sorry for the error.
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      Lock icon Man to hang for beating another to death
      188 3 MOSAIC-LAYER Seah Kok Meng, 32, was sentenced to death yesterday by the High Court for beating to death a 56-year-old man in May. The killing occurred at about 4am on May 2, after Seah responded to a telephone call from his girlfriend,
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      Lock icon SQ006 crash S'pore victim who lost legs dies
      150 3 LEE Suet Yee, a Singaporean victim of the SQ 006 crash, died yesterday afternoon, bringing the death toll to 83. The 30-year-old, a United Overseas Bank internal auditor, was on herway to Los Angeles to conduct an audit of the branch there,
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      Lock icon Human smuggler gets jail, cane
      132 3 THE driver of a lorry who on Wednesday attempted to smuggle in 11 illegal immigrants into the country was yesterday sentenced to six years in jail and 24 strokes of the cane. The sentencing came only 38 hours after Immigration officers discovered the 11 hidden
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    • Article
      Lock icon Streats wi$e
      139 3 According to World Health Report 2000, an average Singaporean man will spend 8 years of his life in disability and a woman, 10 years. Here are some findings in a Senior Citizens lifestyle p 011... -3 in 4 rate themselves as healthy. -1 in 2 go for a
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      Lock icon Girlfriend ignored this drama
      333 4  -  by VIOLETTA WONG HER boyfriend was sitting on the parapet outside her flat, threatening to jump. But she stood 10m away, indifferent to what was going on. “She just stood there, not giving a damn about anything. Apparently, they had a dispute and the guy wanted
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      Lock icon Spoilt for choice in hospital
      102 7 IT might be worth becoming ill just to get your hands on the good food. The menu is impressive: pineapple pork chop, mutton vindaloo, steamed fish, and spiced chicken. And with side portions of vegetables. All served on high-quality crockery. These are what subsidised patients
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      Lock icon He drank, drove and got away
      332 7  -  by EDWIN KOO But even if they pass breathalyser tests; drink-drivers can still be charged in traffic accidents YESTERDAY, David got away with driving after drinking. Had the law turned a blind eye? Not a chance. David Tan, 52, our veteran photographer, was actually
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      Lock icon Our weather girl says...
      99 7 Our weather girl says Hi, I'm Annie Yang, your new weather girl. Don't you wish you can curl up in bed this morning and not go to work? Especially in this weather. There'll be showers with thunder over many areas in the pre-dawn and early morning. And skies will be
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    • Just a minute
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        54 7 Audiophiles can check out the latest in hi-fi and video equipment at the International Sight and Sound Exhibition 2000. View exhibits spread over four storeys, and attend talks and demos by top AV designers. On at the Le Meridien Singapore until tomorrow from 11 am to 7pm. Admission
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        Lock icon Remember...
        31 7 Tomorrow is Grandparents' Day, so spoil your old folks by bringing them to Suntec Entertainment Atrium (outside Carrefour) where a Grandparents'Day Celebration will be held tomorrow, from 9.30am-6pm. Call 285-7005.
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        Lock icon Check this out...
        33 7 Want to know more about aromatherapy, ballroom dancing or terracotta pot painting? Then head down to the Singapore Art Museum tomorrow from 9am-6pm. Admission is free. Call 332-3220 to register.
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Gun battle in Phnom Penh
      251 8 AP At least seven killed, eight hurt as military forces repel about 20 in assault on government office PHNOM PENH At least seven people were killed and eight injured early yesterday when a group of around 20 unidentified armed men attacked government offices in central
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      Lock icon Jakarta sale of 'masters' stirs furore
      241 8 -AFP JAKARTA Old masters... well at least “old”, says an organiser involved in arranging their sale. A furore has erupted over the authenticity of paintings claimed to be by Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh and other celebrated European artists that were due to be
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      56 8 webcites At WebEx.com users can jointly surf the web. Wherever one goes, the other follows. You can share any document, give presentations and even work with any application in real-time. Look at it as a web-based meeting centre. No manual download or configuration required, but both surfers must
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        Lock icon Fujimori's location secret
        85 8 Reuters TOKYO Peru’s former president, Alberto Fujimori, has contacted Japan’s Foreign Ministry since arriving in the country but his location is secret, a Japanese official said yesterday. Just hours before he was sacked by Peru’s Congress, Mr Fujimori slipped out of the posh Tokyo hotel where he
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        Lock icon Over 200 illegals held
        65 8 AP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian security forces swooped on an island off Borneo and arrested 225 people, mainly Filipino immigrants without proper documents, a news report said yesterday. The Gaya island, off the remote north-east-ern province of Sabah, was cordoned off at midnight on Wednesday as authorities
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        Lock icon Palace intruder nabbed
        80 8 -AFP MANILA -An intruder armed with a knife and a suspected petrol bomb was arrested yesterday inside Philippine President Joseph Estrada’s palace grounds. Presidential security staff said the unidentified man verbally challenged the Estrada government to solve its current problems. He was taken into custody after presidential
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        Lock icon Lawmaker's surprise dip
        67 8 Reuters BANGKOK A ruling party politician made waves at a party in the Thai capital, local media reported on Wednesday. Democrat party MP Ong-Ard Klampaiboon and about 20 supporters were unceremoniously dumped in a murky canal when the platform they were standing on at a waterside wedding
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      Lock icon Australia wrangles over French N-sub visit
      84 10 AFP SYDNEY Australia’s opposition lashed out yesterday at proposals for a visit by a French nuclear submarine which was a reminder of the row over French nuclear test- ing in the Pacific in 1995. “Sure, they did behave badly but that’s some years ago,”
      – AFP  -  84 words
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      Lock icon Floods in northern M'sia kill 15
      252 10 AFR Reuters, AP KUALA LUMPUR Floods have killed at least 15 people, forced more than 8,000 from their homes and inundated roads and railways in northern Malaysia. All those killed were from Kelantan and Terengganu where dozens of villages and large tracts of rice
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      Lock icon Singaporeans stranded
      96 10 AP ACROSS the border in southern Thailand, hundreds of Malaysian and Singaporean tourists were trapped in their hotels in Hat Yai by flash floods. Floodwaters had risen as high as the second floor of some city buildings. The city has been without power and telephone links for two
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      Lock icon How was the inch developed?
      91 10 knowornot What we know as the inch (from Latin uncia, or "12th part") was defined as 1/12 foot by the Romans. It was roughly a thumb's breadth, while a foot was roughly the length of a human foot. The Romans introduced the inch to Britain
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  • Streatsmart global
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      Lock icon Re-count: Tempers rise
      221 12 AP Republican observer is nearly thrown out ofthe courtroom TALLAHASSEE, Florida Tempers boiled over at times, with Republicans voicing repeated objections, as the laborious process of scrutinising each ballot card continued. One Republican observer was nearly thrown out of the courtroom. Judge Robert W l_e£, the chairman
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      Lock icon Son leads protest against minister father
      122 12 -AFP LONDON Britain’s Home Affairs Minister Jack Straw has come up against a formidable political opponent his own son. It emerged yesterday that 20-year-old William Straw, an undergraduate at Oxford University’s New College, was one of the leaders of a 12,000-strong student protest march
      -AFP  -  122 words
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      Lock icon Chilly wake-up call
      118 12 justbelieveit. -AFP HANOI A migrant labourer, who decided to take 40 winks in the undercarriage of an idle aircraft, got a chilly wake-up call when it took off on a domestic flight, two official dailies reported yesterday. Vo Van Thuan, 22, endured a terrifying hourlong ordeal in
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        Lock icon 'Faux queens' compete
        81 12 -AP SAN FRANCISCO For those ladies jealous of all the glamour and glitz enjoyed by drag queens, there’s always the annual Faux Queen Contest in San Francisco. In this contest, women put on big hair, long nails and outlandish costumes to compete for the top prize. This
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        Lock icon Santa school graduates
        68 12 -AP NEW YORK CITY Ho Ho Ho. After demonstrating they could bellow these words with a level of holiday cheer expected of Santa Claus, 40 students prepared to leave the Sidewalk Santa Training School for Manhattan’s streets. The students, dressed in traditional Santa suits of blackboots, red
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      • Article
        Lock icon Queen Mum's files found
        110 12 Reuters LONDON Britain’s Queen Mother’s medical records were found in the street after being stolen from her surgeon’s car and discarded by the robbers, the Mirror said. A passer-by picked up the files, which were inside a briefcase, and the police returned them to the queen’s
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        Lock icon Flying toilet search
        86 12 Reuters FRANKFURT Two drunken Germans, apparently looking for a toilet during a conference at Frankfurt airport, got ora a plane by mistake and flew to Moscow. The 20-year-old men were wandering around the airport when they found themselves on the tarmac and boarded a shuttle bus which
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        Lock icon Israeli shot dead
        83 12 -AFP NABLUS, West Bank An Israeli was killed when violent clashes erupted after Muslim prayers yesterday, another Palestinian “day of rage”. The man, a civilian employed by the Israeli army, was driving near the Arab village of Awsarin when he was shot in the stomach. In Bethlehem,
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  • Streatsmart people
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      Lock icon Embattled Estrada joins Asean summit
      222 13 -AFP SINGAPORE The Philippines’ beleaguered President Joseph Estrada yesterday took part in the annual Asean summit and brushed aside the possibility of resigning as his aides battled moves to unseat him in Manila. As the portly leader walked toward a luxury hotel’s ballroom for the
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      Lock icon Ivanisevic's smashing record
      292 13 AP BRIGHTON, England Goran Ivanisevic is a three-time Wimbledon finalist but it is temper that has given him a unique place on the ATP Tour. On Thursday, at the Samsung Open, he dropped to a new low when he smashed all his three racquets and had to
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      Lock icon To Sydney fans, White is no 'Love God'
      194 13 SYDNEY US soul icon Barry White might be known as the “Love God” but he failed to excite thousands of Australian fans who walked out of his concert demanding their money back. Concert promoter Paul Dainty said in a statement yesterday up
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      Lock icon 'Reverse Elian' boy and mum in Cuba
      250 13 Reuters BLANCA ARENA, Cuba A five-year-old boy and his mother turned up on Thursday in Cuba after taking flight by speedboat from Florida, in a case dubbed “Elian in reverse” by US media due to parallels with the Elian Gonzalez story. Without consulting
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  • STREATS
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      Lock icon Takuya's a bachelor no more
      216 15 Takuya 's a bachelor no more FANS of Japanese heartthrob Kimura Takuya, read this and weep! The 28-year-old singer-actor announced at a press conference on Thursday in Tokyo’s Super Arena that he is ending his bachelorhood. His current squeeze, 30-year-old singer-actress Kudo Shizuka, is four months pregnant. And yes, the
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        Lock icon Just for kicks
        599 16  -  by Diana Ser IT WAS a room the size of a toilet in a posh designer gym and not half as luxurious. Inside, 15 men and women were balancing deftly on the balls of their bare feet and jabbing the air with their fists. A Thai instructor
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        Lock icon Still rocking after all these years
        299 16  -  by KHUSHWANT SINGH THE newly-revived band, libertones, is giving a new meaning to the phrase golden oldies. The average age of the group’s members is 55, says bandleader Bernard Hong. But that won’t stop these I golden boys of pop from strutting their stuff
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        Lock icon Fung Bobo to wed M'sian architect
        134 17 FORMER Hongkong childstar Fung Bobo is marrying a well-known architect in Malaysia tomorrow, reported Lianhe Wanbao. This will be her second marriage. Her first in 1977 ended in divorce nine years after that. Bobo, who now lives in Kuala Lumpur, describes the architect as
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        Lock icon Lydia's fishy silence
        133 17  -  by DIANA SER BUBBLY Hongkong personality Lydia Sum, aka Fei Fei, has been uncharacteristically quiet these past two days. The reason: She is under strict instructions from the doctor not to talk. According to our sources, the 53-year-old single mother choked on a fish bone late on
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        Lock icon Hot or not?
        203 22 Rate the party animal; do your bit for charity SPOTTED by Streats’ roving eyes this week is Miss Mandy Lee, 22. A secretary in a law firm, she was moving to the groove at R&B haunt Lox. Her charity of choice is the SPCA. Mandy is the
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        Lock icon Journey to the past
        277 22 Madam Lee H 5, retiree: YUNMEN Shan (Cloud Gate Hill) on the east coast of China, is famous for the huge Chinese character, Shou (longevity) that is carved on the rock face at the top of the mountain. Legend has it that the Emperor of the
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        Lock icon Go because of the bumbling detectives
        120 24 Bayside Shakedown Directed by: Katsuyuki Motohiro Starring: Yuji Oda, Toshiro Yanagi-ba, EriFukatsu A MYSTERIOUS floating body sparks off a series of bizarre events within the Bayside Precinct. Enter a ragtag team of young detectives. Their duty is to investigate the outrageous kidnapping of their
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        61 24 Men of Honour Directed by: George Tillman Jr Starring: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr, Charlize Them Inspired by a true life story of Navy diver Carl Brashear. This film tells the story of one black man who overcomes all obstacles to make military history by earning the
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        Lock icon Go laugh
        61 24 Charlie's Angels Directed by: McG Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray With their angelic faces and sexy curves, the three Angels are the ultimate male fantasy. These girls do everything with such girlish good humour, you'll have to laugh at their silly antics. They look
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      • must see tv
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          Lock icon A BUG'S LIFE
          62 24 Saturday, Bpm, Disney (SCV 33) Cute animated film about an ant called Flik who tries to play hero when his colony is threatened by a bunch of i mean old grass-hop- J pers. He tries to gather other bugs who are willing to fight these meanies and
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          Lock icon MAKING THE BAND
          48 24 Saturday, Ipm, TCS 5 And you thought Popstars was over. Cut out Bardot, stick in a couple of guys and, hey presto, it’s a brand new season. This time we see 25 US hopefuls being whittled down to a five-member group, the O-town. Oh boy.
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          Lock icon LEE ROCK II
          64 24 Saturday, 10.30 pm, TCS 8 Continuation of last week’s Lee Rock I. This one sees detective Lee Rock (Andy Lau) getting bolder in his quest for money and power. He murders and betrays people without a qualm, only to find his past catching up with him. Aaron
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          Lock icon PRIMAL FEAR
          71 24 Sunday, 10pm, TCS 5 Richard Gere is Martin Vail, a high-powered criminal lawyer who doesn’t care whether his clients are innocent or guilty, as long as he makes front-page news. So when an archbishop is Bk brutally murdered, Vail hastens to take on the newsworthy case. He defends
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          Lock icon VICTIM
          52 24 Sunday, 10pm, V V Entertainment (SCV 56) Directed by Ringo Lam, this film bagged four nomina- tions at this year’s Hongkong Film Awards, i Lau Ching Wan’s out- i standing performance I enthralls and the film is 1 extra cool because it 1 comes with two endings. Not to
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        Lock icon Go romance
        60 24 Chicken Rice War Directed by: Cheah Chee Kong (aka CheeK) Starring: Pierre Png, Lum May Yee, Gary Yuen, Catherine Sng The Montagues and Capuiets ofAng Mo Kio. Meet the Wongs and the Chans, rival chicken rice sellers placed smack next to each other. As cinematic fate would have
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        Lock icon Go thrill
        67 24 Cherry Falls Directed by: Geoffrey Wright and Anthony Richmond Starring: Brittany Murphy, Gabriel Mann, Candy Clark, Joe Inscoe, Natalie Ramsey Like many a horror film, this one is all about sex and death. A serial killer is on the lookout for virginal teenage girls. So what do these
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        Lock icon Insult in injury time
        311 25 -AP LONDON -Barcelona shrugged off its domestic woes and Champions Cup ousting by scoring a 2-0 victory at Club Brugge in the Uefa Cup on Thursday. Two first-half goals by Rivaldo and Patrick Kluivert ensured the win and now the Spanish soccer powerhouse will regain some
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        Lock icon Gunners plan to reload
        141 25 -AP LONDON Arsene Wenger has stood up defiantly to Arsenal’s demoralising Champions League defeat in Moscow, reported the website. Arsenal lost 1-4 but its manager has pledged that it will recapture the form that made it look like the contender for glory in both Europe and
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        Lock icon Batistuta and Baggio to face their former clubs
        113 25 -AP ROME There will be a sizable sprinkling of purple tomorrow night at the Olympic Stadium as Roma and Fiorentina face off in the feature Italian Serie A tie. Gabriel Batistuta, already adopted by Roma fans as their star after eight goals
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        Lock icon England back in business
        129 26 Reuters LONDON England’s rugby players will hope to put their potentially damaging pay dispute behind them as they seek to follow their victory over Australia with another against Argentina today. Argentina has never won at Twickenham, but the home side will be wary of the Pumas
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        Lock icon Raptors' offence is firing again
        322 26 -AP INDIANAPOLIS -Just three days after being routed 64-100 by the Charlotte Hornets, the Toronto Raptors got their offence back on track. Vince Carter scored 28 points and the Raptors coasted to a 111-91 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night-their first in Indianapolis.
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        Lock icon Revenge on their minds
        317 27 Reuters LAS VEGAS -The United States may be the defending Federation Cup tennis champion, but when it takes on Spain in the final, it will be the memory of bitter defeat that the Cup holder takes into battle with it. These nations last met in the
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