Streats, 14 December 2001

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  • 17 1 STREATS FRIDAY 14 December 2001 Mother quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mITA (P) 429/03/2001
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  • 408 1 Suicide squad attacks Indian parliament -Wire services Por six weeks India’s parliament discussed tough new anti-terror laws. On Tuesday, opposition MPs blocked the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (Poto). Yesterday, terrorism hit at the heart of the world’s largest democracy. And MPs are now speaking in one
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  • 277 1 Reuters JERUSALEM No more talking. That’s Israel’s message as it severed ties with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat yesterday and struck at Palestinian targets. The move follows militants’ killing of 10 Israelis on Wednesday. Israeli forces advanced to within 100 m of Mr Arafat’s headquarters in
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  • Streatsmart local
    • 554 2  -  MTI gives detailed rules on selling by /DEEPA VIJIYASINGAM BEFORE you get tempted by get-rich-quick schemes that promise to double or triple your money, ask yourself three questions: Is your money at risk? Are you earning money by recruiting other members? Is the product you’re selling, something
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    • 279 2  -  by 'ZUBAIDAH NAZEER BUILDING security involves more than hiri n security managers and conducting fire-safe 11 drills and spot checks. Since the Sept 11 attacks in the US, n* t( threats such as bio-chemical hazards have ma< The Association of Shopping Centre
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    • 104 2 THERE'S no excuse not to get healthy where you work. Now, any interested organisation can apply for the Workplace Health Promotion Grant, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) announced yesterday. Previously, only Singapore Health Award recipients were eligible for the $5,000 grant. Companies can use
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    • 252 3  -  HSman fined for cheating cabby I Sports by KHUSHWANT SINGH p OUR men had enough money drink until closing time, but three of them decided they didn’t have enough to pay for their fide home. That decision which led to the three cheating a taxi driver out
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    • 160 3 Her bag looked empty after she tipped out its contents and turned it inside out, but she didn’t Want to let her manager touch it. Sales assistant Irene Sim Lee Mei’s manager became suspicious during an Aug 12 closingtime security check at Ngee Ann
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    • 61 3 onekindact Andy Chai My girlfriend and I left behind a bag containing $l5O worth of shopping when we boarded a bus on Dec lOat Yishun Bus Interchange. We rushed back to find it, and found a kind couple taking care of the bag while they waited for
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    • 254 3 A MALAYSIAN who is already serving a jail term for delivering a death threat took the stand yesterday as a prosecution witness in the trial of the men accused of masterminding it. Yap Kok Foy, who was jailed for five years last month, testified
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    • 143 3 BOOKMAKER Wong Tong and his runner, Chin Con Chang, are on trial for extortion. They are accused of ordering the delivery of an envelope containing two bullets, photos and a cassette tape to the house of Mr Bernard Ngiam Mia Hai, 41, the executive
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    • 193 5 WHAT'S grilled and spicy and hot on the trail of Pizza Hut and KFC? Try satay. The famous hawker dish is going home-delivered, fast-food style. Dial-For-Satay, just two months old, was started by Mr Rafiq Kothupudeen, 32. He said: “While satay itself is
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    • 326 5  -  Window dressing not enough by SONNYPHUA "HO KWA, bo ho chiak” runs the Hokkien saying, describing food that’s good to look at but not nice to eat. Singapore retailers are guilty of the same, says a study published in the latest issue of Crestimes, the newsletter
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    • 89 5 Our weather girl says It's the end of the week and even the thunderstorms expected in the late afternoon and early evening over most areas should not dampen A your spirits. But, you will get drenched if you don't have a brolly with you on your way home, so remember
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    • Just a minute
      • 54 5 Looking for a job? Make your way down to Yishun Community Club tomorrow 1-6 pm for the free community job fair organised by Ministry of Manpower and Community Development Councils. There will be about 1,000 openings from 20 hiring companies. Call 438-5122 or log on to www.employmenttown.gov.
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      • 64 5 Instead of hoarding 1-cent, 5-centor 10<ent coins, help get them back into circulation. The Singapore Mint has a free community service to help you change your coins for dollar bills. You can also swap past series currency and mutilated notes to the current "portrait"ones. Tomorrow and Sunday, the service
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  • Sfreatsmart regional
    • 220 6 Beijing, business back HK leader's bid -AFP HONGKONG Hongkong’s Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said yesterday he would seek a second five-year term of office after receiving Beijing’s blessing. The announcement followed a series of signals from China that it wanted him to carry on. Beijing
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    • 162 6 HOBART Legal chaos is forcing the Tasmanian government to fly pregnant women to Melbourne to have abortions, The Australian newspaper reported. The state government is also paying for a Melbourne gynaecologist to fly to Hobart once a week because Tasmanian doctors won’t perform abortions. Tasmania
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    • 135 6 -AFP MANILA One in four Filipinas has had an abortion, mainly after being forced to have sex, a government agency said yesterday. “Sexual relations, child-bearing and childrearing are still dependent on men as the ultimate decision-makers,” the Philippine Population Commission said. The
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    • 167 11 -AP MANILA Manila is ready to take custody of Nur Misuari now and end his three-week detention in Malaysia, Vice-President Teofisto Guingona said yesterday. “The Philippines is now ready to take back Nur Misuari,” said Mr Guingona, who is
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    • 104 11 -AFP JAKARTA Tommy Suharto, the son of the former Indonesian president who was arrested last month after a year on the run, must serve 11 months in jail, Supreme Court chief Bagir Manan said yesterday. Tommy still owes the 11 months in jail even though
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    • 95 11 -AP JAKARTA Indonesia’s defence minister has vowed to “wage war on terrorism” after the government claimed that A 1 Qaeda had set up bases in the country. However, western officials in Jakarta expressed skepticism about the claims and suggested they were designed to persuade the
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    • 229 13 MP kept baby a secret Melbourne An MP kept her pregnancy secret, so she could run for election, The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday. Revealing her pregnancy probably would have cost federal Labor MP Anna Burke her seat at the November election, the Women’s Electoral Lobby said.
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    • 114 13 SYDNEY The appointment on Wednesday of the first woman chief executive of an Australian bank added a billion dollars to its value. The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that St George Bank’s announcement of Ms Gail Kelly saw its shares jump A 52 cents (49 cents) to A
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    • 101 13 -Reuters PERTH Swimmers and surfers were warned yesterday to stay clear of a popular Australian beach while sharks ate an 80tonne whale carcass. Authorities said it could take the sharks up to two months to chew up the 24-metre whale, which was too
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  • WAR
    • 399 8 Son leading fight in Torn Bora, says aide OSAMA BIN LADEN left the Tora Bora area over 10 days ago and is now in Pakistan, a senior aide was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph yesterday. The report revealed an Osama able to travel quite
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    • 235 8 Wire services TORA BORA US agents yesterday reportedly persuaded Afghan tribal fighters to abandon surrender talks and launch an attack on Al Qaeda forces here. Airstrikes intensified dramatically and the fighters mounted a renewed ground assault. The tribal commanders abandoned the plan
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    • 84 8 US Army has been producing weaponsgrade anthrax in small amounts in Dugway, Utah, for years and has told FBI investigators none of its supply is missing. This is the first time officials have disclosed the US military is still producing anthrax, CNN said yesterday. The army
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    • 305 8 AP CANBERRA Dubbed “Indiana Jones” by his family, David Hicks (left) has been labelled a traitor by his countrymen. Australians are trying to understand what drove the 26-year-old to train with Osama bin Laden’s terror network and fight for the Taleban. Captured by Northern
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    • 70 9 -AFP The US House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a package of measures totalling more than U 552.65 billion ($4.85 billion) that are aimed at fighting bioterror threats to the nation. The House voted 418-2 in favour of the bipartisan bill, which provides for additional
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    • 273 9 -AFP WASHINGTON Four private translators were yesterday working on a videotape which the US claims proves Osama bin Laden carried out the Sept 11 terror attacks. The private translators were called in to make sure that there is agreement on “every word”, said
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    • 120 9 mtdiary -AFP OVER 4,000 Pakistani troops have fanned out opposite Afghanistan’s White Mountains in a low- key military buildup to stop Osama bin Laden and his followers crossing over, officers said yesterday. Regular army and tribal paramilitary forces, backed by helicopter gunships, have been deployed along a
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  • Streatsmart global
    • 86 14 SYDNEY -Only 16 per cent of Australian men and 12 per cent of women would willingly take a pay-cut to help their employer weather a recession, a survey found. The results of the survey indicate that the sexes would agree on little else, the Daily
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    • 256 14 LONDON Racism is not programmed into thl brain but is a by-product of evolution that can b< altered. New research suggests that the apparent ten dency towards noticing someone’s skin colour which many scientists had thought wa* inevitable is actually a changeable
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    • 167 14 -AFP LONDON Caroline Manser has fallen in love with her high school sweetheart. But only after leaving school, losing touch for more than a decade, and then reuniting again. “We met for the first time in 11 years this weekend. He is still the same
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    • 169 15 LONDON Almost half of British women are not married, according to a report by Britain’s office of national statistics. The Guardian reported that its latest survey found the proportion of women who were married had fallen from three in four in 1979 to
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    • weird world
      • 93 15 A SLEEPING family and their house fell into a 15m-deep hole in the middle of the night, www.stuff.co.nz reported. At 12.15 am yesterday, neighbours heard a loud noise and looked out to see the house in the New Zealand town of Waihi fall into a large hole in
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      • 110 15 JAM jars can be very hard to open. Now Dutch scientists say they have found a solution to the problem of too-tight jars: Don’t screw lids on so tightly in the first place. A team led by Liek Voorbij of Delft University of Technology measured the lidtwisting
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      • 103 15 A BOY sick of schoolmates stealing his sandwiches has invented a lunch box alarm, New Zealand’s Daily News reported. The alarm, which fits inside a small juice carton, sets off a siren when someone opens the lunch box. When he goes to school, inventor Nic James, 12,
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      • 55 15 A ROOSTER has been banned from having sex during pre-Christmas fasting, Ananova.com reported. His Romanian owner said the cockerel has been having too much sex and is corrupting his other fowl. Mr Pompei Muntean said he believes sex is the biggest sin that can be committed during fasting
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  • Streatsmart people
    • 301 16 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s new king, the Rajah of Perlis, TUanku Syed Sirajuddin, sworn in yesterday, is, people close to him say, a humble man. His former nanny, Ms Asiah Osman, said: “I i always hoped he would be i| king one day for
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    • 180 16 THAI Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will star in the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s new marketing campaign called Be My Guest. He will appear in advertisements, inviting overseas travellers to visit Thailand, reported the Bangkok Post yesterday. Filming will be completed next week. The first commercials are
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    • 119 16 -AFP OSLO Norway’s palace announced yesterday the engagement of Princess Maertha Louise to Ari Behn, an author whose raunchy escapades have put him in the media spotlight since his relationship with the princess was made public last March. The relationship between the 30-year-old eldest child
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  • easyStreats
    • 164 18 -AP LOS ANGELES Ocean’s Eleven star Julia Roberts is concentrating on friendships. Roberts will be the host of the A&E documentary Old Friends, which examines the enduring nature of friendships. It’s scheduled for broadcast next year. Old Friends focuses on three women from a small town
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    • 6 18 Stephanie's Choice
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    • 61 18 Golauqh Directed by: Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich Starring: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi Unknown to humankind, Monstropolis (where those monsters in kids'closets hail from) is powered by children's screams. Number one scarerSulley (voiced by John Goodman) accidentally brings back a tiny tot from
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    • 54 18 Gothrill Directed by: ArielZeitoun Starring: Chau Belle Dinh, Williams Belle, Malik Diouf A bunch of childhood pals climb buildings to get their kicks. Otherwise known as the Yamakasi, these seven men routinely incur the wrath of the French police. If you're into acrobatics and gravity-defying moves, the Yamakasi are
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    • 62 18 Gorock Directed by: Richard Lester Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr It's time to swoon over the Fab Four all over again. Arguably the greatest of all rock films, this reissue of A Hard Day's Night features a digitally restored soundtrack and restored
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    • 50 18 Goromance Directed by: James Yuen Starring: Nick Cheung, Michelle Reis Pretty Sharon (Reis) is perpetually unlucky with relationships. Her only loyal companion her adoring dog Ah Man. One day, Ah Man accidentally swaps bodies with a human named Fai (Cheung). Finally, Sharon might get lucky.
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    • 124 19 A SHORTER gold-tinted crop of hair and a Moustache. That’s the new look that Takeshi Kaneshiro is s porting for his role as a killer in the movie, Returner, which is scheduled to open in Japan in August next year. And despite the fact that he had
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    • 124 19 talent agency Johnny’s Jimusho has muscle power in J-pop land. The agency even influences which artistes pop magazines place on their covers. For many years now, it had been the tradition for the five members of Smap Takuya Kimura, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Masahiro Nakai and Shingo Katori
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    • 203 19 DESPITE having four songs nominated for Hongkong’s TVBB Solid Gold song k awards on Wednesday night, local singer Stefanie Sun walked I away empty-handed. I None of her songs made it to the top 15, which was surprising for some, as she has
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    • Article, Illustration
      236 20  -  by DIANA SER SHE boasts a 34F bosom but she is no cow. Or rather, *****. Channel U newbie, Hf Ann Poh, 26, has to be mean to Lina Ng in next week’s episode of Happy Rules. And the soft-spoken mother of two, signed up by the
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    • 211 23 Reuters DELHI Indians want to watch )u t not do it. At least not yet. That is the verdict of television view■rs in an ongoing poll about whether y e Ws Corp’s Star India TV network jWild make an Indian version of lsland,
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    • channel scan
      • Today's must-see TV...
        • 49 23 11 pm, TV Works The murder of a salesman, an alleged sexual predator, leads the detectives to suspect that a politically influential family may be involved. Then Briscoe realises that this case could tie into a six-year-old one that he did not crack.
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        • 50 23 I 11 pm, Central A tribute to Beat poet, Buddhist and countercultural hero Allen Ginsberg, who died in 1997 at the age of 70. It traces his career, including his censorship trial for his book Howl and his stand on his homosexuality and drug habits.
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        • 47 23 7.15 pm, Star Movies (SCV 58) With a down-and-out ex-champion as their coach, an unlikely team of Jamaican bobsledders sets out to compete in the Olympics in this j entertaining action comedy based on a true I story Stars John Candy and Doug E Doug.
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        • Article, Illustration
          74 23 10.30 pm, Channel U Meng is sleeping alone in his room when a naked woman slips into his bed. She’s Yulan, one ofYumen’s mistresses. Sanmei, another of Yumen’s mistresses also appears and the two girls get into a fight. Just when Meng thinks that he has sorted them out,
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      445 25  -  two shoes by Wileen Chang YOU may be one of those who think a Christmas meal is incomplete unless a giant bird sits in the middle of the table. But how many actually know why people feast on roast turkey at Christmas? Surprisingly, there is no real significance
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    • easyStreats sports
      • 282 27 -AFP BA CHAMPIONSHIP Wizards 82 Heat 80 WASHINGTON Michael Jordan scored 25 points *3ftd had seven rebounds and six assists on Wednesday as Washington Wizards nearly squandered a 15-point lead, but held on to beat Miami Heat. LaPhonso Ellis missed a potential game-win-%g three-pointer for the Heat
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      • 28 27 San Antonio Spurs 108 Toronto Raptors 95 Phoenix Suns 114 Sacramento Kings 88 v Minnesota Timberwolves 98 Utah Jazz 87 •LA Clippers 114 Seattle Supersonics 94
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      • 176 27 Reuters DENVER Denver Nuggets suspended coach Dan Issel for four games without pay for using an ethnic slur on a fan who heckled him after the team lost a game in the final seconds. On Tuesday night just after the Nuggets lost to the
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      • Article, Illustration
        401 28 Marathon drinking session ends in trouble LONDON Robbie Fowler (above) insists that he was the innocent victim of a plan to discredit Leeds players. The England forward was arrested on Tuesday night at the end of a 10-hour drinking session involving 30 of his new Leeds team-mates, who
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      • Article, Illustration
        312 29 LEAGUE CUP Q-FINAL Chelsea 1 Newcastle 0 hasselbaink blasts in 'tote winner London Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink’s winner ensured Chelsea a t'Place in the League Cup semi-finals on S'Wednesday. 11 The Dutch striker broke the deadlock the 90th minute after a tense and fullblooded encounter at Stamford Bridge, 11
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      • Article, Illustration
        477 30 United back to winning ways PREMIER LEAGUE Man United 5 Derby 0 MANCHESTER It was just like old times at Old Trafford as the champion enjoyed the luxury of superior ability and experience to swat aside an opposition lacking in belief or ambition. Only time will tell if
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      • 21 30 I Liverpool 0 Fulham 0 Manchester United 5 (Solskjaer6, 58, Keane 10, van Nistelrooy 63, ScholesB9) Derby 0
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      • 174 30 Team P W D L F A PtS I.Liverpool 15 10 3 2 25 11 33 2.Arsenal 15 8 5 2 33 17 29 3±eeds 15 7 7 1 18 9 28 4.Newcastle 15 8 3 4 25 18 27 5.Man Utd 16 7 3 6 36 27
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      • 265 30 LIVERPOOL Michael Owen’s big night was sabotaged by the one snag no one could have foreseen as Liverpool was forced to concede that life at the top can be tough. With a sense of timing that could hardly have been worse, Liverpool’s livewire frontrunner chose his
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      • Article, Illustration
        502 31  -  Liaoning-born Liu Fan's fortunes soar by' TAN KIM HAN SHE arrived from China as a starryeyed teenager in search of badminton fame and glory. The year was 1997 and Liaoningborn Liu Fan was just 13. She missed home. She missed her friends. And her familiar surroundings. But she
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      • SOCCER
        • 117 31 LONDON Thierry Henry has pledged his future to Arsenal. He also believes manager Arsene Wenger’s decision to stick with the Gunners is good news for the club, according to ananova. He told the French newspaper L’Equipe: T hope that I shall be here for
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        • 59 31 Reuters LONDON After another breathless year of goalscoring heroics, Liverpool and England’s jetheeled striker Michael Owen will pause briefly to toast his 22nd birthday today. Even by his own precocious standards, it has been a remarkable 12 months for the nimblefooted prodigy who is tipped to
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      • 113 31 •GOLF Reuters THOUSAND OAKS, California World No 1 Tiger Woods wants to end the year on a high note by winning the US$3.B million ($6.9 million) Williams World Challenge, an unofficial event which started yesterday. “I would love to win here,” said Woods, who grew
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