Streats, 15 December 2001

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    17 1 STREATS SATURDAY 15 December 2001 pother quality publication of Singapore Press Holdings E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 429/03/2001
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    Lock icon Bugis is best
    68 1 Parco Bugis Junction wanted its season's decoration to stand out and it did. The stained-glass effect (left), which cost $200,000, won it the Singapore Tourism Board's Best Decorated Shopping Centre award for the second year running. Tanglin Mall (above) took the second prize for its candy-land theme,
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    Lock icon Jobless grads
    502 1  -  Record retrenchment in 3rd quarter by DEEPAVIJIYASINGAM IT seems we’re not out of the woods yet. And fresh graduates have joined the ranks of the lowly-educated in the jobless queue. Almost 16,500 graduates were unemployed as of September this year, the highest since the figures were compiled in
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    Lock icon Vajpayee under pressure to attack Pakistan
    192 1 NEW DELHI India was yesterday baying for revenge. Rhetoric was high for a strike against terrorist training camps in Pakistancontrolled Kashmir, raising fears of a nuclear war. Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh upped the ante last night when he declared Thursday’s suicide attack on parliament
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      Lock icon Fine, driving ban
      294 2  -  He fell asleep at wheel, killed pedestrian by t KHUSHWANT SINGH DRIVING along Lornie Road towards Bradell on Jan 25, Chris Rodrigues, 33, fell asleep at the wheel. When he awoke a few moments later, his car was on the left kerb, and a man was lying
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      Lock icon IDA targets the elderly
      178 2 OVER 65,000 people have attended the National IT Literacy Programme (NITLP) since its inception in June. But only 20 per cent were senior citizens. “One reason could be that senior citizens do not dare to take the first step towards learning computers,” said Ms Pam Hu,
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      Lock icon Cheap bargains at book fair
      142 2 A SECOND-HAND book fair, at Singapore Expo Hall 4B from 10am to 6pm tomorrow, promises to offer great deals. Paperback novels will cost only $5 while hardcovers start at $7. The choice will be varied: From Stephen King and Danielle Steele to Tom Clancy and
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      Lock icon Gone in a blink
      116 2 A DIRECTOR of a security company was not careful enough and lost $35,000 recently. Mr Munisamy Ramalmshnan, 45, was on his way back to his office at Golden Mile Complex on Dec 4 at about 4pm with the money, which he had withdrawn from a bank
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      Lock icon COE bids
      107 2 BIDDING for nearly 4,000 certificates of entitlement (COEs) will open at 9am on Tuesday. This will be the last round of open bidding for the year and will close at 4pm on Thursday. Of the 3,932 COEs up for tender, 1,472 are for small cars, 649 for large
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        Lock icon Neighbours to the rescue
        150 2 AN ELDERLY woman had two of her neighbours to thank for making it out of a fire alive. The blaze, which broke out at her 10thstorey flat at Blk 111 Teck Whye Lane on Thursday evening, reportedly started in the bedroom at around spm. The woman,
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        Lock icon Cook-and-run thief
        149 2 WHEN a stallholder of the hawker centre at Blk 163 Bukit Merah Central went to work as usual last Friday, he was greeted with a strange sight. The 47-year-old, identified only as Mr Hariff, found a pot of hot oil sitting on the stove and leftover rice in
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        Lock icon Thief on a bike
        104 2 A MAN on a bicycle rode up to a 15-year-old boy from behind and snatched his bag on Wednesday. It happened at about 4pm, at the ground floor lift landing of the boy’s flat in Woodlands Drive 73. The boy was about to enter the lift
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        Lock icon Death at Ang Mo Kio
        65 2 A 60-YEAR-OLD woman was killed in an accident along Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 yesterday morning. At 7.35 am, the woman, her arms full of groceries, was knocked down by a car in front of Blk 587. She died at the scene. The car had
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      Lock icon Book hunters grab and go
      513 3  -  Free used textbooks by ZUBAIDAH NAZEER FOR the second time this week, used textbooks were up for for grabs but not everyone left «happy. Unlike the first exercise on Wednesday which was restricted to needy students selected by their schools, this one was open to
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      70 3 Our weather girl says It's going to be a wet weekend. If you're visiting your friends or relatives, be sure to take along an umbrella. You won't want to end a joyful day with a cold. Temperatures will range between 24°C and 32°C, with high tide reaching 3.0 m at
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        58 3 The new place to go to book classified ads in any SPH newspaper is its new headquarters at 1000 Toa Payoh North. The classified and sales counters at News Centre in Genting Lane will cease operations from Monday. Call 1-800-289-9988 or e-mail CATS@sph.com.sg for English or Malay papers
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        118 3 A community job fair tomorrow promises at least I,ooojobs. Twelve firms will conduct interviews at the fair. There are vacancies for positions including system administrators, customer service assistants, technicians and stable grooms. Self-help groups will also be there to guide people on upgrading skills. The fair, organised
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      Lock icon Cellphone returned
      58 4 onekindact Aamir I would like to thank Ms Seow Wen from Chartered Semiconductor who returned my lost EricssonT2Bs cellphone. She went to the trouble to contact me and returned the handphone personally. a kind act no matter how small, write in to Streats, 82 denting Lane, Singapore *****7;
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      Lock icon She cracked employer's skull with telephone Maid gets 4 years'jail
      272 4 was not intended[ the theft, an afterthought defence lawyers NKRajarhand JAJoethy A MAID who broke her employer’s skull with a telephone has been jailed for four and half years. Thamayanthi, 27, an Indian overstayer, hit Madam Nagalingam Anjella, 67, eight
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      Lock icon He tried to disrupt polls
      189 4  -  by I KHUSHWANT SINGH AN unemployed man, Robert Ho Chong, 51, posted an article, titled “Break the law and get away with it, like PAP”on the soc.culture.singapore website on Oct 19. In the article, he urged readers to defy the law and trespass into polling
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      Lock icon Thief wanted'romance'
      270 4 AN odd-job labourer graduated from theft to molest. But he called it “romance.” Mansor Omar, 40, had eight convictions for theft since 1981. Yesterday, he was in the dock again, facing three molest charges. On Oct 14 Mansor had befriended a group of nine teenagers who were at
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      Lock icon S'pore diplomat charged with corruption
      120 4 A VICE-CONSUL at the Singapore Consulate in Madras was charged yesterday with three counts of corruption. Aloysius Michael, 32, allegedly accepted a $l7O return air ticket to Madras from Mr Jaya Kumar, the deputy finance manager of Indian Airlines in Madras, to process a visa
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  • Streatsmart regional
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      Lock icon Less than 50 per cent Thais back PM: poll Thaksin's support shrinks
      223 5 Reuters BANGKOK -Thais are getting disenchanted with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (left) as they struggle with slowing economic growth, pollsters said yesterday. Mr Thaksin’s popularity has fallen to 49 per cent, the lowest since he took office in
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      Lock icon Jakarta beefs up security for religious holidays
      195 5 -Reuters JAKARTA Indonesia will boost security in Jakarta for Hari Raya and Christmas to avoid a repeat of last year’s bloody holiday season, officials said yesterday. A spate of bombings rocked churches in the capital and other major cities in Indonesia last Christmas
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      Lock icon EYE CONTACT:
      31 5 The new 'lrisPass-h' individual authentication unit enables the identification and authentication of people by iris-pattern recognition when logging onto PCs or servers. The unit will cost $1,012 Pic: AFP
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      Lock icon Man blows himself up near Melbourne
      135 5 -AP MELBOURNE -A man died after detonating explosives strapped to his body near an Australian train station, police said yesterday. Police cordoned off the area around Lara train station, some 80km south-west of Melbourne, after four explosions were heard at 6.15 am (3.15 am
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    • weird world
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        Lock icon Tummy money
        103 5 DEEP down in John Poletti’s stomach are two coins that have been there for the best part of 40 years, the Sydney Morning Herald reported yesterday. Mr Poletti, 71, who immigrated to Australia from Italy in 1955, was in hospital for an x-ray after a minor car accident.
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        Lock icon Courting her perfectly
        121 5 AN attorney proposed to his girlfriend while a South African court was in session. Mark Muller proposed to Candice Taylor, also a lawyer, in Port Elizabeth’s High Court. The 24-year-old accepted the proposal and the couple are set to marry in February. Initially, the court thought they
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        Lock icon Tired of your surname?
        64 5 DUNLOP in Canada is offering C 525,000 ($29,000) to people whose family name is Dunlop to change their surnames to Dunlop-Tire, Ananova.com reported. The scheme is the brainchild of Dunlop Tires Canada, and is part of its effort to woo younger drivers. Dunlop claims research shows
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      Lock icon Delhi attack signals migration of Al Qaeda terror From Afghanistan to Kashmir
      313 7 ror once Established 'n Kashmir, the Al Qaeda *ouldbe utmost ineradicable. £An editorial in we Times, London THE suicide attack on India’s parliament complex was as startling and brutal as the Sept 11 horror in New York and
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      Lock icon Israel kills 6 Arabs in West Bank raid
      245 7 Wire services JERUSALEM Israeli forces killed six Palestinian intelligence Agents in a raid on the West Bank Yesterday, Palestinian sources s aid. An Israeli spokesman said *hat one of the men killed in the attack on the town of Salfit was °h
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      Lock icon US arms move: Cautious reaction
      258 7 Wire services MOSCOW World leaders have reacted calmly to US President George W Bush’s decision to unilaterally scrap the 1972 AntiBallistic Missile treaty. Mr Bush said the ABM treaty, signed between then US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was a leftover from
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      Lock icon Euro coins go on sale
      137 7 -AFP BRUSSELS Sales of euro coins got off to a brisk start yesterday with thousands of sample kits sold in France, Holland and Ireland. “We opened at 6.30 am (1.30 pm Singapore time) and in an hour we sold more than 70 kits,” said Gerard
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      Lock icon Rumsfeld denies reports that US shot down surrender talks We're not blood-thirsty
      402 8 -Wire services WASHINGTON -The US military is not trying to kill all A 1 Qaeda members, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday. Press reports had claimed that talks for an A 1 Qaeda surrender at Tora Bora
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      Lock icon Back Afghan regime, UK asks Jakarta
      177 8 -AFP JAKARTA Britain yesterday asked Indonesia to support the new interim government in Afghanistan and send troops to join a multinational peacekeeping force. “We hope Indonesia will give its full support to the transitional government in Afghanistan and consider supporting a security force there,”
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        Lock icon Fight over spoils
        54 8 -AFP NORTHERN Alliance forces were engaged in fierce fighting yesterday with a local warlord around the northeast town of Pul-e-Khumri, a defence ministry spokesman said. The fighting, involving tanks and mortars, broke out on Wednesday when warlord Sayed Jafar Nadari, leader of a small militia army, attacked
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        Lock icon Fighters held
        34 8 -AFP PAKISTAN yesterday said it had detained more than 340 people, including 40 suspected Arab A 1 Qaeda fighters. About 300 Pakistani fighters have been detained over the past three weeks. -afp
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        Lock icon Aussie 'traitor'
        40 8 -AP AN Australian Taleban fighter captured by the Northern Alliance will be handed over to US forces. This will ensure that David Hicks is held in a safe location and will help facilitate access by Australian authorities, -ap
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      Lock icon Elvis bin Laden?
      89 8 Washington fears Osama bin Laden could be killed and no one will ever know about it, The Times of London reported yesterday. Officials are cautioning that the bombing of the Tora Bora mountains may have already killed him. If he is killed, his supporters would ensure that
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      Lock icon Osama a 'murderous criminal'
      314 9 WASHINGTON The Saudi ambassador to the US has called Osama bin Laden a“murderous criminal”in the first official reaction to a videotape the US says is compelling evidence of Osama’s complicity in the Sept 11 attacks on America. “The tape displays the cruel and inhumane face of
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      Lock icon Propaganda, say M'sian, Indon groups
      219 9 KUALA LUMPUR Groups in Malaysia and Indonesia yesterday dismissed as US propaganda the latest videotape of Osama bin Laden, saying it showed no proof of his role in the Sept 11 attacks. While Malaysian and Indonesian Government leaders were silent, Muslim groups dismissed the tape
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      Lock icon Family unsure of tape authenticity
      297 9 -AFP DAMASCUS Osama bin Laden’s family in Syria said yesterday they were unsure of the authenticity of the US-released video of the world’s most wanted man appearing to rejoice over the Sept 11 terror attacks. “I saw the film on TV like the rest of
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      Lock icon 'Taleban Tung' not amused
      209 10 Wire services I4ONGKONG A television station that aired a satire that compared chief executive TUng ,Chee Hwa to Afghanistan’s gjhleban has been reprimanded fer being unbalanced. »||4r Tung said the prollfeamm.e. that aired in October, Hpl in “bad taste” and the prpadcast Authority delivered warning yesterday
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      Lock icon The lighter side of sumo
      436 10 Reuters WOMEN have made a breakthrough in the tradition-steeped sport of sumo, and now there are five females on the Nihon University team. One of them, Ms Satomi Ishigaya, 20, a wrestler who came to sumo after several years in judo, said: “I like sumo
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      Lock icon Warrior princess
      377 11  -  by DIANA SER MAYBE Taiwanese rock babe Shino should change her name to Xena. Yesterday, at a press conference to promote her latest album, For, the 27-year-old singer decided that she was sitting too far away from her audience. So she got up three-and-a-half inch killer heels notwithstanding
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      339 11  -  by YVONNE KWOK IT WAS an older and wiser Chiang Mei Chi who met the press yesterday at the Conrad Hotel to promote her fourth Mandarin album, Remembrance. Dressed in muted earthy tones, the Taiwanese singer was willing to talk anything even the events that led
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      Lock icon Nicholas'weird encounters
      162 12 EVER since Hongkong bad boy Nicholas Tse started working on the film 2002 around three months ago, weird things have been happening to him. While filming, Nicholas’ Buddhist amulet, a chain and pendant which he constantly wears, snapped three times. And his maid saw a ghost. So much
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      Lock icon Bringing down Vicki
      227 12 IF any lesson is to be learnt from actress Vicki Zhao’s fash- a ion fiasco, it’s that contrary to common belief, stars can’t get away with dressing any way they like. During a recent fashion shoot in New York, Vicki wore a dress with a wartime Japanese
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      Lock icon Crooning Celest
      235 12 FOR fans of Celest Chong eagerly wating for the release of her debut album, good news. Her Mandarin album, titled Belong to Myself, will be officially released on Wednesday. However, 1,000 special edition copies of the album are available until Tuesday for fans who can’t wait to listen
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      Lock icon Winona, interrupted
      335 13 Actress charged with shoplifting $9OOO worth of clothes BEVERLY HILLS Police say she was a Girl, Interrupted shoplifting. Oscar-nominated actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue’s store here when clerks saw her cram nearly US$5,OOO ($9,000) worth of clothes and accessories into a bag after ripping
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      Lock icon An unorthodox childhood
      187 13 Reuters WINONA Ryder was bom in Winona, Minnesota, to hippie parents. Her godfather was hippie philosopher and scientist Timothy Leary, who died in 1996, aged 75. She spent her early years living on a commune without electricity in his company and that of Beat poet Allen Ginsburg,
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      Lock icon Britney Spears shuns fur but keeps clothes on
      286 13 Reuters LOS ANGELES She may be an animal lover, but teen pop queen Britney Spears isn’t ready to bare all for the sake of her furry friends. Spears’ publicist and the campaign director for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta)
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          Lock icon VAMPIRE'S KISS
          47 13 Saturday, 10pm, TV Works A New York literary agent (Nicholas Cage) meets a seductive, mysterious woman. In the throes of f passion she bites him on the neck and he is convinced he has been turned into a vampire. Is it all in his mind?
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          26 13 Sunday, spm, TV Works This Hari Raya season celebrity cook Redzuanwan Ismail, better known as Chef Wan in Malaysia, takes viewers to Hongkong and Macau.
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          Lock icon WEDDING DRESS
          51 13 Saturday, 4.30 pm, Channel U Fengdao proposes to Hena and they return to the Jin family to ask permission. They see Fengdao’s mother there and a furious Fengdao calls off the wedding. Yujin thinks that Yongjun and Duna had reconciled and leaves. Will the two couples ever find
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          Lock icon CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
          42 13 Sunday, 10pm, AXN (SCV 19) This is the movie, not the drama series. Michelle Yeoh and Chow YunFat are star-crossed lovers out to retrieve a mystical sword that has been stolen by a princess, played by Zhang Ziyi.
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        Lock icon Valerie assured of three golds
        77 16 BOWLING THREE Singapore bowlers Remy Ong, Valerie Teo and Alice Tay are poised for glory at the Hongkong Open bowling competition. All three qualified for the Masters event. Valerie has already assured herself of three gold medals. She was first in the allevents, doubles (with
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        Lock icon Liverpool in clean sweep
        92 16 SOCCER Reuters LONDON Liverpool swept the board to win all three annual titles awarded by the prestigious World Soccer magazine the first time one club has achieved that hat-trick since the awards began in 1982. Michael Owen became the first Englishman to be named as World
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        62 16 BADMINTON THE Singapore Badminton Association will organise the Yonex Sunrise youth championships from Dec 19-23. More than 650 entries have been received, including shuttiers from Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Thailand. It is offering a total prize money of $9,000 for the following events boys and
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        Lock icon Sasikumar looks abroad for improvement Raising limits
        404 16  -  by' TAN KIM HAN DEFENDER R Sasikumar (right), formerly of Home United, is in Australia to try and secure a contract. The 1.93 m-tall player is hoping that his strappy build and height will stand him in good stead overseas. He will be
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        Lock icon Houston suffers 12th straight defeat
        273 16 Indiana 108 Houston 106 (0T) J INDIANAPOLIS Moochie Norris’ long three-pointer only prolonged the agony for the Houston Rockets. He banked in a three-pointer to force overtime, where the Rockets was victimised by Reggie Miller and suffered its 12th straight loss, a 106-108 setback to
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        Lock icon Deadly Henry
        643 17 Arsenal striker seems unstoppable now Reuters LONDON France can not only count on the best midfield in world soccer, but it now possesses one of the deadliest strikers in the game, Thierry Henry. The 24-year-old Henry was France's top scorer when it won the 1998 World Cup, and
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        Lock icon Bowyer cleared, Woodgate convicted
        329 17 -AP HULL, England Leeds soccer star Lee Bowyer was cleared of all charges in the beating of a student, but team-mate Jonathan Woodgate was convicted of affray in the case. The Hull Crown Court jury of seven women and five men delivered the verdicts after five
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        Lock icon Wicked wishes
        579 18  -  Reds will find going tough against Blues Soccer SMART by /ADAM HASHIDY LIVERPOOL'S disappointing goal-less draw against Fulham on Wednesday must have brought immense joy to Alex Ferguson. It was exactly what the Manchester United manager had wished for. Just a day earlier, he said that the Red
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        Lock icon The match-ups
        341 18 WTODAY F Bolton v Charlton 80/ton won 35, Charlton 23. Draws: 10 March 4,2000: Bolton 0 Charlton 2; Sept 11,1999: Charlton 2 Bolton 1 Bolton-LDWDLL Charlton-DLDWWW Bolton-Pedersen out. Charlton Bartlett fit, Kinsella injured. Charlton win Everton v Derby County Everton won 67, Derby 46. Draws: 22 Jan 01:
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        Lock icon On the warpath
        576 19 Furious Beckham to confront Ferguson -Wire services LONDON David Beckham deft) is “spitting blood” after being left on Manchester United’s bench for the third game in a row, according to a report here yesterday. The Sun newspaper reported that the England captain is furious at his treatment
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        Lock icon Ferguson denies rift
        260 19 -Reuters MANCHESTER Alex Ferguson denied yesterday that there was any rift between him and England captain David Beckham. The manager insists that he is resting the 26-year-old to help him overcome a back problem. Ferguson told the Manchester Evening News: “David is great about what we are
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      471 14 nfm,hpmf.KW tad. ammmamwwj DvfiJonnzoa Your Daily Horoscope AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 You may notice that things have slipped from their former glory, or maybe you’re just ready for a change. Collect further details before charging ahead. This is only the first of several stages. PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 IS >1
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      32 16 Inthelivingroom—.— SOCCER: EPb West Ham United v Arsenal (ESPN Ch23,10.50pm), Middlesbrough v Manchester United (Star Sports Ch 24, 10,S0pm). Spanish League: Espanyolv Valencia (ESPN Ch 23 and City TV, tomorrow, 4.30 pm),
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