Streats, 5 March 2003

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2003 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita <p> 240/03/2002
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  • 588 1  -  Clients complain of long delays in refunds By, Janice Wong THE local timeshare industry, still struggling to rectify its image of high-pressure sales tactics and unsatisfactory responses to customer grievances, has just been hit again. This time, the complaints are about a company which
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    • 85 1 When KHUSHWANT SINGH went online in a chatroom as 15-year-old Michelle, he was swamped with sexual invitations from adults Amid corporate downsizing, is there still value in going for an MBA degree? The answer to this, and more, in the Career 2003 supplement PAGES 24-Z7 NEED NOT APPLY? Why are
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  • Morning Rush
    • 489 2  -  By Khushwant Singh “GIRL, 15, wants to chat,” was the innocent invitation posted by Michelle on a free chatroom on the Internet Relay Chat. In seconds, eight replies popped up. All men, and chatting was not the only thing on their minds. The youngest claimed to be
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    • 406 2  -  Crusader wants Net to be fun, safe for kids By Zubaidah Nazeer PARENTS everywhere have Mr Nigel Williams to thank for his crusade against paedophiles and perverts on the Internet. But more than shielding kids against such predators, Mr Williams, who set up Childnet International
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    • 442 3  -  Train could have been derailed if not for veteran driver’s reaction By Zubaidah Nazeer WHEN MKT train driver Francis Rodrick Julius, 41, called his mother to say that he had just averted what could have been Singapore’s worst transportation disaster, she told hbn to
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    • 159 3 “I SAW the picture of the car and its number plate in the newspapers and so I decided to try my luck at 4-D,” said Mr Michael Lim, 28. Thousands of others yesterday had the same idea, and by midday, both 4-D numbers, 9500 and
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    • 513 4 Northern grain belt’s food shortage may exceed world’s surplus Reuters BEIJING In ancient China, access to water helped determine the mood of famine-stricken peasants and the staying power of ruling dynasties. Today, leaders facing China’s annual session of parliament are grappling with ways to ensure
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    • 232 4 NEW YORK Is world’s richest teen Athina Onassis, who is the granddaughter of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, really a billionaire? The truth is that she is yet to enter that coveted club and that her fortune is still far short of the
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    • 120 6 BUZZSTOP READ the lips. A 15-year study has found that couples are attracted by the size of each other’s lips. “Larger lips are better- looking than smaller lips up to a certain point,” Prof Michael Cunningham from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, told the British
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    • 125 6 Credit card fraud SOME online retailers in the US are rejecting Singapore-issued credit cards on the advice of companies which provide e-commerce services. Singapore is included in a group of “blacklisted” countries which are likely sources of credit card fraud over the Internet, The Straits Times
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    • 182 6 False facts in IPO prospectus TWO directors of construction group Sim Lian were yesterday charged in court for stating in its initial public offer (IPO) prospectus that the company would complete the development of a factory despite knowing that it was earmarked to be sold. The
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 6 This child at a Davao city hospital in southern Philippines is the victim of a powerful bomb blast at the city's international airport yesterday. Nineteen people were killed and 100 others injured in the attack, suspected to be the handiwork of Muslim guerillas AFP
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    • 143 6  -  Chua Kong Ho QUAKER OATS has recalled its Quaker Toasted Oatmeal Brown Sugar Bliss Cold Cereal because almonds had mistakenly been included in the packages. Ms Ann Low of distributor Harpers Trading said: “The recall was prompted by concern that consumers allergic or sensitive to almonds
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    • 94 6 DBS Group Holdings shares plunged by 99.7 per cent to 2.5 cents briefly before the trade was cancelled by the Singapore Exchange yesterday. The plunge in the DBS share price occurred following a keying-in mistake by a dealer. The transaction involved a block of 40
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    • 91 6 AN abandoned newborn baby girl was found dead in the ladies’ toilet at the Commonwealth MRT station yesterday evening. At 8.30 pm, a cleaner found a plastic bag left in a cubicle. Thinking that it was trash, she was about to throw it in the station’s
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    • 89 6 DTZ Debenham Tie Leung may have to pay about $76,000 in compensation to the National Parks Board (NParks) for cutting down a Hoped sangal tree in Changi last November without permission. This is in addition to the fine it faces for failing to obtain NParks’ approval
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    • 86 6 SINGAPOREANS spent more on male impotency pill Viagra and slimming aid Xenical than any other drug last year, with Viagra just ahead, The Straits Times reports today. Lipitor (high cholesterol), Norvasc (high blood pressure) and Zocor (high cholesterol) were the third, fourth and fifth best-sellers respectively. The Singapore
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  • Financial
    • 219 8 CONSUMER banker Eddie Khoo, described as “an institution” at Citibank, will join DBS this month. “We are still working out some details and will make an announcement soon,” a DBS spokesman told The Business Times yesterday. The move, which BT today describes as a coup,
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    • 598 8  -  Financial planning row: At stake is potential s6sm from course fees By Chua Kong Ho THREE private companies stand to gain, or lose, millions of dollars depending on how a spat between two associations offering financial planning certification plays out. At stake is a growing
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    • 100 8 Reuters SINGAPORE The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) yesterday said that Japan’s Shimizu Corp has been awarded a contract of about 1 billion to build Changi Airport’s third passenger terminal. The order is one of the largest overseas contracts won by a Japanese builder. “The contract
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    • 76 8 Reuters SAN FRANCISCO Flextronics International yesterday said that it had secured US$2OO million (*****.8 million) from US investment firm Silver Lake Partners, which expects the firm to benefit from increasing outsourced production of high-tech products. The investment will be in the form of a junior subordinated convertible
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    • 79 8 SINGAPORE Potential whistleblowers at Citigroup can now use a 24-hour Ethics Hotline to New York to report concerns. The hotline accepts collect calls from staff at offices in more than 100 countries. Callers can choose to stay anonymous or speak to multilingual operators, a report on Citigroup’s website
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    • 79 8 Bloomberg SYDNEY Former AMP chairman Stan Wallis won’t take up his A$ 1.6 million (551.69 million) retirement package. He retired on the day that Australia’s largest life insurer reported a record Asl.2 billion second-half loss. The decision was “based on the belief that it was inappropriate
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    • 349 10 Derivatives may spark global crisis, says world’s second-richest man NEW YORK The “Sage of Omaha” is set to paint the gloomiest picture yet of the world’s economy. Mr Warren Buffett feels that banks are sitting on financial time bombs which, if allowed to go off,
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    • 179 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Plans by Infosys Technologies, India’s No 2 software service exporter, to enter the booming China market have become stuck in bureaucratic red tape, the company’s chairman said yesterday. More than a year after Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji travelled to India and
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    • 391 10 AP NEW YORK Prosecutors say it was a masterpiece of greed: ImClone Systems founder Samuel Waksal (pictured) paid US$l5 million (5526.08 million) for nine works of art but wouldn’t spring for the US$l.2 million he owed in sales tax. Mr Waksal, who has already pleaded
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    • 540 11  -  Meet the inspiration behind Theresa Chew’s Expressions By Janice Wong FORMER beauty queen Ms Laurie Bachran, 74, makes heads turn even now. She exudes a refined air that get her second looks. And this without help from botox or plastic surgery. She is also living
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    • 432 12 STI: 1,268.96 10.24 Reuters SHARES closed weaker yesterday, driven.by technology and banking shares, but some late buying in DBS Group helped the key index to end off a 17-month low it hit intraday. The Straits Times Index was down 10.24 points, or 0.80 per cent,
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    • 24 12 *AS AT MARCH 4 US$: 551.734 552.748 EURO: 551.895 Ss: 67.76 YEN Ss: RM2.192 Ss: HK54.498 Ss: 24.58 BAHT Ss: 5,115 RUPIAH
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    • 399 13 AFTER YOUR ‘O’ LEVELS AND ‘A’ LEVELS, MOVE UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL. GET A DEGREE FROM SINGAPORE’S NO. 1 EDUCATION BRAND. Visit us at Career 2003 Suntec Singapore Hall 603, Booth No. 28 on 6 9 March 2003. The many degree courses offered at Informatics Group Centre for Open
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  • Comment
    • 648 14  -  By LEE HAN SHIH The Business Times A READER of Lianho Zaobao, the Chinese daily, asked an interesting question in a letter to the paper: If the Housing and Development Board is setting up a new company and creating 1,800 new jobs, is it
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    • 136 14 Save $lO,OOO on tuition fees Register for a Design or Business programme before March 10th and receive a Raffles LaSalle tuition subsidy for up to 10,000*. Call now or visit us at the Career 2003 exhibition at Suntec City (booth 801) to find out more. Hurry, places are limited. Fashion
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  • Vocal
    • 253 15 I THINK Mr Mohamad Maidin, in his letter, “Leadership quality, not cost, is priority” (Streats, March 4), missed the point of Mr Conrad Raj’s commentary, “Time to relook MPs, mayors?” (Streats, March 3). On the one hand, Mr Raj was probably
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    • 283 15 I WOULD like to point out some contradictions in Mr Mohamad Maidin’s letter. He says the 84 MPs represent the “best political leadership that Singapore can get”. There are many good men and women who simply refuse to be politicians. They may be among the best
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    • 134 15 I SHARE the views of Mr Mohamad Maidin, who cited leadership quality and not cost as the national priority. Mr Mohamad Maidin is right to say that good leadership is paramount especially in adverse situations. And with the current economic gloom where job losses
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    • 174 15 IT nauseates me to think how many lowlypaid people get axed for the sake of the bottom line when the civil service, government-linked companies (GLCs) and the private sector have employees whose remuneration costs seem to be overlooked when it comes to cutting
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    • 171 15 IN today’s recurrent news about retrenchments, the last thing on a worker’s mind is to worry about income if he succumbs to serious diseases like cancer. Many such workers, encouraged by unrelenting “advice” from insurance agents, have purchased policies for critical illness. I
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    • 82 15 have; your bm E-mail us at streats@$pVi.com.sg' or write to The Editor, Streats, News Centre, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Singapore *****4. You should include your name, address and contact number. We reserve the right to edit your letters for brevity and clarity. By your writing to us, it shall be
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    • 561 16 Wmmm 1 w m I 5 1 r II k k ft —k 'l. Ml 1: 'I "Singaporeans put an economic value to everything. They should change their mentality of having to keep up with the Joneses. Singaporeans also always feel that they are not earning enough money." "I think
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    • 576 17 The Feedback Unit was set up In 1985 as part of a more consultative government Our mission is to gather feedback and ideas from as broad a spectrum of Singaporeans as possible to help shape national policies and address issues of concern. We reach out through a wide range of
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  • Medical
    • 270 18 Computer users face serious occupational hazard: researchers Reuters FOZ DO IGUACU, Brazil The more you click your mouse, the greater your risk of pain, swelling, numbness and other problems in the hand, wrist, neck and shoulder, said two teams of Danish researchers
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    • 127 18 Reuters NEW YORK A daily multivitamin seems to ward off minor infections, such as a cold, in diabetics. A research team from Carolinas Medical Center, North Carolina, studied 130 people, about 30 per cent of whom had diabetes. Only 17 per cent of the
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    • 149 18 Does body-building make a person shorter? A Body-building stimulates the release of growth hormone from the brain (pituitary gland) and the sex hormone testosterone from the testicles. Both hormones stimulate muscular growth. Growth hormone also makes the bones grow longer, but testosterone causes earlier fusion of the ends
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    • 140 18 MASTER of business administration warded by LA TROBE UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA An MBA from La Trobe University, Australia offers you a wide range of management subjects, giving you the opportunity to tailor your MBA to your career needs. Available Specialist Streams: Finance E-Commerce Marketing Entrepreneurship Management Electronic Marketing Human Resource Management
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    • 131 18 Calling All W 'o' 'A' Level Holders! Your Pathway to a Recognised Degree! Register Ngwjor March 2003 Intake BACHELOR DEGREE SPECIAL STUDY GRANTS EASY INSTALMENT SCHEME DIPLOMA Society of Business Practitioners (UK) DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 8 months duration Flexible studies with tutorial support Modular structure for focused attention Assessments
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  • Global
    • 440 20 Ex-CIA man hails Khalid’s arrest AP NEW YORK Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reined in Islamic extremists among Pakistani intelligence officers with the arrest of Klialid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks. Former CIA director James Woolsey told reporters on Monday that the
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    • 379 20 Reuters JAISALMER, India Britain took away their kingdoms and New Delhi their state incomes. But for some of India’s god-king maharajas, the modem world can never take away their duty. Fifty-five years after India’s birth, its once omnipotent royals find themselves trapped in a time warp
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    • 114 20 JAKARTA Indonesian Armed Forces Commander Endriartono Sutarto is adamant that he should have independent power to deploy the military in case of emergency. “Do you think that we should await the president’s orders if a serious conflict erupts in a particular region?” he said last
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    • 108 20 Reuters BERLIN A German artist has applied for a licence to open a brothel in Berlin for sexually frustrated dogs and says it will be the first of its kind anywhere. Mr Karl-Friedrich Lenze, 54, said that he planned to charge dog owners 25 euros
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  • EasyStreats
    • 756 21  -  The National Heritage Board is looking to revolutionise the image of museums Leading the charge is CEO Lim Siam Kim [Yvonne Kwok IT may be an instinctive urge for most People to dodge responsibility. But not Mr Lim Siam Kim, the CEO of the National Heritage Board
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    • Article, Illustration
      598 22 Disney On Ice might not he the success it is if Jerry Bilik, new to the company, had not risked his job to speak up against its initial plan way back in 1979, GARYLIM reports THAT the Disney On Ice show is still going strong after more than
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    • 106 23 TROPICAL Cyclone Japhent hit southern fak Mozambique this week, injuring several people, state radio reported. Three people were hit by a falling tree and boats were destroyed in the harbour in Inhambane city. Winds are said to have reached 130kmh in this second cyclone to hit
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 53 23 10pm, Channel i Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a courier who has given up brainspace which stores his childhood memories in order to load vital data straight into his brain for storage and safe transport. He wants to pull one last job before he retires and it’s his most
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      • 50 23 10pm, Central Eliane Devries (Catherine Deneuve) is a seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in 1930 French Indochina. But her steely exterior is just a mask that hides her torrid love affairs. Things unravel when her adopted Indo-Chinese daughter innocently falls in loye with Eliane’s secret lover.
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    • Happenin’
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        45 23 IMAGINING SCIENCE Till March 16, llam-7.30pm Artfolio Space, Raffles Hotel Free Ng Joon Kiat’s first solo exhibition features his MA art research and his application of interdisciplinary approaches. His work also deals with maintaining his identity as a Singaporean while living in the UK.
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      • 56 23 IS A SAFE AND STABLE SINGAPORE STILL POSSIBLE IN A CHANGED WORLD? Tonight, 7pm-Bpm, Register online at http://www.sif.org.sg/os Chat online and in real time with Associate Professor Ho Peng Kee, Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs. You will also be able to exchange your views with
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    • 233 22 Certificate In Pre-School Teaching (CPT) Approved By: Ministry of Community Development Sports and Ministry of Education Next Intake Commencing in Hav. J ie.i>e register by 3? March 2003 Why CPT? WeH, simply because CPT is a professional course recognised by MCDS and MOE that: Provides candidates with an understanding of
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    • 474 23 If you wish to have your event highlighted in Happenin’, e-mail Streats at streats@sph.com.sg or fax 6319-8191 Start Run Your Own Food Business Incorporating US F&B Mgmt seminar Q^3ESS33SSS3 Register Now! Call 6224 5225 AMERICAN HOTEL LODGING ASSOCIATION HĔmbark On Your Journey To Your Little One's Genius Here! (Workshop For
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 435 23 Yburdailyhoroscope jp aquarius wicis aries JAN2O-FEB 18 FEB 19-MAR2O MAR2I -APR 19 Aquarius wants the real thing or nothing at all, thank you. Happy expectations are borne out over the next few days. The microphone is on, waiting to capture every precious word. The unattached should count their blessings. The
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  • SPECIAL Career 2003 Produced by the Special Projects Unit • Marketing Division • SPH
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      804 24 What can you expect to get out of an MBA? CHAN SEET FUN finds out. (r| Postgraduate Pavilion at Career 2003 will showcase courses from 27 JL universities in Australia, Canada, Hongkong, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. Not surprisingly, many of the universities represented
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    • 427 27 m a RI HU m ■HH H ■BBBI m hu Enter a new phase of learning. With MIS. POSTGRADUATE DEGREE Curtin IT" Curtin University of Technology Western Australia Master of Accounting (for non-accounting graduates) Master of Business International Marketing Strategic Marketing Next Intake: End July 2003 Northumbria University United Kingdom
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  • Sports
    • 540 28  -  By GODFREY ROBERT THE die has been cast. The writing is on the wall. Even if Manchester United beats Leeds tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) and pockets three points, its hopes of clinching the Premiership will be as small as the space between
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    • 353 28 AFP LONDON Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, reportedly fighting to save his job, has ordered his players to be back home by 9pm from David Beckham’s party for son Brooklyn. Ferguson has come down hard on his Manchester United stars after Sunday’s League Cup Final defeat
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    • Article, Illustration
      378 29  -  Newcomers steal the show in Singapore’s comfortable win By Tan Kim Han Mikasa Challenge Cup Singapore 4 Maldives 1 ARISE Young Lions. Yesterday, you showed enough bite to help Singapore win its first international, against the Maldives, at the refurbished Jalan Besar Stadium. Though far from the finished
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    • 236 29 BASKETBALL AFP LOS ANGELES The reason Kobe Bryant’s Laker team-mates and coaches enjoyed his Jordanesque-like streak so much isn’t just the scoring. They have seen the learning. “I have a clear focus,” said Bryant. “Coach Phil Jackson gave me simple instructions. He wants me to put the
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    • 90 29 SOCCER Reuters BIRMINGHAM Birmingham City took a huge step towards Premier League survival when it beat Aston Villa 2-0 at Villa Park in a game that saw its city rival reduced to nine men on Monday. Villa striker Dion Dublin was sent off for butting Birmingham’s Robbie Savage
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    • 501 30 Reuters MELBOURNE Mika Hakkinen’s long and happy days in retirement are as much a measure of Michael Schumacher’s (below) continuing success as any of the Ferrari world champion’s own numerous records. The Finn, who left McLaren in 2001 to spend more time with his family
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    • 602 31 Ice-hockey star Fedorov confirms brief marriage to Koumikova Reuters TORONTO Detroit Red Wings centre Sergei Fedorov has admitted he and tennis Player Anna Koumikova were married but are now divorced and no longer talk. The 3 3-year-old, rated as one °f the top players in the NHL,
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 37 29 IN THE LIVING ROOM GENERAL: Sports News: Sportscenter Asia (ESPN Ch 23, Bpm). SOCCER: EPL: Manchester United v Leeds United (ESPN Ch 23, tomorrow, 3.55 am). DELAYED TELECAST: SOCCER: European Soccer Show (Super Sports Ch 22, 9pm).
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