Streats, 7 January 2004
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Title Section11 2004-01-07 3 Streats WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2004 E-mail: streats @spti.com.sg mita <p> 111/03/200311 words
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Article668 2004-01-07 3 [Chug Kong Ho - S pore salespeople give product knowledge low priority: poll ?y_ [Chug Kong Ho WE now have a better idea w hy many sales staff in Singapore know so little about the products they sell. They don’t think such knowledge is important. A study668 words
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Article, Illustration302 2004-01-07 3 Khushwant Singh - B y Khushwant Singh NON-CONSTITUENCY MP Steve Chia can heave a big sigh of relief. He has been cleared of outraging the modesty of his Indonesian maid. Police said yesterday: “After careful consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, and in consultation with the302 words
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Advertisement45 2004-01-07 3 SICO committee tells members they're powerless to change its decision to make them collectively pay millions to extend the club's land lease, reports CONRAD RAJ PAGE 6 WHAT A LOAD OF CROC YVONNE KWOK can’t believe the explanations given by celebrities for their shocking behaviour45 words
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Article395 2004-01-07 4 Chua Kong Ho - More job openings likely lower down the chain By Chua Kong Ho DEMAND for top-level managers such as CEOs and general managers reached a three-year high last month, a possible prelude to more jobs being created down the line this year, said a human resource consultant.395 words
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Article, Illustration260 2004-01-07 4 AFP BEIJING China’s campaign to slaughter civet cats has sparked concern among officials of the World Health Organisation who believe that the cull could in fact lead to the spread of Sars. They warned that if not carried out properly, it could exposeAFP - 260 words
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Article, Illustration527 2004-01-07 5 Khushwant Singh - Ex-TV presenter Shankar to appeal against conviction, sentence Khushwant Singh district judge Victor Yeo yesterday imposed the first sentence of four months in jail against Vidya Shankar Aiyar, 37, for undressing a drunken woman in his flat, he stood straight and expressionless in the dock.Berlta Harlan - 527 words
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230 2004-01-07 5 Janice Wong - By. Janice Wong THE Singaporean president-director of brokerage company DBS Vickers Securities Indonesia, Mr Peter Soh, 45, fell to his death from his 32nd-floor flat on Monday night. The tragedy is reported to have happened around 11pm at the Puri Casablanca apartment complex230 words
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Article522 2004-01-07 6 Conrad Raj - Members have no power over decision to make them pay for lease top-up Conrad Raj MEMBERS of the prestigious Singapore Island Country Club do not have the power to overturn a decision by the club’s general committee to make them pay part of a charge for522 words
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Article, Illustration237 2004-01-07 6 Sharlene Tan - By_ Sharlene Tan CAN you stand being in the confined space of a cable-car suspended high in the air for seven days straight? If you don’t suffer from claustrophobia fear of confined spaces or acrophobia fear of heights then Singapore Cable Car’s “Surviving the Sky”Edwin Koo - 237 words
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116 2004-01-07 8 BUZZSTOP Reuters SINGAPORE’S manufacturing activity expanded at its fastest rate in 36 months last month, boosted by strong demand for electronics products. The December Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose 1.3 points to 54.5 from November, holding above the key 50 thresholdReuters - 116 words
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Article, Illustration67 2004-01-07 8 A visitor to the US has his finger scanned at JFK airport in New York yesterday. This follows a move by the US authorities to take finger scans and photographs of people entering the US for the purpose of checking the data against terrorist watchlists. US citizens,AFP - 67 words
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Article136 2004-01-07 8 Push to improve language skills LIANHE Zaobao launches today two pages for its teenage readers in zbNOW, the paper’s lifestyle section. The “Popcorn” pages, in the centrespread, are part of the section’s repackaged Wednesday edition and will feature items of interest to teenagers including song136 words
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Article123 2004-01-07 8 Hunt for gunmen Wire services PATTANI, Thailand Heavily armed soldiers and police fanned out across Thailand’s mainly Muslim south yesterday as the government sought neighbouring Malaysia’s help to stamp out a surge in violence. Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai flew to Kuala Lumpur for talks with hisWire services - 123 words
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Article144 2004-01-07 8 Note to butler Reuters BRITAIN yesterday announced a top-level police investigation into the death of Princess Diana, just as a tabloid named Prince Charles as the person she suspected of plotting to kill her. More than six years after the princess died in a car crashReuters - 144 words
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PARLIAMENT
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Article99 2004-01-07 8 PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill to amend the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota). The changes allow doctors to remove the liver, heart and cornea for transplant. These organs can be taken from anyone who is brain dead unless they have opted out or are Muslims who have not99 words
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Article92 2004-01-07 8 DR LIM Suet Wun, who battled Sars as CEO of Tan Tock Seng Hospital, was 24 when he went blind in one eye from keratoconus. “Going blind was scarier than handling Sars. At least with Sars I could work with a team. When I went blind, I92 words
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Article91 2004-01-07 8 SINGAPORE may abolish its controversial law banning oral sex between men and women in view of changing social norms. Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee told Parliament yesterday that the law was being reviewed and would be revised in two to three91 words
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Article82 2004-01-07 8 -AP MALAYSIAN Defence Minister Najib Razak will today be named as Malaysia’s new deputy leader, government officials told The Associated Press, ending months of speculation. Datuk Seri Najib’s appointment as deputy to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is expected to be announced after the Cabinet’s weekly-AP - 82 words
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Financial
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Article460 2004-01-07 10 CkuaKongHo - S’poreans look at fees to fond managers, distributors when shopping for funds By CkuaKongHo FEES paid to fund managers and distributors figure prominently on the list of concerns affecting Singaporeans’ investment choices, a Central Provident Fund Board-commissioned survey has found. According to the survey, which polled 2,443460 words
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Article, Illustration365 2004-01-07 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Temasek Holdings is planning to cut its 67 per cent stake in Sing Tel. In a statement on behalf of Temasek, Merrill Lynch confirmed yesterday that the investment company is proposing a transaction “involving the offering of securities relating to ordinary shares inReuters - 365 words
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Article74 2004-01-07 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, the world’s fourth-largest contract chip maker, yesterday said that it would step up production of smart cards due to an increase in orders from a Chinese customer. Chip design firm Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Co Ltd, which develops semiconductors for the telecoms,Reuters - 74 words
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Article93 2004-01-07 10 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government will decide in due course whether to extend a 50 per cent rebate on excise duty for its national car makers, due to expire at the end of this year, Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz said yesterday. “We will make■ Reuters - 93 words
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Article117 2004-01-07 10 Reuters SINGAPORE China’s move yesterday to use US$45 billion (5576.5 billion) of its war chest of foreign exchange reserves to bail out two big state banks probably involved a direct transfer of assets and shrewdly avoided any currency exchanges, analysts said. China released few details of the– Reuters - 117 words
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Article63 2004-01-07 10 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Mr Roger Tan Kim Hock will step down as chief executive of Hong Leong Credit Bhd, which controls Malaysia’s sixth-largest bank, on Feb 9, the company said in a statement after the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange closed yesterday. Mr Tan, 56, will stay– Bloomberg - 63 words
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178 2004-01-07 12 Reuters KUALA LUMPUR Oil giant BP pic is pulling out of the petrol station business in Singapore and Malaysia, saying yesterday that it will sell 270 retail outlets in the two countries. One potential buyer is Singapore Petroleum Co (SPC), the smallest– Reuters - 178 words
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Article, Illustration459 2004-01-07 12 Enron: Went bankrupt, jobs lost Parmalat: Govt intervenes to save jobs -AFP PARIS The scandals surrounding Italian food giant Parmalat and US energy company Enron are alike in many ways. But their main difference boils down to opposing cultures in Europe and the US for handling-AFP; Rewtere - 459 words
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Article24 2004-01-07 12 *AS AT JANUARY 6 US$: 551.700 Ss: RM2.236 553.081 Ss: HK54.567 EURO: 552.161 Ss: 23.06 BAHT Ss: 62.55 YEN Ss: 4,906 RUPIAH24 words
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Article, Illustration531 2004-01-07 14 Prices surge as beaches draw tourists Reuters SAMUI, Thailand With a wry smile, Mr Chavalit Srifah recounted how his coconut-farmer mother let a friend off a small debt, effectively turning down a multi-million dollar windfall for her family. A day’s walk from the nearest villageReuters - 531 words
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Article, Illustration636 2004-01-07 13 Juliet Richer - Management feature Brought to you by Informatics School of Postgraduate Studies Written by Juliet Richer There are few things that are versatile enough to ride the trends of economic booms and troughs. Education is one of them. times of sluggish ec636 words
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Article, Illustration844 2004-01-07 16 ROBIN GANGULY - By ROBIN GANGULY AS an Indian national, I have good reason to dislike Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. He was responsible as claimed by Indian and US intelligence services for sparking a small war in Kargil, Kashmir, in 1999 in which hundreds of Indian844 words
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Article, Illustration481 2004-01-07 18 I HOPE both men and women have drawn some lessons from the recent Shankar molestation trial. If anything, the court case should raise awareness of the need for women to keep themselves safe. Also, men who prey on unsuspecting women will know that481 words
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Article112 2004-01-07 18 CAN the relevant authority tell me whether travel agents are allowed to impose a mandatory charge to pay for tips for tour guides/drivers for overseas holiday'packages? During a trip to South Korea with my family in December, we had to pay US$3 (Sss) per person to112 words
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Article221 2004-01-07 18 THE arrivals and departures of SBS Transit feeder bus services to and from bus interchanges need to be fine-tuned. On many occasions, I have noticed these buses moving at a crawl because their drivers don’t want to arrive at the bus interchange too early and221 words
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103 2004-01-07 18 CURRENTLY, only senior citizens aged 60 and above enjoy concessionary rates on buses and the MRT. I have observed that the buses and trains often run quite empty during off-peak office hours. Nowadays, there are many people aged below 60 who have retired. The transport103 words
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Article101 2004-01-07 18 IT has been about one-and-a-half years since the old bus interchange in Ang Mo Kio was demolished, and still no reconstruction has started. Because of the temporary relocation of the interchange, the town centre is almost dead and business there is badly affected. With AMK being101 words
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Article96 2004-01-07 18 THERE is much talk about the welfare of foreign workers, especially maids, in Singapore. I know of maids who abuse the trust given to them by their employers even when they are treated well. So why are we spending so much time and energy crusading for96 words
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Global
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When words are weapons of mass distraction
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Article, Illustration69 2004-01-07 20 It’s called the Segway Human Transporter, but the Pentagon is drafting the two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops. Here, Mr Brett Browning, an assistant system scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, is puttingk - 69 words
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Article276 2004-01-07 20 AFP SEOUL North Korea offered yesterday to refrain from testing and producing nuclear weapons in a “bold concession” to the US aimed at ending the nuclear crisis. As two US delegations headed for Pyongyang for a tour billed to include a rare visit to NorthAFP - 276 words
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201 2004-01-07 20 -AFP LONDON Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday rejected British and US calls to renounce weapons of mass destruction and indicated that he would not abandon his country’s suspected chemical and biological programmes unless Israel gave up its undeclared nuclear arsenal. “We are a country which-AFP - 201 words
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Article174 2004-01-07 20 BASRA, Iraq British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s slip of the tongue during an unannounced visit to troops in southern Iraq on Monday was quickly seized upon by the British media for its aptness at a particularly bad time in his leadership. In a speech to174 words
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Article, Illustration335 2004-01-07 22 BMW in UK launches family car that can withstand violent attacks EDINBURGH It is surely a sign of the times when BMW launches a small family car capable of withstanding all but the most determined violent assault. At £60,000 (S$ 184,000) in the UK,335 words
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Advertisement285 2004-01-07 22 Cheer up the season with a ho ttle or two of dessert wine. Even if you can t tell a vintage from a varietal, you can now pick up the nuances of wine appreciation. Our wine expert John Chua will open up your senses to an exquisite encounter. A little285 words
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Article240 2004-01-07 24 LONDON Sperm counts have fallen by almost a third since 1989, with factors such as drinking and obesity possibly to blame, according to a British study released on Monday. Researchers tested nearly 16,000 samples taken from 7,500 men who visited Scotland’s Aberdeen Fertility Centre between 1989240 words
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Article138 2004-01-07 24 QAre cut apples that have turned brown still nutritional? A Browning results from the chemical reaction between the cut surface of fruit and the oxygen in the air. The loss in nutritional value of a cut fruit is mainly determined by the length of time it is exposed138 words
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EasyStreats
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Article, Illustration640 2004-01-07 26 TheatreWorks’ Writers’ Lab programme has finally produced a play good enough to open the company’s 2004 season. GREGORY LEOW reports THEATREWORKS is opening its 2004 season with a play developed solely under the Writers’ Lab process by an unknown playwright. This is not only aAshlelgh Sim - 640 words
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Article312 2004-01-07 26 SO why has it taken so long for a play developed solely in the Writers’ Lab programme to play a big part in TheatreWorks’ productions? TheatreWorks artistic director Ong Keng Sen explained that the Lab has gone through a lot of re-invention and stages. The initial312 words
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Article, Illustration359 2004-01-07 27 The second round of the Streats Wine Masterclasses begins next week. SUJIN THOMAS finds out more some n owledge about wines when y°u uncork that bottle of red Y w hite this Chinese New ear wight earn you some ITler it points with the in-laws. However,Edwin Hoo - 359 words
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Article, Illustration281 2004-01-07 27 Gary Lim - By Gary Lim wrinkles are definitely Wore conspicuous and his is frail he weighs e tween 45kg and 48kg. Dr Wee Kim Wee, the ormer president of Singapore, as also grown hard of hearing. Hut the mind of the 88y e ar-old former journalist is StlllFrancis Lee - 281 words
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Article, Illustration642 2004-01-07 28 YVONNE KWOK - Comment By YVONNE KWOK OF all the questions that popped into my mind while I was reading about the whole Britney Spears-gets-married-for-a-dnmken-lark saga, the biggest unanswered one was this. Why isn’t the groom, Jason Alexander (pictured below), milking the cash cow while it’s still shackled tob" - 642 words
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Article, Illustration111 2004-01-07 29 Tropical cyclone Heta swept past Samoa, in e South Pacific, on Sunday, with winds °f up to no kmh I trees and nn ging down power lne s, officials said. Australian r °adcasting Corp radio Said that one person was out to sea and was JPicAshleigh Sim - 111 words
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Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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Article, Illustration46 2004-01-07 29 10pm, Channel i leremy Dillon is an unrepentant serial killer scheduled fot execution. He miraculously survives the electric chair and wakes up with me mory of the murders he commited. nstead, he is able to predict the future, tarring Randy Quaid and Embeth Davidtz.46 words
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Article53 2004-01-07 29 HIGH LOW 10pm, Central Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is a wealthy, hardworking businessman whose son is a kidnap target. But it is his chauffeur’s son that has been abducted by mistake. He is now in a moral dilemma. Should he abandon his plans to pay the criminal or should he53 words
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Happenin'
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Article, Illustration72 2004-01-07 29 L R Today till Sunday, Bpm Play Den, The Arts House at the Old Parliament Tickets at $26 from The Arts House box office (call 6332-6900) The performance incorporates live musicians, performers, dancers, moving and still images and installations. It deals with our relationships and explores the tension, the72 words
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Article82 2004-01-07 29 BEIJING OPERATIC SPLENDOR Today till Sunday; performances at 7pm on weekdays, 2pm on Saturday and Sunday; workshops at lpm on weekdays and 7pm on Saturday and Sunday Chinatown Point; Free A troop from the Beijing Opera Academy and guest star Ghaffar Pouraza usher in the Year of82 words
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Page 29 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous477 2004-01-07 29 Yourdailyhoroscope J? AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB IB by Kelli Fox at Astrology.com JAN 20-FEB 18 Aquarius has an appetite for SU tle ty- Your choices reflect a P a hent approach. Other people’s successes pave your way, while ueir failures give you time to ac k off or go into hiding.477 words
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Sports
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Article, Illustration607 2004-01-07 31 Lim Han Ming - Asian Games shot put gold medallist hired to train Singapore throwers By_ Lim Han Ming GOODBYE Guo Huaiyun, hello Ma Yongfeng (below). Ma, 39, the 1986 Asian Games shot P ut gold-medallist, has replaced Guo, 45, as Singapore’s coach for throws. The two-time Chinese national champion (1985 andFrancis Lee - 607 words
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Article, Illustration380 2004-01-07 31 -AFP LONDON PSV chairman Harry van Raaij has blasted Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson over his bid to sign the Dutch club’s 19-year-old Aijen Robben (above) who United see as the new Ryan Giggs. Raaij admits United have made a formal approach for the-AFP - 380 words
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Article, Illustration549 2004-01-07 32 TAN KIM HAN - Kewell controversy could be a sign of Liverpool’s growing desperation Soccer smarts By TAN KIM HAN HE was said to have admitted that he dived, then he denied it. Even if Harry Kewell (below) did dive, Liverpool’s under-fire manager Gerard Houllier wouldn’t have said a thing. TheReuters - 549 words
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Article453 2004-01-07 32 TODAY Manchester City v Charlton Athletic Head to head: Man City won 17, Charlton 20. Draws 11. Previous league meetings: Aug 17, 2003 Charlton 0 Man City 3; Dec 14, 2002 Charlton 2 Man City 2 Last 6 league matches: Man City LDLDLD; Charlton LLDDWW Team news: Man453 words
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Article, Illustration461 2004-01-07 33 GODFREY ROBERT - Tee-off with Godfrey By GODFREY ROBERT THey know all about victories and defeats. Of e ing a hero one minute and a villain the next. They are, after a H, former national a thletes. Following their retirement from Wternational sport, many have moved 0n to manage golf clubs.461 words
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Article148 2004-01-07 33 BASKETBALL Reuters PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson returned to the Philadelphia 76ers line-up, but Desmond Mason scored a season-high 24 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks past the Sixers 88-76 on Monday. Mason scored 17 of his points in the second quarter to give the Bucks a big lead. SixersReuters - 148 words
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