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Title Section10 2004-05-04 1 Streats TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com,sg mita <p> 196/03/200410 words
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Article482 2004-05-04 1 Khushwant Singh - More products being made based on ideas from the Republic, Taiwan By Khushwant Singh the Government’s effort to fast-track the Republic into the knowledge economy has taken a great leap forward. Patents by inventors here are now cited more often than those in the United482 words
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Advertisement57 2004-05-04 1 familiar lesson 'When I was younger, if a pupil was in trouble with their teacher, they were in trouble with their parents too. It is not always the case today, but it should be British PM Tony Blair PAGES 3 17 baghdad beckons S'pore companies continue to invest in war-torn57 words
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Morning Rush
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455 2004-05-04 2 Chita Kong Ho - Companies eager for share of s3ob reconstruction pie By Chita Kong Ho CIVILIAN contractors in Iraq have recently been targeted by ambushes, firefights and kidnappings. But many Singapore companies are still keen to work with US government contractors to rebuild Iraq’s water mains,455 words
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Article147 2004-05-04 2 BAGHDAD Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who is currently in US custody, is busy these days. He is writing a new novel in which he casts himself as the hero and US President George W Bush as a villain, reported London’s Sunday Express. News about147 words
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Article, Illustration418 2004-05-04 3 Blair tells British parents not to blindly take children’s side when they are punished by teachers London Parents must Play their part in stopping the unruly conduct in British classrooms that is said to be Pushing stressed-out teachers into quitting, Prime MinisterReuters - 418 words
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Article417 2004-05-04 4 Janice Wong - Rely on internal restructuring, Eng Hen tells firms By_ Janice Wong SHOULD another economic downturn occur, business owners should not expect the Government to help them through more CPF cuts because there is little room left for such reductions. Acting Minister for Manpower Ng417 words
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205 2004-05-04 4 Reuters BANGKOK Suspected Islamic militants in southern Thailand fired three rounds of M-79 rockets into a Thai security post near the Malaysian border, police in southern Yala province said yesterday. No one was injured in the Sunday night attack, but a– Reuters - 205 words
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Article509 2004-05-04 6 Conrad Raj - They claim resolutions on s23m club upgrade invalid By Conrad Raj THE long-standing disagreement among Tanglin Club members over a $23 million clubhouse upgrading work has come to a boil with some disgruntled members taking legal action against the general committee (GC) for allegedly breaking509 words
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Article187 2004-05-04 6 Reuters JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday warned that “tough decisions” lie ahead after his Likud Party rejected his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Speaking to Likud lawmakers, Mr Sharon said that he accepted the results of the party referendum, but hinted– Reuters - 187 words
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129 2004-05-04 8 BUZZSTOP THE more than 300 charities that the National Council of Social Service oversees will now have stricter controls, The Straits Times reports today. These will include new regulations on how charities raise and spend money. Also, within the129 words
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Article, Illustration79 2004-05-04 8 Edwin Koo - Text and picture by Edwin Koo A three-week old African lion cub peering from behind its mother’s hind legs at the Singapore Zoo yesterday. One of two male cubs born in the zoo on April 15, it will have a great gift for its mum this Sunday79 words
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Article144 2004-05-04 8 Priest says ‘life must go on’ JAILED Catholic priest Joachim Kang has decided not to appeal against his sentence, The Straits Times reports today. The former parish priest of the Church of St Teresa was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison on April 23 after144 words
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132 2004-05-04 8 Insurers weighing cost of two disasters CONSTRUCTION contractors -are expecting an increase in insurance premiums to follow two major incidents at sites last month. On April 20, four men died in a collapse during works on the Nicoll Highway. Two men were killed and132 words
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Article148 2004-05-04 8 SIAk new service Reuters SINGAPORE Airlines said yesterday that it will begin an 18-hour direct flight to New York on June 28, setting a new record for the world’s longest nonstop service. The new service will beat an existing record set by SIA on– Reuters - 148 words
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Article95 2004-05-04 8 -AP CHILE and New Zealand hope to complete a three-way free trade deal among their two countries and Singapore by next year, leaders said in Wellington, New Zealand, yesterday. Chile has recently negotiated free trade deals with the European Union, the United States and South-AP - 95 words
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Article87 2004-05-04 8 -AFP INDONESIAN police had not begun questioning terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir as of yesterday, three days after they re-arrested him as he stepped free from prison, a lawyer said. “They seem quite uninterested in questioning him,” said Mr Mahendradatta. “They do not need to question the-AFP - 87 words
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Article98 2004-05-04 8 Wire services A CAR bomb exploded at one of Pakistan’s biggest construction projects yesterday morning, killing three Chinese technicians and wounding 11 others. A military source said a parked white Suzuki exploded as a bus carrying several Chinese nationals passed by in the southern city of– Wire services - 98 words
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Article78 2004-05-04 8 Reuters A FAST-SPREADING computer worm similar to last year’s massive “Blaster” has struck thousands of PCs globally, a top computer security official said yesterday. Data security firm F-Secure said that the worm “Sasser”, which surfaced at the weekend, automatically spreads via the Internet to computers using– Reuters - 78 words
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Financial
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Article, Illustration434 2004-05-04 10 Choong Ckoon Yee - Stamford Tyres boss looks to expand overseas, but also pushes business in Singapore By Choong Ckoon Yee STAMFORD Tyres president and chief executive Wee Kok Wah (pictured) has been focusing on expanding the company’s business in the region and in China, but he hasn’t neglected434 words
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Article, Illustration512 2004-05-04 11 Janice Wong - Red Light Studios Clarence Edwin gets a thrill when he hears others discuss a commercial he produced i r«TliiVt/ Irepreneurs By Janice Wong MUSIC can be a sound business, even when the businessman doesn’t know how to read musical notes. In January, Mr Clarence Edwin started Red LightAshleigh Sim - 512 words
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Article27 2004-05-04 12 *AS AT MAY 3 STI: 1,839.23 2.80 US$: 551.700 EURO: 552.034 Ss: RM2.235 Ss: 23.50 BAHT 553.018 Ss: 64.72 YEN Ss: HK54.588 Ss: 5,166 RUPIAH27 words
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391 2004-05-04 12 HOTELIER Ong Beng Seng is said to be reviving a plan to merge the Hilton hotel and the Forum shopping centre to create an integrated mega hotel and retail complex. Such a plan, which some say will extend the Orchard Road buzz to the391 words
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Article172 2004-05-04 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Singapore Airlines, the world’s secondlargest carrier by market value, said its senior vice-president for cabin crew, Mr Sim Kay Wee, has tendered his resignation. SIA spokesman Rick Clements confirmed Mr Sim’s resignation when asked. Mr Sim, 55, couldn’t be reached for comment. Mr– Bloomberg - 172 words
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Article, Illustration285 2004-05-04 14 Firms which fail to bolster ship security face ports ban Bloomberg LONDON Shipping companies, led by AP Moeller-Maersk, the world’s largest container line, have less than two months to strengthen security on their vessels to meet United Nations anti-terrorism rules or risk a ban from. – Bloomberg - 285 words
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192 2004-05-04 14 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Mitsui OSK Lines and Neptune Orient Lines, two of Asia’s largest shipping companies, said yesterday that they have negotiated increased freight rates for carrying carry cargo on transpacific routes, which will help them to fulfill profit targets this year. “We have negotiated– Bloomberg - 192 words
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Article509 2004-05-04 15 Shareholders from as far as Australia fly into Omaha to mingle with billionaire and listen to his advice Bloomberg OMAHA As many as 19,500 people attended Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, last weekend to learn from chairman Warren Buffett, the world’s greatest investor.– Bloomberg - 509 words
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Comment
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Article, Illustration758 2004-05-04 16 CONRAD RAJ - By CONRAD RAJ IT appears that with the slightest hint the economy is on the mend, price hikes in every sector of the economy suddenly become inevitable. So when it was reported on Thursday that the SMRT Corporation was thinking of raising the price of758 words
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Article, Illustration213 2004-05-04 17 I READ with interest the recent reports and letters in Streats about the departure of Nan Chiau High’s principal, Mr Ng Lee Huat, after he hit a recalcitrant student with a softcover book. So emboldened have schoolkids become today that some of them213 words
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Article140 2004-05-04 17 MR Ng Lee Huat’s departure from Nan Chiau High is perhaps the result of him thinking our culture and society are very unforgiving. Since he regards the school as his “baby”, it is unthinkable that, being a caring parent himself, he would leave home and forsake the140 words
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Article113 2004-05-04 17 VISIT any of our neighbourhood schools, which form the majority of schools here. Witness the ghastly way students behave. I see them fighting in class and directing vulgarities at both teachers and classmates. Yes, some of the top schools may display better discipline, but let us113 words
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Article95 2004-05-04 17 I FEEL that the MOE is out of touch with what is happening in schools. If an MOE official visits schools and sits at the back of the class, all he or she will see are little angels raising their hands to answer questions. But put95 words
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Article78 2004-05-04 17 THE Ministry of Education should place more trust in its staff to know that sometimes, when disciplining a child, hitting does not necessarily mean hurting. By siding with the child, MOE has short-changed the student, who had lied to Mr Ng Lee Huat, by denying her a78 words
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Global
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Article, Illustration364 2004-05-04 18 Former Iraqi prisoner turns rebel fighter after alleged abuse by US soldiers -AP NAJAF, Iraq Dhia A 1 Shweiri has had several stints in Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein’s rule and once under Americans. But he says he prefers Saddam’s torture-AP; AP - 364 words
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Article, Illustration259 2004-05-04 20 Maluku police chief let violence flare, say lawmakers JAKARTA Some Indonesian lawmakers have suggested that a recent outbreak of violence in Maluku, the capital of Indonesia’s Ambon province, may have been indirectly orchestrated by the city’s police chief, according to news reports. Mr Permadi, a parliamentarianAFP - 259 words
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Article143 2004-05-04 20 TAIPEI Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian has promised that his May 20 inauguration speech will not ruffle any feathers, the Taipei Times reported yesterday. “Everyone is concerned about my inauguration speech. I, too, have been thinking about it day and night these days and even dream about it,”143 words
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Article157 2004-05-04 23 KUALA LUMPUR Some visitors to Malaysia may soon be required to produce a return flight ticket in a move to curb the abuse of social visit passes and a crime surge among foreign nationals. Visitors from affected countries will also be required to have sufficient157 words
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Article102 2004-05-04 23 Reuters BERLIN Men who drive BMWs have more sex than owners of any other cars, a magazine has found. The inaugural issue of Men’s Car published the results of a survey of 2,253 motorists showing that male BMW drivers have sex on average 2.2 times– Reuters - 102 words
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Medical
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Article282 2004-05-04 25 WASHINGTON New tests that measure water, oxygen and other breast tissue properties could be more effective than mammograms in diagnosing breast cancer, scientists said yesterday. Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School used electromagnetic waves to gauge how normal breast tissue absorbed or scattered light. By first282 words
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EasyStreats
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Article, Illustration527 2004-05-04 27 This man has created a regular space and time to screen the works of amateur, aspiring film-makers in Singapore. SHARLENE TAN reports W 1 K# ts fO, I k ZHANG Wenjie wants to create a community for local film-makers and he’s hoping that First Takes, The Substation’sFrancis Lee | - 527 words
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Article, Illustration81 2004-05-04 27 BRITISH war veterans and historians are worrying about the new Tom Cruise movie The Few, in which he plays American racing driver and World War II pilot Billy Fiske. Rumour has it that Fiske is going to be portrayed as practically winning The Battle of Britain,81 words
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Article, Illustration86 2004-05-04 27 ACTOR John C Reilly has reportedly quit Lars Von Trier’s Manderlay in protest over the killing of a donkey, reported The Guardian last week. According to Entertainment Weekly reports, the American actor walked off the set in Sweden last month and has since been replaced by Slovenian86 words
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Article, Illustration102 2004-05-04 27 THE reported earnings of Taiwanese artistes is always a hot topic in Taiwan during posttax filing period, and topping the list this year is 42-year-old show host cum singer, Jacky Wu, who had an income exceeding NT$l billion (5552.63 million) last year, reported Lianhe102 words
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Article, Illustration455 2004-05-04 28 Give Mum a treat for Mother’s Day this Sunday. We highlight some dining specials on offer slafood spread TREAT Mum to Trader’s Hotel Chiak Boey Leow afternoon tea this Sunday from noon to spm, at $25 per adult. The spread of local and international favourites includes455 words
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207 2004-05-04 30 -AFP TROLLHAETTAN, Sweden Trollhaettan in south-west Sweden, once the cradle of Swedish heavy industry, churning out locomotives and diesel engines before going into decline, has transformed itself into Trollywood. Today, it plays host to the likes of Nicole Kidman, Catherine Deneuve and Danish-AFP - 207 words
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Article, Illustration504 2004-05-04 30 Stephen “The Mummy” Sommers, writer and director of monster movie Van Helsing, found his hero in a sfemost unusual place: On a London stage, singing Oh, What A Beautiful Momin’. Australian actor Hugh Jackman, who plays a Dutch vampire slayer and occult expert in Sommers’ US$l5O504 words
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Article, Illustration109 2004-05-04 31 Pagers obsolete? Not for the folks in tornado-prone Oklahoma. The US National Weather Service is using pagers to relay storm warnings to the state’s hearing-impaired residents, reports www.ffeep.com. So when weather sirens or radio alerts are sounded, pagers flash a warning deaf people can see. InPicAshleigh Sim - 109 words
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Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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Article, Illustration60 2004-05-04 31 Bpm, Channel U Debut of Channel U’s new drama series. Yigong’s eldest son Youxi and daughter-in-law Chunmei are planning a birthday feast for him, so they collect $3OO from each of their relatives. While trying to save money, Chunmei ends up reserving two tables worth $l,OOO for60 words
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Article53 2004-05-04 31 lOpm, Channel i A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska and gets all the children to murder every adult there. A young couple, who have a murder to report, unfortunately end up in the same town. Cult horror film starring Peter Horton53 words
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Happenin'
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Article, Illustration61 2004-05-04 31 PRELUDE TO A KISS Thursday till Sunday, Bpm (3pm weekend matinees) Victoria Theatre Tickets from $25 to $45 at Ticket Charge Peter and Rita fall in love and get married after a whirlwind romance. But during the honeymoon, Peter’s love for Rita is challenged when he discovers that her61 words
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Article58 2004-05-04 31 AN EVENING WITH ALVARO SANCHEZ Tomorrow and Thursday, 7-30 pm Victoria Concert Hall Tickets from $3O to $9O at Sistic Guitar virtuoso Alvaro Sanchez has been a frequent visitor to Singapore since 1992. He is back for another concert because “it is in Singapore that I have found the58 words
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Advertisement34 2004-05-04 27 First Takes is on tonight at Bpm. Admission is free. For more information, contact 6377-7565. First Takes is presented as part of The Substation’s Moving Images programme, and supported by the Singapore Film Commission.34 words
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Miscellaneous506 2004-05-04 31 by Kelli Fox at Astrohgy.com jp AQUARIUS JAN2O-FEB 18 PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 Somewhere between the time you get up and the moment you get ready for lunch, an unexpectedly emotional scene may occur. How are you going to handle it? With your usual tact, diplomacy and objectivity, of course.506 words
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Sports
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Article, Illustration453 2004-05-04 32 TAN KIM HAN - Elder brother aims to emulate the younger one and be an international S-League savvy^^ By TAN KIM HAN HE scored his only S-League goal against Tampines Rovers last season. Naturally, Woodlands Wellington defender Azmi Mahamud (left) remembers it well. He said: “I scored with a header from aI till Him Han - 453 words
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Article94 2004-05-04 32 P W D L F APts Woodlands Wellington 8 7 0 ***** 21 Tampines Rovers 8 4 2 2 27 13 14 Home United 8 4 2 2 20 13 14 Albirex Niigata(S) 8 4 2 2 15 9 14 Geylang United 8 4 2 2 13 13 1494 words
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Article55 2004-05-04 32 BALESTIER V ALBIREX IX2 Balestier 4.85 Draw 4.30 Aibirex 1.45 1/2 GOAL Balestier (+ll/2 goals) 1.67 Albirex (-1 1/2 goals) 2.00 TOTAL GOALS 0 goal 12.00 1 goal 7.70 2 goals 4.70 3 goals 4.30 4 goals 4.50 5 goals 5.70 6 goals 8.60 7 goals 16.00 855 words
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Article399 2004-05-04 32 TONIGHT. Balestier Khalsa v Albirex Niigata(S) (Toa Payoh Stadium) Last season: NA Last three league games (most recent first): Balestier lost to Home 2-3 (away) lost to Tampines 1-4 (home) lost to Geylang 0-1 (away) Albirex beat Tampines 1-0 (H) lost to Young Lions 0-1 (A) drew with399 words
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Article, Illustration453 2004-05-04 34 Porto hope Brazilian striker will be in form against favourites Deportivo -AFP CHAMPIONS LEAGUE S-FINAL (2nd leg) Deportivo La Coruna v FC Porto (First leg 0-0) LA CORUNA, Spain Most bookmakers have made hosts Deportivo La Coruna the favourites for this season’s Champions League, but Porto believe-AFP; AP - 453 words
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233 2004-05-04 34 -AP MADRID Valencia went four points clear at the top of the table after victory over Real Betis on Sunday. Valencia won 2-0 thanks to goals from Curro Torres (36th minute) and Ruben Baraja (49th), and coach Rafa Benitez said afterwards: “I believe-AP - 233 words
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Article198 2004-05-04 35 Reuters NEW YORK Tim Duncan scored 30 points, 12 of them in the fourth quarter, as champions San Antonio Spurs opened the second round of the NBA play-offs with an 88-78 win over Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday. Spurs went on a 10-0 run and did– Reuters - 198 words
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Article, Illustration162 2004-05-04 35 -AP STOCKBRIDGE, Georgia Jennifer Rosales (right) shot a 7-under-par 65 for her first LPGA Tour victory on Sunday, overcoming Annika Sorenstam, Grace Park and other leading players to win the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship. Rosales, a 25-year-old Filipina, began the day four strokes behind 18-year-old Aree Song,-AP - 162 words
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Article, Illustration428 2004-05-04 35 LONDON Leeds will almost certainly play in the First Division next season following their 1-4 loss to Bolton Wanderers on Sunday. No doubt, there will be plenty of finger pointing. But who really are to blame for the club’s relegation from the Premiership? British tabloid The Sun428 words
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