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Title Section10 2004-08-04 1 Streats JjjgDNESPAY, AUGUST 4, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg #mita <p) 196/03/200410 words
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Article509 2004-08-04 1 Contracts awarded niay be renegotiated if they adversely affect state, says PM Abdullah KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi may review some contracts awarded to companies under a Privatisation drive during former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s tenure. Datuk Seri Abdullah, who took power509 words
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Article, Illustration513 2004-08-04 1 Janice Wong - By Janice Wong EMINENT eye surgeon Arthur Lim believes the way for Singapore to compete as a centre of eye care is to go into sub-specialties where others will take a long time to catch up. Prof Lim, who practises at Gleneagles Hospital, applauds513 words
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Article, Illustration402 2004-08-04 2 Christopher Lim - Outlook is brighter but workers still need new skills and attitudes: DPM Lee By_ Christopher Lim SINGAPORE is beginning to harvest the first fruits of restructuring as more workers have been retrained for new jobs in industries they have not worked in before. But the restructuringST - 402 words
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Article, Illustration213 2004-08-04 3 LONDON Eminent cancer specialist David Lane’s plan to leave Scotland’s Dundee University to continue his research in Singapore reportedly has sparked fears of a brain drain from Scotland. “It is a real blow to Dundee and for Scotland to lose somebody like213 words
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306 2004-08-04 3 S’porean student in Sydney court over twin killings SYDNEY Singaporean student Ram Puneet Tiwary, accused of bludgeoning to death his two flatmates in Sydney, is now facing 11 new charges, including possession of child pornography. Tiwary, 25, appeared in the Central Local Court briefly306 words
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Article, Illustration359 2004-08-04 4 Girl had set up lemonade stand to raise money for cancer research Stoats PIy B M 1 i 8 1 inj f rj j i «1 j I -AP PHILADELPHIA A young cancer patient who started a lemonade stand to raise money for cancer-AP - 359 words
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Article187 2004-08-04 4 -AFP BEIJING China may delay talks with Singapore over a free trade deal following a visit to Taiwan by Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, state media reported yesterday. A Commerce Ministry official was quoted as saying in the China Daily that trade ties-AFP - 187 words
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Article458 2004-08-04 6 Khushwant Singh - Welder at Nicoll Highway site didn’t have valid pass By Khushwant Singh WELDER Yeo Choo Long, 53, clearly looked overawed yesterday when he took the witness stand at the inquiry into the Nicoll Highway collapse. Speaking haltingly in Mandarin through an interpreter, Mr Yeo, who was458 words
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132 2004-08-04 8 BUZZSTOP LABOUR chief Lim Boon Heng yesterday praised the “realistic” expectations of employees here in accepting wage and other adjustments which have helped revive the economy, The Straits Times reports today. He was speaking at a National Day observance ceremony132 words
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Article160 2004-08-04 8 Sias head’s defamation suit THE lawyers for Nat Steel and 98 Holdings director David Ban yesterday refused to present further evidence in a case accusing him of defamation. Saying that Mr David Gerald had not proven a case, defence counsel Davinder Singh told the160 words
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Article154 2004-08-04 8 Global religious meeting in M’sia -AFP MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yesterday urged religious leaders to preach moderation and resist extremists who, he said, were seeking to hijack religion to promote hatred and violence. He told an international meeting of religious leaders in Malaysia that-AFP - 154 words
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Article, Illustration50 2004-08-04 8 Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft bound for the planet Mercury was launched from the Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, yesterday. Messenger is expected to approach the planet in 2008. It will make three passes of the planet before entering orbit around it in 2011 ReutersReuters - 50 words
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Article144 2004-08-04 8 DR Tan Eng Khiam, 51, has been appointed as chief executive officer of the Nanyang Institute of Management. He was formerly with HDB, GIC and Sing Health, The Straits Times reports today. The school’s former CEO, Liu Shuang Liang, 35, was charged last month with144 words
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Article95 2004-08-04 8 THE Oriental Singapore will close in mid-August for about seven months to facilitate a multi-million-dollar makeover of its public areas, rooms, suites, dining and meeting facilities, The Straits Times reports today. During the shutdown, its 300-plus employees will be sent to the company’s other hotels in95 words
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Article85 2004-08-04 8 -AFP INDONESIA will build concrete pillars to mark its border with neighbouring countries. “The government will build concrete pillars in border areas. They won’t be able to be moved,” the state news agency quoted President Megawati Sukarnoputri as saying on Monday during a meeting with tour-AFP - 85 words
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Article82 2004-08-04 8 THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has suspended imports from a duck farm in Perak, Malaysia. The decision was taken after it found a suspected avian influenza infection in a consignment of healthy ducks imported from the farm on July 28. However, the AVA has assured82 words
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Article94 2004-08-04 8 -AP AUSTRALIAN expectant mothers who were due to undergo caesarean section births apparently postponed the procedure to ensure that they qualified for a state handout. A federal government “baby bonus” of A 53,000 (553,600) came into force on July 1 and a newspaper reported yesterday-AP - 94 words
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Financial
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379 2004-08-04 10 Chua Kong Ho - Mandatory offer hinges on enough acceptances to take stake past 50% by its close By Chua Kong Ho TEMASEK Holdings yesterday made a $2.8 billion cash bid to buy the remaining shares of Neptune Orient Lines that it does not already own at379 words
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Article, Illustration480 2004-08-04 10 Sarah Ng - By Sarah Ng SINGAPORE’S 80,000 workers in the 18,000 retail establishments here need to improve their skills to make it worth their while to stay in the job and make a career of it. They also need to be trained to provide better,ST - 480 words
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Article95 2004-08-04 10 Reuters LONDON US oil prices hit new record levels above US$44 a barrel yesterday after the head of the Opec producers’ cartel said that there was little the group could do to cool red-hot markets. US light crude rose 42 US cents to U 5544.24 a– Reuters - 95 words
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Article82 2004-08-04 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines Ltd (NOL) unit APL has formed a joint venture with Container Corporation of India Ltd (Concor) to set up a container freight station and container yard in India, APL’s second-biggest Asian market after China. APL, the container shipping arm of Singapore’s NOL,– Reuters - 82 words
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Article63 2004-08-04 10 -AFP SINGAPORE Passengers on Singapore Airlines will be able to check in for flights by sending a text message on their cellphones, the carrier announced yesterday. After checking in remotely, passengers need to pick up their boarding passes and check in their luggage on the day-AFP - 63 words
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Article109 2004-08-04 10 Bloomberg HONG KONG Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd, which operates one of Hong Kong’s two biggest supermarket chains and 7-Eleven stores, yesterday said that first-half profit almost doubled as sales rose. Net income rose to US$B5 million (*****.9 million) from US$44 million in the year-earlier period,– Bloomberg - 109 words
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Article310 2004-08-04 12 Alleged unauthorised use of funds is the year’s second scandal Reuters HONG KONG The Hong Kong unit of state-run Bank of China has suspended two senior executives for alleged unauthorised use of funds for personal use in the second scandal to hit the unit– Reuters - 310 words
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Article, Illustration231 2004-08-04 12 Bloomberg HONG KONG HSBC Holdings, Europe’s largest bank by market value, said it is waiting for the Indian government to make a final decision on foreign ownership limits in local banks before deciding whether to pare its stake in UTI Bank Ltd.– Bloomberg; AFP - 231 words
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Article154 2004-08-04 12 STI: 1,911.80 A 24.39 Reuters SHARES ended at a 3-1/2-year high yesterday, led by a near 10 per cent rise in shipping firm Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) and as fears receded over a possible A 1 Qaeda attack in the US. The Straits Times– Reuters - 154 words
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Article24 2004-08-04 12 ‘AS AT AUG 3 US$: 551.719 553.128 EURO: 552.066 Ss: 64.53 YEN Ss: RM2.211 Ss: HK54.538 Ss: 24.05 BAHT Ss: 5,337 RUPIAH24 words
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Article, Illustration504 2004-08-04 14 Local firms upset JWT can bypass them to get ad space -AFP HANOI Global advertising giant J Walter Thompson (JWT) is caught in the middle of a turf war in Vietnam between competing government factions, raising concerns about the communist nation’s investment climate.-AFP; AFP - 504 words
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Article279 2004-08-04 16 -AFP State-run groups, faced with fierce local competition, seek global clout MUMBAI India’s banking sector faces a consolidation wave to achieve global clout and contend with fierce local competition, with the merger of two high-profile lenders last week being just the start, analysts say. Competition-AFP - 279 words
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686 2004-08-04 18 JEROME P KASSIRER - Comment By JEROME P KASSIRER The Washington Post IN a society rife with conflicts of interest, disclosure of such conflicts is usually a good tonic. In finance, we can read the fine print and decide whether to invest or seek other advice. But in– The Washington Post - 686 words
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281 2004-08-04 20 I REFER to reports and letters about Nanyang Technological University’s and National University of Singapore’s bids for the Bukit Timah campus that appeared in Streats recently. As an alumnus of NUS who studied entirely at its Kent Ridge campus, I cannot claim to have the281 words
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106 2004-08-04 20 I AM a regular jogger in the Holland/Pandan Valley/Mount Sinai vicinity, which is a middle-and-upper-class area where there are many landed properties and more than a dozen private condominiums. It is a quiet neighbourhood with its many large colonial houses and high-rise apartments.106 words
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331 2004-08-04 22 IN his commentary, “S’pore Pools can learn from NKF” (Streats, Aug 2), Mr Chua Kong Ho stated that “Singapore Pools helps pay for the cost of running the Community Chest, which supports 223,600 people in need. It supports programmes such as the Festive331 words
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112 2004-08-04 22 IN his commentary, “S’pore Pools can learn from NKF” (Streats, Aug 2), Mr Chua Kong Ho named the SPCA as one of the organisations which receive financial support from Singapore Pools. For the record, the SPCA has received no donations from Singapore Pools since112 words
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Global
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391 2004-08-04 24 Mid-Eastern men seemed more in charge of plane than flight crew -AP WASHINGTON Even as Singapore’s blushes are still fading over a failure to spot a mock terrorist wandering around the central business district recently, another story has emerged in the US of-AP - 391 words
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Article158 2004-08-04 24 -AFP JAKARTA A hardline Indonesian Muslim boarding school founded by top terrorism suspect Abu Bakar Bashir plans a seminar on Islam and globalisation to show that the school'is tolerant and not bent on turning the country into an Islamic state, a report said yesterday. The-AFP - 158 words
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Article, Illustration48 2004-08-04 24 Hell on wheels well a hell of a noise at least is what Mr Andi Feldmann is experiencing while riding this motorcycle that he designed together with his brother, Roetger, in the northern German town Wietze-Jeversen. The machine is powered by 24 Dolmar chainsaw motors AFPAFP - 48 words
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169 2004-08-04 24 KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia is planning to provide laptops to students of public universities and selected private institutes of higher learning, Education Minister Shafie Mohd Salleh said on Monday. He said that there is a proposal to provide new students with laptops and have the169 words
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Article230 2004-08-04 24 BEIJING Ms Xiao Li, a 32-year-old nurse, still weeps when she recalls the first time her tour guide fiance beat her up. They were bickering over how to renovate a newly purchased flat in Beijing when the argument dissolved into shoves and punches in230 words
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254 2004-08-04 26 Reuters WASHINGTON People hoping vitamins can protect their hearts need to eat healthy foods instead of popping pills, the American Heart Association said on Monday. A review of various studies on whether supplements can reduce heart disease risk shows they have virtually no effect,– Reuters - 254 words
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160 2004-08-04 26 LONDON A nasal spray could soon offer hope to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) sufferers, BBC News Online reported yesterday. Research is still at the laboratory stage, but the team at King’s College, London, hope to start clinical trials within three years. The spray will contain a160 words
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Article, Illustration647 2004-08-04 28 Two NUS students spent eight months playing curators setting up Ng Eng Teng Gallery's latest exhibition on 60s local art, reports SHARIENE TAN THEY may not be students of art history but Wang Zineng and Seng Yu Jin have ploughed in time and effort to help set upNg Sor Luan - 647 words
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Article, Illustration359 2004-08-04 28 Yvonne Kwok - By Yvonne Kwok GET ready for a major Hollywood invasion led by none other than the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas. His company, Lucasfilm, which is responsible for five of the 20 biggest boxoffice successes of all time as well as some of the359 words
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Article, Illustration275 2004-08-04 30 Sharlene Tan - By Sharlene Tan MORE schools are placing greater emphasis on arts education, with an 80 per centincrease in the number of schools taking part in the National Arts Education (NAE) Awards. This year’s awards saw 31 schools applying compared to only 17 entries when it wasZaoßao - 275 words
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Article, Illustration516 2004-08-04 31 YVONNE KWOK - Take a toilet break during the commercials and you could be missing the best part of the night’s TV entertainment Broadside By YVONNE KWOK ALL of last week, I was repeatedly asked to “experience” Private Parts. No, we’re not talking about the kind of private parts you516 words
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Article, Illustration127 2004-08-04 32 Britain will take on a tropical feel, forecasters say, as sticky and muggy, weather is expected. Bookies William Hill are offering odds of 4-1 on the temperature reaching or exceeding 38°C this year, and odds of 7-1 that a new record will be set before thePic Ng Sor Luan - 127 words
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Article, Illustration50 2004-08-04 32 Bpm, Channel U Xiaodong discovers that she is not pregnant and quarrels with Jiadong. Chunlian finds out that Xiaodong is upset by the quarrel and decides not to borrow money from her. When Jinguo invites Xialin over for a meal, she thinks that he has feelings for her.50 words
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Article45 2004-08-04 32 10pm, Central Set in Dublin of 1967, Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston) and her seven children are thrown into emotional turmoil and financial problems when her husband dies. She struggles to make ends meet and is forced to borrow money from a loan shark.45 words
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Happenin’
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Article, Illustration61 2004-08-04 32 THROW ME A LINE Tomorrow, Bpm Studio 33 (33, Kerbau Road) Tickets at $2O (call 6299-0013 or e-mail administrator @dramaplus. org) The Madhatters cook up off-the-cuff comedy with suggestions from the audience, in the manner of Whose Line Is It Anyway? Performances take place every first Thursday of the61 words
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Article70 2004-08-04 32 PASSION NITE 2004 Friday, 7pm Temasek Junior College auditorium (22, Bedok South Road). $lO entry An evening of dance and drama performances by Star, a group of youths who got together to stage the event to raise funds for the Epilepsy Care Group under the Citibank Youth For Causes70 words
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Miscellaneous486 2004-08-04 32 Your PISCES FEB 19-MAR 20 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 A cast of planetary characters in every sense of the word is out to convince you to speak your mind, regardless of the consequences. As if you’ve ever needed any help in that department! APR 20-MAY 20 You’re hibernating, and that’s486 words
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Sports
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Article, Illustration539 2004-08-04 33 Gary Lim - Less than a year into sailing, and Tok almost made it to Athens By Gary Lim TOK LEECHING (below) was all set to participate in her first major international sporting event Athens Olympics. After all, she and Toh Liying, 19, are the top 470 class women’s pair inNg Lor Suan - 539 words
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196 2004-08-04 33 -AFP JINAN, China A superb extra-time goal from Keiji Tamada saw Japan through to the Asian Cup final as the defending champion battled back from twice going a goal behind and a controversial red card to beat minnow Bahrain 4-3. Tamada’s second of the thrilling-AFP - 196 words
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166 2004-08-04 33 -AFP MADRID Real Madrid have made a 30-million euro (Ss62 million) offer for Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira, it was reported here yesterday. Agreement is “imminent” and a meeting between officials from both clubs will take place in the next 48 hours to finalise the-AFP - 166 words
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361 2004-08-04 34 Tan Kim Han - By Tan Kim Han HOME United’s Thai winger Sutee Suksomkit believes that his Asian Cup goal in the 1-4 loss to Japan last month was the best of his career so far. Sutee and his captain Choketawee Promrut, who plays for361 words
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Article, Illustration414 2004-08-04 34 Lim Han Ming - Three ITE students, fan club member to train at Man United soccer school By Lim Han Ming MASTURAH Kahad started playing football at the void deck of her Übi Aveune 1 flat when she was seven. Today, the 17-year-old commands the midfield in the Institute of TechnicalNg Sor Luan - 414 words
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Article, Illustration659 2004-08-04 35 Tee-off with Godfreyßobert P" THE saying “put your money IP where your mouth is” springs to mind when thinking about Mr Stephen Lee (above). The chairman of the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), when asked what can be done to improve Singapore golf, promptly659 words
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274 2004-08-04 35 Wire services RANCHO SANTA FE, California It was made-for-television golf during prime time, and with US$l.4 million (552.4 million) at stake, they weren’t playing for nothing. Tiger Woods and Hank Kuehne came from behind for a 2-and-l victory over John Daly and Phil Mickelson– Wire services - 274 words
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Article80 2004-08-04 35 Reuters NEW YORK Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko curled in an 88thminute free-kick as AC Milan rallied to beat Chelsea 3-2 in a Champions World Series match on Monday. First-half goals from Eidur Gudjohnsen (19th minute) and Didier Drogba (38th), making his first start for Chelsea, had given– Reuters - 80 words
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Article77 2004-08-04 35 THE Young Lions are collaborating with Central Singapore CDC to organise the Young Lions Free Kicks programme on Sundays for residents of the Central district. This weekly clinic is open to those aged seven to 15. It starts on Aug 15 and will continue till March next77 words
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Article61 2004-08-04 35 ATHLETICS Reuters RALEIGH, North Carolina American sprinter Calvin Harrison has been suspended for two years for a second doping violation and will be ineligible for the Athens Olympics, the US AntiDoping Agency said on Monday. The ruling could also cost the US its 2003 world 4x400m relay gold– Reuters - 61 words
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Miscellaneous28 2004-08-04 35 IN THE LIVING ROOM FOOTBALL: Champions World Series AS Roma v Liverpool (Ch 22, 7.55 am) TENNIS: Masters Series Cincinnati first round (7am); second round (11pm) Ch 2428 words
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