Streats, 13 August 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg MITA (P) 196/03/2004
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  • 839 1  -  PM makes leadership succession a top priority, pledges open and inclusive S’pore By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE’S third prime minister since independence was barely a few minutes into his tenure last night when he declared to his audience of 1,400 guests at the Istana and all those
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    • 614 1 Streats SHARE YOUR A PAPER ft FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p> 196/03/2004 PM makes leadership succession a top priority, pledges open and inclusive S’pore Lee begins next chapter By Conrad Raj SINGAPORE’S third prime minister since independence was barely a few minutes into his tenure last night
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  • Morning Rush
    • 680 2  -  New PM vows to continue consultative style of government By Sarah Ng THE night sky was clear and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons filled the balmy air at the Istana. The lights cast a warm golden glow on the Istana which was the backdrop for a historic
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    • 373 4 Most ofBo,ooo officers good: inspector-general KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police Bakri Omar (pictured) yesterday cautioned the public not to assume that all policemen were corrupt. In an interview with the New Straits Times published yesterday, he said that the majority of the 80,000
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    • 220 4 LONDON If your name is Ed, Matt or Mike, you stand a better chance with the opposite sex than if you’re called Paul, Sean or Roger. This is the finding of a study by linguists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who say the
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    • 288 6  -  False emergency calls up despite public education By Christopher Lim TOO many people are still dialling 995 for emergency ambulance service for non-life-threatening problems such as minor cuts and bruises, early labour pains and minor bums and scalds. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)
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    • 339 6  -  By- Lee Choo Kiong MS Cookies Wong, who came here from Hong Kong to study 10 years ago, was in despair when she failed her English language test time and again. But because she plodded on, she finally succeeded on her fifth try at the
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    • 120 8 BUZZSTOP DR VIVIAN Balakrishnan will take over from Mr Raymond Lim as the Senior Minister of State in charge of entrepreneurship with effect from today. This is in addition to his posts as Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and Senior Minister
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    • Article, Illustration
      43 8 Australian kayaker Draper Warwick making his way up a conveyer belt, which launches the kayak into the slalom course at the Hellinikon Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre in Athens on Wednesday. The opening ceremony of the Athens Olympic Games is today Reuters
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    • 150 8 Nicoll Highway collapse inquiry COST-SAVING may have played a part in the Nicoll Highway collapse, it emerged during the eighth day of the inquiry into the incident yesterday. The inquiry heard that the jet grout piles, concrete layers laid at the base of the works’ retaining
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    • 155 8 China offers insurance, free schooling Reuters RURAL families in China, where there is a traditional bias for boys, are being offered cash incentives to stop aborting baby girls and help correct the sex imbalance, the China Daily said yesterday. Under the Care for Girls
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    • 134 8 Bosses may be interviewed BOSSES may in future have to convince the Workforce Development Agency that the training they give workers is appropriate before they will be granted funding from the Skills Development Fund. The Straits Times reports today that bosses may be interviewed to
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    • 91 8 THE civil service will take on the responsibility of directing feedback and problems to the right government agency, The Straits Times reports today. Where the feedback applies to several ministries, the recipient civil servant has to contact all the relevant parties and come up with their concerted
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    • 93 8 -AFP US Assistant Commerce Secretary William Lash yesterday warned China it could face legal action at the World Trade Organisation if it fails to wipe out “epidemic levels” of product piracy. Mr Lash, who met with Chinese trade officials during a four-day visit, said lax
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    • 105 8 Reuters TAIWAN could withstand an attack from China for two weeks, military sources told the island’s China Times yesterday, in comments seen aimed at assuaging fears raised by a computer simulation showing that Taipei could be captured in six days. The paper quoted military sources
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    • 75 8 -AFP WASHINGTON should mind its own business and refrain from commenting on court rulings that acquitted four Indonesian security officials of atrocities in East Timor, leading ministers here said yesterday. Acting senior Security Minister Hari Sabamo lashed out at the US following criticism of human rights
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  • Financial
    • 437 10  -  Eight A-320s for S’pore-Qantas joint venture Chua Kong Ho QANTAS’ Singapore-based budget airline has signed lease agreements for eight single-aisle Airbus 320 s and will take delivery of the first aircraft at the end of October, a senior executive with the carrier
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    • 262 10 SYDNEY The Singapore Girl will next month spearhead Singapore Airlines’ first Australian television advertising campaign in two years. Instead of the sepia tones of previous commercials, she will now be more “contemporary looking” and appear in Sydney and various other locations around the
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    • 84 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE SembCorp Industries may buy back some of its shares to raise cash, chief executive Wong Kok Siew said yesterday. He also said that the group would consider a high takeover offer for any division. Yesterday, shares in SembCorp fell 5.7 per cent on concerns over its
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    • 81 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Neptune Orient Lines, the target of a takeover attempt by Temasek Holdings, has hired HSBC Holdings as an independent financial adviser on the offer. NOL shareholders were asked to “refrain from taking any action in relation to their shares which may be prejudicial to
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    • 81 10 AFP HANOI Around 500 company and government decision-makers, primarily from South-east Asia, will take part in a conference here next week aimed at promoting foreign investment in Vietnam, organisers said yesterday. The Aug 17-18 event in Hanoi is being sponsored by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings and conglomerate Keppel
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    • 77 10 SINGAPORE The Raffles International group yesterday opened its first Caribbean resort. The Raffles Resort Canouan Island, located in The Grenadines, 161 km west of Barbados, is set on 121 ha of a 485 ha estate surrounded by green hills, white beaches and the Caribbean Sea. The resort
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    • 321 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing yesterday said that Goldman Sachs Group had bought an option :to buy 214.8 million shares, which may help Chartered raise cash to pay back bond-holders. Goldman Sachs, the thirdbiggest securities firm by capital, will have the right to buy
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    • 243 12 Bloomberg KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Resources Corp and other investors will build a RM 1.17 billion (*****.6 million) toll highway in Kuala Lumpur as the government revives the project to ease congestion in the capital. The contract, awarded in 1995, is for an
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    • 111 14 AFP TAIPEI Taiwanese tycoon YC Wang may visit Chinese leaders and seek their support for his investment projects, including two hospitals and a thermal power plant, it was reported yesterday. Mr Wang, chairman of Formosa Plastics Group, flew to Beijing on Wednesday and may meet
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    • 334 14 AFP WAYNE, New Jersey Toys R Us, in a stunning statement on Wednesday, said it plans to split off the babies-related division and sell the main toys business. CNBC television ran the headline asking: Toys Were Us? In an “update” on the company’s
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    • 27 14 STI: 1,888.18 8.01 *AS AT AUGUST 12 US$: 551.712 553.136 EURO: 552.098 Ss: 64.63 YEN Ss: RM2.219 Ss: HK54.554 Ss: 24.25 BAHT Ss: 5,403 RUPIAH
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    • 308 16 Asset sales, reforms in energy and banking boost chances, says top official Bloomberg BUCHAREST Romania improved its chances of joining the European Union (EU) in three years after the government sold state assets, including refinery SNP Petrom, the European Commission’s top representative in the country has
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    • 391 18 Asian giants to triple market share as export quotas end next year -afp GENEVA China and India stand to at least triple their individual shares of the US clothing market after textile import quotas are abolished worldwide next year, a World Trade Organisation (WTO)
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    • 179 18 -afp NARAYAN GAN J, Bangladesh Floods that submerged up to two-thirds of Bangladesh have paralysed the garments industry, the country’s largest export earner, and left thousands of workers struggling for survival. While most of Bangladesh’s garment factories are in areas that were not flooded,
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  • Comment
    • 1085 20  -  By PHILIP LEE “LIPAT! Lipat!” said the Malaysian policeman, with consternation on his face. I had extended my hand out of my car window to hand him three crisp RMIO notes so that he would overlook what he said was a traffic offence I had
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  • Vocal
    • 164 22 RECENTLY, I took my colleagues from the United States to Chinatown to sample the wide variety of local food and the rich Chinese cultural experience. But it turned out to be a nightmare. We went to one of the retail shops along Pagoda Street that
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    • 326 22 I REFER to Mr Elston Soares’ commentary, “I feel left out in a right-handed world” (Streats, Aug 11). I am a left-hander and, thankfully, my parents never sought to change that. My own experience as a left-hander is quite different from Mr Soares’. I never
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    • 157 24 I READ with concern the commentary, “Who is our new PM? Er, dunno, don’t care” (Streats, Aug 12). I lament the apathy of our young people, who are concerned about studies, careers, materialistic pursuits and what matters to them most but have no interest in
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    • 160 24 I REFER to Ms Tay Lee Hwa’s letter, “Use Medisave for Lasik here” (Streats, Aug 6). The basic objective of the Medisave scheme is to ensure that Singaporeans have the financial means to meet their medical needs especially during old age. Hence, in
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    • 187 24 I THINK that shows like Singapore Idol are horrible. They pander to the worst of human nature by encouraging the masses to revel in the embarrassment of those who are foolish enough to enter the auditions. People love to laugh and cruelly make
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    • 228 22 HAVE Ymm SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.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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  • Global
    • 438 27 US hopes Sistani can turn city’s locals against Sadr Wire services BAGHDAD Iraq’s most influential Shi’ite cleric urged Shi’ite rebels led by cleric Moqtada A 1 Sadr and US forces fighting in Najaf to respect the holy city and its shrines, an aide
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    • 191 27 Reuters BEIJING The Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission has issued a “yellow alert” on electricity supply for the city, suggesting an expected power shortfall of 300,000 KW and requiring local businesses and government offices to take action, the China Daily said yesterday. The move to
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    • Article, Illustration
      44 27 Participants at a ‘cuddle party 1 in New York on Wednesday. It’s not about sex, but about snuggling up to perfect strangers in pyjamas. Everyone needs to be cuddled, especially in lonely New York, say creators Reid Mihalko and Marcia Baczynski Reuters
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    • 264 27 AFP NEW YORK A US border guard was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday for allegedly beating up a Chinese businesswoman, in a case that was taken up at the highest diplomatic level between Beijing and Washington. Robert Rhodes, who was charged
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    • 111 27 AFP MANILA The Philippine government will offer “vanity plates” to car-owners in a bid to generate 3.5 billion pesos (S$ 107.5 million) in additional revenues for cash-strapped state coffers, officials said yesterday. “It’s a good source of income for the government,” said assistant transport secretary Analy Lontoc, adding
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    • 216 30 Reuters HANOI Vietnam broadcast a nationwide warning yesterday about the recurrence of bird flu, saying that three people who died of respiratory illness have been identified as having been infected with the H 5 virus. The announcement, made by
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    • 278 30 Smoke from Indonesia continues to hit air quality AP KUALA LUMPUR Smoke from fires set to clear land in Indonesia has shrouded much of neighbouring Malaysia in haze, causing a marked drop in air quality, news reports and officials said yesterday. Visibility in
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  • Medical
    • 419 32 Reuters WASHINGTON Bosses who find that some workers just don’t seem to work hard enough may soon have a novel solution. In a recent study, US researchers, using a gene treatment to block a key brain compound, turned procrastinating monkeys into workaholics. Blocking cells from receiving
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    • 191 32 WHV BACK PAIN? Our backs are complex structures which are involved in virtually every move we make so it’s hardly surprising that back pain is so common. In fact, doctors see more patients for back I pain than any other ailment. For years, Edinburgh’s Sleep Sets have been satisfying the
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    • 517 34  -  Shopping for an air-conditioner? Look for the energy-saving label to keep your utilities bill down Sharlene Tan WITH rising electricity tariffs, keeping energy consumption down has become of concern to homeowners. But having gotten accustomed to cool air and lowered humidity in offices, classrooms and'
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  • EasyStreats
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      564 38 Be mesmerised by the soulful voice of Israeli singer Yasmin Levy at this year’s Womad, which is dominated by female acts, reports SHARLENE TAN SHE sings in an ancient language not many fully understand but her voice and music enchants those who listen. Israeli chanteuse Yasmin Levy,
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    • 125 38 MEDIACORP Radio DJ Sheikh Haikel has been fired over advice he gave on air about approaching a woman and asking her the colour of her underwear. The rapper-actor, who signed a one-year contract with the station in April this year, was co-hosting Perfect 10’s
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    • 85 38 HOLLYWOOD hunk Matt Damon, 33, turned real life hero after he revived a woman who had collapsed in the street from dehydration. The Bourne Identity star was jogging along a road in Los Angeles when he stumbled across a woman sprawled on the pavement, reported news.com.au. According
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        422 40 Coloured gems are all the rage, and it looks like they’re here to stay, saysALLYSON KLASS AS RECENTLY as a few years ago, jewellery with coloured stones like amethyst, topaz, citrine and peridot were considered semi-precious and, hence, not “serious” jewellery. Not anymore. These days, the
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    • Article, Illustration
      436 42  -  Stylish eating on a shoestring By JUDI LOW Looking to impress in the kitchen on a budget? These recipes for stylish, nutritious, yummy meals are easy to do and cost $lO or less for four servings BATTERED fish with tomato sauce is invariably a hit at family dinners,
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    • 370 44  -  By_ Zubaidah Nazeer HE is a professional voice coach, has been singing for 14 years and spent 12 years performing with a national choir and he is just 22 years old. Thanh is part of a new Australian quartet, North, whose members are all younger than
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    • 350 44  -  By Sharlene Tan HE’S “flown” across the English Channel in nothing more than a specially-designed suit and “wings”, and leapt off the 88-storey Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. So the 73-storey Swissotel The Stamford might not be too big a stretch for extreme athlete
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    • 107 45 The Japanese Olympics team have their own meteorologist with them in Athens, the Asahi Shimbun reported yesterday. Mr Masahiko Baba will provide forecasts covering temperatures, humidity and wind conditions, along with customised advice for each team participating in outdoor events. In Singapore, late morning showers in
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
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        34 45 9pm, Channel i Jessica is upset when she learns that Nick has been invited to the Playboy Mansion. Meanwhile, Nick takes Jessica golfing for the first time will she be able to cope?
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    • 532 46  -  Comment By PETER SIOW THE gate to the world’s greatest sporting competition opens today in the ancient city of Athens. For the next 17 days, the who’s who of the athletic world will bring their finely tuned efforts into focus in the 28th edition of the
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    • 357 46 Bloomberg ATHENS When the Olympics open here tonight with a ceremony full of fireworks and mythical images, the producers will be thinking of James Bond. Like the movie series, opening ceremonies feature a series of required elements wrapped in the latest fashions and
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    • 440 48  -  Mission impossible for S’pore, but hope springs eternal By LIM HAN MING STANDING on the winners’ podium and singing to the strains of Majulah Singapura. That is the dream 16 Singapore athletes hope will come true as the 28th Olympic Games gets underway in Athens today.
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    • 180 48 Reuters ATHENS China is hoping for 20 gold medals at the Olympics, and four or even five of them could come from the badminton arena. The Chinese captured four golds out of the five on offer at the Sydney Games, making up for modest showings
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    • 184 48 ■AFP ATHENS Flyweight Somjit Jongjohor faces a tough challenge after being named a gold medal prospect by Thailand. Somjit, a controversial winner over defending champion Jerome Thomas of France in last year’s world boxing championship finals in Bangkok, is not considered aggressive enough to
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    • 340 50 ATHENS These days, women athletes are not just happy winning medals. They are increasingly posing for magazines such as Playboy and FHM and are comfortable doing it. American high jumper, Amy Acuff, who will be competing here, is one such athlete, the New York Times reported.
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    • 407 50 AP GEORGIOUPOLI, Greece Torri Edwards’ two-year doping suspension cleared the way for 37-year-old Gail Devers to try to win her third gold medal in the 100 m. Of course, that means defending champion Marion Jones gets left out of the event. There had been speculation
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    • 132 52 AFP ATHENS South Korean archers celebrated setting the first world records of the Olympics yesterday. Park Sung Hyun set a new record mark for the Women’s Individual 72 Arrow Ranking Round, scoring 682 points to beat the previous best mark set by Natalia Valeeva
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      • 127 52 Reuters RIGA, Latvia The Olympic dreams of Latvia’s top track and field coach Gints Bititis ended before he reached Athens when he was taken off a plane for being drunk. He was also stripped of his accreditation to the Games. Bititis was barred from boarding a connecting
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      • 134 52 AFP ATHENS Australian Andrew Hoy will have split family loyalties as he rides for a record fourth successive gold medal in the three-day equestrian team event. Hoy, 45, competing at his sixth Olympics, is up against wife Bettina, saddling up for the German team. Far from not
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    • 399 55 New managers will be as closely watched as big-money signings Reuters LONDON The English Premier League new boys will be as prominent in the dugout as they are on the pitch after the arrival of Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho (right), Liverpool’s Rafael Benitez and Tottenham Hotspur’s Jacques
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    • 190 55 -AFP PARIS France’s inspirational captain Zinedine Zidane is stepping down from the international team after an illustrious career in which he won 93 caps and a World Cup winner’s medal. The 32-year-old “Zizou” was expected to make the announcement yesterday in an interview aired on the
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    • 292 55 AFP BUDAPEST World champion Michael Schumacher will benefit from Ferrari’s stability as he chases a recordbreaking 12th win of the season in Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. While Schumacher’s biggest worry during Formula One’s three-week summer break was to shake off a cold, his closest
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    • 167 55 BUCHAREST Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson lavished praise on new signings Alan Smith and Liam Miller following his side’s 2-1 Champions League victory over Dinamo Bucharest, 4thegame.com reported yesterday. Said Ferguson: “He (Smith) was a real handful for the Dinamo defenders, he made a great contribution,
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