Streats, 1 September 2004

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  • 10 1 Streats WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2004 E-mail: streats@sph.com.sg mita (p> 196/03/2004
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  • 525 1  -  New wage ceiling fair, says Mah; revised housing rules kick in on Sept 15 By_ Khushwant Singh SINGLES can buy Housing Board resale flats of any size from Sept 15. But only those who earn $3,000 a month or less will be
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  • 359 1  -  By Chna Kong Ho MANY bargain-hunters were frustrated yesterday when they could not book the 1 airfares offered by budget airline Tiger Airways despite repeated tries. Customers found themselves staring at “server busy” prompts instead of the confirmation screen as they tried
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  • Morning Rush
    • 335 2 Streats FORMER Olympian Chay Weng Yew he competed in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics as a weightlifter died of stomach cancer last Saturday. He was 78. Yet not many people at his wake knew of his illustrious sporting background. The only hint came
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    • 372 2 UK study finds that remaining single after 30 is as bad as smoking LONDON The effects of living alone can be as bad as that of smoking, a new study has found. Especially if you’re over 30. The research, which monitored 10,000 people across Britain over
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    • 422 3 Scientists develop pill based on Chinese remedy Wire services A NEW drug based on the chemical structure of a traditional Chinese herbal remedy could be the next big weapon against drug-resistant malaria, an international team of scientists has claimed in the latest issue of
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    • 208 3  -  By Lee Chop Kkmg ONE woman was killed and another injured in two mishaps at open-platform MRT stations yesterday. The fatal incident happened at the Bukit Batok MRT station. The body of Madam Loh Suan Choo, in her 50s, was recovered by the
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    • 267 4  -  China film director’s part in Athens hints of things to come Lee Choo Kiong AS the 2004 Olympic Games closed in Athens on Sunday with a colourful cultural show and a fireworks display, a stunning troupe of leggy women from China gave a rousing
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    • 547 6 US bosses who outsourced got pay increases 5 times those of their peers last year, study shows Reuters WASHINGTON Chief executives at US companies that shipped jobs overseas won a 46 per cent pay hike last year, more than five times the average for their
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    • 131 8 BUZZSTOP NANYANG Institute of Management’s reformation is complete and the Economic Development Board (EDB) has shown its confidence by taking an 18.5 per cent stake in the private school. EDB Investments, the investment arm of the EDB, has allotted $500,000
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    • Article, Illustration
      94 8  -  Text and picture by Ashleigh Sim Nine-month-old Ryan Lee and father Raymond Lee, 32, gazing at a piece of moon rock embedded in acrylic at the Science Centre yesterday. The rock was one of the samples collected by the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 and was presented
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    • 127 8 Friends breached no-swimming rule Sharlene Tan A SINGAPOREAN man drowned and one of his friends was missing after being swept away while swimming at Karon Beach in Phuket on Monday (aug3o) afternoon. A third Singaporean suffered minor injuries and was released yesterday from Siriroj Hospital in
      – Sharlene Tan  -  127 words
    • 143 8 Minds scheme set for next year THE Movement for the Intellectually Disabled (Minds) is planning to launch a scheme by the middle of next year to help parents provide for mentally disabled children after their death. The parents can put aside money in a trust
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    • 147 8 Sign of growing consumer confidence Reuters HOME buyers, manufacturers and consumers tapped Singapore banks for more credit in July, accelerating a trend that began early last year and signalling stronger consumer confidence. Loans to non-bank customers rose 0.7 per cent to $176 billion, the Monetary
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    • 97 8 THE monthly variable component (MVC) of Raffles Hotel employees’ salaries will be be raised from its current 3 per cent to 10 per cent, making Raffles the first hotel to comply with recommendations made by a national wage reform taskforce earlier this year. Under a memorandum
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    • 94 8 IN a bid to encourage more doctors to do research, a new award has been instituted, The Straits Times reports today. The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*Star) Biomedical Research Council and the Ministry of Health’s National Medical Research Council will present The ClinicianScientist Investigator
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    • 93 8 AP SINGAPORE will hold a mass decontamination and emergency exercise on Friday to prepare 400 officials to deal with a deadly strain of avian flu if it enters the country. The Republic is on high alert for signs of the dangerous HSNI bird flu virus
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    • 85 8 THE hunt is on for rule-breaking Central Provident Fund members who pocket rebates given by financial advisers. The CPF Board, the Life Insurance Association and the Investment Management Association of Singapore are cracking down on this practice, The Straits Times reports today. The rebates are given by
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  • Financial
    • 527 10 If demand recedes, oil could hit US$3O: Merrill Lynch LONDON Research by investment bank Merrill Lynch reportedly indicates that the price of oil is being held up by China’s aggressive moves to build a stockpile. The Merrill Lynch study suggests that China is importing crude
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    • 363 10  -  B y Sarah Ng ENTREPRENEURS Kenneth Koh and Vincent Kan endured the hardship of studying and worrying about school fees 20 years ago. That was until they signed up for the Singapore Polytechnic-Singapore Armed Forces (SP-SAF) Diploma Scheme, which paid their course fees and a
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    • 99 10 Wire services SINGAPORE Advisers to Neptune Orient Lines yesterday refused to endorse a $2.8 billion cash offer for its shares by Temasek Holdings, urging investors to hold the stock or sell it in the open market. Adviser HSBC Holdings noted that NOL’s shares had consistently exceeded Temasek’s
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    • 83 10 Bloomberg SINGAPORE Mobile One Ltd yesterday said that it may introduce high-speed wireless Internet services next year that can be used away from the office or home. It is evaluating systems that would allow computer users to surf the Internet wirelessly at speeds 10 times or faster
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    • 79 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) yesterday said that it would buy an industrial property for $75 million, as it is expected to improve its earnings. “It is accretive, giving a very good yield of 8.5 per cent,” said Mr Tan Ser Ping, chief executive
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    • 105 10 Reuters SINGAPORE Investment firm BIL International yesterday posted a fiscal fourth-quarter net profit against a loss in the same quarter of last year due to smaller foreign exchange losses. BIL, which owns London’s biggest hotel chain Thistle Hotels, said that it posted a profit of
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    • 166 12 Reuters HONG KONG The Hong Kong arm of the Bank of China has set up a search committee to replace two deputy chief executives who resigned amid a probe into an embezzlement affair earlier this month. BOC Hong Kong (Holdings), which has said
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    • 336 12 wire services MANILA Asian Development Bank president Tadao Chino (pictured) of Japan yesterday announced his resignation effective next January, the lender said in a statement. He will have served six years on his departure, the ADB said, but did not give any reason
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    • 248 14 -AFP PARIS Europe is gearing up to welcome a new generation of Chinese travellers from today, when private Chinese tour groups will be allowed into 27 European countries. France, Italy and Switzerland the three most desirable vacation spots for Chinese tourists, according to travel agents
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    • 139 14 -AFP BEIJING China has granted a trademark to a detective firm for the first time, giving the industry long-awaited official recognition, state media and company officials said yesterday. The Bang De Business Information Company in Chongqing city received its trademark on Sunday after a
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    • 374 16 Shiny new gambling establishments take business from old support industry -AFP MACAU On the western edge of Macau, restaurateur Effic Chen serves the handful of customers who still visit her San Hip Seng Seafood Restaurant. Business has dropped “enormously”, said Ms Chen, in the
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    • 125 16 -AP STI: 1,918.34 12.89 SHARES closed higher in quiet trade yesterday, as an overnight drop in oil prices spurred light buying in select blue chips. Investors remained cautious after Wall Street’s weak close on the first day of the Republican National Convention in New York
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    • 24 16 *AS AT AUG 31 US$: 551.712 EURO: 552.069 Ss: RM2.219 Ss: 24.32 BAHT 553.072 Ss: 64.15 YEN Ss: HK54.556 Ss: 5,472 RUPIAH
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    • 590 15 If», Central Singapore CDC presents ffie talk... Come and find out how films are rated, and pick up some tips on how to appreciate a film critically with samples of clips from well-known films. Cinema Laid When? Where? Sat, 11 Sept 2004 Grassroots Club (next to Yio Chu Kang MRT)
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  • Comment
    • 757 18  -  By_ Steve Almond Los Angeles Times IN the beginning, there was candy. It was, well, fattening. It was intended to be fattening. That was the whole point of candy. Or actually, check that. The whole point of candy was to give the mouth and body
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  • Vocal
    • 198 20 SO many buses now have colourful laminated advertisements on the entire body of the vehicles. While these revenuegenerating ads have brightened up the streetscape, they do little for passengers who want to enjoy the city sights. This is particularly frustrating when I travel at night, sometimes
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    • 133 20 I SUPPORT the view expressed in recent letters about making parking in Housing Board estates more family-friendly. HDB should consider charging lower fees for those who need to buy more than one permit for season parking. I live in Jurong and have a
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    • 82 20 I AM among many senior citizens who often have to take the bus or train during the peak hours to see a doctor or carry out some important errand. It is not always possible to do these things during the offpeak hours from 10am to
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    • 192 22 I SAY yes to more time with the family, yes to a five-day working week and yes to schools treating Saturdays like Sundays. My wife and I have enjoyed a five-day working week for years, but since three years ago when our eldest son
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    • 197 22 I WOULD very much like to join the Singapore Armed Forces as I have been attracted to their advertisements in our MRT trains and the newspapers. But I face a big problem. I have two convictions for theft. I was fined the first time
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    • 376 20 HAVE YCUfI SAY E-mail us at streats@sph.ceill.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
    • 342 24 t. Reuters Taipei responds to China’s ‘goodwill gesture’ TAIPEI Taiwan President Chen Shuibian has called off annual war games as a goodwill gesture after China cancelled its military drills, Taiwan officials said yesterday. Analysts said that the exchange of peaceful gestures would help ease tension in
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    • 213 24 Reuters BEIJING Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has called for support for private firms, state media said yesterday, amid concerns that steps to cool the economy have taken too big a toll on the dynamic and job-creating private sector. China’s tightening measures have lifted hopes
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    • 24 24 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry windsurfing off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, during a break from his campaign on Monday AFP
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    • 212 24 Reuters HONG KONG Beijing will invite Hong Kong investors to take part in more than 100 business ventures this week in what many in the city see as another attempt to boost nationalist sentiment ahead of legislative elections next month. Officials from the Chinese
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    • 170 24 -AFP SEOUL North Korea has recalled its envoy from a South-east Asian country believed to be Vietnam which allowed 468 refugees from the Stalinist state to defect to South Korea in July, a newspaper here said yesterday. The Chosun newspaper did not say whether
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    • 365 26 Thai PM a shoo-in, but is taking no chances at polls Reuters NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) party, a political juggernaut which has swept aside all-comers since winning power in 2001, is virtually assured of victory in
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    • 195 26 LONDON Revelations that a report to be published today in Britain will show that the leading 100 law firms raked in a combined £9.11 billion (Ss2B billion) and total gains of £2.7 billion have sparked an outcry and moves to curb what has
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 525 26 Advertising Feature Informatics Awards Merit Scholarships to Students of Distinction. Written by Nivag Sattiar BACK in India, Konduru Deepthi Sarma was considered one of the brightest students in her cohort, having been placed among the top 0.1 of candidates in the All India Secondary School Examination 2000. Ms Konduru came
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  • Medical
    • 410 28 Reuters CHICAGO Putting patients with heart trouble on a high dosage of statin drugs quickly to lower their blood cholesterol levels offers only a marginal benefit compared to current treatment, a study said on Monday. Normally, patients at risk of another heart attack are
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  • EasyStreats
    • 821 30 Bibik impersonator GT Lye tells GREGORYLEOW that age is catching up with hind THE Gunong Sayang Association’s (GSA) annual Peranakan play for 2004, Buang Keroh Pungot Jemih, translated as Let Bygones Be Bygones, may be the the last one in which you will see
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    • 127 30 HONG KONG actress Cecilia Cheung may be invited to play the role of Taiwan’s first Olympic gold medallist Chen Shih-hsin, 26, (pictured) in a Hong Kong movie. At the age of 16, Chen was already an expert in taekwondo with several medals under her belt.
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    • 99 30 Reuters SIMON Cowell, the Pop Idol and American Idol judge who audiences love to hate, turned his brutally critical eye on himself on Saturday and predicted the demise of his own fame. “My act is going to run out fairly quickly. There’s no question
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    • 77 30 Reuters TWO years after opening in China, the martial arts thriller Hero has set a record for an Asian film in North America, kicking off at No 1 with a better-than-expected haul of US$l7.B (5530.5 million), according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. Miramax Films’
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    • Article, Illustration
      427 32  -  Our local actresses can be glamorous despite being mums Broadside By ’YVONNE KWOK WITH the recent baby boom in our local showbiz circle and the Prime Minister’s gentle urgings for couples to move their extra-curricular activities into the bedroom, we suddenly have space for a new genre of
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    • 215 32 THE Queen of Caldecott Hill will become its queen mother soon after Chinese New Year. Actress Zoe Tay, two months pregnant now, told reporters yesterday that she discovered that she was expecting a month ago after noticing that her sense of taste had changed. She then
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    • Article, Illustration
      340 34  -  Text and picture by 34 SMALL tools can be used to achieve big things, believes photography instructor Francis Lee. He, along with three other photographers, wants to prove that point when a photo exhibition called Small Arms, Big Matters opens this Saturday at the Tampines Regional Library. Drawn
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    • 128 35 1} Vemessa Loo and lam /our September weather girl. sad news today, q r m a fraid. Typhoon Chaba peaked havoc on the Japanese s and of Hokkaido yesterday, ailing seven people and fusing floods. But, or hinately, the weatherman ,a ys that the storm is
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    • Tune in TV & MOVIE NEWS
      • 66 35 *P m > Channel U iadong cannot forget Xiaodong despite the jj/reakup. Benshan advises him to forget about f er> hnt Jiadong feels that it is hard for him to do drl W n g at hi n and Dandan are at f s Liaodong arranges for both
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      • 63 35 10pm, Channel i Jack Coney awakens in the middle of the desert with no recollection of how he got there. A kindly but reclusive artist finds him and, realising that he is suffering from amnesia, allows him to stay at her house. It is when Jack’s former “associates” catch
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    • Happenin’
      • Article, Illustration
        70 35 MUSIC DREAMER 6 Sept, 10.30 am Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Recital Studio Tickets: $lO from Sistic and Esplanade Box Office Tel 6348 5555 Be mesmerised by the lovely voices of two of Music Dreamer Live Cafe’s popular singers, Ivan and Xiao Wei, as they serenade you with an
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      • 91 35 ENCOUNTER (KARSILASMA) (2003) Today, 7-30 pm The Arts House at the Old Parliament, 1 Old Parliament Lane Tickets: $6 from The Arts House Box Office Tel: 6332-6919 A psychological drama about love, life and overlapping destinies by Turkish director Omer Kavur, a man who has been regarded by critics
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 474 35 AQUARIUS JAN 20-FEB 18 After weeks of waiting, you’re ready to clear your throat and just say it. Well, good for you. Just be sure that “it” consists of all kind words, because someone is waiting to return them big time. PISCES FEB 19 -MAR 20 Someone who wants your
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  • Sports
    • 257 36  -  Lim Han Ming NATIONAL shuttler Ronald Susilo has finally proposed to Li Jiawei, his paddler girlfriend of two years. The dashing 25-year-old popped the all-important question after he picked her up from Changi Airport yesterday morning. Li, 23, had just returned from the just-concluded
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    • 384 36 AFP LONDON Manchester United finally got their hands on Wayne Rooney (right) yesterday after nearly a week of tense negotiations concluded with the club agreeing a transfer fee with his current club Everton. In a statement to the Stock Exchange, United
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    • 222 37 LONDON Frank Lampard insisted that big-spending Chelsea are not worried by Arsenal’s record breaking run in the Premiership. He paid tribute to Arsenal’s success this season which has seen them beat Nottingham Forest’s record of going 42 games unbeaten, reported Sky sports. Chelsea and
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    • 92 37 TAMPINES Rovers need just one more win from their remaining two games to be sure of their first S-League title. The Stags are now seven points clear at the top of the S-League table after thrashing Balestier Khalsa 4-0 m a S-League match last
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    • 494 37 Newcastle skipper tipped to. succeed Robson’s hot seat LONDON Newcastle want Alan Shearer to be their new manager after axing Bobby Robson on Monday, but will have to convince him to take the job. The Newcastle skipper is the overwhelming favourite to succeed Robson, with Terry
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    • 260 37 Reuters MADRID Valencia midfielder Miguel Angel Angulo has rejected a move to Arsenal and has decided to remain with the Spanish champions, according to club president Jaime Orti. “The player passed the first part of a medical, but it looks as though he has
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    • 551 38 China all ready to host 2008 Olympic Games -AP They hadn’t even blown out the big Olympic candle here on Sunday night when a huge banner was unfurled during the closing ceremony saying, “Welcome to Beijing.” Get your sneakers and go to China; they’ll start the
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    • 345 38 -AP ATHENS It was Monday the day after the Olympic flamed stopped burning in the Greek capital. Just hours earlier, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, head of the Olympic organising committee, was dancing with volunteers at the closing ceremony and basking in the mood of a successful
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    • 631 39 W m Serena Williams makes outrageous fashion statement at US Open Wire services NEW YORK Serena Williams (right) didn’t make much of a tennis statement on Monday night. Despite hitting 35 winners, seven aces and winning 83 per cent of the points in a 53-minute, 6-1,
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    • 338 39 Reuters NEW YORK Andre Agassi (right) served up his traditional late-night feast at the US Open on Monday, beating fellow American Robby Ginepri 7-6, 6-4, 6-2 to move into the second round. The 34-year-old, starring in the °Pening night session on the Arthur Ashe
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