Today, 20 August 2003, Afternoon Edition

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  • 21 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY We d n c s d ay A»§ ust 2° 2°° 3 MITA (P) 002/11/2002 www.todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
    • 673 1  -  Teo Hwee Nak Tor Ching Li PM's candid remarks on successor intriguing by and hweenak@newstoday.com.sg TWO days after it was all but overshadowed by the sweeping changes to the CPF scheme, a fascinating aspect of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's National Day Rally speech continues
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    • 296 1 Agencies TERRORISTS yesterday wreaked havoc on global efforts for peace in the Middle East Two bomb blasts in Baghdad and Jerusalem killed at least 35 people and left nearly 220 others injured. In Baghdad, a massive truck bomber ripped through the UN headquarters, killing
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    • 47 1 Reuters NEW YORK The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index rose 21.62 points, or 1.24 per cent, to close at 1,761.11 yesterday. That marked the Nasdaq's highest close since April 2002. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 16.45 points, or 0.17 per cent, to end at 9,428.90.
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 54 2 AFP] A car burning outside the United Nations headquarters at the Canal Hotel in eastern Baghdad after a huge explosion rocked the building yesterday. UN special representative for Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello was wounded in the apparent truck bomb attack, UN officials in
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    • NEWS COMMENT/TEO HWEE NAK
      • 625 2 Is a merger the solution to NEL's troubled journey? HINDSIGHT is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, it cannot solve problems. With the benefit of hindsight, experts are now asking whether it would have been better to allow the SMRT to run the North-east Line (NEL). Each day
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    • LOCAL ROUNDUP
      • 87 3 A WOMAN and her four-month-old son were found dead at the foot of Block 17, Teck Whye Lane, on Monday night. Police are treating the case as murder-cum-suicide. Ms Xv Jin Ying, 27, a Singapore PR, is believed to have jumped from the 12th floor.
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      • 85 3 A CIVILIAN aircraft had to be escorted to land at Seletar Airport by two Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) A-4 fighters yesterday morning after air traffic control authorities failed to establish communication with the pilot. The aircraft had flown in from Sri Lanka. The pilot,
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    • 593 3  -  Lee Ching Wern But some are still worried about the law by chingwern@newstoday.com.sg THE past two months have been the most momentous in history for the gay community in Singapore. It began when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong told Time magazine that the Singapore Government allows
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    • Article, Illustration
      548 3  -  Derrick A Paulo Innovation Singapore Redefining performance Today photo by by derrick@newstoday.com.sg EVERY DAY, the Asia-Pacific money train chugs through a certain part of Tampines. Its payload? A cool US$20 billion ($35 billion). However, not a single cent is in cash; the entire sum consists only of bytes.
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    • 355 4 AFP to sex up dossier on Iraq's weapons LONDON The British government looked set to sink deeper into controversy, following revelations that Prime Minister Tony Blair's office authorised a "substantial rewrite" of a dossier under fire for carrying exaggerated intelligence data to bolster the case
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    • 361 4  -  Tan Hui Leng HERE'S a tip for men concerned about their sperm count Eat less chicken, stay out of hot tubs and wear boxer shorts. These tips come from Dr Peter Lim, a consultant urologist at Gleneagles Hospital, at a press conference on
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  • HOME NEWS
    • 380 6  -  Ng Shing Vi Plans from a S'porean who has never worked here by shingyi@newstoday.com.sg IT IS a little known fact the man behind Macau-based Hang Huo Enterprise, which last week won a $280,000 tender to conduct a feasibility study on a project to transform two blocks
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    • 309 8  -  Madeleine Chong Poly students seize upon bad times to create new ideas by madeleine@newstoday.com.sg THIS year's batch of graduating students from the Singapore Polytechnic (SP) embraced the notion of being their own bosses even before the Government called for more people to take up the challenges of
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    • 231 8 B U•I am getting married soon and buying an HDB flat for the first time. What should I I look out for? Before you make that financial commitment, here are some tips to consider; Look at your own financial situation. Check your CPF Ordinary Account Balances and cash savings. How
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  • LETTERS
    • 250 10  -  Yak Chin Hua Some employers avoid payouts I WOULD like to compliment your writers for their acute observations in the report, "CPF cuts: Who benefits?" (Today, Aug 19). While the Government and the National Trades Union Congress have pushed hard for all employees to take CPF
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    • 157 12  -  Michael Loh for rule changes to take effect PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong, in his National Day Rally speech, indicated that the rules on using the National Flag would be relaxed. About a year ago, in his National Day Rally speech, he announced the loosening
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 381 15  -  Lee Yew Meng Cambodian casino operator seeks to raise $87 million on SGX by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg IN September, Singaporean punters will be able to "play" a gambling stock when NagaCorp, a Cambodian casino operator, is to be listed here. It seeks to raise US$5O million ($B7 million) via
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    • 139 15  -  Dow Jones RETAILER Robinson Co said yesterday that its full-year net profit grew 9.3 per cent to $29.6 million as a stronger first half helped offset weaker sales in the final six months due to Sars and the Iraq war. Robinson said sales grew
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    • 118 15 SINGAPOREANS visiting Malaysia are familiar with Sunway Lagoon in Petaling Jaya. Now they can invest in or live near it A developer, Sunway City, is launching Resort Suites this Friday. The property has 80 furnished serviced units and are priced from $120,000. It is
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    • 44 16  -  Dow Jones Bloomberg DBS Group has appointed Mr N R Narayana Murthy, who is also the chairman of Infosys Technologies, to its board. Singapore Airlines has set up a Ssl billion medium-term note programme but has no immediate plans to raise money.
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    • 227 16 THE Land of a Thousand Smiles is set to put 1,000 smiles on the faces of OCBC card members. There are 300 return air tickets to Bangkok to be redeemed upon accumulation of 5,000 chox.s. All card members have to do is this: From 9pm today,
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    • 233 16 Bloomberg BoA to lay off 60 in HK, eight in Spore BANK of America Corp, the thirdbiggest lender by market value, is opening an operations centre in Guangzhou by the end of the year, transferring jobs from Hong Kong and Singapore to take advantage of lower costs in China.
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    • Market Watch
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      • 57 16 By volume Aug 19 DMXTech Beyonics Chartered Autron Goodpack Integra GES BIE Intl Frontline AirOcean Close 0.670 0.255 1.050 0.295 0.700 0.110 0.550 0.790 0.170 0.285 Change -0.075 +0.005 -0.020 +0.015 -0.050 -0.025 +0.005 +0.005 -10.1 +2.0 -1.9 +5.4 -6.7 -4.3 +3.0 +1.8 'OOO 78,820 53,534 39,973
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      • 84 16 By$ Aug 19 SIA200 Close Change 11.700 +0.400 Thai Prime200USS 7.500 +0.300 Venture 18.600 +0.300 SIA 11.600 +0.200 SPH 19.700 +0.200 SPH 100 19.700 +0.200 JurEng 2.050 +0.120 NalSleel 3.180 +0.100 NOL 2.000 +0.080 ASL Marine 0.525 +0.060 By percentage Aug 19 Close Change Enzer 0.210 +20.0
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      • 82 16 SGX Information provided by: By$ Aug 19 Close Change Creative 50 18.500 -0.300 OCBC 11.100 -0.300 UOB 13.300 -0.200 STIETF100 16.280 -0.170 OCBC 4.59HNCPS *****1.100 -0.100 DMXTech 0.670 -0.075 Hyflux 1.360 -0.070 C&C 4.820 -0.060 Noble 2.130 -0.060 F&N 9.700 -0.050 By percentage Aug 19 Close Change
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      • 122 16 Dow Jones SINGAPORE shares closed lower yesterday due to profit-taking after surging in recent weeks, traders said. The STI fell 6.96 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 1,615.28, off an intra-day low of 1,614.77. The August MSCI Singapore futures contract ended at 199.9 points, down 0.7 point, on 17,898
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      • 60 16 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng All Ordinaries Taiwan Wtd Value 10,174.10 10,509.29 3,165.00 5,512.16 Change Pts +141.13 -15.75 +6.70 -4.64 +1.41% -0.15% +0.21% -0.08% Korea Comp 740.13 +10.03 +1.37% KLCI 732.07 +3.23 +0.44% SET Index 525.94 +5.43 +1.04% Jakarta Comp Phils Comp Shenzhen B Mumbai Sensex 517.05 1,256.96
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      • 21 16 Gold us$/oi Silver us$/oi Platinum us$/oi 357.8 Rubber centsAg 185 4.90 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1388 692 Brent crude us$/barrel 29.14
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      • 37 16 Bloomberg us$ UK£ Yen HK$ RM Euro Rupiah Baht 0.5706 Peso 0.3598 A$ 68.27 Indian Rs 4.450 Won 2.168 C$ 0.5141 Yuan 4,836 NZ$ 23.78 NTS 31.46 0.8718 26.15 672.9 0.7961 4.723 0.9772 19.60
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    • 64 18 Bloomberg ORIENT Thai Airlines plans to start a no-frills carrier this year, its managing director Udom Tantiprasongchai said. Tickets will be priced 30 per cent lower than those of Thai Airways. Orient Thai flies to South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. It plans to double
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    • 537 18 Bloomberg despite Sars outbreak and record unemployment rate SINGAPORE banks are failing to match the profitability of their peers in Hong Kong for good reason, say investors. Take DBS Group Holdings, Singapore's biggest bank by assets. Profit fell 13 per cent in the first half, even
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    • 304 18 Bloomberg AIRASIA Sdn, Asia's only no-frills carrier outside Japan, may sell shares in its online booking site before it sells the rest of the company to the public. The online unit "will probably go to market faster" than its other business
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    • 192 20 Bloomberg $62.86b reserves in danger, says Tang HONG KONG'S Financial Secretary Henry Tang said the government's plan to plug its budget deficit by 2007 was no longer realistic, the South China Morning Post reported. Mr Antony Leung, Mr Tang's predecessor, forecast the city's budget deficit this year
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 315 24 Agencies Indon police release details of JAKARTA Indonesia's detective chief yesterday revealed more details about the perpetrators of the JW Marriott Hotel blast on Aug 5. Chief Erwin Mappaseng said Azahari bin Husin, a Malaysian professor who built the bombs used in last year's devastating attack
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    • 338 26 -AFP American, Canadian officials to pinpoint cause CRAWFORD (Texas) As President George W Bush ordered his officials to find out the cause of last week's crippling blackout, the US power giant, First Energy, declined to take the blame for the outage that cut electricity to
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    • 135 26 Reuters CANBERRA Superman, Batman, Spiderman and the Hulk might be able to save the world but they cannot get through the doors of an increasing number of childcare centres in Melbourne. Declaring themselves "superhero-free zones", at least 12 day centres for pre-school children are banning crime-fighting superhero costumes
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    • 79 26 Reuters The original sign featuring "Speedee" is snown at the world's oldest operating McDonald's restaurant, with the original golden arch architecture. On Monday, it drew a crowd on the restaurant's 50th anniversary, in Downey, California, as prices were rolled back to those charged in 1953, when a
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 63 26 Reuters A Moroccan court yesterday sentenced four men to death in connection with five simultaneous attacks in Casablanca on May 16 in which 45 people, including 12 suicide bombers, were killed. The four were among 87 defendants accused of belonging to a shadowy, ultra-conservative Islamist movement,
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      • 76 26 Reuters Algerian militants have handed over all 14 European hostages held in the Sahara Desert for more than five months, reports said yesterday. Confirmation from Malian and German officials that the group members were safe and in the care of the Malian authorities ended a tense
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      • 64 26 Agencies A peace deal signed by Liberia's government and rebel factions offered new hope yesterday to the West African country of an end to nearly 14 years of bloodshed. Two rebel groups holding four-fifths of the battered West African nation and a caretaker administration signed a
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      • 54 26 -AFP Police in West Virginia are investigating a series of shootings with disturbing similarities to the serial sniper shootings that terrorised the Washington area last year. Over the past week, three apparently unrelated people were shot dead in the state by an unknown assailant, or
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      • 79 26 Reuters A prized catch for a Cambodian teenager turned deadly after it jumped out of his hands and lodged in his throat, newspapers reported yesterday. Mr Lim Vanthan, 17, had caught the 20cm fish, called kantrob in Cambodian, during a swim. But the fish squirmed out
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    • 211 26 AFP AMMAN There was celebratory gunfire across the Jordanian capital and fireworks lit the sky in the wee hours yesterday as Jordanians took to the streets to welcome the country's first superstar. Ms Diana Karzon, 19, beat Syrian finalist Ruweida Attiyeh in the popular
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 916 28  -  Koh Buck Song by news@newstoday.com.sg SOME debates look like they will be around for some time. Globalisation is definitely one of them. In his book, The Paradox of American Power, Joseph S Nye Jr, Dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, examines a key question:
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  • WATZUP?
    • 401 30  -  Anwar Hashim by anwar@newstoday.com.se THE fashion event of the year is back and the focus is on the Asian scene. Held from tomorrow to next Friday, Singapore Fashion Week 2003, with the theme The New Asia Tropic Style, will highlight Asia's famous fashion designers as well as newcomers.
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    • PRIME NEWS
      • 598 33  -  CHANG AI-LIEN SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT ARMED with a lotion that he says will restore at least some of the crowning glory- to shiny pates, and flooded with orders in Singapore, local researcher Lee Chee Wee now has a mul-ti-million-dollar backer, and plans to go regional.
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    • 501 34  -  Sian E Jay The fun is in figuring out what the photos mean to say by sian@newstodav.com.se THE Singapore Art Museum programme of exhibitions, which has increasingly featured photographic exhibitions, is playing a vital role in encouraging young artists to explore photography as a means of art expression.
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    • 106 34 Ten supermarkets were presented with trophies and travel vouchers for achieving the highest sales in PSC Corporation's Cash Plus Holidays 2002 promotion. PSC's deputy general manager (consumer business) Law Ah Vi presented the prizes to the representatives of five branches of
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    • IN CINEMAS
      • 689 36  -  Serene Foo How far can action director Sammo Hung push Jackie Chan? by in Hong Kong serene@newstodav.com.se WHO is more hot-headed than Jackie Chan, lashes out when he pleases and goes so far as to demand 120 per cent from the Asian action superstar on the set
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      • 236 38 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter Strong box office in US despite blackout fears LOS ANGELES Not long after the lights went out on the American East Coast, a pair of characters, who do their work best in the dark, dominated the weekend box office. New Line's Freddy vs. Jason
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      • 117 38 North American Box Office Top 10 (August 15 17) weekend gross cumulative gross 1 Freddy vs. Jason US$ 36.43m US$ 36.43m 2 S.W.A.T US$ 18.12m US$ 69.67m 3 (1) Open Range US$ 14.05m US$ 14.05m 4 (3) Freaky Friday US$ 13.43m US$ 58.42m 5 4 Uptown Girls US$ 11.28m US$
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      • 426 42 -AFP (Striker's injury takes shine off Irish win] Football friendly Republic of Ireland 2 Australia 1 O'Shea, Morrison seal Irish win DUBLIN The Republic of Ireland produced a sensational comeback to beat the Australian Socceroos 2-1 in the first ever clash between the two countries this
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      • 430 42 Reuters Football friendly England v Croatia Live, tomorrow morning, Ch 22, 2.55 am MALDON Arsenal defender Sol Campbell has been dragged back from the brink of quitting England by manager SvenGoran Eriksson. The troubled veteran international has suffered a rash of disciplinary problems
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      • 153 42 -AFP LONDON Arsenal's disciplinary problems continued after Jermaine Pennant was sent off for punching an opponent as England Under-21s crashed to a 3-0 friendly defeat against Croatia at Upton Park this morning. The 20-year-old, who is about to start a two-month loan period with Leeds United,
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    • 462 44  -  Tan Wee Boon Qualifying rounds show mixed fortunes for Singaporeans Badminton Yonex-Sunrise Spore Open Xiao cruises, Li Li's out by weeDooniffnewstoaay.com.sg IT WAS a day of mixed fortunes for Singapore's women's shuttlers at the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday. Xiao Luxi breezed past her
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    • 392 44 Agencies LISBON Manchester United's new Portuguese signing Cristiano Ronaldo is pleased with his standout debut at Old Trafford on Saturday but rejects any comparisons to former club star David Beckham. "Everything is going well, especially since all my colleagues have helped me with whatever I
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    • 542 45 -AFP Woods is respected, but the golf world is no longer running scared NEW YORK Tiger Woods has been stripped of one of his key weapons in dominating his rivals the "F" word. Suddenly players have lost their fear of the 27-year-old world No. 1
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    • 452 46  -  Stanley Ho Japan Olympic team struggles against impressive Lions by stanley@newstoday.com.sg THE Lions lost the match, but they definitely won over the fans with a spirited performance against the Japan Olympic team at Jalan Besar Stadium last night. Pitted against what many rate as Asia's best Under-23 side,
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    • 350 46  -  Stanley Ho by stanley@newstoday.com.sg AFTER eight months of negotiations, the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) have reached agreement over rent for the FAS' headquarters at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The FAS is now expected to move
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    • 71 46 MADRID Real Madrid's French midfielder Claude Makelele has put his footballing future in jeopardy by defying the Spanish champion and joining his French team-mates in Switzerland for an international friendly, Real sporting director Jorge Valdano said yesterday. Makelele is refusing to train with Real Madrid due to a
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    • 75 46 MELBOURNE Australian cricketer Shane Warne, buried under sexual harassment allegations, made a surprise return to training here yesterday. He was at the Victorian state team practice and bowled to some of his younger team-mates. South African Helen Cohen Alon has claimed she was offered 200,000 rand ($47,700) and
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    • 87 46 BUCHAREST A female photographer was banned from travelling on the same plane as the Romanian soccer team because of the side's superstitions, a Romanian sports daliy reported yesterday. Romania is playing Ukraine in Donetsk in a friendly today. Officials from the team confirmed that photographer Gabriela Arsenic, who
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    • 71 46 DALLAS The Dallas Mavericks completed a blockbuster trade with the Golden State Warriors yesterday. The Mavericks landed highscoring forward Antawn Jamison in a nine-player trade in which they also got power forward Danny Fortson, small forward Chris Mills and guard Jiri Welsch from Golden State. The Mays sent
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