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...The question comes partway through Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novella The Minority Report....
...However, when West continues with K♥ and J♥, you ruff high in dummy and East shows out. How does that change your plans? West is now marked with six hearts headed by ace-king-jack....
...East took A♠, returned 2♠, and South won deceptively with K♠ in hand....
...Lead J♣ from hand, West covers — if he does not, declarer runs the jack — and declarer wins with dummy’s K♣....
...BiddingDealer: NorthLove All South holds only 15pts, but every card is working — there are no wasted jacks or unsupported queens — and, with a decent fit, 5-4-3-1 hands usually play well....
...As part of its efforts to restore confidence, the government has wrapped up investigations into Tencent’s fintech arm and Jack Ma’s Ant group....
...You cash A♣ and K♣, East showing out, and now you can successfully finesse West for the jack, and your contract....
...On that wet winter morning in February 2012, a jack-knifing trailer truck on an Israeli-controlled (“Area C”) highway north of Jerusalem flipped an old bus carrying Palestinian pupils from a private elementary...
...East covered dummy’s jack; declarer won with K♠. 2♣ was led and, when West played Q♣, dummy’s ace took the trick....
...Shengjie Lai, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, told the journal Nature that cities would have passed their infection peak by mid-January....
...West holds six hearts headed by ace-king-jack. If he also held K♣, surely he would have overcalled 2H?...
...There are boat shoes with Sperry, sneakers with K-Swiss, suitcases with Globe-Trotter and watches with Seiko....
...Architect Ferenc K Császár completed Dandár in its eponymous red-brick street in the 1930s as a public bath for abluting, not lounging....
...It was the modus vivendi of all the good political journalists of that generation, Jack Nelson of the LA Times, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover of the Baltimore Sun etc....
...At least East will not hold both A♣ and K♠ on top of his king-jack high pre-empt, and declarer knows that West started with only two diamonds. So, what does declarer do at trick 2, and why?...
...In January its former head, Lai Xiaomin, was executed for alleged corruption. He had been sentenced to death by a court in the port city of Tianjin just three weeks earlier....
...He’d been photographed with the Communist party’s ruling elite as early as July, long after his tech billionaire friend Jack Ma, with whom he co-owned the Guangzhou Evergrande football team, had temporarily...
...Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase and Jack Ma’s ecommerce platform Alibaba will also publish earnings....
...In one case it was alleged that private companies made “unreasonably high payments” to the brother of Zhou Jiangyong, the former party secretary in Hangzhou, an eastern city that is home to Jack Ma’s Ant...
...The billionaire bromance behind a (pending) $44bn takeover Jack Dorsey has mixed business and friendship before....
...A clutch of China’s richest and most prominent business leaders, including Alibaba founder Jack Ma, have come under immense pressure over the past year as Beijing has launched a broad crackdown....
...founded by Jack Ma, just days before it was to be listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong....
...Although less well known abroad than other protest figures such as activist Joshua Wong or dissident media tycoon Jimmy Lai, Ms Wong’s supporters say that few better represent the bravery and resilience...
...The Communist party is publicly cutting ecommerce group Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma down to size....
...Financial services is another area of contention, as Jack Ma’s ill-fated speech clearly showed....
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