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...Firouzja’s nadir came last month, when he performed poorly at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis and was in acute danger of losing his Candidates qualification based on rating....
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...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
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...In the 1980s a talented professor first carried Savage’s legacy forward, Thomas Hall from St Louis, who summered on the island and was also a poet and zoologist....
...In the last decade St Louis has become the world’s most important chess centre, thanks to generous investment by FT reader Rex Sinquefield....
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...Fedspeak: James Bullard, president of the St Louis branch of the Federal Reserve, will participate in a discussion about the economy and monetary policy at the American Gas Association in Florida....
...Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St Louis specialising in legal ethics, called the payments “eye-popping” and said they exposed gaps in disclosure obligations for justices’ families...
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...Even the toiletries are from a lovely County Down company called FieldDay....
...The 30-year-old from Wenzhou, who defeated Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi after a tense and fluctuating match, is in Bucharest for the opening leg of the Grand Chess Tour, the creation of the St Louis billionaire...
...The Fitzwilliam’s director, Luke Syson, sees it as an “unexpected masterpiece” reminiscent of Holbein’s portraits of Erasmus or Thomas More....
...Deas was born in 1941 in Charminster, Dorset — the English county that inspired Thomas Hardy, whose doctor also delivered Deas into this world. His mother, a home maker, had been a glamorous debutante....
...Hans Niemann, 19, remains the centre of attention as the $262,000 US championship in St Louis passes half-way....
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...It crowds into the carefully planned spaces between St Pancras and King’s Cross stations....
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