Hints and tips:
...Johnson plays singleton Anne Elliot, bereft after rejecting a penniless true love to please her social climbing dandy father, Sir Walter (Richard E Grant, luxuriant)....
...West’s singleton king fell. South drew the last trump and took the club finesse twice, claiming 11 tricks when K♣ did not fall on the third round. How did South know that West held a singleton K♦?...
...“The Veteran in a New Field”, painted in 1865 after the surrender of Confederate general Robert E Lee, encapsulates a persistent friction between allegory and reality, grief and hope....
...South will win, draw trumps and pitch two low clubs from hand: one on a top diamond, the other on dummy’s fourth spade — the very suit that E/W have helped to establish....
...Whatever declarer does, E/W have established two club tricks so that, when West wins K♦, those winners can be cashed and 4S defeated....
...says California-based Kayla Dickie, whose vintage e-shop Instagram feed features her dancing while wearing her latest finds for sale....
...There is now no way for E/W to cash two spade winners before declarer draws trumps, and discards two spades from her hand on two winning clubs. 3H made....
...One of these lawyers, Gerald Singleton, said the deal on the table was the only one available that would be practical to implement....
...As Aggie appears to be pregnant, it seems natural for the pair to forge a weary friendship, going for coffee after the pregnancy yoga class that singleton Aggie suddenly turns up at....
...He understood a fundamental truth – even singletons and loners deserve to eat out....
...An opening trump lead from West, followed by a trump continuation when E/W wins a diamond, dooms the contract with ease....
...Darius the Great founded Persepolis in 518BC as the capital of an empire stretching from Greece to the Indus Valley....
...And while many favourite characters (Mary Ann Singleton, for example) make only fleeting appearances, fans of Barbary Lane’s landlady Anna Madrigal will not be disappointed....
...Structural changes, such as e-commerce, are reducing the number of shops, so the cost of the business rates for the remaining retailers will rise even faster....
...In 331 BC, Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia here....
...Avanti says that Investec was asking for price-sensitive information on the company but that it has been in e-mail contact with Mr Singleton since the note was published....
...“I would be amazed if Roger Guy and Guillaume Rambourg are not in fund management together in 18 months, if not before,” says Darius McDermott of Chelsea Financial Services....
...Christina Wynn, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Darius McDermott: If you are investing for the long term i.e. ten years plus, then it is absolutely fine to make an equity investment now....
...The £300 ($498) machines are simplified, with only a few programs such as internet and e-mail, to avoid putting off elderly users....
...Matt Connolly and Darius Pocha, respectively strategy and creative directors at Enable, a Bristol-based digital agency, were given a basic “road warrior’s” kit: a USB 3G dongle, and a Nokia smartphone....
...Henry Singleton, chief executive officer of Teledyne Inc. from the 1960s through the 1980s, was one of these enlightened opportunists. The best plan, he believed, was no plan....
...To comment on this article, e-mail ftweekendmagazine@ft.com...
...Plus there’s no hint of commercial influence in her commentary, which sometimes creeps into other blogs, online magazines, or e-zines, and e-mail newsletters....
...I shut down my e-mail client and my IM client. I wanted connectedness but on my own terms,” he said....
...You can also read Matt and Darius’s own blog diaries on the Enable website....
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