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...Chess 24341 d4 2 d5 3 d6 4 dxc7 5 dxb8=R! 6 Rxb7 7 Rxd7 8 Rxd8 mate. Chess 24331 h4! Bc1 (other bishop moves are no better) 2 Qxg6!...
...Now he is a frontrunner, who was joint leader with 17-year-old Gukesh D (India) on 4/6, ahead of the favourite Fabiano Caruana (US) and Praggnanandhaa R (India) on 3.5....
...battle between the trio of Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura (US) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) in their thirties, and the under-21 group of Alireza Firouzja (France) and the Indians Praggnanandhaa R...
...Production, Matt Leonard at CLM...
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...For the final song, “Summer Renaissance”, she was hoisted above the audience on a horse, like Bianca Jagger at Studio 54, while singing high notes in the style of Donna Summer....
...Christopher R MundySt Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...Spanish designer Andreu Carulla works with Desa’s on-site R&D workshop, producing roly-poly stools from recycled Styrofoam....
...Renaissance adds dance music to her usual palette of R&B, soul, pop and hip-hop. It is the first of a trilogy recorded during the pandemic....
...There are longtime fixtures like Espasso and R & Company, which now spans two incredible spaces. (I’m especially excited about its current exhibition on female California designers.)...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Michael Lamach, the former CEO and chair of Trane Technologies, as an operating adviser to CD&R funds....
...I sang Donna Summer and The Spinners into my hair brush and got to practice my dance moves by watching Soul Train on TV (I’m still a HUGE Philadelphia sound fan....
.../ From Ted Gaffney, Waterford, CT, US A tie manufacturer gives the FT a dressing-down / From Christopher R Mundy, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...“The Fed is not in the business to buoy equity valuations or crypto or Spacs,” said John Leonard, global head of equities at Macquarie Asset Management....
...The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflictby Mark Leonard, Bantam Press £18.99/$36.95 Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has written a book that has the twin merits...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired former Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs Anand Shah as an operating adviser to CD&R funds....
...CD&R has indicated it is considering raising its takeover offer to £10.80 a share, UDG said....
...Research from Sage suggests they have an R rate well below one....
...when 3 b8=Q or 2 b8=R draw by stalemate, 3 b8=B cannot win with two dark-squared bishops, and 3 b8=N+ Kb7 draws. Chess: 2314 1 Kd3! If Kf5 2 Kd4 mate, or Kd5 2 Qd4 mate....
...On her moodboard are Donna Summer and Marlene Dietrich, captured in cool repose, and the kind of yesteryear housewives who’d lounge glamorously in satin gowns, martinis in hand....
...It is one of the great late-career runs of albums, to put alongside Johnny Cash’s or Leonard Cohen’s, even if the notion of Jones the artist might still seem odd to those who can only visualise him under...
...“What people do will come down to employees figuring out what’s best for them,” says Donna Miller, the company’s European HR director....
...Donna McCracken, who used to run the Black Mountain Action Group in a loyalist area of Belfast and now works there part-time, says there was an “extreme change in attitudes in communities” after the flags...
...Mundy, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...TPG and Leonard Green & Partners stand to see their existing stakes all but wiped out....
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