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...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...“Wrecking Ball”, a fiddle-accompanied stomper about hard times, went to toe-to-toe with classics such as “Born in the USA”....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...“This one’s for you, Rex,” he wisecracked to King George V during a royal command performance in 1932 in London....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Too often, distracted game hunters can fall into a bog. You might ask how anyone ever shoots anything? With difficulty. At one point a grouse settles atop a hill directly in front of us....
...“The USA is a cold place,” he raps in a song. In another, he describes it as a “land designed to hate me”....
...In 2019, it acquired Peak Resorts, the owner of 17 ski resorts including Hunter Mountain in New York and Mount Snow in Vermont, for roughly $264mn....
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...Olivia V, a video editor living in Toronto, started the @indiesleaze Instagram account because she felt it was a decade “not yet neatly defined or revisited”....
...If you have a shorter neck, choose an open-neck or V-neck style, and wear your hair up. Don’t fancy a tulle skirt?...
...But in the USA v USSR match in New York Averbakh arrived late for one of his games against Donald Byrne, lost their mini-match 3-1, incurred the wrath of his captain Igor Bondarevsky, and was removed from...
...News clip(People chanting “USA! USA! USA!”)...
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...It was written in 1964 in the George V luxury hotel in Paris, a city to which McCartney and Lennon had hitchhiked only a few years previously. What money could buy was at the forefront of their minds....
...Charles Schubert, a 71-year-old financial adviser, said Walker was not “perfect” but would get back to the “pro-USA, pro-America” policies of the Trump years, with “low inflation, full employment and energy...
...Fetterman added: “Send me to the US Senate, and I’d proudly vote to codify Roe v Wade into law.” Republican leaders largely embraced the ruling on Friday....
...They will probably start all sorts of investigations into Hunter Biden or whatever their current obsession is. And what would they do on Ukraine?...
...According to research by cycling trainers Hunter Allen and Andre Coggan, top riders can produce, at most, 6.40 w/kg over a 60-minute period....
...A scientific study sets out the case, published by KV Abhijith and co-authors, ranging from Bologna to Ann Arbor, USA....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
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