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...(That didn’t happen with the Rodney King beating.) In Europe, both the “woke” movement and much of the alt-right reaction against it are American imports. And the US isn’t even trying to do this....
...And though it is hard to credit all of this to one person, song or moment (especially when you consider the legacy of legends such as Fela Kuti or King Sunny Adé), it’s hard to imagine it without the man...
...East won with K♣, and led a third diamond to West’s king. The case for the defence began immediately: “Both finesses wrong — as usual — couldn’t be made.”...
...The trial of one of America’s most famous Black citizens in a Los Angeles courtroom unfolded four years after the brutal beating of Rodney King, a Black man, by LA police, and racial tensions in the city...
...Hip-hop’s biggest names are hurling insults at each other — a veritable feast of roasting and grilling from the self-styled kings, gods and goats of US rap....
...His Simpson’s reboot, meanwhile, sounds like it will be comparable to previous revivals of The Ivy and J Sheekey. “Hopefully, I know how to do Simpson’s,” he says....
...Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed biopic about American nuclear physicist J Robert Oppenheimer received 13 nominations in total, including nods for the blue-ribbon Best Picture, Best Director for Nolan and Best...
...Seligman started his journey to America in 1837 on a horse-drawn cart from a Bavarian farming town and went on to make a fortune as the founder of J & W Seligman & Co, which became famous for trading US...
...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....
...You’ll not see him doing a Bradley Cooper, holding forth inside the actors’ studio. He can barely drag himself through a press conference — although he’s happy to conduct one in fluent French....
...Paul Weiss is hiring investment funds lawyer James King from Kirkland & Ellis. King will be based in London. Santander has hired a trio of senior US bankers, Bloomberg reported....
...Having drawn trumps, South took the diamond finesse, losing to East’s king. East exited passively with another diamond....
...The club’s executive chairman is one Daniel J....
...Clearly someone involved cared a great deal about Leonard Bernstein’s music, and Bradley Cooper’s impression of Bernstein at the podium is near-perfect, so someone involved in the production had at least...
...The beauty of South’s play was this: even if West wins the third club trick with J♣, declarer was safe. What could West lead?...
...Jae5 has given it a London stamp, especially through his work with leading UK rapper J Hus....
...At the first table, declarer won in dummy, and played a spade to ace and cashed the king. When Q♠ failed to drop, he was one down....
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...The outlier on the list is the Faculty of Arts at Warwick university, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios....
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...At trick 2, South leads J♣, not covered by West, runs it, and is relieved when it holds....
...It’s 11am on a Friday and the busiest counter in Space NK’s King’s Cross store in central London is Rare Beauty, the make-up line from singer Selena Gomez....
...soughing winds on the exposed moorland, the obsidian stillness of the river pools — all of this in a patch of England reduced to the size of a pocket handkerchief when we laid out an OS map in a café at King...
...Should he play for J♦ to drop, or take the finesse?...
...See also: One of the most famous liability-management transactions thus far, when J Crew was said to “J Screw” existing lenders by dropping a significant share of its intellectual property into a subsidiary...
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