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El Niño, Metropolitan Opera — John Adams’s Nativity tale given all-star cast

...A trio of countertenors (Eric Jurenas, plus Key’mon W Murrah and Siman Chung in their debuts) also narrate, and briefly play the Three Kings....

April 25, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: Silence from opponent marks partner with key card

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game East could have raised to 2S — and many would — but, at this vulnerability, it seems a risky option. West led K♠....

March 20, 2024

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: fine slam relies on controls, long suits and some decent fortune

...BiddingDealer NorthE/W Game North’s 2C was Fourth Suit Forcing, compelling partner to continue to at least game-level, describing his hand in more detail....

February 28, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Deduction from silence reveals position of missing cards

...BiddingDealer South E/W Game West leads A♥ and, assuming a heart ruff in dummy, if West holds K♣ or Q♦, all should be easy. Leading a low club towards dummy’s Q♣ seems the best move....

December 6, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Recognise suits which offer maximum tricks only if led by opponents

...East might have kept open his options by discarding Q♦ under the first round of the suit and then, when West led 10♦ subsequently, discarding J♦ under dummy’s second top honour....

September 13, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Lacking both entries and confidence, declarer must enlist help of unwilling opponent

...At trick 2, South leads J♣, not covered by West, runs it, and is relieved when it holds....

August 16, 2023

FT Live

Business of Entertainment Summit

Capitalizing on Disruption

ReviewNon-Fiction

The Money Kings — the profound legacy of America’s Jewish banking dynasties

...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...

December 5, 2023

Gideon Rachman

The real reasons for the west’s protectionism

...That was the confident view of George W Bush, the former US president, in the run-up to China joining the World Trade Organization in 2001....

September 18, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: delay play of crucial suit until distributional information is revealed

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game If clubs divide 3-2, all is easy but, if they break 4-1, you can still capture J♣ and score four tricks: you just have to know which opponent holds the length....

March 9, 2023

Janan Ganesh

‘Oppenheimer’ is a great film about the wrong man

...The fact that J Robert Oppenheimer agonised over his part in the creation of the atomic bomb is not interesting. Was he meant to whistle to work?...

July 25, 2023

Digital currencies

The SEC needs to get philosophical

...W.J....

July 19, 2023

ReviewVisual Arts

Turner on Tour at the National Gallery — how paintings of ports became points of departure

Not exhibited in Britain since 1914, the depictions of Dieppe and Cologne brilliantly show the artist’s progression

November 3, 2022

HTSI

On the ranch with Ralph Lauren

...“The late Steven J Ross first introduced Ralph and I in the early 1980s and we hit it off immediately. In Ralph I recognised another storyteller....

September 27, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Eschewing affordable over-ruff simplifies complex timing issues

...BiddingDealer: EastE/W game Despite holding a useless-seeming Q♠, North raised her partner to game. West led J♠....

December 29, 2022

Bridge - Card game

Identify and use all means to isolate threatening opponent

...A♣ will fell East’s J♣, allowing South to score an overtrick courtesy of three spade tricks, three clubs and four diamonds....

December 13, 2022

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FTWeekend Festival

Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life

Bridge - Card game

Bidding problems lead to poor contract — can declarer prevail?

...When East followed small, he finessed with J♦, which held. A♦ then felled East’s K♦ and declarer was up to eight tricks. He played a diamond to Q♦, and exited with 10♣, won by East’s J♣....

October 25, 2022

FT Magazine

At the movies: a photography special

...Excerpted from ‘Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining’ by Lee Unkrich and J W Rinzler, published by Taschen Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...

August 19, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Long threatening suit must persuade defender towards aggressive line

...Finally, when he wins K♦, he can cash J♣ to defeat the contract....

September 1, 2022

The Weekend Essay

The real Rino: Trump vs conservatism

...The liberal law academic Eric J Segall has urged those toying with disqualification to ponder for a moment the likely real-life consequences of that action — and presumably — reject it as an act of extreme...

September 2, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Narrow opponents’ options to impel them to lead what you want

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game At almost every table, West led J♥ against 4S....

June 20, 2022

HTSIHow To Give It 2022

The A to Z of stylish giving

...Today it focuses on preserving Miyake’s legacy and developing the design culture for a new generation. miyakeissey.org J is for JW AndersonBritish designer Jonathan Anderson has donated to Akt, an LGBTQ...

December 10, 2022

FT Swamp Notes

Of computer chips and potato chips Premium

...In his 1996 book Democracy’s Discontent, the political philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel sharply outlined why decentralisation is crucial for democracy....

October 24, 2022

Martin Wolf

A second Trump term would imperil the republic

...Her father is former vice-president Dick Cheney, who masterminded the Iraq war under George W Bush. She is also unimpeachably conservative. Yet she has become anathema to Republicans. Her crime?...

August 23, 2022

Bridge - Card game

Accurate assessment of early play identifies defenders’ plan

...BiddingDealer: SouthE/W Game West led A♣. With West likely to hold both K♠ and K♦, the contract seemed safe. East dropped Q♣, and West switched to 10♥....

January 19, 2022

Bridge - Card game

Strong defender given one extra chance to defeat contract

...J♣ works the same way, but K♣ is more beautiful....

February 24, 2022

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