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Bridge - Card game
Targets matter: do not let your eye or mind stray from it
...If he had four spades to the ace-jack, he would have put in J♠ at trick one, so declarer is marked with four spades....
December 27, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Deduction from silence reveals position of missing cards
...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....
December 6, 2023
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Bridge - Card game
Every bid, including passes, can contribute key information
...Lead J♣ from hand, West covers — if he does not, declarer runs the jack — and declarer wins with dummy’s K♣....
September 20, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Comfort watch — Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
...Because, like, you know, I just watched The Mother, which is why J. Lo is so heavily on my mind. J. Lo is 54 years old right now. In the movie, Diane Keaton is 56....
January 12, 2024
HTSI
20 highlights of Paris Design Week
...GP & J Baker x Kit Kemp Design Studio Designer and hotelier Kit Kemp’s first collaboration with British fabric and wallpaper house GP & J Baker transmutes her eclectic style into colour-saturated prints...
January 16, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Value power of dummy’s trumps over danger of opponents still holding them
...East hops up with A♦ and leads J♦. Declarer should play low, preserving his winner; he is blissfully unconcerned whether West ruffs with Q♥ or not....
June 14, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: delay play of crucial suit until distributional information is revealed
...You cash A♣ and K♣, East showing out, and now you can successfully finesse West for the jack, and your contract....
March 9, 2023
The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: Jewellery
In praise of cufflinks
...Alternatively, if you can bear being a little preppy, the little woven elastic ones from Brooks Brothers or J. Press are attractive, cheap and come in many colours....
June 21, 2023
Education
Yale and Harvard law schools spark exodus from influential rankings
...Moshe Porat, the dean of Temple University’s Richard J Fox School of Business and Management until 2018, was this year given a 14-month prison sentence and fined $250,000 after being convicted of fraud for...
November 17, 2022
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: US should be a brave penguin with an energy transition plan Premium content
...This is a pacy account of the racy roots of commodity trading groups by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, two former colleagues now working at Bloomberg....
November 4, 2022
Bridge - Card game
Identify and use all means to isolate threatening opponent
...East covered dummy’s jack; declarer won with K♠. 2♣ was led and, when West played Q♣, dummy’s ace took the trick....
December 13, 2022
Style
Rowing Blazers expands its preppy portfolio with Chipp
...Having spent years in sandy trenches with a fossil brush, Jack Carlson has a fondness for long-dead things. Classic American prep is one of them....
March 25, 2023
Moral Money
The lawyer who spoke out of turn
...“J’accuse!” he wrote in a scathing critique of UK cabinet ministers after a report that they were at risk of court action for not acting fast enough on climate change. “DWS????!”...
July 28, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Initial plan updated by information inferred from bidding and early play
...West holds six hearts headed by ace-king-jack. If he also held K♣, surely he would have overcalled 2H?...
September 20, 2022
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers destroy value. Without reform, nothing will change
...That’s not how it worked at General Electric, which in the two-decade tenure of Jack Welch was buying businesses at a rate of one a week....
July 20, 2022
FT Live
Future of Retail
Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation
Tuesday, 17 SeptemberLondon, UK
Due Diligence
Twitter confronts its ‘un-due diligence-able debt’ Premium content
...Consider that Cohen is asking for changes to a company where its own founder, Jack Ma, has made a very noticeable retreat from public view after criticising Chinese regulators....
January 18, 2023
ReviewAlbums
Foals: Life is Yours — vibrant-sounding but thinner in scope
...Foals’ origins lie in British indie rock from the late 2000s, a time when bands such as themselves, alt-J and Everything Everything emerged with a twisty musical sensibility that seemed to be formed as much...
June 17, 2022
Robin Lane Fox
Break new ground with bulbs you’ve never planted before
...DeJager, J Parkers and Jacques Amand are suppliers I use. Peter Nyssen has a keenly priced list and Organic Bulbs stock bulbs grown organically. Happy hunting, happy planting....
September 16, 2022
FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2024
Business Book of the Year 2022 — the longlist
...They include J Bradford DeLong’s forthcoming Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, which analyses the years from 1870 to 2010....
August 15, 2022
Tesco PLC
Tesco looks to axe 1,000-plus roles in shift to cheaper daytime work
...But wages at many supermarkets have already risen above that level, with Wm Morrison, Aldi, Lidl and J Sainsbury all paying or committing to pay £10 per hour or more....
February 1, 2022
Cat Rutter Pooley
Supermarkets braced for a cost of living bunfight
...Both Tesco and J Sainsbury have profited during previous periods of increasing prices....
April 7, 2022
J D Wetherspoon PLC
Wetherspoons hit by ‘cautious’ older customers’ reluctance to return
...Douglas Jack, an analyst at Peel Hunt, said the price cuts would help turnover but the benefit was likely to be “offset by lower margins”....
November 10, 2021
The Trump Organization
New York attorney-general lifts lid on Trump Organization numbers game
...It rebuffed Weisselberg, who then turned to Ladder Capital, where his son, Jack, worked as a director. The firm set about refinancing the property based on Trump’s figures....
January 20, 2022
ReviewAlbums
Jam and Lewis’s belated debut is a freshly minted trip down memory lane
...A multi-tracked Mary J Blige sings up a storm on “Spinnin’”, whose music is a well-judged mix of ornate orchestration and rhythmic discipline....
July 9, 2021
Letter
Letter: World leaders urged to boost vaccine availability
...president of YouGov Jimmy KolkerFormer assistant secretary, Global Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services Pascal LamyPresident of the Paris Peace Forum and former director-general of the WTO Jack...
August 31, 2021

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