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...It seems unlikely, because he had done badly in their individual meetings and could not match the No1’s imaginative attacks. But with a home audience to inspire the challenger, who knows?...
...Leonard Hyman Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...Against Carlsen, his accuracy rate was in the mid-nineties against the No 1’s in the mid-eighties, a similar statistic to Carlsen v Niemann....
...Near the beginning of 2012’s A Death in the Family, volume 1 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s bestselling opus of auto-fiction My Struggle, a teenage Karl Ove describes the subterfuge involved in concealing a cache...
...In 2022’s Bouffées, the only sound was their breath, setting the pace of their staccato gestures — a raised fist to the cheek, a hand to the forehead, in complex canons that kept separating them and then...
...If you are looking for a deeply scholarly history of the Dictionary, turn to her previous work, 2012’s Words of the World; this new book is truly a people’s history....
...The S&P 500 hit another all-time high yesterday. More importantly, Trump Media & Technology Group rose another 14 per cent, right after we wrote that it looked a bit overvalued....
...Ramdane Touhami and Léonard Vernhet of arts journal Epoch Review....
...Fashion has had more than its fair share of controversy, from photoshoots combining bondage imagery and children (Balenciaga) to fatphobic remarks (Karl Lagerfeld) and accusations of sexual misconduct (multiple...
...As per the previous four, Haslam’s list is as acerbic as it is entertaining: particular favourites this year include “Your brownies recipe” and “Choupette” (the late Karl Lagerfeld’s pampered cat)....
...Elsewhere in Asian markets, Japan’s Topix index rose 1.5 per cent and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.6 per cent....
...The benchmark S&P 500 finished 0.6 per cent higher, led by tech stocks, while the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite added 1.1 per cent....
...Puzzle 2493 Karl Murazia vs Michael Feygin, Germany 2014. White to move and win. Play went 1 Qg1? Qg4+! 2 Ke3 Qf3+ when Black won the a3 rook and later the game....
...His win with Black against Anish Giri of the Netherlands showed the No1’s technique at its best, as well as his constant search for improvement....
...The company is one of the oldest continuously operating brands in luxury, founded as a family-run ribbon maker by Karl Franz in 1851, three years before Louis Vuitton began stitching together leather trunks...
...For a good idea of what I listen to while I’m writing this email, check out Radio 3’s excellent Night Tracks programme....
...Elsewhere on Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.7 per cent higher following a sharp sell-off last week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 1.5 per cent....
...Leonard S. Hyman Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...The blue-chip S&P 500 closed 0.2 per cent higher in New York on Monday to end a three-session losing streak, having oscillated between gains and losses early in the day....
...Fifty-six straight minutes of “Hallelujah”s....
...“Background jitters are beginning to emerge around the upcoming debt ceiling deadline,” said Karl Schamotta, chief market strategist at Corpay....
...Its prize funds are lower than Chess24’s, but still enough to attract the best players, as in the current women’s speed championship which has featured a rare appearance by the semi-retired all-time No2...
...Until February 18; further information and tickets here Festival South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SOBEWFF) 2024’s iteration of this long-running festival looks set to be spectacular....
...Colorado Three blocks west along Main Street from the venerable Hotel Jerome where Hunter S Thompson held court, Mollie Aspen is a swish reinvention of what was the three-star Molly Gibson Lodge....
...“By combining high adoption rate[s] with slight reductions in the herd, we can achieve the targets,” he said....
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