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...South cashed A♦ and K♠ and went over to dummy with A♠ to play K♦, throwing a spade from hand. When this held, this is trick 11. For his 12th trick, he led dummy’s fourth diamond....
...Chess 2487(a) 1 f8=N! g6 2 Kh6! g5 3 Ng6 mate. (b) The diagram is an illegal position! Black has no possible last move. Chess 24861 Rxf4! exf4 2 Qg6+ Kh8 3 Ng5!...
...Declarer wins in hand with a top trump, and must resist the temptation to draw a second round. Diamonds should be played next: K♦, A♦, and then a ruff, with a high trump in hand....
...There is, he argues, also a huge swath of people who would happily drive a pick-up but are dissuaded by some of the associations. “Who is going to go to a country club and pull up in a truck in . . ....
...This is best illustrated by US political researchers Ismail K White and Chryl N Laird, whose eye-opening 2020 book Steadfast Democrats demonstrates the incongruity between many black Americans’ policy preferences...
...Whereas her previous records have featured a hectic pick ’n’ mix of co-writers, here there’s a more focused production and writing team featuring OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder....
...Ogulu made his musical debut in 2010 with a string of single releases, eventually releasing his debut album, L.I.F.E – Leaving an Impact For Eternity in 2013....
...Simon Byrne, PSNI chief constable, has said no one had yet been rehoused as a result of Tuesday’s blunder, but the force is bracing for a flood of as yet unquantifiable compensation claims and also potential...
...Trustfall feels less like a cohesive album than a catchy pick‘n’mix designed for digital playlists....
...“I’ve Been In Love” is a swooning house-laced groove featuring a silly patter from Compton rapper Channel Tres (“We back in my Tesla/ And we might get arrested”), but his dropping of the “n” word sounds...
...Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux (W&N/Crown Currency) It’ll be a while before a definitive account of the cryptocurrency phenomenon appears, but Bloomberg reporter...
...We went from a very smooth kind of R&B to a very cool way of inflecting our rock’n’roll approach.”...
...Third, paragraph 12(6)(b) specifies a maximum level of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a chemical formed over time and much more quickly if the honey is heated....
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...Her music was an idiosyncratic but coherent blend of R&B, electronic music, hip-hop and surreal passages of Irish fiddle-playing, performed with bravura stage presence....
...There’s a clue on the homepage of Santadi’s website in a box that says “Campaign financed according to EU regulation N. 1308/13”....
...Tony Blair to N.F.L star Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Giselle Bundchen....
...The Tennessee-born singer, who has died aged 83, brought the tradition of blues and gospel shouters into the loudly amplified world of rock ’n’ soul in the 1960s....
...Ethan WuB-O-N-K. Bonk, right on the head. Katie MartinHmm. Means something different in English, English English. But whatever....
...If you haven’t yet read Time Shelter (W&N/Liveright) by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of this year’s International Booker Prize, a treat awaits: it’s a brilliant, elegiac and darkly humorous story of memory...
...If you do not fancy this, then Agnès b and American Vintage’s fine jersey and Hanro’s Ultralight tops work well too....
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...“It’s going to be more groove-led, it’ll have elements of disco — that sense of celebration and escape — and the big vocal with melodrama, beautiful arrangements and a driving beat....
...(N.b. the Chart A referred to is the same as chart 2.9 above.) So the path to Bank-approved MRP analysis, it turns out, lay in simple heteroskedasticity. Why didn’t we think of that?...
.... -- More power, more rooms -- Commodity houses dodge the liquidity squeeze -- Drum and bass is back -- Apollo rising -- Scammers snap up domains -- A clash of two systems -- Song of the day: Imaginary...
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