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...Most other white first moves fail to Rh6+-h8 or Rf1+-b1 stopping White’s b pawn. Chess: 2287 (a) e3 (b) h1 (c) a8 and mate by 1 Qc8 (d) g7....
...Fitch Ratings downgraded Vanke in October from triple B plus to triple B, citing weaker than expected sales....
...England over-50 women’s team also won gold, England over-65 silver, and England over-50 B bronze in the tournament at Swidnica, Poland....
...Exclusive: Jeff Zucker has hit out at rival bidders for the Telegraph, a rightwing British newspaper....
...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...
...In Paul Taylor’s Company B, peppy Andrews Sisters numbers became an ironic counterpoint to the human cost of war....
...I have so many style icons: Gianni Agnelli, Michael Chow, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp… but Agnelli came to my mind first. He was so elegant but so original....
...Puzzle 2487 A two puzzles in one problem by Helgut Hjorth (1911): (a) White mates in three moves (b) What is the snag with this solution? Click here for solution...
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...Puzzle 2472 White mates in four moves (by Manfred Zucker, 1990). Few pieces and just a single line of play, but a test of your solving skills. Click here for solution...
...Mirisch, then just 25, was cutting his teeth at Monogram-Allied, a studio that specialised in B-movies that could be shot quickly and on a shoestring budget....
...Jeff Zucker, the former president of CNN, has joined US private equity group RedBird to launch a $1bn sports, media and entertainment fund with International Media Investments....
...His musical interests range from Wagner to Leonard Cohen to jazz. A polo player and huntsman, he is not known to enjoy watching mainstream sport....
...Like the right to make money when people listen to Leonard Cohen songs. You know, it’s a very kind of interesting piece of Wall Street financial engineering that’s been applied to music here....
...The choice is between (a) 1 Kc5 and (b) 1 Kc4. One move draws, the other loses. Russia’s No1 Nepomniachtchi got it wrong, can you do better? Click here for solution...
...B&N grew from a single store in New York in 1971 to a national chain under the ownership of Leonard Riggio and his family. But both companies were beaten by Amazon....
...It is one of the great late-career runs of albums, to put alongside Johnny Cash’s or Leonard Cohen’s, even if the notion of Jones the artist might still seem odd to those who can only visualise him under...
...Last week rating agency Fitch downgraded PureGym’s bonds from single B to single B minus, pushing it deeper into “junk” territory....
...Despite the company’s private equity owner Leonard Green & Partners injecting £100m of cash into the business in September, PureGym still carries a B minus credit rating, just one notch above the highly...
...It was opened in 2015 by Alan Faena, an Argentine fashion designer turned property developer, with backing from Ukraine-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik....
...(b) Why was it strong (not difficult)? (c) What did the disbelieving grandmaster commentator. so shocked that he repeated his question three times, ask his colleague (a little harder)?...
...Warner Music, in contrast, made 86 per cent of its revenues last year by managing the careers of artists such as Cardi B....
...Felicia Mayo, who joined Nike from Tesla last year, will take over from Kellie Leonard and assume the new title of chief talent, diversity and culture officer....
...Statement nails were already making a comeback before Covid-19, as seen on Cardi B and on the Gucci logo-embossed green claws worn by Billie Eilish at the Grammys in January....
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