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...3 K moves Qxf7 skewers White’s king and queen. Chess 2405 1 e4! dxe4 2 Rd5++! Kxd5 3 Kb5! e3 4 Nf6 mate. Chess 2404 1...Bb5! wins by zugzwang (compulsion to make a losing move)....
...Other multiple nominees included Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s biopic of composer Leonard Bernstein, with seven nods including Cooper’s own performance as Best Actor; and literary satire American Fiction, whose...
...They aren’t risky; there was only $139mn of credit loss allowances against employee loans as of the last 10-K....
...The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflictby Mark Leonard, Bantam Press £18.99/$36.95 Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has written a book that has the twin merits...
...West is likely to hold K♦ and spade length. At trick 1, East played J♥ and South won with K♥....
...Resigns since Qxd6 3 Qa8+ leads to mate and 2…K moves 3 Bxc7 puts White a piece ahead. Chess: 2307 1 Qe4? f5! 2 Qxe5 Bf6 traps the white queen. Chess: 2306 1 Kd4! Nc2+ 2 Ke5!...
...It was opened in 2015 by Alan Faena, an Argentine fashion designer turned property developer, with backing from Ukraine-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik....
...It’s perhaps the most famous song written by Leonard Cohen, who died this week aged 82. And yet “Hallelujah” almost didn’t get released; and when it was, it passed almost unnoticed....
...Wendall K. Harrington’s clever videos grew all too sparse and all too scarce as time dragged on....
...James McMahon Photographs: Annie Flanagan for the FT; Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos; David Fenton/Getty Images...
...The Plea reads like an idiosyncratic cross between Elmore Leonard and John Grisham, but bursts with its own individual flavour....
...From Mr K Felix Mjumbe....
...In 1986, Leonard Wantchekon, then a student leader in Benin, west Africa, escaped from Segbana jail after being tortured and held for 18 months for organising university protests against the dictator Mathieu...
...Leonard St Clair Ingrams, OBE, came from a long line of clergymen and was a dashing figure, a bit of a philanderer and a brilliant financier....
...The highest court in the UK ruled on Wednesday that Patricia Jones was entitled to 90 per cent of the £245,000 Essex property she had bought with Leonard Kernott in 1985....
...“It would drive me mad,” she says, adding that China’s capital can seem like “something out of a Philip K Dick novel – or from Blade Runner....
...Matters are not helped by the fact that Jackie K is underwritten, leaving Lydia Leonard struggling to enliven her, and Anna Francolini as Maria Callas is saddled with stalking around in a kimono and ranting...
...“He [Leonard] was a master of jazz, except his instrument was a camera,” music author K. Heather Pinson told The New York Times....
...Paul Simon’s “American Tune” – with its lyrics of lost security – felt entirely Toussaint’s own; Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” was understated but hypnotic....
...The notes of Keynes’s surname emerge (using an established composing device that requires a little flexible interpretation – K becomes C and so on) – and with them a sense of hope....
...When Azinger, the winner of the 1993 USPGA Championship, was first appointed to the post following his nation’s second successive nine-point mauling at the K Club in the Irish Republic in 2006, he knew an...
...On cue, a man sidled up to the podium and delivered a monotone straight out of the Leonard Nimoy phrasebook....
...He’s full of encouraging examples, including some which ought to be discouraging but aren’t, such as how long it took J.K....
...But then k.d. lang launched into Leonard Cohen’s “Allelujah” and I was transported again, the two of us singing our guts out – as we did to “Leaving on a Jet Plane” when Caroline was very small – amid the...
...THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES by Elmore Leonard Weidenfeld & Nicolson ₤16.99, 544 pages He is most often associated with fast-paced, glitzy crime novels, but Leonard cut his teeth penning stories about...
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