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...The critical game was an unusual reversed Queen’s Gambit, a sharp opening line that Ju had prepared in depth beforehand and eventually gave her a material balance of two knights for a rook and pawn....
...With a sharp eye and no less sharp pen, essays on reggae and politics chart the fight to establish a black British identity. He’s a laureate of the untreasured....
...The Wharf is at the sharp edge of a crisis in the $4.65tn global office investment market and a generational rethink about where people should work....
...It had everything — a sharp opening with a material imbalance, a knight retreat from f3 to its starting square g1, two exchange sacrifices, a winning king march, four queens on the board at the same time...
...Martin modelled in the 1980s for the likes of Hermès, a fact Clark-Perry didn’t know when he scouted him on the beach in St Leonards. Relatability seems part of such models’ appeal....
...Playing Black against 1 d4, Hebden’s long time favourite is the King’s Indian Nf6, g6 and Bg7, which he used in a key victory last week and was ready when White chose the sharp Four Pawns Attack....
...Can you find his sharp sequence here? Click here for solution...
...One English artist is included in these ranks: Sophie Barber from St Leonards-on-Sea....
...But what I definitely have done in that month (in my sharp back-to-work September haircut, also bizarrely omitted from the canon) is attend office awaydays and their less glamorous sibling, the here-day....
...The brilliancy prize went to Board 2, where Black’s Dutch Defence 1 d4 f5 led to a sharp and eventful battle in open play....
...It has long been a favourite with players who like an early sharp counter-attack. Several of England’s grandmasters past and present have used it in key games, particularly when meeting Russians....
...patrick.jenkins@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Sparks should fly after recent energy debacle / From Leonard Hyman, Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...“Nobody is pointing at things and saying they are cheap,” said John Leonard, the global head of equities at Macquarie Asset Management....
...As a result, the group, which is owned by private equity group Leonard Green & Partners, said last week that it was “considering its strategic options, potentially including an IPO”....
...His clothes are luxurious and perfectly tailored, but understated: custom suits by Manhattan tailor Leonard Logsdail, unbranded baseball caps and shawl-collar sweaters....
...Meanwhile, political philosopher Francis Fukuyama returns to familiar areas of inquiry in Liberalism and its Discontents (Profile, March), a short, sharp defence of a world view under threat....
...His second, For The Good Times, explored the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and was narrated by a member of a Belfast chapter of the IRA with a taste for sharp suits and the songs of Perry Como...
...There is a Yeats Gallery, opened in 2010 by Leonard Cohen, containing manuscripts and photos of the poet, as well as paintings by his brother, Jack....
...The playing, though, is full of feeling, poetic and rhapsodic at turns, and in Scriabin’s Etude in D Sharp Minor, Op. 8 No. 12, it rises to a tempestuous close. ★★★☆☆ carnegiehall.org...
...Leonard Cohen made a grand farewell with his album You Want It Darker , a set of indomitable songs about mortality, love and religion released just before his death in 2016....
...Someone quotes a Leonard Cohen song. “There is a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.” As a shopkeeper comments of the golden repair work on a broken bowl: “What lovely cracks.”...
...And they could have done without John Leonard’s sound design, which tugs clumsily at our emotional strings....
...Technically, the standout feature has been the world champion’s use of a sharp counter-attack with an early e7-e5 in the Sicilian Defence....
...If this marks the sharp change in Koch’s political engagement which he claims, his core beliefs remain unaltered: in the same piece, he lamented that both parties share “the troubling assumption that the...
...Engrossingly weird, they leap off the page in sharp, supple black lines within ornamental settings so obscurely suggestive that Beardsley’s own publisher would hold his drawings upside-down to screen for...
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