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...East overtakes the lead with A♠ and returns J♠. When this holds the trick, he switches to 10♣. Declarer rises with A♣ and reflects on the play to date....
...But it was his 1995 trial over the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, that would leave an indelible mark on American society....
...“We buy companies to get excellent people,” said Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in 2010. Appetite for acquisitions has changed since then....
...Before anyone had heard of fake news, Dustin Hoffman in Wag the Dog (1997) was a PR man for whom the truth was as disposable as a coffee cup....
...Inflection’s third co-founder, Reid Hoffman, the founder and executive chair of LinkedIn, will remain on Inflection’s board....
...Many British retailers including Marks and Spencer, John Lewis and Tesco, entered financial services in the 1990s, at a time of strong lending growth....
...“Our donors have been in this for the long haul from the beginning,” said SFA Fund political strategist Mark Harris....
...A Marks and Spencer superapp would be catnip for investors and Middle England alike. Little wonder that a report claiming it was on the cards sparked the odd frisson....
...East’s return of 2♠ marks him with four spades or two (if he started with three spades, he would return the higher of remaining cards)....
...At $500mn, it would mark the largest since the listing of liquor group ZJLD in April....
...Chris Rossbach, a fund manager at J Stern & Co, said it had voted in favour of Disney’s board recommendations....
...As for restaurants, La Latteria in the centro storico hits all the marks for me....
...The strong performance from Tesco and M&S comes a day after rival J Sainsbury disappointed investors with weak general merchandise sales....
...His Simpson’s reboot, meanwhile, sounds like it will be comparable to previous revivals of The Ivy and J Sheekey. “Hopefully, I know how to do Simpson’s,” he says....
...There is one massive exception to all this: K-pop and J-Pop. In the world of Korean pop, superstardom is very much still in business....
...Thaddaeus Ropac now represents Joan Snyder and marks its signing with a recent work for its booth at Frieze Los Angeles, “Even a Melon Field” (2020-23, $210,000)....
...His paintings answer TS Eliot’s call to modernism in “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”: “It is impossible to say just what I mean!...
...Rothschild also co-founded J Rothschild Assurance Group — now known as wealth manager St James’s Place — alongside Sir Mark Weinberg and Mike Wilson in 1991....
...Since it was founded in 1991 as J Rothschild Assurance, SJP has become a powerhouse with £158bn of funds under management and a network of almost 4,800 advisers offering wealth management and tax planning...
...Alex J Pollock Senior Fellow Mises Institute, Auburn, AL, US...
...UK companies news will be peppered with trading updates, notably supermarket chains Marks and Spencer, J Sainsbury and Tesco, discount retailer B&M and Greggs, purveyor of hot pastry snacks such as the vegan...
...Amy Edmondson, ‘Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive’ (2023) Favourite: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company, by Bryce Hoffman....
...West’s 10♣ lead marks East with J♣, so you have placed eight of your opponents’ points and can already conclude that, if East also held A♦, he would have 12pts: he probably wouldn’t have passed originally...
...Yet even today Trofimov’s conclusion would not be far from the mark: “A year into the war, it was . . . clear that Ukraine had won the war for its independence....
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