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...East won with K♣, and led a third diamond to West’s king. The case for the defence began immediately: “Both finesses wrong — as usual — couldn’t be made.”...
...Murphy’s best actor prize for playing the tortured Oppenheimer saw him pull ahead of nominees including Paul Giamatti, star of bittersweet comedy The Holdovers....
...We might sometimes forget that MLK did not set out to become a world-changing leader, the Martin Luther King Jr we know him as....
...However, when West continues with K♥ and J♥, you ruff high in dummy and East shows out. How does that change your plans? West is now marked with six hearts headed by ace-king-jack....
...Having drawn trumps, South took the diamond finesse, losing to East’s king. East exited passively with another diamond....
...Instead, Murphy’s main rival for Best Actor is likely to be Paul Giamatti, headliner of 1970-set comedy-drama The Holdovers....
...The beauty of South’s play was this: even if West wins the third club trick with J♣, declarer was safe. What could West lead?...
...Readers are carried through the US civil war and its aftermath, multiple financial panics in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paul Warburg’s contribution in establishing the Federal Reserve in 1913, the...
...At the first table, declarer won in dummy, and played a spade to ace and cashed the king. When Q♠ failed to drop, he was one down....
...The club’s executive chairman is one Daniel J....
...At trick 2, South leads J♣, not covered by West, runs it, and is relieved when it holds....
...Read Paul’s previous Bridge columns at ft.com/bridge-card-game...
...Top corporate lawyer Scott Barshay of Paul Weiss noted Delaware had become particularly tough with controlling shareholders, including Musk....
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...The film is based on an unfinished manuscript called Remember This House, a memoir of Baldwin’s personal recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, which he...
...In the UK, police forces are not alone in adopting the technology — schools and private retailers, such as the Southern Co-op and J Sainsbury, have all begun to use it....
...He stood up for civilian control of government against the would-be warrior-king General Douglas MacArthur....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for the Democratic nomination, said in April that “CBDCs grease the slippery slope to financial slavery and political tyranny”....
...Paul Getty Museum in California....
...Plates from the daily-changing menu might include Cornish king crab, steamed abalone and Scottish lobster, with the option of wine, sake, beer and whisky pairings....
...West holds six hearts headed by ace-king-jack. If he also held K♣, surely he would have overcalled 2H?...
...When heirs to the fortune of oil tycoon J Paul Getty began feuding with their longtime wealth manager, the dynastic drama leaked into the public sphere, the New Yorker writes Better late than never On World...
...Actor Paul Chahidi has played many versions of status and power over his career on stage and screen, including politburo member Nikolai Bulganin in The Death of Stalin....
...Fatheree has also worked on other racial equity issues, such as developing the first commercial community land trust for black business owners in Los Angeles, and advising the J Paul Getty Trust to ensure...
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