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...When this loses, East can cash K♠ and lead Q♦, but declarer has time to win A♦, cash J♣, cross to dummy with J♥, and then play A♣ on which he can discard a diamond loser....
...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....
...He has the same losing options as West but with a bonus fourth one too: if he leads a trump, declarer can run it to dummy’s 10♠ or take East’s J♠ in hand, and then cross to 10♠....
...Let’s say that East rises with 10♦, J♦ is played and West wins with K♦. If he leads another diamond, it runs to declarer’s ♦A9; if he opts instead for a spade, this runs to South ♠KJ....
...Instead, Murphy’s main rival for Best Actor is likely to be Paul Giamatti, headliner of 1970-set comedy-drama The Holdovers....
...Yet lawyers and other professionals haven’t been held to the same standard, Bloomberg’s Paul J Davies writes. . . . and punishment However, the new US Corporate Transparency act could help the crackdown...
...Declarer should draw trumps, use Q♦ to throw a spade from dummy, and cross-ruff spades and diamonds. This is all easy, but what about the heart suit?...
...Trump; 2013 — Donald J. Trump; 2022 — Donald J. Trump; 2023 — Donald J. Trump. This year’s Super Bowl has a distinctively Trumpy flavour too....
...It seems a guess as to who might hold J♥ but, in fact, the odds are clear: there are two chances to one that it is East who holds J♥....
...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....
...Following a bequest of 10 of his pieces by his widow to LA’s J Paul Getty Museum, the full breadth of his oeuvre will be explored in a new book and exhibition....
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...Most notably it all comes together in Joshua Reynolds’ magnificent 1776 portrait of Mai, recently acquired jointly with the J Paul Getty Museum for £50mn....
...The creation of the university’s cross departmental Climate Action Week is no mean feat, given that Harvard is so prone to tribalism between departmental silos....
...Do not expect this to make you feel better about life or cross-border politics....
...Myners was appointed to the House of Lords in 2008 as a Labour peer, before moving to the cross-benches in 2014....
...The gallery lacks deep pockets: it has an endowment of only £3.5mn, compared with the $8.6bn of the trust behind the world’s richest museum, the J Paul Getty in Los Angeles....
...Wednesday’s earnings also revealed that longtime finance director Tushar Morzaria has retired, and will be replaced by his deputy Anna Cross....
...Instead, South should win trick 1 with A♦ in dummy and lead J♣. When East plays low, it should be run, losing to West’s Q♣. West continues with J♦, won in hand with K♦....
...The group, which is an international, cross-practice and cross-sector initiative, helps clients implement policies for managing digital rights and assets globally, including tracking regulatory updates....
...J&J deliveries remained sporadic, he said....
...Paul Dales: Yes....
...South must cash A♦ and A♥ and then cross to dummy’s K♥, before laying down both K♦ and Q♦ on which he does not pitch J♣ from hand but, crucially, his two remaining hearts....
...Streaming services tend to be less invested in cross-generational appeal....
...Psychologist Paul Slovic’s classic work on perceptions of risk showed that people need an anchor or numerical predictor to gauge an acceptable risk-benefit trade-off....
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