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Letter
Letter: Correcting your maths
...Paul L Colby Alexandria, VA, US...
April 8, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: correct bid attained by considering all four hands
...Players reluctant to make such a bid cited the singleton and doubleton holdings in the major suits, but this is not valid....
April 10, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: determined player’s aggressive bid sets challenge to bring home thin contract
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
March 6, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: fine slam relies on controls, long suits and some decent fortune
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
February 28, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Bridge: key play found by assuming trumps split badly and defence is aggressive
...Paul Mendelson’s new book, ‘The Joy of Bridge’, is out now...
January 16, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Targets matter: do not let your eye or mind stray from it
...Three spades and five hearts is eight tricks; since to attack diamonds suggests that South held ♦KQ5, this now suggests short clubs, probably a singleton. Counting complete, West pounced....
December 27, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Bridge - Card game
In case both finesses are wrong, which they are — again — prepare for end position
...BiddingDealer: EastLove All At duplicate pairs, without a singleton or void in North’s hand, 6NT seems the best bid. 6H allows you simply to ruff a spade or a diamond for your 12th trick, whereas in 6NT...
November 22, 2023
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #44: Paul Cézanne
...Paul Cézanne was “the greatest of us all”, Claude Monet once said....
November 25, 2023
Travel
Asturias — why Spain’s cool coast is this summer’s hot destination
...Curiosities include Afuega’l Pitu, whose chalky texture and piquant taste you either love or loathe, and the strange Casín, a tiny, rock-hard, powerfully flavoured cheese rescued from imminent extinction...
March 13, 2024
Letter
Letter: Plaudits for piece tackling the civilisation myth
...Dr John Warren Ipswich, Suffolk, UK Letter in response to this letter: Correcting your maths / From Paul L Colby, Alexandria, VA, US...
February 23, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Lacking both entries and confidence, declarer must enlist help of unwilling opponent
...BiddingDealer: NorthE/W Game The singleton A♦ may have put some off from raising no-trumps but, once bid, South is maximum, and must try for game....
August 16, 2023
FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
My Left Bank, by Paul & Joe founder Sophie Mechaly
...In front of Les Invalides there is a café with a big terrace called Café de l’Esplanade, with the same owners as Hôtel Costes....
January 16, 2024
Bridge - Card game
Restrained bidding when vulnerable and accurate defence leads to excellent score
...The principle is a simple one: with no standout lead against an auction that has featured only one suit, lead a doubleton or trebleton trump; singletons and 4-card holdings risk spoiling your side’s defensive...
July 18, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay — the defiant painters who gave us modern art
...The Orsay includes prominent examples from 1874: “Sarpédon”, Henri Lévy’s three-metre tale of heroism in the Trojan wars, immediately bought by the state; Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “L’Éminence Grise”, a story about...
March 29, 2024
Puig SA
Beauty group Puig looks to raise €2.5bn in IPO
...Puig is small compared with sector-leading peers L’Oréal and Estée Lauder, but has grown rapidly through acquisitions in the past decade, striking 11 deals in the past 12 years....
April 8, 2024
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
News in-depthPuig SA
How deal-hungry Puig became beauty’s ‘flexible’ conglomerate
...Jean Paul Gaultier, who sold to Puig in 2011, is still involved with his label even though he has retired....
January 26, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions
Private equity firm McWin buys €80mn restaurant group Sticks’n’Sushi
...“Private equity have fairly deep pockets and they like to spot opportunities,” said Paul Newman, head of leisure and hospitality at consultants RSM UK....
January 31, 2024
European prime property
Homebuyers find a quieter Côte d’Azur in its hill towns
...With few homes changing hands, buyers of homes in the hill towns and villages along the Côte d’Azur, including Mougins, Valbonne, Tourrettes-sur-Loup and Saint-Paul-de-Vence, are securing good discounts....
April 25, 2024
Jo Ellison
Forget Santa, Hugh Grant is the face of Christmas
...There he is, despoiling the fruity singleton Bridget Jones as the devilish Daniel Cleaver, or perambulating London as the disaffected bachelor at the centre of About a Boy....
December 15, 2023
HTSIHow To Spend It Wisely: the sustainability special 2023
The world’s best repair shops
...Alterations start from £25, and appointments are advised (though not necessary). kingsroad@rixo.co.uk JS L’Art de l’Aiguille, Paris Hidden away in the quiet Rue Régis, just off St-Germain-des-Prés in the...
October 19, 2023
Bridge - Card game
Key bid can lead to excellent small slam
...K♠ could well be a trick and his singleton club could provide one to three ruffs in dummy. So, South decided to jump to 4C. Would his partner understand the meaning of such a bid?...
March 14, 2023
HTSI
What would Anni Albers buy?
...Jean Paul Gaultier viscose The Body Morphing minidress, £600, doverstreetmarket.com Large Triangles, 2022, by Jesús Pedraglio, $16,000, artsy.net Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1970s wood revolving bookcase...
October 13, 2023
FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
Men’s style goes back to school this autumn
...jumper, €110 Private White VC Ventile cotton Harrington 3.0 jacket, £595 Michael Kors metal-frame Pierce sunglasses, £170 Luca Faloni leather bag, £725 Crockett & Jones suede Chelsea 5 boots, £470 L’...
September 15, 2023
ReviewHistory books
The Eastern Front by Nick Lloyd — truth bombs
...Who outside central Europe knows the first world war battles of Przemyśl, Lemberg (now L’viv) or the dozen or so on the Isonzo river?...
March 28, 2024
HTSI
Men’s jewellery gets romantic
...Chaumet gold and diamond L’Épi de Blé de Chaumet ring, £10,200. Saskia Diez sterling-silver Long Star earring, €105 for a pair Paul Smith silk shirt, £425, and matching silk tie, £110....
December 5, 2023

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