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...Chess 24341 d4 2 d5 3 d6 4 dxc7 5 dxb8=R! 6 Rxb7 7 Rxd7 8 Rxd8 mate. Chess 24331 h4! Bc1 (other bishop moves are no better) 2 Qxg6!...
...Now he is a frontrunner, who was joint leader with 17-year-old Gukesh D (India) on 4/6, ahead of the favourite Fabiano Caruana (US) and Praggnanandhaa R (India) on 3.5....
...battle between the trio of Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura (US) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) in their thirties, and the under-21 group of Alireza Firouzja (France) and the Indians Praggnanandhaa R...
...Following a group show at the Smithsonian last year, Lugo’s recent exhibition at R & Company in New York drew upon personal narratives, “remixing” historical inspirations with “motifs inspired by the street...
...Net income increased slightly to a record R$2.2bn ($424mn), despite a R$1.2bn provision linked to a retail chain hit by an accounting scandal that affected several other lenders in Brazil....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...Christopher R MundySt Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...Spanish designer Andreu Carulla works with Desa’s on-site R&D workshop, producing roly-poly stools from recycled Styrofoam....
...Vicky Pryce: It depends on how you define stagnation....
...There are longtime fixtures like Espasso and R & Company, which now spans two incredible spaces. (I’m especially excited about its current exhibition on female California designers.)...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Michael Lamach, the former CEO and chair of Trane Technologies, as an operating adviser to CD&R funds....
.../ From Ted Gaffney, Waterford, CT, US A tie manufacturer gives the FT a dressing-down / From Christopher R Mundy, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...“The Fed is not in the business to buoy equity valuations or crypto or Spacs,” said John Leonard, global head of equities at Macquarie Asset Management....
...The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflictby Mark Leonard, Bantam Press £18.99/$36.95 Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, has written a book that has the twin merits...
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired former Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs Anand Shah as an operating adviser to CD&R funds....
...CD&R has indicated it is considering raising its takeover offer to £10.80 a share, UDG said....
...The return of millions of schoolchildren to classrooms in England from Monday is a “relief” for pupils, parents and teachers after more than two months of government enforced school closures, said Vicky...
...Vicky Pryce: The government will be raising a considerable amount of extra revenues through its stealth taxes in 2023....
...Research from Sage suggests they have an R rate well below one....
...when 3 b8=Q or 2 b8=R draw by stalemate, 3 b8=B cannot win with two dark-squared bishops, and 3 b8=N+ Kb7 draws. Chess: 2314 1 Kd3! If Kf5 2 Kd4 mate, or Kd5 2 Qd4 mate....
...It is one of the great late-career runs of albums, to put alongside Johnny Cash’s or Leonard Cohen’s, even if the notion of Jones the artist might still seem odd to those who can only visualise him under...
...Mundy, St Leonard’s-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK...
...TPG and Leonard Green & Partners stand to see their existing stakes all but wiped out....
...Vicky Pryce: Inflation is likely to still be above target- and handsomely so, by end 2022....
...Its eclectic score draws on everything from hip-hop and R’n’B to Broadway show tune traditions....
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