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...A trio of countertenors (Eric Jurenas, plus Key’mon W Murrah and Siman Chung in their debuts) also narrate, and briefly play the Three Kings....
...Its public life is fevered enough without hundreds of millions of half-informed voyeurs on the other side of the glass....
...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.”...
...Hip-hop’s biggest names are hurling insults at each other — a veritable feast of roasting and grilling from the self-styled kings, gods and goats of US rap....
...King has two in the works. Food for Thought, due next February, offers life lessons based on his career....
...“Idiosyncratic sounds like idiotic — and Silicon Valley was that,” says Lawrence J White, a finance professor at New York University who formerly worked in government during the savings and loan crisis....
...Seligman started his journey to America in 1837 on a horse-drawn cart from a Bavarian farming town and went on to make a fortune as the founder of J & W Seligman & Co, which became famous for trading US...
...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....
...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?...
...Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J King Particular Books, £25, 512 pages Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood William Collins, £20, 416 pages Victor Mallet is an FT journalist based in Paris...
...Mandy Madden Kelley, entrepreneur I would never part with my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...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....
...Jae5 has given it a London stamp, especially through his work with leading UK rapper J Hus....
...It’s 11am on a Friday and the busiest counter in Space NK’s King’s Cross store in central London is Rare Beauty, the make-up line from singer Selena Gomez....
...At trick 2, South leads J♣, not covered by West, runs it, and is relieved when it holds....
...King leads Memphis March, Pleads for poor”....
...“J’aime votre chariot!” said a passing cyclist, leaping to my assistance. His grin carried a whiff of sarcasm. “Est-ce lourd?”...
...He travelled by foot, tram, “motor coach” and chauffeur-driven Daimler (he was a successful author by this time) to absorb “the lovely thickness of life”....
...Should he play for J♦ to drop, or take the finesse?...
...“I’ve worked with boats my whole life in some way,” says Hallén, J Craft’s longest serving employee....
...Wagtail, 68 King William St, London EC4; wagtaillondon.com The Terrace at Norma A slice of Sicily on a corner of Fitzrovia....
...The bulbs are now more compact, suiting them to life in a wide pot, and the flowers are finer, held on stiff stems in late May before the garden is full of later-flowering bearded irises....
...Because, like, you know, I just watched The Mother, which is why J. Lo is so heavily on my mind. J. Lo is 54 years old right now. In the movie, Diane Keaton is 56....
...If East throws K♠ — as he probably should — when West gains the lead with K♦, he can only cash Q♠, before your J♠ becomes good....
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