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...Puzzle 2557 Esteban Canal v Amateur, Budapest 1934. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...“Markets are hoping that inflationary pressure will just magically disappear,” said Wei Li, chief investment strategist at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager....
...Shaping Space: Architectural Models Revealed, a small and lovely show at London’s Building Centre (in conjunction with the V&A) illustrates the range of media and approaches, and intimates that this might...
...I mean, a couple of months ago when the Supreme Court made its decision essentially overturning Roe v Wade on abortion, there was a sense that maybe the Democrats could use that or that people would come...
...Protect your woollens Fold or roll knitwear and stack it on shelves according to its weight — chunky knits, medium-gauge, fine-gauge — and like with like: polo necks, round necks, V-necks....
...Puzzle 2423 Wei Yi v Tigran L Petrosian, China v Armenia, Pro Chess League 2020. Find White’s surprise winning move. Click here for solution...
...Nick Coleridge, chair of the V&A museum and former overlord of Condé Nast Britain, publisher of House & Garden and The World of Interiors, thinks that working from home and Zoom have made the Instagram generation...
...His own attorney-general, William Barr, has said there was no evidence of election fraud that affected the outcome of the vote....
...US attorney-general William Barr publicly rebuked Donald Trump, saying the president’s tweets about ongoing criminal cases had made it “impossible” to do his job, while the US Senate voted to limit Mr Trump...
...The last talent hailed as a potential Carlsen challenger was Wei Yi, at 15 the youngest to reach the elite 2700 rating....
...William Barr said in a television interview that the president’s tweets about the case made it impossible for him to do his job....
...William Barr would also still be US attorney-general. I don’t have any ringing conclusions to this jeremiad except to say I hope that I’m being a Cassandra....
...More cases are coming: on November 26 congressional Democrats on the House oversight committee sued attorney-general Bill Barr and commerce secretary Wilbur Ross for refusing to comply with subpoenas for...
...In July, Alibaba’s chip subsidiary Pingtouge released a processor chip based on RISC-V architecture....
...“They [advisers] have to hunt for new clients,” says Wei Ke, a partner at Germany-based consultancy Simon-Kucher....
...“China’s economic trajectory will be “L-shaped”, rather than “U-shaped”, and definitely not “V-shaped....
...(WSJ) News round-up Barr recuses himself from T-Mobile-Sprint merger decision (NYPost) KKR reaps benefits of restructuring as earnings top view (FT) Beyond Meat looks to raise up to $240m in upsized...
...Nicholas Barr: As the economy picks up, cyclical unemployment will fall....
...What we’re reading Barr v Congress When William Barr cleared Donald Trump on obstruction of justice on Sunday, the US attorney-general held true to a long-held and expansive view of presidential authority...
...(FT) The day ahead Barr won’t bar Mueller William Barr, Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney-general, will promise to let Robert Mueller complete his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election...
...(FT) Wei Zhu, global co-head of Standard Chartered Bank Private Equity, has left the position to take a role at Accenture as its chairman of greater China....
...He threw me some cotton shoes half my size and a smelly red vest with a “V” torn into its neck, and “Shanghai Detention Centre” stamped on its back. At about 3am I was tossed into a sweltering cell....
...In an extraordinary public statement, Lee Hsien Yang said that he, his wife, and his sister Lee Wei Ling feared “the use of the organs of state” against them following the death of their father in 2015....
...In a very public row that has captivated Singaporeans, Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister and son of the founding leader, has been accused by younger brother Lee Hsien Yang and sister Lee Wei Ling of failing...
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