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for short
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language
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experts
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Braxton
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once
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two
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lake
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terminus
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BRIDGE
PSYCHOLOGY
Neither vulnerable, South deals
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The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1NT Pass 3NT All pass
Opening lead: Eight ofO
We arc indebted to Matthew
Granovetter, editor and publisher of
the excellent Bridge Today magazine,
for today’s deal.
The correct play in three no trump
is to go after the diamond suit. A
double finesse is called for, meaning
declarer first leads a low diamond
from dummy to his 10. Win or lose,
declarer then crosses back to dummy
and leads a diamond to his queen.
This is a high-percentage play and,
on this deal, would produce 10 tricks.
Something happened, however, on
the way to this easy overtrick.
South won the opening heart lead
in dummy and led a low diamond.
Instead of playing low, East played
his king of diamonds. There was no
technical reason for making this play
on this deal, although there might
have been had partner led a low heart,
indicating strength in the heart suit. If
so, East might have wanted to grab
the lead to return partner’s suit before
partner’s possible ace of hearts was
knocked out.
The play of the king had the
psychological effect of making South
think that East started with shortness
in diamonds. There would be no
point, in that case, of returning to
dummy for another diamond play.
South just won with his ace, cashed
the queen of diamonds, and led
another diamond. East grabbed this
with his jack and returned a low club,
allowing the defense to take four
club tricks and defeat the contract.
Granovetter says that he has seen this
ploy work many times, though it is
hard to explain why.
(Bob Jones welcomes readers’
e-mails: icaeditors@iribpub.com)
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VOTING TO RAISE PRICES
MORE THAN 500 PERCENT,
THE SELFISH BUSINESS
PEOPLE —
Now arrange the circled letters
to form the surprise answer, as
suggested by the above cartoon.
Answer
here:
Yesterday's
(Answers tomorrow)
Jumbles: PIXEL MONTH FAMILY DREDGE
Answer: When it came to making presents for her family,
the girl was — GIFTED
Earn your own love and respect
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
Dear Carolyn:
My wife feels unful
filled in our relationship
and wants to move on.
We are great friends,
and I’ll admit our mar
riage has gone flat.
She will seek counsel
ing, but I feel she has
already made up her
mind.
I have put in writing the changes
I need and want to make. I have
addressed her complaints — that I am
stubborn, un-alive, un-driven in my
career, emotionally dependent on her
and have too few friends — which are
valid.
I’m seeing a career adviser, vol
unteering, contacting old friends,
turning off the TV, buying her flowers
and cooking her romantic dinners.
Already I feel more confident and
alive. I fear I am too late. When do
marriages become irreconcilable?
She is the love of my life and I am
determined to earn her love and
respect.
— D.C.
D.C., D.C., earn your own love and
respect.
To answer your question, a mar
riage becomes irreconcilable when
one of you decides it is.
That’s apparently up to your wife
now, and while everything you’ve
undertaken to lobby her sounds
healthy and productive, the fact that
you’re lobbying her is anything but.
You’ve jumped from depending on
your wife to be your entire purpose in
life to making it your entire purpose
in life to win back your wife. If you’re
having trouble seeing the distinction,
good, because I have no
idea what it is myself.
Maybe codependence
updating its resume ver
sus codependence eating
a bag of chips.
You say you feel more
confident and alive.
Good stuff. That has to be
what drives you now, and
braces you.
Not only because your marriage
might be beyond saving, but because
its only hope is for you to save you —
enough to become an entity unto your
self versus a satellite of your wife.
Carolyn:
A close friend is in a wedding
next weekend. She just found out the
bride’s mom died and is to be buried
on Monday.
They are going through with the
wedding. I think that is incredibly
tacky.
Five years ago, my brother got
engaged to a great girl. Her family
planned an elaborate engagement
party at some real expense. My mom
died, unexpectedly, six days before
the party. It was horrible. The bride’s
mother canceled the party and sent a
letter that my dad held while he cried.
It said that in light of the tragic death
of the groom-to-be’s mother, this spe
cial but ultimately trivial party will
not be held.
My dad and I still can’t believe how
thoughtful his daughter-in-law’s par
ents were. Am I just weird about this,
or do you agree a funeral should —
um — stop a wedding?
— Vermont
I believe both hosts acted
appropriately.
In the past case, the loss wasn’t
suffered by the host, but instead by
a guest of honor — so the host was,
I agree, most gracious to cancel the
event out of respect. In the present
case, the loss was suffered by the host
(and guest of honor) herself, and so it
was up to her and her family entirely
to decide how best to honor the mom’s
memory. If it were my daughter
whose wedding was six days after I
died, then I’d want the joyous event
to go on.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each
Friday at www.washingtonpost.com.
SUDOKU
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