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If Schneider beats Amodio’s streak, her next goal post is far away: beating Ken Jennings’s 74-game streak from 2004, which remains the longest in history.

Because of pandemic-related delays in taping the show, some contestants, including Schneider and Amodio, also had an unusual amount of time to study in between when they were initially told that they would be on the show and when they walked into the studio.

advocacy organization Glaad last year, Schneider said she had been unsure of how to discuss her identity on the show initially because she wanted her skill at the game to be the primary focus, but that she then decided to address it by wearing a trans flag pin.

“I didn’t want it to seem like something that was secret or that was shameful or anything, or that I was unaware of the significance of it,” Schneider said in the interview, “because I knew that trans people — trans ‘Jeopardy!’ fans — were watching my episodes extra carefully, just as I did with the previous trans contestants.”.

The show on Sunday issued a statement saying that James Snyder, who played the title role for about a year before the pandemic and then rejoined the show when it restarted last fall, had been terminated following a complaint by Diane Davis, the actress playing his wife, Ginny.

The show said that Davis had made a complaint “regarding the conduct of fellow cast member James Snyder” Nov?

The production said that, once it received the complaint, it suspended Snyder and commissioned “an independent investigation by a third party,” and that when the investigation was completed “the producers decided Mr.

“So 20 of us got together and said, ‘Let’s go do a play in a seaside town.’”.

“We met outside the door, and we were like, well, hopefully this is good news that we’re all here,” LaFreniere said, with a laugh.

“I just tried to keep my chin up every day,” LaFreniere said.

Eizenstat said in an essay in 2019.

Since 2015, relatives of Ludwig and Margret Kainer have pursued a claim for a painting by Pissarro, the Impressionist master, that was once a part of the Kainers’ collection.

Eizenstat said in a statement to The New York Times last week.

Eizenstat said Mr.

He said his efforts to reach an amicable settlement were in keeping with his life’s work and that both sides had reached an agreement in principle.

“I believed,” he said in his statement, “I was particularly qualified to undertake the task of finding a ‘just and fair solution’ to both sides, as contemplated by the Washington Principles of which I was a principal negotiator.”.

The painting, “The Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre,” an oil on canvas work from 1903, depicts a harbor scene and was part of the Kainers’ collection when the couple left Germany in 1932, eventually settling in France, according to court papers.

Unable as Jews to safely return after the Nazis grabbed power, the Kainers stayed away, and in their absence, their world-class art collection and other furnishings were seized by the Berlin tax office, according to the suit filed in federal court in Georgia by 15 Kainer heirs.

In 1963, a German appeals court ruled that the tax levied on the Kainers had been discriminatory, according to James Palmer, founder of Mondex Corporation, a company that pursues restitution claims and is representing the Kainer heirs.

In addition, the Kainer heirs have a page from the 1935 auction catalog that references the painting.

In 2014, the Horowitz family lent the work for display at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, around which time it was identified by Mondex, which was already working with the Kainer heirs.

The Kainers had died in the 1960s without children, and their current heirs claiming the painting are the children and grandchildren of cousins.

The heirs sought restitution of the painting in 2015, and presented the Horowitz family with evidence that, by 2005, the painting had been listed in the Pissarro catalog raisonné as plundered “from L.

Palmer said the Horowitzes did not want to move forward with discussions because they were uncertain about who were the rightful heirs.

(At the time, a foundation created by Swiss bank officials had been established to serve as the heirs to the Kainers and Margret’s father. But in 2015, a German court found that the Kainer relatives, not the foundation, were the couple’s true heirs.).

(At the time, the agreement recognized the Swiss foundation, not the relatives, as the heirs.).

Eizenstat began advising the Horowitzes sometime after the Kainer heirs took their claim to court last spring, according to Mr.

Palmer said he was a little intimidated when Mr.

Eizenstat joined the negotiations, which are being led by the Kainer heirs’ lawyer, Jason Carter, grandson of former President Jimmy Carter.

Palmer said, “so for him to be involved in a very personal level, it was a surprise.”.

Eizenstat said in his statement that he joined the effort in part because Mr.

Eizenstat said in the statement.

Eizenstat said, had been that Ludwig Kainer “appears to have made knowingly false claims about the circumstances of the alleged confiscation of the Pissarro, and had full knowledge of who possessed it after the war.”

Kainer had misled French authorities around the time he first filed his claim by reporting that the painting had been lost in France

Palmer said was required to file a claim with German authorities

Eizenstat had said the settlement talks with Mr

Eizenstat also took note in his statement that Mondex is a for-profit company, saying, “It is well known that Mondex acts and receives compensation from the Holocaust claims of others.”

Palmer said that some portion of the fees the company collects must go toward covering costs it incurs in pursuing restitution claims, “which we do with passion and pride.”

He said that there had been no agreement to maintain any confidentiality about the talks

Palmer said

But, he said, more important is that the agreement in principle “is a very productive result for all of the parties involved.”