Gil Moshe Gentile got it just right in June 2013 when he asked Hannah Marie Mandel to meet him at “Jack Goldstein X 10,000,” a conceptual art exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. “He was an artist I really loved,” Mr. Gentile said. “It was her vibe, too.” When he had reached out to…
When Julia Tishman gave Adam Elias her business card at a September 2017 networking event that doubled as a mutual friend’s birthday, she at first was unsure what to make of his follow-up email. “I remember chuckling at his first email to me on my official House email,” Ms. Tishman said. At the time, she…
As they observed the canals, Ms. Mungiguerra said she saw Mr. Chan remove something from his pocket and finally realized what was happening. The surprise overseas proposal was no simple task, Mr. Chan said. “I wrote a note and tied it to the ring box for T.S.A. because I had heard sometimes it comes up…
Douglas Atkins and Charles Huck say their love for each other comes from finding the fun in everything. “Whether that’s playing board games, walking the dogs around a new path, or trying a new restaurant or concert, we always keep the surprises coming and make sure we are having a great time,” Mr. Huck said.…
Adam Samuel Eaker was looking forward to an evening of music the night he met Brandon Patrick George in March 2019. Falling for the musician, though, was not meant to be part of the program. Dr. Eaker, an associate curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, had previously spent…
As an expectant dad with cerebral palsy I tried to prepare, but a delivery emergency gave me a crash course.
On their first date, at a New York restaurant in late February 2020, Jessica Rosenblum told Steve Young that he looked like a lot more fun in his photo, which was provided by an acquaintance who had set them up. He laughed, delighted by her “cutting” sense of humor. “I thought it was hilarious,” he…
“I was very attracted to her,” he said, and vice versa. That weekend, he invited her to a friend’s barbecue. The next day, they went running in Prospect Park. By Thanksgiving, she found out they were an official couple when they ran into one of Mr. Breland’s co-workers at a movie theater in Queens. The…
Ernest Owens spotted Barry Johnson at a Black fraternity party in 2013, during Mr. Johnson’s first week of orientation for new students at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Owens, then beginning his senior year, was quick to introduce himself. “He was very attractive,” said Mr. Owens, now 30. “He was very standoffish. He was like,…
WASHINGTON — The federal government has canceled its contract with a troubled Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer that ruined millions of doses and had to halt production for months after regulators raised serious quality concerns. The decision marks a stark reversal of fortune for the politically connected contractor, Maryland-based Emergent BioSolutions, and an abandonment by the government…