More than 30 years have passed since Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina and once a model for multicultural harmony, became a shooting gallery. In the 47-month-long siege of Sarajevo during the 1990s Bosnian war, more than 11,000 residents were killed and 50,000 wounded, mainly by mortar shells and snipers from Serb nationalist forces.…
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug. The group, bankrolled with $500 million from some of the wealthiest families in American business, has created a stir in the world of academia by dangling seven-figure…
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On Oct. 1, 2013, the two went to the Melting Pot restaurant to celebrate their one-year anniversary. On the way, they happened to stop at a red light about a block away. “I looked up and took a picture and made a joke about Jared’s, the jewelry store,” Ms. Carmichael said. “I posted it on…
Kelsey Masako Fumiko Kiyota and Elliott Lin met through a mutual friend in 2012, but it wasn’t until six years into their friendship that they realized they had something important in common — a love for the “Fast & Furious” movie franchise. The discovery happened in January 2018 while at a party at their friend’s…
Andrew Warren Tolman relaxed into a lounge chair next to Jenna Lynn Santoro on July 20, 2019 as the weekly Saturday beach club party was winding down at Gurney’s Montauk Resort in Montauk, N.Y. “Eating, drinking, running into the ocean, it was a perfect day,” said Mr. Tolman, who had met her briefly earlier that…
In June 2019, Leslie Marshall locked eyes with Tamar Malloy at a bus stop in Pittsburgh. As Dr. Malloy walked down the sidewalk, “I really wanted to know this person, but didn’t even know if they remembered my name,” Dr. Marshall recalled. “We took this half-step toward each other, where you’re like, ‘Will they reciprocate?’”…
I was sitting in between my parents on a 15-hour direct flight from Toronto to Seoul. I was going to Seoul to work on a book project. My Airbnb had enough room for us all. So when my parents brought it up as a half-joke that they would come, too, I didn’t think it was…
She was born Alice Christmas on Oct. 26, 1923, in Philadelphia “to a bourgeois family of color,” as she wrote in an unpublished memoir. Her father, Lawrence Duke Christmas, was a dentist; her mother, Alice (Meyers) Christmas, managed the household. In Alice’s telling, the family was so light-skinned they were known as the White Christmases.…