The meltdown that forced Southwest Airlines to cancel more than 16,700 holiday flights could cost the carrier between $725 million and $825 million, the airline said in a filing on Friday. The total represents about as much as the airline earned in the first nine months of last year. The crisis shows what can go…
The demand can be high, according to Sonal J. Shah, a New York wedding planner who has overseen nearly 2,000 high-end South Asian nuptials in her two-decade career. “Post-Covid, I would say in the U.S. alone there are between 6,000 to 6,500” South Asian weddings per year, she said. (Translation: dresses for nearly 20,000 events.)…
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Dr. Oluwafemi Akinwale Kuti Jr. was only visiting California for a few months — but what he found was a long-term love. It was February 2017, and Dr. Kuti, a general practitioner and entrepreneur, was participating in a start-up program for Reliance Health, a health care company he had co-founded the year before in Lagos,…
The first time Erik William Ostberg saw Grey Alexandra O’Reilly she was sitting on a couch in her pajamas, feet curled under her, hair still wet from a recent shower. And, as might be expected of a woman who grew up in Ireland, she was sipping a cup of tea. “I loved everything about what…
Before it was ever put into words, the connection, between Meg He and Margot Ciccarelli was apparent from their movements. Ms. He and Ms. Ciccarelli both practice Brazilian jiu-jitsu. In 2019, when Ms. He first took up the martial art, she searched the internet for accomplished women whose techniques she could emulate. Her search turned…
[Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.] In June 2017, Mr. Aoki, who was living in Washington at the time asked Ms. Gregory, who was then in Houston, to be his girlfriend. She was initially hesitant — Ms. Gregory was planning to start college in the fall at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn…
What I didn’t know is that while I was retelling the story of Miriam’s Cup, my Miriam had arrived home, walked into her house, lay down and died, most likely of a pulmonary embolism. Her liberation was never to arrive. In Judaism, when someone dies, the community sits shomer with the body until burial, keeping…
Damar Hamlin’s ability to communicate with medical personnel and members of his family after a cardiac arrest on Monday night bodes well for his brain’s recovery, according to the doctors caring for him and outside medical experts. “This marks a really good turning point in his ongoing care,” said Dr. William Knight IV, director of…
People who are close to their colleagues are happier and more productive.