Millions of people got on planes between Christmas and New Year’s — braving bad weather, armrest hogs and an epic Southwest Airlines meltdown. Frustration is often a part of flying during the holidays, but if an airline gets things right, the food it serves can take the edge off a long day of travel. If…
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But this year she said she doesn’t have the bandwidth even to think about her goals, let alone achieve them. “This January I just want calm, and I want things to be as simple as possible,” she said. Ms. Robinson feels worn-down by the past three years. “Covid is still here, and now there is…
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The supertall Central Park Tower, the latest addition to Billionaires’ Row by Extell Development, has seen a lot of sales activity in its first full year of closings, but not without deep discounts. And this continued through the holidays. An apartment encompassing the 124th floor of the steel-and-concrete skyscraper, rising 1,550 feet at 217 West…
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Will passengers who booked flights on other airlines be reimbursed for those flights? They are in a more complicated category. Though Southwest said in its email that it would honor “reasonable requests” for “alternate transportation,” Southwest typically does not rebook passengers on competitors’ flights, unlike legacy carriers like Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, among…
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Anand Goyal and Sabrina Zara Pervez met as teenagers, or so they first thought. Mr. Goyal attended an all-boys high school in Chelmsford, England; Ms. Pervez went to an all-girls school directly across the street. The students often intermingled, before and after each day, or when the schools hosted joint events like Valentine’s Day dances…
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There was a time when having three sisters didn’t work in Neal Thomas Yakopin’s favor. For example, when he was in the eighth grade, they collectively enforced a strict one-hour limit on his basement drum practice. “It would be, ‘Hey, Neal, time is up, cut that out,’” he said. The perks of his girl-dominant childhood…
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I asked him for some time to think about being friends. I wished someone would tell me what to do. My friends advised me to cut him off forever. I drafted a text that read, “It feels like I have to go back into Plato’s cave and learn to be happy there after experiencing the…
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Allison Cai and Kurt William Galbraith were both part of a large friend group that would frequently go out together, though they never really connected. Ms. Cai remembers having a conversation with Mr. Galbraith in August 2017, thinking he was a friend’s cousin. He wasn’t. It was a moment Mr. Galbraith vaguely remembers. What he…
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Ingrid Nickol Retzer, a police officer in Northern Texas, had the rule to never date or marry a fellow officer. But all that changed after she met Amelia Grace Ragsdale. On Jan. 9, 2020. Ms. Retzer was assigned to Ms. Ragsdale’s patrol sector crew. “I remember the moment Ingrid walked into work for the first…
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Those who were born in late December are often met with well-meaning pity when they tell people their birth date. Isn’t it hard, they’re asked, to have your special day get lost in a marathon of major holidays? The short answer is, often, yes. (Disclaimer: This story was written and edited by two people with…
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