Before Rina Sawayama was a pop star, she was a gamer. With her hands on a controller, clambering around a virtual world, she could get out of her head and “be that character for the 50 hours or whatever the game’s going to take.” Video games were also a huge influence on her songwriting (and…
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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine helped push global agricultural prices to soaring heights, some Asian governments restricted the export of products they viewed as essential to domestic food security. For Indonesia it was cooking oil. For India, wheat. And for Malaysia, chickens. The bans have a political logic: Leaders do not want to be blamed…
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Name: Hawa Age: 21 Hometown: Born in Berlin, and grew up in Guinea-Conakry and New York City Now Lives: In a sunny, two-bedroom apartment in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn Claim to Fame: Hawa is a classically trained queer rapper and sometimes fashion model, who is perhaps best known for her 2019 song “My…
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Hugh Dancy flew around the rink, gliding from one foot to the next atop the black matting. The wind tousled his hair, the pattern on his houndstooth blazer blurring as he picked up speed. “It’s stopping that’s the issue,” Mr. Dancy said, with typical self-deprecation, as he passed. A star of the revived “Law &…
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Edna Tafari Makonnen and Jamal Akil Robinson initially struggled to find equal social footing when they got together for coffee in February 2015. That she is royalty was not the problem. An Ethiopian princess, Ms. Makonnen is a great-granddaughter of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s last emperor, whose lineage is said to trace back to the biblical…
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Since my midteens, I have sought heartfelt friendships rather than romantic ones. Older relatives of mine, aunts and uncles, deem this a wise choice, especially the prudish ones who insist there’s still time. I’m still in college, but for me, it’s not about maturity but the widespread assumption that everyone is better off in an…
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Drs. Ginger Yu Fei Jiang and José Miguel Orozco didn’t quite hit it off after they were accidentally assigned the same microscope in pathology class during their first year at Harvard Medical School in 2013. “I arrived to the microscope station first so I took it,” Dr. Jiang said, and when Dr. Orozco showed up,…
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The following year, when he moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 2017 to begin a master’s program in public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, she took a two-year teaching job with Teach for America at a middle school in the Dorchester section of Boston. And in 2019, when she was accepted at…
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Though Allison Leigh Strickman’s first impression of Paul Clinton Harris Jr. was memorable, it was for reasons that Mr. Harris might have preferred she forget. The two met in September 2016 at LW’s Livery Stable, a pub in Charlottesville, Va., where each had come with different groups of friends. Mr. Harris, 31, who goes by…
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In July 2019, after six years of long-distance dating, Drs. Maya Kailas and Amit Kohli were finally in the same city. Yet even though they shared an apartment in Manhattan, they still faced similar struggles when it came to finding time to see each other. “As doctors, we don’t get that much time off at…
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