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Travel
Help! Megabus Canceled My Trip But Won’t Refund the Booking Fee.
A traveler spent $53.98 to reserve a bus ride from Philadelphia to Boston. But the company canceled the trip and returned only $49.99, prompting an 18-month fight over a principle.
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Arts
‘Orlando’ Review: A Virginia Woolf Fantasy That Plays With Gender
In this revival of Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of the Woolf novel, now starring Taylor Mac, the flashes of comedy can’t make up for the loss of poetry.
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Magazine
For Maxine Hong Kingston, Age Is Just Time Going By
The Unstoppables is a series about people whose ambition is undimmed by time. Below, the writer Maxine Hong Kingston explains, in her own words, what continues to motivate her. In a way, I don’t believe in old age. I hear people say, “this hurts” or ...
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World
Seder Is About Family, Food, Freedom. And Now, It’s Also About the War.
At Passover seders, many families addressed the war in Gaza. In some cases, generations clashed and tensions arose. “That’s the Jewish way,” said one host.
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World
I’m a Columbia Professor. The Protests on My Campus Are Not Justice.
Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is “4’33”,” which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for ...
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Food
Cha Cha Tang Will Serve Its Take on Hong Kong Diner Food Starting Mother’s Day
Onion Tree Pizza offers chicken tikka masala and saag paneer pies, Burmese Bites opens in Midtown East and more restaurant news.
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World
Fears Over Iran Buoy Netanyahu at Home. For Now.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, lost considerable support after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. Tensions with Iran have helped him claw some of it back.
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Magazine
I’m Pregnant, and My Husband Says We Can’t Tell Anyone About the Donor Egg
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a spouse’s seemingly irrational request about privacy and assisted reproduction.
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World
Time Is Running Out for Rahul Gandhi’s Vision for India
Rahul Gandhi stood in a red Jeep, amid a churning crowd in Varanasi, trying to unseat the Indian government with a microphone in his hand. “The mic isn’t good,” he said. “Please quiet down and listen.” It was the morning of Feb. 17 — Day 35 of a ...
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World
Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?
It’s unusual when you find a strong dose of pessimism about the future of technological progress highlighted by one of the world’s leading techno-optimists. But if you follow the combative venture capitalist Marc Andreessen on X, you would have seen ...