Laura Fitzpatrick

Laura Fitzpatrick, a former TIME writer-reporter, is a second-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.

Running Out the Clock

In our ongoing 'Doctor-in-Training' series, time is of the essence in more ...

In our ongoing 'Doctor-in-Training' series, time is of the essence in more ways than one for a medical student conducting a routine physical on an elderly patient

Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy rides on a car with wife Jackie in a ticker-tape parade, Oct. 19, 1960

Ticker-Tape Parades

Fresh off their 27th World Series win, the New York Yankees will take a vic...

Fresh off their 27th World Series win, the New York Yankees will take a victory lap through lower Manhattan on the morning of Nov. 6. It will be their record-setting ninth trip down the so-called...

Fashion designer Coco Chanel photographed in the 1950s in one of her famous white suits.

Why We Can't Wear White After Labor Day

The post–Labor Day moratorium on white clothing and accessories has long ra...

The post–Labor Day moratorium on white clothing and accessories has long ranked among etiquette hard-liners' most sacred rules. As punishment for breaking it in the 1994 movie Serial Mom, for instance, Patty Hearst's character was...