After trudging back and forth around a 30-block stretch of the Upper East Side on Sunday afternoon and talking to a handful of the estimated two million revelers who turned out for the Puerto Rican Day Parade, I ducked inside one of the few open stores on Madison Avenue for a break from the grimy, Read More
“I will lead the popular vote,” she said. “He will maintain a slight lead in the delegate count.”
It’s hard to Read More
A new poll confirms that Hillary Clinton is the clear favorite in this weekend's Puerto Rico primary, but perhaps not by the runaway margin that her supporters have been hoping for. Published in the San Juan daily El Vocero, the survey gives Clinton a 51-38 percent edge over Obama. (Full Spanish-language article Read More
It’s a little remarkable in the first place that the matter Read More
Puerto Rico has a primary on June 1 and there are about 55 delegates at stake. Hillary Clinton, who generally has a strong following among Latino voters, needs as many of them as possible.
A long memo released today by the campaign promised that Clinton would deal with the "fundamental question of Puerto Rico." On Read More
Francisco Domenech, a superdelegate supporting Hillary Clinton in Puerto Rico, thinks that Ickes, her point-man on the wrangling of superdelegates, may find himself having to explain his work on behalf of one side of the flammable issue of Puerto Rico's national status.
Domenech, who supports statehood Read More
David Cohen and Jessica Sheena Met: December 2005 Engaged: Oct. 12, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Nov. 24, 2007 David Cohen, 28, a product specialist at Black Rock, an investment firm, plans to marry Jessica Sheena, 25, the slender, brunette senior communications specialist for the clothing chain New York & Company, at the Puck Building, in Read More
David Cohen and Jessica Sheena Met: December 2005 Engaged: Oct. 12, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Nov. 24, 2007 David Cohen, 28, a product specialist at Black Rock, an investment firm, plans to marry Jessica Sheena, 25, the slender, brunette senior communications specialist for the clothing chain New York & Company, at the Puck Building, in Read More
David Cohen and Jessica Sheena Met: December 2005 Engaged: Oct. 12, 2006 Projected Wedding Date: Nov. 24, 2007 David Cohen, 28, a product specialist at Black Rock, an investment firm, plans to marry Jessica Sheena, 25, the slender, brunette senior communications specialist for the clothing chain New York & Company, at the Puck Building, in Read More
Boy, does Sydney Licht have the touch. Ms. Licht, whose still-life paintings are the subject of an exhibition at lyonswier gallery, works predominantly and adroitly with a palette knife. Spreading oils with a crisp concision, she brings a sense of give to the surfaces, a flexibility and airiness. She brings to them a density, too, Read More
Al on America , by Al Sharpton, with Karen Hunter. Kensington Publishing, 304 pages, $27.
Al Sharpton recently had a meeting with Al Sharpton. It was, he says, one of the most important events of his adult life, and it occurred in prison, during a 90-day sentence for protesting U.S. military bases in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Read MorePuerto Rican independence has gotten a new convert. After the uproar about clemency for terrorists, Hillary Clinton surely wishes the island were out of American politics, if not under water, which is where it has been pulling her for the last month.
Previous victims of the Puerto Rico Triangle include society columnist Taki Theodoracopulos, on whose Read MoreEmboldened by the commercial success of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and pianist Marcus Roberts in the 1980's, the major labels took a plunge on jazz. They figured they'd grow the audience for a no-frills acoustic product by taking young, able players and turning them into stars that an enchanted new generation of fans would call their Read More
