Outside, in line, BOILING. 11:22 a.m.
"Lanny, what now?" reporters ask Lanny Davis one by one. "We’re going to take the White House" is his talking point today.
And here’s a reporter who’s been covering Hillary for the whole shebang. What’s next for him? "Gonna take a week off."
Inside. There are 10 American flags Read More
So there at the Hillary Clinton event at Baruch College was Lanny Davis, Senator Clinton’s old pal from Yale–speaking to reporters, he stressed, as just a private citizen. Barack Obama, he said, “is strong in places where she isn’t strong.” Also Mr. Davis had called Senator Clinton that morning to tell her he was starting Read More
More from Sheila Jackson Lee at Baruch.
On Hillary Clinton: “She’s had her fans.”
More importantly, on Barack Obama and Clinton talking: “I think an invitation has been extended. Senator Clinton will accept that.”
UPDATE: She also said, “This night is a celebration for a candidate that has finished the course.”
Andrea Peyser couldn’t get online in the press room. Andrea! Say something funny! “This is like her campaign,” she said.
The line outside Baruch College for Hillary Clinton was like a cheerful catastrophe. People on cells, checking the latest; exchanging theories; the word “delegates” swept through the crowd. But it was no funeral.
The supporters waiting on a line that stretched from East 24th Street and Lexington Avenue up to East Read More
Governor David Paterson issued a memo in mid-May—regarding a three-month-old court decision—that was ignored for a few weeks and then, suddenly, publicized.
An appellate court upstate had said that a Canadian marriage between two women must be recognized in New York. This wasn’t much in the way of news! Mr. Paterson Read More
The hole appeared maybe in March. It was the size of—and as oddly shaped a trapezium as—a bad West Village studio.
The town’s dock becomes a short boardwalk that deposits arrivals deboarding the boat from the mainland at a cramped, poorly planned intersection; that is Cherry Grove, Fire Island’s entire tiny downtown.
So Read More
“And by the way,” said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in his City Hall on May 15, “as California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. It’s inevitable. This door’s wide open now. It’s going to happen whether you like it or not. This is the future and it’s now.”
For the first Read More
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, one of the two or three last great male writers alive, is putting his new novel, The Yggyssey, online, one chapter each week. He is up to chapter four! Mr. Pinkwater, like so many men after him, attended Bard College (most probably concurrently with former feminist pioneer and current outcast Phyllis Chesler, Read More
In an inevitable, perhaps even overdue collision of reality and lifestyle, this morning MTV announced it has green-lighted the 21st season of The Real World. It will be filmed in Brooklyn, the reigning home turf of post-teen drama, and broadcast in 13 one-hour episodes in early 2009. No word yet regarding in which neighborhood the Read More
