By Ben Smith 11/01/04 12:00am

City’s Lawyers Storm Florida In Ballot Blitz

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—There are battleground states, and there is the battleground state. Here in the land that gave us the hanging chad, preparations are underway for the legal equivalent of Gettysburg. Manning the lines for John Kerry are hundreds of lawyers from New York—more than 1,000 New Yorkers have volunteered for election-law duty around the Read More

By NYO Staff 5/06/02 12:00am

“Countdown to Bliss”

Michael Raymond and Debora Assis

Met: July 29, 1998

Engaged: Feb. 14, 2002

Projected Wedding Date: Aug. 3, 2002

Here’s an example of one of those high-concept proposals.

Mike Raymond sat Debora Assis down on a frigid wintry bench at the South Street Seaport. He pulled out a ring box, and Read More