"'I'm always smiling, I can't stop,' said Reem Acra as she dashed into Skylight Studios on Thursday night for Operation Smile's fifth-annual benefit gala. 'Life makes me happy, so I had to come and help others smile.' Acra joined the likes of Alexandra Richards, Donald Trump, Andrew Tisch, Lacey Tisch, and Olivia Palermo at the black tie soiree that raised nearly $2 million for the organization's worldwide initiatives. Co-chairs Vanessa and Donald Trump Jr. recounted last year's most memorable event. 'My water broke here last May,' said Vanessa, whose daughter Kai Madison turned one on Monday ... A lively after party followed, with the boozed up crowd taking to the dance floor. As Nick Cannon spun tunes in the deejay booth, his new bride--and Smile Ambassador--Mariah Carey, in Ralph Lauren, shook her body nearby." (Fashionweekdaily)
"Over at the Plaza, Seeds of Peace hosted its annual gala dinner honoring Ambassador Zalay Khalizad, US Ambassador to the UN." (NYSocialDiary)
For someone coming back after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan for two or three or four tours of duty, they need to catch up quickly, and we need to help them," said former Secretary of State Colin Powell last week at City College in New York. Earlier this week, Republicans and Democrats clashed over their differing versions of how to make the GI Bill of Rights more relevant to today's veterans. Powell supports Virginia Senator Jim Webb's version of a 21st century GI Bill that would expand the 1944 Servicemen's Readjustment Act signed into law two weeks after D-Day by FDR." (Ron Mwangaguhunga/ Kenneth Cole's AWEARNESS Blog)
"Last week, in an analysis of the popular vote in the Democratic race, I quoted Manuel Alvarez-Rivera, a Puerto Rican election expert who scoffed at the widely accepted estimate here on the mainland of a turnout of 1,000,000 voters in Puerto Rico's June 1 primary. It’s a little remarkable in the first place that the matter of turnout by the late-voting Puerto Rico Democrats should be a topic of discussion at all. But with the expectation that Hillary Clinton will post a resounding win there, possibly erasing Barack Obama's overall popular vote lead under certain circumstances (i.e. counting Florida and/or Michigan), Puerto Rico has been a crucial component of any argument that the Democratic contest is still undecided. But the one million figure is based on the astronomical turnout that marks some Puerto Rican elections that deal with the fraight issue of that island's status, and as Alvarez-Rivera told me, that sort of intensity probably won't spill over to a presidential primary. He suggested the real number would be around 600,000." (Steve Kornacki/Observer)
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