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ELECTIONS
Its finally here the Super Tuesday’s of all Super Tuesday. From Presidential candidates, county state attorney to senator races, your TVs have been bombarded with ads and now they want you to show up and rock the vote. Voting in Florida, Illinois and Ohio will be crucial to candidates running in the presidential race especially Kasich, Rubio and Clinton. In Chicago all eyes will be on the Cook County State’s Attorney race between Anita Alvarez and Kim Foxx though third candidate Donna More hasn’t really been a factor. In the Senate race, it will be Democrats Andrea Zopp, Tammy Duckworth, Napoleon Harris and Republican Oswego businessman James Marter trying to unseat Republican Mark Kirk. Chicago Tribune has the rundown HERE.
SNIPPETS
• Russia’s pulling out, of Syria that is. The surprise withdrawal is set to begin Tuesday as peace talks got underway in Geneva. Russian President Vladimir Putin made the announcement that he would end the bulk of his nation’s military deployment.
•Goldman Sachs just bought online retirement-savings startup Honest Dollar, that is barely a year old, in a deal expected to close by July. According to reports this acquisition comes nearly a year after Goldman hired former Discover Financial Services executive Harit Talwar (Lake Forest) to lead an expansion into online lending.
• Beijing-based insurer Anbang Insurance Group who kicked off the week yesterday with the announcement of their $6.5 billion acquisition from Blackstone Group, is part of a group offering to snap up Starwood for $12.8 billion over bidding Marriot. This is quite the shopping spree and also wasn’t the Chinese market in tumultuous disarray just a few months ago?
•Though the NCAA men’s march madness brackets, which we talked about yesterday, is what a lot of sports fan focus on around this time, it’s worth noting that the NCAA Women’s Div 1 March madness is also taking place and first round plays begin March 18. No.1 seeded teams with (wins-loss) include UConn (32-0), South Carolina (31-1), Notre Dame (31-1) and Baylor (33-1). Get your brackets HERE.
ENTERTAINMENT
• Last night’s Bachelor finale was somewhat of a surprise as Ben Higgins after 42 days of courting, said “I never want to say goodbye to you” before proposing to (SPOILER ALERT) Lauren Bushnell instead of fan favorite Joelle ‘JoJo’ Fletcher. The silver lining? Jojo was named the new Bachelorette so don’t cry for her Argentina. We were rooting for Caila as the next Bachelorette though.
• During the Hamilton Whitehouse visit yesterday #Bam4Ham, creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and his cast treated guests to a performance of the critically acclaimed, forever sold out Broadway show, after he initially debut it in 2009 at the Whitehouse. Later on in the day he dropped a freestyle in the Rose Garden with help from President Obama who began with “drop the beat” as Miranda rhymed on, then Pres. Obama pretended to drop the mic at the end, BOOM! Watch the vid HERE.
FASHION
• Cindy Crawford and her 14-year-old daughter Kaia are on the cover of Vogue Paris shot by Mario Testino. This is Kaia’s first time on the cover of a magazine, Vogue no less.
• H&M is partnering with singer MIA to collect 1000 tonnes of garments for World Recycle Week as part of H&M’s goal to close the loop in fashion and recycle unwanted garments to create recycled textile fibres for new clothes. M.I.A has filmed an exclusive music video for H&M, to debut on hm.com on April 11, highlighting the environmental impact of clothes going to landfills around the world.
“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.” ― Susan B. Anthony
Mother Teresa of Calcutta to be made Roman Catholic saint on Sept. 4
This may be your new Brit TV fix come April 19
Is Prince Harry headed to Yale Law?
Avon to cut 2,500 jobs & moving operational HQ to U.K.
LOOK OF THE DAY
Zoe Kravitz @ Allegiant Premiere
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