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“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.” ― Marcus Garvey
CHICAGO NEWS
• Karyns on Green in the West loop will shutter Sunday, March 1st, and plans for a new location will be announced at a later time . [EATER]
NATIONAL NEWS
• Former Notre Dame president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh died at the age of 97 late Thursday night on the university campus in South Bend, Indiana. Hesburgh will be remembered as a civil rights leader, a champion of immigration rights and a supporter of Third World development. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine for an article that described him as the most influential figure in the reshaping of Catholic education. He was so respected by others in education that he was awarded 150 honorary degrees. [CHICAGO TRIBUNE]
• RIT(Rochester Institute of Technology) student Max Maisel, the son of ESPN.com senior writer Ivan Maisel, has been missing since Sunday. [USA TODAY]
WORLD NEWS
• Dr. Avijit Roy a U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi origin and blogger that condemned religious extremism, was hacked to death in a planned attack. [NBC NEWS]
SPORTS
• Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings, who was caught on camera profanely berating one of his players Wade Baldwin IV at one point saying, “I’m going to f—ing kill you,” has apologized. “I handled it completely inappropriately and I apologized to Wade — and I need to apologize to our fans and the Vanderbilt administration.” [ESPN]
BUSINESS
• Anticipation for what the “Oracle of Omaha” Warren Buffet will say in his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders is high and he may point to opportunities outside of the United States. The letter, which will be released on Saturday this year, usually offers Buffett’s candid thoughts on investing, business and life. [REUTERS]
CELEBRITIES
• Gwyneth Paltrow is now a shareholder and creative director of makeup in Juice Beauty, an organic skin-care line founded by Karen Behnke. On why she invested? “In my own life, I don’t have a [beauty] product that is as luxurious and high performing as it is clean.” the company is aiming to become a multimillion-dollar beauty brand over the next five years. [WWD]
FASHION
• Nasty Gal has just raised $12.7 milli lower that the $16 million they were aiming for. Ron Johnson, former Senior VP of retail operations for Apple Inc, led the round that is a comparatively small amount for the company, since its last round was a $40 million Series B, also from Index. Normally rounds get bigger as the company grows unless there’s trouble with the business and investors decrease their valuation expectations. [RE/CODE]
• The Calvin Klein dress that had over 6,000 Akoya cultured pearls of five different sizes and is worth $150,000 worn by Lupita Nyong’o to the Oscars has gone missing. [VOGUE UK]
WHO WORE IT FRIDAY
•Latex dresses are apparently a thing for people who aren’t Lady Gaga or dominatrix. Rita Ora(L), Kim Kardashian®
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