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“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.” ― Daniel Burnham
CHICAGO NEWS
• The battle between the Chicago Cubs and rooftop clubs overlooking Wrigley Field continued in court as lawyers for the rooftop clubs that erecting a giant video board will not only blocking views of games from across the street, it would kill their lucrative business. The court fight is to have a judge halt construction of the right-field sign. [CHICAGO TRIBUNE]
NATIONAL NEWS
• The recent departure of head White House florist Laura Dowling, is raising eyebrows as there was no official comment on why Dowling is no longer at the White House, Washington Post reports a source with close ties to current residence staffers, she was escorted from the building on Friday Feb. 13. The silence from the East Wing surrounding Dowling’s exit is in sharp contrast to the buzz of her hiring back in 2009. [WASHINGTON POST]
WORLD NEWS
• All 148 on board Lufthansa’s budget airline Germanwings Airbus A320 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf are feared dead. The crash happened near the town of Barcelonnette about 65 miles north of Nice. [REUTERS]
SPORTS
• Tony Bennett, the basketball coach not the singer, won the U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award, beating out University of Kentucky’s John Calipari’s who had a 36-0 record this year. 45-year-old Bennett led the University of Virginia Cavaliers to a 30-4 record and the ACC regular-season title. This is the second time he’s has won the award; The first time was during the 2006-07 season at Washington State. [SPORTING NEWS]
Former New Orleans wide receiver Darren Sharper was sentenced to nine years and possibility of more in numerous rape cases he pled no contest.
BUSINESS
• Sales at fine-dining restaurants, where customers spend $50 or more for meals, surged last year at twice the rate of the broader industry in the US which means money in the beef business, especially high-end luxury meats. Demand for high-end cuts is increasing as the U.S. economy expands at the fastest pace in a decade and increase in business spendings. [BLOOMBERG]
CELEBRITIES
• Actress Angelina Jolie revealed that last week she underwent preventative laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes, this comes two years after having a preventative double mastectomy. In an opinion piece on New York Times “It is not easy to make these decisions…I know my children will never have to say, ‘Mom died of ovarian cancer.’” She carries a gene mutation called BRCA1 that puts her at high risk for breast and ovarian cancers, and three women in her family have died of cancer. [NY TIMES]
FASHION
• Shaw-Lan Wang, the owner of fashion brand Lanvin may be in hush hush talks to sell the brand after reports stating she made an “informal approach” to a family of investors in Asia about possibly selling her stake. The Taiwanese publishing magnate bought the brand from L’Oréal in 2001 and also brought on designer Alber Elbaz that same year to help revive the French fashion brand. [VOGUE UK]
LOOK OF THE DAY
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