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...these chocolate or plastic?" Diane Schlamadinger, 38, asks incredulously as she eyes a display of fancy chocolates in yellows, greens and pinks. She samples a dark truffle that oozes ganache, and she moans with delight. Schlamadinger and her cousin Natalie Ruiz, 21, have wandered into the new Ethel's Chocolate Lounge in their Chicago neighborhood. The pair ooh and ah over the plush pink furniture and giggle about the writing on the walls ("Is it a tryst if it's with a truffle?") before settling into chairs on the brick patio with two iced mocha drinks. "Oh, my gosh," Schlamadinger...
Divine Investments Ever since King Henry VIII demanded a divorce, much has divided the Church of England from its Roman Catholic cousin. But the two European churches have come together recently to count their blessings - in euros and cents. The Vatican announced last week that it was in the black for the first time in four years, netting a 2004 surplus of nearly €3.1 million. Meanwhile, assets managed by the Church of England's Church Commissioners have fattened to $7.6 billion as its investment portfolio - which helps pay for priest pensions - continues to outperform the market. In March this...
...Sharon Scranage, a 29-year-old CIA operations support assistant in Ghana, pleaded guilty to two counts of violating the act after revealing the identities of two agents to her boyfriend, a cousin of Ghana's military ruler. After her arrest, Scranage cooperated with authorities, helped in the preparation of a harm-assessment report and told the court, "I'm very sorry for all the damage I've done." She was sentenced to five years in prison and ended up serving 18 months. Scranage's boyfriend, who had come to the U.S., was given a 20-year sentence for receiving...
...parent of three, Linklater can understand that instinct, but thinks it's sad. Losing, after all, is common, whether it's not getting to make the Texas high school football movie Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, second cousin of the book's author, got to make it), or having the western that you're still proud of bomb, or watching John Kerry lose an election. "Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it," he says...
Jurors in the original trial convicted Pring-Wilson of stabbing Colono, then 18 years old, during an April 12, 2003 confrontation outside Pizza Ring on Western Avenue. Pring-Wilson testified that he attacked Colono in self-defense, after being beaten by Colono and his cousin, Samuel L. Rodriguez—both of whom had prior criminal records involving drugs and violence. But prosecutors claimed Pring-Wilson had started the fight...