Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• About the shooting at the Bank of America building in the Loop this morning? —Tal Rosenberg
• About the many complaints filed against notoriously corrupt cops Keith Herrera and Jerome Finnigan and the little-to-no action that was taken by the police department? —Kevin Warwick
• Nicholas Kristof on car control and gun control? (“As we’ve learned to treat cars intelligently, we’ve gone in the opposite direction with guns.”) —Steve Bogira
• That cryogenic preservation—putting a living person into deep freeze—is the new frontier between life and death? —Aimee Levitt
• This profile of Zhang Tiesheng, a former hero of the Cultural Revolution turned multimillionaire businessman? —Ben Sachs
• That the influential filmmaker and video essayist Harun Farocki has passed away at 70? —Ben Sachs
• That Harry Potter may create more tolerant kids? —Will Greenberg