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Hey, did you read:
- That Lollapalooza will be four days long next year? —Leor Galil
- Richard A. Posner and Eric J. Segall on “Justice Scalia’s Majoritarian Theocracy?” —John Dunlevy
- About the origins of falafel? —Aimee Levitt
- Malcolm Gladwell on why each school shooter is more “normal” than the one before him? —Tony Adler
- About snugglers for hire? —Leor Galil
- That a day after denouncing the “misguided” calls for a federal probe of the Chicago Police Department, Mayor Emanuel said this morning he welcomes such an investigation? —Steve Bogira
- About the Dalai Lama’s secret Tantric murals? —Deanna Isaacs
- About the Chicago Red Stars’ Danielle Colaprico, who has been called up to the U.S. women’s national soccer team for the first time? —John Dunlevy