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Hey, did you read:

• That the most secretive Super PAC in 2012 was Obama's? —Tal Rosenberg

• That the market is likely to get flooded with cars damaged by Superstorm Sandy? —Tony Adler

• That Rupert Murdoch is shutting down the Daily, News Corp.'s iPad-only publication? —Tal Rosenberg

• Gangbanger-like-me scholar and former University of Chicago grad student Sudhir Venkatesh's critics? —Deanna Isaacs

• This Archer-esque account of a financier's 1985 murder that'll have you thinking the CIA killed its own man? —Asher Klein

• That the Pope's gonna start tweeting? —Jerome Ludwig

• That state officials in South Africa have determined at the buttocks to be an inappropriate name for a school? —Ben Sachs

• Poetry promoter Fred Sasaki's city sticker proposal for Chicago? —Mike Sula

• Twitter genius Jenny Johnson (@JennyJohnsonHi5) on her ruthless battle with Chris Brown last week? —Kevin Warwick