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By Samantha Abernethy in News on Nov 10, 2011 12:00AM

  • Former Mayor Richard M. Daley will spend the week of Nov. 28 at Harvard University as a visiting fellow, speaking at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. [Tribune]

  • Did you see today's test of the national Emergency Alert System? It messed up in some strange ways, including making some TVs play Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi." [NY Times]

  • A Rosemont man claims the a prescription dose of Ambien is what made him drink and drive. The Ambien Walrus works in mysterious ways. [Sun-Times]

  • R. Kelly has a book coming out. It is called Soula Coaster: The Diary of Me. Seriously. [A.V. Club]

  • Gary voted their first female mayor, former Indiana Attorney General Karen Freeman-Wilson. She had a great slogan, too: "Karen About Gary." Cute. [Tribune]

  • Comedian T.J. Miller hit up the comments on our recent post about him. [WBEZ]

  • Chicago-area woman Sharon Bialek, who accuses former. GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexually harassing her, says he is a "pathological liar" with "amnesia." He claims he does not remember her. [Sun-Times]

  • The Girl Scouts are creating a line of chapsticks flavored like their cookies. I'll take three boxes of samoas and two boxes of tagalongs. [Consumerist]