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Orders of Grief: Newtown, One Year Later
For weeks, nobody slept. On the first night after the shootings in December, Raul Arguello lay awake in his bed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, listening to the sirens coming from the direction of his daughters’ school. His children, thank God, […]
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Ethical Parenting: Is There Such a Thing?
Imagine this scenario: It’s a Tuesday evening and you’re just home from work, still panting from the subway ride, when you determine without doubt that your fourth-grader has lice. The teeny pale eggs, they could be dandruff, but they’re not; […]
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Christine Quinn Got a Raw Deal From Voters — Because She’s a Woman
What did Christine Quinn do to deserve her lousy third-place finish Tuesday night in the New York Democratic mayoral primary? And is there any way to answer that question without pointing to her gender? Quinn was a capable candidate who […]
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The Turn-On Switch: Fetish Theory, Post-Freud
Eliot Spitzer, who hopes to be New York City’s next comptroller, likes to screw with his socks on—calf-length black hose, the atavistic shadow of sock garters visible in the mind’s eye. That Spitzer paid for sex is not actually all […]
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Diagnosing Anthony Weiner: Sick or Just Plain Stupid?
Is Anthony Weiner — as Andrew Sullivan argued this week — a healthy, red-blooded American male, with a normal desire to play digital porn star in his private time? (“Would you let me hold your hair while you gagged on […]
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Gray Pride: Natural and Incontrovertibly Feminine
“I want to tell you something, and it’s going to make you mad.” It was my mother on the line. Moments before, I had been cheerfully ensconced in my sunny cubicle at the Wall Street Journal, where I worked as […]
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New York Mag Cover Story: Mariano Riveria – Pitching God
On the mound, God is always with Mariano Rivera, in victory and defeat. But baseball is a boys’ game, not a calling. And now, as he prepares to hang up his cleats, the greatest closer baseball has ever seen is […]
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Lisa on Morning Joe: Paul Tudor Jones vs Women on Wall Street
Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones made controversial comments regarding women on Wall Street, saying babies are a ‘killer’ to a woman’s focus. Cosmopolitan’s Joanna Coles, Alexandra Lebenthal and New York Magazine’s Lisa Miller discuss with Joe Scarborough.
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The Emir’s University: Are the Students of NYU Abu Dhabi the World’s Most Pampered Undergraduates?
When NYU junior Jessica DeOliveira applied last year to spend time abroad at the university’s three-year-old satellite Abu Dhabi campus, she had dreams of speaking lots of Arabic, bargaining in souks, and soaking up the local culture. In reality, she […]
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Lisa on MSNBC Discussing the Boston Marathon Bombing
Lisa Miller on MSNBC discussing her New York magazine story on the Boston Marathon bombing: