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Families, The

August 27, 2011 By Lisa Miller

A potent coalition forms and fractures. More than 1,600 people lost spouses or partners in the attacks; 3,000 children lost parents. There were also parents who lost children, and hundreds more who lost siblings (or cousins, nephews, nieces, in-laws, grandparents, best friends). You don’t choose your family, they say, your family chooses you, and initially […]

Filed Under: New York Magazine Tagged With: 9/11, 9/11 Families, Lisa Miller

Feisal Abdul Rauf

December 23, 2010 By Lisa Miller

The imam behind the so-called Ground Zero mosque reflects on the “insanity” of religious radicals. How have the events of the summer changed you? We learned a number of lessons, the most important of which is this: the real battlefront is not between the West and the Muslim world. It’s between the moderates of all […]

Filed Under: Newsweek Tagged With: 9/11, Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Lisa Miller, mosque, radicals, World Trade Center

About Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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