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@lisaxmiller

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Correspondent, @NYTimes . Dinner on the table every night at 7:15.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined February 2009
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@lisaxmiller
Lisa Miller
8 months
After reporting and writing this story, i will never look at the people who live on the streets and in the subway in the same way. Thank you to all the New Yorkers who helped me make this portrait.
@NYMag
New York Magazine
8 months
Before he was killed by a fellow subway passenger, Jordan Neely was one of the thousands of New Yorkers living on the city’s margins. For our new cover story, @lisaxmiller investigates the life he lived:
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Lisa Miller
3 years
"He wanted to be her, and he wanted to fuck her." Amazing job, @lilapearl
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9 months
When Maggie started getting thinner, people would approach her parents, commenting on how pretty she’d become. “She’s always been pretty,” her father, Brett, would respond, and the people would backpedal and agree.
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@lisaxmiller
Lisa Miller
8 months
Making it official
@NYTimesPR
NYTimes Communications
8 months
We are happy to announce that @lisaxmiller is joining Well as our new domestic correspondent.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
So proud of the work our team @NYMag did in this big biography of @AOC . Read the excerpt for her post-college years: kava, hookah, motivational seminars, Bernie, Standing Rock, the 6 train, political awakening, and air guitar.
@NYMag
New York Magazine
3 years
@AOC @lisaxmiller This excerpt is adapted from "Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC," a book-length, kaleidoscopic biography by the editors of @NYMag , with contributions by @andreagonram , @lisaxmiller , @michelleruiz , @rtraister , @dwallacewells , and others. Preorder here:
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Lisa Miller
3 years
Wow! Thank you @NYNewswomen !!
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NYNewswomen
3 years
Best Magazine Feature goes to @lisaxmiller from @NYMag for "Children of Quarantine What Does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain?"
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Lisa Miller
1 year
Profile of @LisaSandersmd and of Long COVID: "People come in with strange symptoms, like an internal tremor,” she says. “They’ll say, ‘It feels like my insides are trembling.’ This is not one person. This is lots of people.”
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Lisa Miller
3 years
An elderly friend in VT fell at home, hit her head, and needed to be admitted the hospital. The facility that could take her was 2.5 hours/150 miles away because all the beds in hospitals closer to her were occupied by sick, unvaccinated COVID patients.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
The @NYMagUnion has been negotiating our first contract for 2.5 years. Journalists need a fair contract to produce their best work. Help us tell @NYMag management that it's time to come to an agreement now.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
"When I thought I was going to die, two people gave me spiritual comfort," he told me. "And now they both have a million dollars." Latest.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
When I ask Abedin about how much she and her close friend and confidante Hillary Clinton ever talked about the analogies in their personal stories, Abedin responds, “Zero.”
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1 year
Bob Gottlieb took a chance on me in 1987 based on a letter I wrote him out of the blue. I was too young and inexperienced for him to notice me much after that, but he opened the door.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
“I was deeply unhappy,” she has said. “And when I started focusing more on how I want to be, I was much happier, even when I was a waitress.”
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@page88 @GiniaNYT I would like to give a shout-out to the places that still exist! aka Odeon, the Corner Bistro (was there the other day, made me swoon), the Old Town bar, Al Di La
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Lisa Miller
1 year
I honestly never tweet but this heroizing of mothers and motherhood while taking away our reproductive rights and letting our children suffer from gun violence and inadequate health care or day care or nourishing food or reasonable free education makes me want to call bullsh***
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Lisa Miller
2 years
“Hospital is not prison. A person who has not been accused of a crime cannot be jailed."
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Lisa Miller
3 years
“It’s hard to have this conversation with a lot of girlfriends, because their experience is not similar to mine."
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3 years
Teenager to me: “I’m trying to accommodate your love language, which I know is logistics.”
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Lisa Miller
1 year
For Halloween, Christian, 12, dressed up as Tate, even shaving his head, “and I went to the most fun party of my life.” His mother, who hadn’t really dialed into Tate, helped him with the costume, but she wouldn’t let him have a cigar.
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Lisa Miller
1 year
@emilynussbaum I think it's about female power in a gross male world. Shiv gets closer to what she needs with this move -- she can continue to be the power behind Tom (she's smart; he's stupid) and she can keep the "bloodlines" (her heir) next to the throne. Tom needs her; Ken doesn't.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
Weiner was — and still is — a good partner, she says. Throughout their marriage, “he made my life so much easier. He did everything. He did our shopping. He cleaned our house. He made sure the laundry was done.”
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Lisa Miller
2 years
I am so delighted to be interviewing Alice Sedgwick Wohl about her new book “As It Turns Out” at @Rizzoli_Bkstore on 8/16. Alice is one of my favorite people and I will never forget when I asked her “Who was your sister?” And she said, “Edie Sedgwick.” Please join us.
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Rizzoli Bookstore
2 years
Aug 16: Alice Sedwick Wohl discusses her biography of her sister Edie, examining their complicated family, her relationship with Warhol, and her meteoric life. With @lisaxmiller . RSVP:
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Lisa Miller
3 years
has anyone else had this symptom of COVID: ravenous hunger? I am like the caterpillar. I want dumplings and salty caramels and fried rice and spicy beans and rare steak and fish and chips and pie. And ice cream and oranges.
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Lisa Miller
9 months
OMG @rainbowrowell thank you!
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Rainbow Rowell
9 months
I thought this story by @lisaxmiller was excellent. Compassionate. Thorough. And I really admired the honesty and courage of the family who shared their experience. I cried all the way through.
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Lisa Miller
2 years
"A 2021 survey showed that 70 percent of parents believe they have sufficiently secured their weapons, while a third of their adolescent kids say they can find them within five minutes."
@NYMag
New York Magazine
2 years
@lisaxmiller Parents of mass shooters have increasingly been scrutinized. And since the attack by a 21-year-old that killed seven people at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, there’s been a growing discussion about the role of parents in enabling mass shootings
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Lisa Miller
3 years
ICYMI
@BernieSanders
Bernie Sanders
3 years
I stand in solidarity with @NYMagUnion workers. Management must come to the table and agree to a fair contract now.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
Viruses mutate. That is their job. Get vaccinated.
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Lisa Miller
9 months
During Maggie’s first summer, the camp director — a nurse with ideas about the weight-loss properties of mushrooms and onions — informed parents that raisins & sunflower seeds had been removed from the salad bar bc kids were snacking on them excessively.
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@lisaxmiller
Lisa Miller
3 years
And, most poignantly, there’s Hillary following the election returns at the Peninsula hotel on November 8, 2016, when, just after 10:50 p.m., she says out loud, “Can someone explain to me what is happening?”
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Lisa Miller
1 year
Fascinating
@liberationdaily
Read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
1 year
Okay y’all FASCINATINGLY this #TikTok I made about an article I enjoyed in @NYMag written by #LisaMiller was removed from my main account for violating community guidelines. The video is literally just me politely recommending an article I enjoyed to my audience. I appealed the
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Lisa Miller
2 years
"In the master bedroom, the detective photographed the unmade bed. A pair of pajama pants lay entangled with the sheets, the empty SIG Sauer case on top."
@intelligencer
Intelligencer
2 years
Will a jury find James and Jennifer Crumbley criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting? @lisaxmiller reports
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Lisa Miller
2 years
@4evrmalone please please please somebody do a deep dive on the alligator.
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Lisa Miller
2 years
“This book should have been titled Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez But Were Afraid to Ask.” - The Guardian
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Lisa Miller
3 years
Thanks especially to @PhilFisher99 who shared his research, insights and concern with me.
@NYNewswomen
NYNewswomen
3 years
Best Magazine Feature goes to @lisaxmiller from @NYMag for "Children of Quarantine What Does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain?"
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Lisa Miller
1 year
@KerryHowley @NYMag what I always wonder about romcoms is: who even works at magazines anymore (except, you know, us) ?
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Lisa Miller
2 years
“It’s definitely the case that most people with schizophrenia do not commit violent crimes. It’s also true that people with schizophrenia are more likely to commit violent crimes,” one psychiatrist told me.
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Lisa Miller
1 year
This is good for New York restaurants, good for @NYMag , good for New Yorkers who love restaurants, and good for our post-pandemic blues. This, and the indictments in Georgia, are making me happy tonight. Congrats @MatthewSchneier
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Matthew Schneier
1 year
Honored to slip on the hat of the late, great Gael and the pants of the great @plattypants . Lipitor era starts now
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Lisa Miller
2 years
Go @mollyhfischer ! xoxox
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Lisa Miller
1 year
ICYMI: this was incredibly fun. Spoke to @lizzieohreally about Andrew Tate.
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Lizzie O'Leary
1 year
Got to talk to the amazing @lisaxmiller about how the Internet created Andrew Tate.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@sternbergh this is getting harder and harder. i bought two this year, both were compromises. i started one and then switched to the other. i'm happier but still not totally happy.
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Lisa Miller
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@pamelacolloff don't even know why you'd try.
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Lisa Miller
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Intelligencer
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After the fall of Kabul, a 36-year-old American named AJ Subat helped scores of strangers flee Afghanistan. Eight of them placed the fates of their new lives in his hands. @lisaxmiller reports
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Lisa Miller
2 years
America has a gun problem
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@4evrmalone Congrats Madison!!!
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Lisa Miller
2 years
"In Oakland County, children regularly die of gunshots owing to the carelessness of their parents, according to a local state senator, and those parents are almost never charged with crimes."
@intelligencer
Intelligencer
2 years
Will a jury find James and Jennifer Crumbley criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting? @lisaxmiller reports
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@GiniaNYT @page88 I would like to add an honorable mention to Caffe Carciofo which, though not exactly *gourmet,* was a great neighborhood place with a great vibe and fun, reliable food. I always wanted to have a party there and wish I had done so.
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Lisa Miller
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@heybonanos I'm one of the five. I have unsigned Talk pieces to prove it.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@aoscott I also got it in two this morning.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
lololol
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
3 years
Pope Francis asks nuns “to fight” against sexism within the Catholic Church
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Lisa Miller
2 years
“I raced home just to, like, find out, and I think my son took the gun. I don’t know if it’s him. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m, like, really freaking out.” The Crumbleys say they feared suicide; the prosector says they must have been imagining homicide."
@NYMag
New York Magazine
2 years
@lisaxmiller Parents of mass shooters have increasingly been scrutinized. And since the attack by a 21-year-old that killed seven people at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, there’s been a growing discussion about the role of parents in enabling mass shootings
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Lisa Miller
2 years
So the ER doctors, with few other options, often knowingly discharge people back onto the street.
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Lisa Miller
2 years
I retract my critique of the handmaids tale
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@page88 @GiniaNYT Oh, god. Remember Chanterelle?
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Lisa Miller
2 years
As my only child goes off to college -- along with the state of everything else in the world -- this seems like very important advice. For her and for me.
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Lainna Fader
2 years
A reminder
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@MrJeffGiles Meh -- I stray on the side of the em dash, but I've been known to use (and like!) a semicolon. What else do you do when you're linking phrases longer than a couple of words?
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@GiniaNYT @page88 Yeah Boulebaise (sp).
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Lisa Miller
2 years
"A 2015 FBI report on preventing mass violence defines 'leakage' as the messages a prospective shooter sends, like a bread-crumb trail, to signal his intentions."
@NYMag
New York Magazine
2 years
@lisaxmiller Parents of mass shooters have increasingly been scrutinized. And since the attack by a 21-year-old that killed seven people at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, there’s been a growing discussion about the role of parents in enabling mass shootings
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Lisa Miller
3 years
All I want to say is, "Oh, William!" by Elizabeth Strout. I do not know Elizabeth Strout and no one asked me to post this message.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
ahhhh thank you @Longreads
@Longreads
Longreads
3 years
"Stanton has transformed his storytelling project into something that is part grant-giving operation, part one-man venture-capital firm, and part lottery." @lisaxmiller @nymag @intelligencer (Photo: Beth Sacca) #longreads
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Lisa Miller
1 year
@BGrueskin This is a thrilling story and those reporters know it. A lot of journalism is waiting around.
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2 years
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3 years
@KirkusReviews gives "Take Up Space: The Unprecedented AOC" a starred review. "It’s the most complete picture we will likely have until she writes a memoir." Read @NYMag excerpt here.
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Lisa Miller
2 years
"Before the pandemic, administrators in Oxford schools had started to notice more fragility, anxiety, depression, and withdrawal among students. In the late 1990s, the GOP governor John Engler had closed three-quarters of Michigan’s psych hospitals in a cost-cutting spree."
@NYMag
New York Magazine
2 years
@lisaxmiller The parents’ trial is scheduled to begin on October 24. During it, McDonald will say all the evidence adds up to a picture of parents so inattentive and irresponsible that they failed to heed Ethan’s warning signs and instead gave him a gun
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Lisa Miller
2 years
Parents would make pleas on behalf of their children: If you can take one sister, take this one because she is smart. If you can take two, take this one as well because she is brave.
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@rachelnoerd wow rachel. congratulations.
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1 year
A sorbet course.
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@hhavrilesky @hhavrilesky why are you awake????
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@4evrmalone This is my daughters mortarboard
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Lisa Miller
3 years
“My subjects have more agency over the outcome than just about anybody else who’s a nonfiction storyteller,” he told me.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
In our conversations, he referred to himself as an “artist,” but recently he’s also been inspired by the idea of becoming a “channel for blessings.”
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@vanessagrigor Living for “nice waist belt”
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Lisa Miller
2 years
"Could a criminal case succeed in preventing future shootings in a way that these civil cases have not? The father of the Highland Park shooter, from July 2022, sponsored his son for a gun permit despite a suicide attempt and homicidal threats. "
@NYMag
New York Magazine
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@lisaxmiller McDonald, the local prosecutor, declared she would prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Jennifer and James Crumbley had grossly neglected their parental duty by not averting the obvious danger their son presented
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Lisa Miller
2 years
But the last group departed without them, and there were no more flights out. “I hope you can forgive me,” he wrote in one message. Later, when he reread his texts, he thought to himself, “I’m so stupid.”
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@rainbowrowell We are big fans of yours in our house so this means a whole lot.
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Lisa Miller
3 years
@AllisonPDavis I think 2:30 a.m.
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"Occasionally, a prosecutor will use “gross negligence” to support a homicide charge, as when a doctor prescribes a drug to which they know a patient is allergic, or a driver texts and speeds, or a parent leaves a baby locked in a hot parked car."
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Will a jury find James and Jennifer Crumbley criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting? @lisaxmiller reports
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Lisa Miller
3 years
Before they hit the road, they performed a car-karaoke version of Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.” Ocasio-Cortez played air guitar.
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Lisa Miller
2 years
"Over the subsequent months, nine civil lawsuits would be filed against the school. (The Oxford Community School District did not respond to requests for comment for this article.)"
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New York Magazine
2 years
@lisaxmiller McDonald, the local prosecutor, declared she would prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Jennifer and James Crumbley had grossly neglected their parental duty by not averting the obvious danger their son presented
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Lisa Miller
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“We had eyes on the kids,” said a school administrator in Oxford, “but did we really have eyes on the kids?”
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New York Magazine
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@lisaxmiller The parents’ trial is scheduled to begin on October 24. During it, McDonald will say all the evidence adds up to a picture of parents so inattentive and irresponsible that they failed to heed Ethan’s warning signs and instead gave him a gun
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