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From: The New Yorker <newyorker at newsletter.newyorker.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:19 PM
Subject: Murder in Malta
To: <fqmorris at gmail.com>

Ben Taub investigates. Plus: Instagram’s favorite *New Yorker* cartoons of
2020; a classic-toy inventor; and Taylor Swift.
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The inventor of more than eight hundred toys explains why making playthings
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Thousands of teen-agers in the state weren’t old enough to vote in
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These volunteers tried to find them.
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Humor and Puzzles
[image: Eustace with a crossword puzzle] Crossword Today’s Crossword

Big softy: eleven letters.
By Anna Shechtman
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[image: Image may contain: Plant, Tree, Human, Person, Ornament, and
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