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Adam Moss' New York Magazine won for general excellence and in four other categories at the National Magazine Awards last night, setting off a lot of talk about the place of city magazines. Wired, McSweeney's, The Nation and BeliefNet, among others, were also winners. Simon Dumenco, for one, thinks Los Angeles Magazine was robbed.
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