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...year. Even so, Garcetti can't have been too sorry at the impression it made when the tape was played over and over again in public. "The prosecution is in the unusual position of having to try to shape public opinion its way," says Charles Weisselberg, a criminal-law expert at the University of Southern California...
Women are most in danger when they seek to put a firm end to an abusive relationship. Experts warn that the two actions most likely to trigger deadly assault are moving out of a shared residence and beginning a relationship with another man. "There aren't many issues that arouse greater passion than infidelity and abandonment," says Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who is a leading expert on homicide...
...River valley of Peru's northern coastal plain. The find was pillaged, and many artifacts from it soon began showing up on the international market for stolen art. Fortunately, three other tombs that have since been discovered in the pyramid were protected and excavated under the eye of an expert. As a result, a team of workers was able painstakingly to retrieve splendors from the darkness of a thousand years...
...workers located tombs that had been sealed off since their occupants were buried. He began what would stretch into years of patiently peeling away layers of debris and removing the delicate objects of metal, shell and stone that gradually unraveled the mysteries surrounding the lost culture. Pre-Columbian expert Christopher Donnan, of the University of California, Los Angeles, joined the project: photographs of tomb objects were made and sent for comparative analysis to UCLA's Fowler Museum, which has more than 135,000 pictures of Moche artifacts in its archives...
...supreme court injunction preventing the action. Next, Congress hit on the strategy of a constitutional amendment. V.C. Shukla, Rao's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, argued that the reason was merely that "we want to strengthen democratic norms." But that did not wash. Said Upendra Baxi, a constitutional expert: "This is an attempt to emasculate the institution whose mission is to hold free and fair elections." Voters seemed to agree. A Times of India poll last week revealed that 62% of respondents believed Congress's motive was to "clip Seshan's wings." More than 90% felt the commissioner was doing...