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Ramesses' place in history, meanwhile, has been amply documented. The ruler himself saw to that. In fact, grandiosity was part of the job description for pharaohs. One of their primary duties was to make sure the gods were properly thanked for their continuing bounty and protection (and begged for them...
Ramesses was then placed in a sarcophagus and interred, along with everything he would need to travel through the afterlife: the Book of the Dead, containing spells that would give the pharaoh access to the netherworld; tiny statuettes known as ushabti, which would come alive to help the dead king...
Maybe it's just chance or a comedy of errors--or maybe the gods of the housing lottery have a peculiarly literary bent. Stranger things have happened.
I READ WITH INTEREST IAN BURUMA'S article, "Lost Without a Faith,'' about how the Japanese are looking for new gods [Cover, April 3]. Buruma has keen insight into the Japanese mentality. I don't agree, however, with his opinion that Soka Gakkai members worship Daisaku Ikeda, honorary president of...
TO MY DISMAY, MANY PEOPLE MISGUIDEDLY believe doctors are some kind of gods who never make mistakes. You emphasized that "negligence in American hospitals may result in 80,000 deaths each year,'' and more or less hid the fact that this comes to only a tiny percentage of patients physicians...