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Corzo notes that the artisans who labored in the tomb three millenniums ago left unexpected evidence of their fallibility. The rows of stars in the funerary ceiling were kept straight by strings stretched from wall to wall. In the sarcophagus chamber, conservators discovered a row of fingerprints left along a string line by a careless craftsman. In one corner, a contractor had scratched in hieroglyphics his accounting of work completed. And on one pillar, Nefertari's flesh-toned cheek is splotched with blue ceiling paint. Could it be that she died before the tomb was completed and the artisans...
...Roger Keith Coleman, death row inmate, on the courts' refusal to hear evidence that would clear him of a 1982 murder conviction. Coleman is scheduled for execution this week...
Seventy-six percent of those accepted into the class of 1996 have decided to matriculate into the College, marking the third year in a row Harvard's "yield" of students has increased...
...more ways than one -- by being administered poison through an intravenous drip. Unlike at the mall, though, there isn't much choice at the retail level. Only Utah (shooting or hanging) and Idaho (lethal injection or firing squad) offer the customer a limited say in how he (death row's population is 98.5% male) goes...
...bring it back. It is highly controversial in the U.S., of course, but far less so than it ought to be. There is no way to explain the opinion polls that show large and growing majorities in favor of the death penalty. Today 2,588 people pace the death row cells of America's prisons. Another joins them, on average, every day of the year. Fourteen died in 1991; 16 more have died so far this year. As the pace of executions mounts, so too, sooner or later, will the intensity of the debate...