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After the ninth plague, God warns Moses that the Israelites should sacrifice a lamb and paint their doorways with its blood. And that midnight, in a scene equally eerie in the Bible, live-action movie or animated cartoon, God kills the Egyptian firstborn males. A great cry goes up in Egypt. Is there archaeological evidence of this disaster? Weeks' discovery of the tomb of the sons of Rameses II at first led to much excitement. Could it provide evidence of the final plague? Weeks says there is no way to know whether one of the sons in the tomb...
...vexed that his fellow Hebrews have been enslaved to help build the pyramids. But he gradually achieves an ethnic identity and flexes some vengeful muscle, thanks to a divine ally--a force as implacable as Clint Eastwood in a really dark mood--who, when bid, will kill each Egyptian firstborn male...
...schools are falling apart, urban centers are deteriorating, and children go hungry while the government haphazardly showers money and tax breaks on incredibly wealthy corporations. I am outraged that I have to mortgage my firstborn to get a loan or credit, buy a home or a car or fund an education for my children, while all corporations have to do is just start a rumor that they want to "relocate" and the government falls all over itself to help out. CHRISTINE HUBLER Bear...
...Britain's 700 hereditary peers are about to get the chop. Twenty-one generations of Lord Fauntleroys influencing the affairs of the nation will come to an end. They will continue to have the right to call themselves Baron this and the Earl of that, and so will their firstborn sons. But they will no longer be admitted to the gold-and-crimson chamber of the upper house of Parliament...
...exactly a ringing endorsement of your firstborn child. But CBS executives are trying hard to assure doubters that 60 Minutes Jr. will be a credit to its not-so-proud parent. The new show's executive producer is Jeffrey Fager, who spent five years as a producer for 60 Minutes and has been a hard-news champion as executive producer of the CBS Evening News since 1996. The new show will have an entirely separate staff, which means it won't divert resources from Hewitt's operation; yet more than half its producers have worked at 60 Minutes, which presumably...