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...GABRIEL BARKAY, archaeologist...
...archaeologists - denied permission by the Muslim authorities, the Waqf, to supervise the excavation - fear systematic destruction of Jewish relics. The debris contained pottery shards dating to the time of Solomon's Temple, according to Israeli officials. "This isn't a political dispute. It's a cultural intifadeh," says Gabriel Barkay, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Last week Barkay and other local archaeologists persuaded the Israeli High Court to temporarily bar the removal of any more debris. Israelis say that since the reconstruction, a bulge in the Mount's southern wall has started to warp much faster...
...have to like Becky, and thanks to Reese Witherspoon's perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama?populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne?of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...
Days on Nair's set, populated by longtime collaborators, begin with group yoga, which is followed by a healthy dose of ribbing by the director. "I directed Gabriel Byrne entirely in a Ugandan accent," she says proudly. How will her move into more mainstream films affect this familial way of working? Nair isn't too apprehensive. "When I have passion for something," she says, "I'm a weirdly kind of fearless person...
...have to like Becky, and thanks to Reese Witherspoon's perky performance we do, not least because we have all been in her position, desperate to impress our betters. Moreover, director Mira Nair has created a pretty panorama--populated with solid actors like Bob Hoskins and Gabriel Byrne--of English life in the Georgian era for Becky to master. It is more exotic than Thackeray's, more laden with the booty of a burgeoning colonial empire, but Nair, Indian by birth, is entitled to her opinions about the exploitations on which England's wealth was based...