Word: milo
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...architects Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius and artists Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies have demanded a halt to construction, which has been under way in fits and starts since 1882. Continuing to work on the building, contends architect Josep Anton Acebillo, is "like adding arms to the Venus de Milo." Nonetheless, the building continues to be financed privately -- and enthusiastically -- by contributors ranging from Catalan nationalists to Japanese businessmen to American tourists...
They could not have done it without the Israeli police. Despite warnings by the Shin Bet, the nation's domestic security service, and the unusual presence of thousands of Palestinians on the Temple Mount on a Jewish holiday, the police inexplicably failed to deploy adequate reinforcements. (Police Minister Ronni Milo lamely explained that his forces mistakenly believed the riot would start at 3 a.m. that morning.) Said Yossi Sarid, a left-wing Knesset member: "There is no doubt that had the police prepared for this, this riot would have been prevented...