Word: mountings
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That plea to God, recited three times a day in Jewish prayers, expresses a yearning that makes Jerusalem's Temple Mount potentially the most volatile 35 acres on earth. Though 19 centuries have passed since Roman troops obliterated Herod's gilded Temple, the Mount remains the object of intense Jewish reverence. But for the past 13 centuries the same trapezoidal tract has also been Islam's holiest site after Mecca and Medina: its Al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock honor the spot whence the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to the seventh heaven. Christians too hold...
Temple reconstruction was no issue until 1967, when Israel captured the Mount and the Old City. Eager to preserve peace, Israel continues to allow Muslims to administer the site. They permit no Jew or Christian to pray openly on the holy ground, nor will they consider allowing even the simplest synagogue or church. The merest hint of rebuilding the Temple is considered an outrage by the Prophet's followers, who, in the words of an official at Al Aqsa, "will defend the Islamic holy places to the last drop of their blood...
Chavez, the leader of the United Farm Workers (UFW), said the University should join such schools as the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Mount Holyoke to ban the grapes, which are treated with pesticides harmful to farm laborers...
Equestrian Hosts Show: The Harvard equestrian club opened its season by co-hosting--with Boston University--its first annual show at Huckins Farm in Bedford, Mass., last Saturday. Ten colleges participated in the show--Boston University, Colby-Sawyer, Dartmouth, Framingham State, Harvard, Lowell, Middlebury, Mount Ida, New Hampshire, Tufts and Vermont--which Dartmouth...
Tuesday's march was noteworthy, however, for its lack of political overtone. Organizer Phillip Martin says he did not even want politicians at the vigil. Although Alan Bell, one of the few conservative Blacks to mount a City Council challenge in recent years, did march at the front of the rally, most other candidates did not attend...