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...locale's holy, bloody history. Over the centuries, each of the West's great faiths has coveted the city; each alternately has controlled it, and each has constructed around it a separate sacred history. As the myths have collided, the result has been a play of extremes: physical splendor alternating with utter destruction; moments of pious exultation oscillating with the grossest carnage. Or sometimes carnage and exultation at once. "Men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins," wrote an 11th century Crusader fresh from a massacre of Muslims on the Temple Mount. He added, "Indeed...
...high--a wall not of the Temple itself but of a gargantuan platform atop which it perched. To his right would have been Jerusalem's Upper City, its Gold Coast, where the families of the priests who tended the sacrificial altars lived according to Jewish law but in Roman splendor. Asked to imagine the boy's main impression, Roni Reich, director of Temple Mount excavations for the Israeli Antiquities Authority, says...
...city was in a renaissance. Its initial splendor had been snuffed out by Babylonia in 586 B.C. (see box page 52). Within 50 years, Jews had begun rebuilding, but full glory awaited the rule, from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C., of Herod the Great. Herod is one of ancient history's extraordinary figures. Ten times married, a serious drinker and a half-Jew who was half-trusted by his subjects, he played the superpower politics of his day consummately. In 63 B.C., Rome became Judea's ruler, succeeding Babylonia, Persia, Greece and the Jews themselves. Herod, who hailed from...
...were. These are great songs, pure and simple - two words that describe them perfectly. "(Theme From) The Monkees" works just like the stroll down the street whose rhythm inspired its composition, a nice-guy "We're the Jets"; "Last Train to Clarksville" is a guitar-driven thing of pop splendor; "I'm a Believer" and "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" remind us what a distinctive stylist Neil Diamond was before he descended in the bathos-sphere with "I Am, I Cried" and "Longfellow Serenade." And "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" simply rocks...
...have spent time in Paris have come away unmoved by the splendor of the city's architecture, the depth of its history, the vibrant color of its inner life. Fewer still are those who have explored the French capital without also stumbling across one of its less charming secrets: the ubiquitous dog excrement that turns many Parisian sidewalks into veritable minefields of shoe-defiling muck. But following the example of famous creators before him who drew inspiration from the picturesque details of Parisian life, a civic-minded artist has embraced the City of Light's blight by using selected piles...