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To: frankw1900 who wrote (25706)	4/16/2002 9:57:19 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

UPI Wire: 0- Archaeologists may yet save the planet from the curse of the red cow. An interesting dispute is building over the real site of Solomon's and Herod's temples, suggesting they may not have been on Mount Moriah at all -- the hill known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as "al-Haram al-Sharif" (the Noble Sanctuary). Solomon's temple was above a spring known as Gihon, which would place it on the lower Mount Ophel to the south. And the Roman general and historian Josephus, who ought to know since he razed it, writes that the view of Herod's Temple was blocked from the north -- which would probably mean blocked by Mount Moriah. Once this is explained to Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon, they will doubtless realize that the current intifada is being fought by mistake. -0- Enter Hollywood. And exit immediately. The story that Steven Spielberg, Oscar-winning director of the epic 'Schindler's List' and bankroller of the massive oral history effort to record the memories of all remaining Holocaust survivors, was planning a pro-Palestinian movie on the intifada turns out to be false. The director's spokesman, Marvin Levy, called the report "an obvious, vicious hoax," after it surfaced on news sites around the world. Spielberg was quoted in the story that flashed around the Internet as telling the Hollywood Reporter that Israel's military strikes against Palestinians resembled genocide. -0- Regular visitors to the White House have been intrigued in recent weeks to see on an almost daily basis the familiar and venerable figure of former U.S. Air Force Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser in the first Bush administration, and co-author of a memoir with the first President Bush. As the first talent-spotter and patron of Condoleezza Rice, who now performs his old job for the second Bush administration, Scowcroft has become the elder statesman and sage of choice for the successor generation. -0-