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Prideful Heads. When the constitution was drawn up, Makarios hailed it as a victory. "We have won!" he cried to the delirious crowd massed outside his palace. "Cyprus is free. Celebrate, my brethren, and raise your heads high with pride." He promised that Cyprus would now become a strong link between Greece and Turkey and a factor of stability in the Middle East. It might well have if Makarios had not decided that the constitution was unworkable because it conflicted "with internationally accepted democratic principles and creates sources of friction between Greek and Turkish Cypriots." Most observers agree that...
...initiative in ordering a cease-fire." Declared Aref: "In the name of Allah the all-merciful, we have decreed the following in our desire to restore normal life and end the bloodletting." There followed a nine-point communique covering everything from "recognition of the national rights of our Kurdish brethren" to general amnesty and the release of prisoners...
...give themselves historic tutors, the brethren drew up a list of 57 "immortals" whose ideals resembled their own. Among them were Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Opera Composer Giovanni Bellini, and Coventry Patmore, a minor romantic poet. These models supplied them with literary and moral inspiration. The brotherhood even published a little magazine, The Germ, in 1850 "to encourage and enforce an entire adherence to the simplicity of nature...
...said the cardinal in his peroration, "the recognition of the Holy Spirit outside the limits of the Catholic church establishes a bridge to our 'separated brethren' and enlarges the order of the church as such. And God's work among our brethren establishes a common ba sis from which the attempt must be made to continue a sincere fraternal and patient dialogue in which the issues which divide us can be clarified. This we view as the first step of the road along which God can ultimately lead us to each other...
...almost singlehanded won the game's symbolic "Ashes" for Britain in 1926 after 14 straight years of galling Australian supremacy, in 1953 was awarded professional cricket's first knighthood, an honor that forever raised the status of professional players, until then required to address their amateur brethren as "Sir"; after a long illness; in Hove, Sussex...