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Instead of an episcopal staff, Makarios, 51, carries a kingly scepter, and he signs all his documents in red ink. These are not the personal eccentricities of the only cleric to govern a sovereign nation, but privileges accorded the archbishops of Cyprus by 5th century Byzantine Emperor Zeno as his tribute to one of Christendom's most ancient strongholds. It was jt only a dozen years after Jesus' death that the apostle Paul brought Christianity to Cyprus, and Paul's companion, Barnabas, became the island's first bishop and patron saint. In 431, the Council...
Eager to impress, the Japanese plied the bankers with No plays, Koto recitals, Bunraku puppet shows, trips to the countryside, geisha parties and tea with Emperor Hirohito. They even introduced a new cigarette called IMF. Between the crowded plenums and the warm sake sessions, the international moneymen performed some important business-and witnessed a struggle for control of the world's monetary leadership...
Socially, the Bonapartes always had a problem: while Napoleon conquered Europe, the family never conquered European society. This was a grave disappointment to all of them, including Napoleon I. Even after he became Emperor, he felt it necessary to suggest that the Bonapartes had been the Bourbons of Corsica, a claim that greatly amused his niece, Princess Mathilde Bonaparte. "If it had not been for Napoleon's armies," she once confessed, "I would be selling oranges on the quayside at Ajaccio...
...Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur. Napoleon gave them all immense allowances (which they all shrewdly kited into fortunes-Elisa by reopening the marble quarries at Carrara and flooding Europe with marble busts of the Emperor...
...forgave him for seating them on stools at one state reception when they felt their rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they were supposed to rule over their various subjects rather than act as emissaries for the Emperor. "If I made one of my brothers a king," said Napoleon bitterly at St. Helena, "he imagined that he was king by the grace...