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...quarter-century division of Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots has been the biggest thorn in a long, contentious Greek-Turkish relationship, but for the rest of the world it has become mostly a yawn. There has been little threat of war and, rightly or wrongly, 30,000 Turkish forces have remained on the island since the 1974 invasion to keep it that...
...others feel their minority status (putting a Christmas tree up). The tree, unlike the swastika, is not an anti-Jewish symbol, and the message that came from all the disgruntled Leverittes, and the opinion piece by Shira D. Kieval ’04 (“Tree for Some, Thorn for Others,” Dec. 4), was not that the tree would make them feel hated, but that it would make them feel their minority status—their situation outside a celebration...
Pitkin’s ties to neighborhood issues are strong, as he has organized and led neighborhood and citywide efforts for the last three decades. He has been both an active participant in discussions with city and University officials, and sometimes a thorn in their side as he has worked to protect neighborhood interests...
Hauerwas has been a thorn in the side of what he takes to be Christian complacency for more than 30 years. For him, the message of Jesus was a radical one to which Christians, for the most part, have never been fully faithful. Christians, he believes, are called to be a pilgrim people who will always find themselves in one political community or another but who are never defined completely by it. Thus, as the body of Christ on Earth, Christians must be a "sign of contradiction," to borrow a term from Pope John Paul II, a moral theologian much...
...easements have long been the thorn in the side of potential Allston developers. The presence of the railroad thwarted Genzyme’s plans in the early 1990s to expand across the site Harvard now hopes to develop...