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In Rome, the highly political popes played the Lombard duchies against those of the Byzantine Empire.
(The whole story is much more Byzantine than this.)
Although estranged from Rome for hundreds of years, these tradition-rich churches long have fascinated John Paul II, who comes from a part of the world where Latin and Byzantine Christianity overlap.
Unable to afford hefty bribes or airfare to Canada, Russian mothers are looking for other ways to finesse Russia's Byzantine draft laws and keep their sons out of the Chechen conflict.
In the Byzantine, languorous U.N. bureaucracy, Annan earned a reputation as someone who actually Got Things Done.