But this year they feel greater kinship because they are at economic war with a common employer, and the players have offered noticeably greater vocal support for their locked-out brethern.
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Already, U . N . officials have confirmed that Croatian Serbs are helping their brethern in northwest Bosnia and the Croatian army is doing the same for Bosnian Croats in the southwest.
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Instead, the only player in the history of the world to make $ 30 million for one season of basketball has taken a prime role in the war between his union brethern and the NBA owners.
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This scene is being duplicated in dozens of lounges around the country as smaller, less ambitious Division I programs await and now anticipate confrontations with their larger, well-armed and highly ambitious Division I brethern.
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Serb planes flying from Udbina have bombed the Bihac area three times since Nov . 9 . In addition, Serbs in Croatia have been firing artillery into the Bihac pocket in support of their Bosnian brethern trying to regain lost territory.
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Boniface also asked the archbishop for some of Bede's books, and in return sent wine to be drunk " in a merry day with the brethern . " On another occasion, Boniface sent the archbishop a cloak and towel.
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Following the labor script written by their baseball brethern and reinforced by their hockey cousins in the past year, negotiators for the National Basketball Association and its union broke off talks Thursday night, raising the specter of games in court replacing games on the court.
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Disagreements over who holds ultimate authority among Christians were apparent this week as the pope, in discussing the " difficulties " that have clouded the Anglican-Roman Catholic relationship, emphasized the responsibility of his " teaching office " and urged his Anglican brethern to heed his " motives and reasons ."
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Some of the newspapers as well as our broadcast brethern have given ground more or less steadily from the traditional role of delivering basic information, and turned instead to the higher-octane fuel of delivering opinion, propaganda, or " spin, " that process which if left uninterrupted leaves both the donor and the donee dizzy.
