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From its roots, the word Lent-akin to the way the days "lengthen" early in the year-essentially means spring. For Christians, it recalls Jesus' 40-day fast in the wilderness, and began to be observed no later than the 4th century. For medieval man, Lent was a grim, belt-tightening time: only one meal a day was permitted; meat, milk, eggs and cheese were forbidden foods...
BABES IN THE WOOD. Rick Besoyan's vaudevillian version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is more akin to Minsky than Shakespeare. The humor is broad, the music is gay, the mood is light. The groundlings would have loved...
Chief Justice Lockwood's achievement is roughly akin to a woman taking over as coach of the Cleveland Browns...
...blame on teacher preparation, which consists mainly of a few undergraduate survey courses in history. About one-third of Indiana's history teachers have not taken a single graduate course in the subject. "A teacher who invades the classroom with such a background," the authors warn, "is akin to a soldier entering battle with a popgun...
...middle of the third period right wing Akin Adewole broke past a Yale defender and centered a high soft pass to center forward Jim Saltonstall at the edge of the penalty zone. Salty eluded Eli center half Grif Okie, who had shadowed him all afternoon, and headed the ball out of the hands of charging Yale goalie Denny Gaulladet and it bounded slowly into...