Word: lente
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...Chicago Sun-Times sanctimoniously excoriated the Court for having “endorsed a wrongheaded law” and “lent credence to the unsettling notion that Congress” can interfere with personal medical decisions. Yet, in the same breath, the Windy City daily conceded the “admittedly unsettling aspect of partial-birth abortions” and confessed that “any kind of abortion procedure can be grim...
...Besides teaching the mechanics of ringing the bells, Ogryzkov spoke about the liturgical origins of one of the bells’ odd nicknames. According to Ogryzkov, the bell known as “Famine, Pestilence, and Despair,” was likely rung during the hard fasts of Lent. Ogryzkov said that while some of the nicknames correlate with their historic uses, a certain amount of “poetical interpretation” took place after they transferred to Harvard...
...Working on a limited budget is a little difficult for the designers, but for what it’s worth, they came up with some pretty great clothing.”The clothes in the show are a mixture of thrift store finds, students’ own clothing, pieces lent from local shops such as Mudo—a co-sponsor of the show—and original student designs. Hyphen, a San Francisco-based magazine on modern Asian-American life and culture, is also co-sponsoring the show and providing some of the clothes.‘PRETTY...
...competition, but find a loophole to compete in pairs figure skating—by skating with each other. The movie marks the first time that Poehler has worked on a feature film with her husband, who portrayed George Oscar Bluth in “Arrested Development” and lent his voice to a vulture in “Ice Age: The Meltdown.”Poehler says that she enjoyed rehearsing with someone she trusted.“We did a lot of practicing, while we walked our dogs and while we were watching, you know...
When Melecio Penafiel wanted to expand his tailoring shop in Guayaquil, Ecuador, last May, he didn't go to the bank or ask his relatives for help. His seed money arrived via the Internet. Using the website Kiva.org a Bay Area software engineer named Nathan Folkert lent Penafiel the $500 he needed to buy two new sewing machines, fabrics and thread for higher-quality suits. Folkert has never met Penafiel but says making the loan "felt like I was giving him a shot at the American Dream...