Word: lent
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...many Serbs already on the move, some are wondering whether their days in Kosovo are numbered. "This might be the decisive battle for Kosovo and the survival of Serbs in Kosovo," a senior Belgrade official, Nebojsa Covic, said. The rhetoric has a familiar ring, but last week's events lent some credence to his apocalyptic view...
After years of struggling to innovate within the limited set, Melton decided to take matters into his own hands. Government provisions only apply if scientists use federal money to do their research. Working with money lent by private donors—including Harvard University, the government of Singapore and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation—Melton built his own supply of stem cells. In a two year process, he procured a set of 17 cell lines from a Boston in-vitro fertilization clinic, which extracted the tissue from discarded embryos whose donors gave written consent...
...Sunday, March 7, 2004, during the second week of Lent, God restored order to the Harvard College baseball universe, and all was right with the world once again...
Almost a decade later, the Mountain Goats are one album deep into the second phase of their career, signed to 4AD Records and with a little less of the DIY power that lent their longs such urgency back then. While 2002’s stunning Tallahassee finally made the Mountain Goats’ incomparable songwriting accessible, on the recently-released We Shall All Be Healed, songwriter John Darnielle tiredly rehashes concepts, playing the same guitar lines he’s stuck to his entire musical career. And though every old-time Mountain Goats fan will want to blame the professional...
...seems that Ventura—who was born in Minneapolis and has constantly returned to the Land of 10,000 Lakes despite career stops in Vietnam as a Navy SEAL and in professional wrestling—lent a hand in directing a talented young man from Anoka, Minn., to spend four years of his life in Cambridge...