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Your book includes an index of more than 500 invented languages, though you're quick to point out that no one really knows how many there are. How did you decide which languages to explore? I knew more about the famous ones, like Esperanto and Klingon. But the others I discovered in libraries. Every library you go into will have these little pamphlets self-published by some dreamer with a plan. I got very curious about the lives of the people who devoted themselves to these doomed projects...
...course the song that made her famous is among the most miserable of show tunes, sung by a broken, destitute girl: "I had a dream my life would be/ So different from this hell I'm living/ So different now from what it seemed./ Now life has killed the dream I dreamed...
...House tutor Jennifer Kan Martinez's famous homemade cupcakes (Dunster...
...wait-and-see attitude seems de rigueur. "Even if I'm very convinced, we're going to need some time before we adopt these systems wholesale," says producer Drappier, who has tested both the Mytik Diamant and the Maestro. After all, he asks, what would Champagne Drappier's most famous client have thought? "Charles de Gaulle liked his Champagne bottles as simple as a jar of Mom's homemade jam, so I think he'd have been slow to warm to anything too gadgety." If success for Champagne's cork innovators depends on pleasing public and presidential palates, it could...
...closing the Quad’s Hilles library and drastically reconfiguring the shuttle schedule—directly concern only Quad students. With 25 percent of the Harvard undergraduate population bearing the brunt of the university’s cutbacks, it appears that George Orwell’s famous adage holds true: Some Harvard students are more equal than others...