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Arika Okrent is fluent in English, Hungarian, American sign language and ... Klingon. (O.K., so she has only first-level certification in Star Trek-speak.) Okrent, a linguistics scholar, spent the better part of five years perusing library card catalogs and attending colorful conferences to learn about languages created by one person and, in some cases, adopted by thousands. Her new book, In the Land of Invented Languages, chronicles the scientists, idealists and eccentrics who tried - and failed - to create the perfect parlance from scratch. TIME spoke with Okrent about defending the cranks from the critics, ordering sandwiches in Esperanto...
...Freshman Seminar 33g. Eloquence Personified: How To Speak Like Cicero — That's quite a guarantee...
...eager to drive a wedge between the President and rank-and-file Catholics are Catholic Republicans, who worry about losing more voters to the Democratic Party. Newt Gingrich wasn't yet a Catholic when the 2004 statement was debated and approved. But the new convert was the first to speak out against Notre Dame's commencement speaker. On March 24, the Republican former House Speaker weighed in on his Twitter account, which appears to have limits on capital letters: "It is sad to see notre dame invite president obama to give the commencement address since his policies are so anti...
...held yesterday, FAS IT administrators told students that the changes make it so students serve students and full-time FAS IT employees work with faculty and staff. Two UAs—who asked that their names not be printed because they were told by FAS IT not to speak to the press and did not want to damage their chances for potential future employment—said that multiple students at the meeting said they would have better understood the reductions had they been part of fiscal cutbacks. “I came away thinking that it was budgetary...
...from offering both confidential and anonymous testing to exclusively providing confidential screenings. Students who receive confidential testing have documentation of their HIV/AIDS test incorporated in their medical records, while those who receive anonymous testing do not. Rosenthal added that UHS outsources counseling services, making available non-Harvard individuals to speak with students who request anonymous testing. He said that, though UHS technically charges $10 for an anonymous screening, the hospital waives the fee. Confidential tests are always free of charge and do not include counseling for students, he noted. In response to the policy change, Linda Ellison?...