The inflood of support set the stage for a classic narrative denouement in which the underdog triumphs, the villains repent, and the heroes all live on the network happily ever after. But real life rarely resolves as neatly as fiction. The e-mail campaign failed to persuade the university to keep Project Gutenberg alive.

Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.

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The doctor's handwriting was indecipherable.