Hartford, Erin reach tentative accord City won't annex; town won't incorporate By MIKE JOHNSON mikejohnson@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Hartford -- The city would agree to ban annexing Town of Erin land for 20 years and Erin would...

Hartford Life's Earnings Protection Death Benefit Preserves Variable Life Gains For Families The capital gains within a variable annuity, when withdrawn from the contract in the form of income or received as a death benefit, arc treated as ordinary income...

Howard was an American critic who published widely on American and English literature. His The Connecticut Wits (1943) is considered an authoritative guide to the subject of the Wits, their time period, and their writings. In the following excerpt from that work, Howard explores the early satirical writings of the Wits and concludes that their involvement in bitter public debate in periodicals took them away from more important literary work.

Parrington was an American historian, critic, and educator who contributed regularly to such prestigious reference works as Encyclopaedia Britannica and The Cambridge History of American Literature. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the first two volumes of his influential Main Currents in American Thought (1927); the third volume remained unfinished at the time of his death. In this series, Parrington composed, according to Michael O'Brien, "not a study of American literature so much as of...

In the following excerpt, Dowling analyses Dwight's Greenfield Hill as a poem about American independence—moral and political—and the dangers of losing it.