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...Hawaii's average score of 6.6% topped the happy list - though even in the Aloha State, that represented a slight darkening from the positively giddy 6.3% in the earlier survey. The next sunniest states were Kansas and Nebraska, which tied at 7.5%. Almost everywhere, though, the trend lines were down. Overall, 44 states plus the District of Columbia scored worse on the second survey than on the first; one remained unchanged; and only five (Colorado, Minnesota, North Dakota, Texas and Iowa) improved. Even then, the downtick in FMD was less than 1%. And while it's true that even...
...curriculum reduces the department’s many tracks to two—a language-intensive track and a civilizations track. It also does away with the long-standing tradition of general exams for seniors based on a required reading list, while adding a junior tutorial to prepare students to write theses in subjects that may venture beyond literature...
...teach the history of Greek literature without Euripides’ Medea always on the reading list,” Schiefsky said, adding that in the past, courses that included texts not on the required list for general exams were guaranteed low enrollments...
...Bennett also argues against the idea of establishing an MFA program at Harvard, pointing out that Harvard’s undergraduate program produces enough great writers on its own. “If you look at a list of Advocate alums, it compares remarkably well to graduate programs in writing like the one at Iowa,” Bennett says, referring to the Harvard literary publication of which he was also a member. “Harvard recognizes this, and they know a Bachelor’s is enough...
...Kaplan had to disappoint people who were hoping to appear in her book, stressing that she was writing a novel. Kaplan is also reluctant to draw connections between “Hancock Park” and the popular “Gossip Girl” series or The A-List series, which all share similar settings. “I think ‘Hancock Park’ is a study of Los Angeles insider life from someone who feels she is at the edge of the inside, and doesn’t feel completely at home...