Will L.A. Have a Ghost Town or a Downtown? GREGORY SERRAO, Serrao, a principal at Dworsky Associates, architects and planners, was project director for The Metropolitan apartments, The Skyline condominiums and the Angelus Plaza Senior Citizens Housing Complex. and
Insight : The Idea Behind the Award GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA, This is an excerpt from "Binational Performance Pilgrimage," which will appear in the September/October issue of the "The Drama Review," published by MIT Press. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awards fellowships to artists and scholars with no strings. San Diego had two fellows this year: UC San Diego Prof. Patricia Smith Churchland will receive $290,000; performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena, $230,000. Here is an excerpt from an upcoming work by Gomez-Pena
This California Castle Was a Dream Come True MAX JACOBSON, Jacobson is a Los Angeles-based restaurant and travel writer who contributes regularly to The Times' Orange County Edition. and
No One but U.S. Treasury Wants Interest Rate Cuts ALLAN H. MELTZER, ALLAN H. MELTZER is John M. Olin Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
PLATFORM : You Can Quote Him LARRY BUMGARDNER, LARRY BUMGARDNER, a lawyer and former journalist who teaches communication law at Pepperdine University, commented on the Supreme Court decision limiting a journalist's ability to alter quotes:
BOOK MARK : Doubts About Camelot: The MM Connection Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas C. Reeves is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. How different was the private behavior of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert, from their public images? The author of a controversial book examines one notorious allegation. An excerpt