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Critics of the program contend that the CRP places undue emphasis upon economic and quantitative analysis. Kilbridge and Kain refute these allegations. Since Kain became department chairman two years ago, the CRP has revised its core curriculum, which now requires seven courses for first-year planning students. Four of these courses--Economic Analysis for Planning, Quantitative Methods for Planners I and II, Public Finance and Budgeting--stress economic or statistical analysis. In addition, first-year students this summer received an introductory welcome letter from the department, suggesting several preparatory texts in statistics and microeconomics. The letter also stressed the importance...
...accept economics as one aspect of planning but they claim that the current program gives short shrift to social, political and physical factors in the planning process. Faculty members who share Kain's viewpoint, many of whom entered the department within the last few years, note that the remaining core courses--Planning Process: Political and Institutional Analysis, Planning Law and Administration and Urban Growth and Spatial Structure--provide students with the necessary foundation in other relevant disciplines, including physical planning. H. James Brown Jr., professor of City Planning, sums up the opinion of many of his colleagues saying, "the notion...
Security experts agree and have warned Schmidt to expect what they call a "spontaneous reaction for the freedom of other jailed terrorists." Even though the Baader-Meinhof gang has been largely destroyed, an estimated 120 hard-core terrorists remain at large in Germany; many of them claim affiliation with the Red Army Faction, the country's most dangerous guerrilla group. An additional 1,200 to 5,000 committed radicals provide them with food, money and safe houses, and occasionally join in acts of violence. The terrorists and their sympathizers "are standing, rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says...
...flashing lights and the cacophony are as much a part of the score as the 16 cannon blasts in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Yet hard-core pinballers find the game exquisitely relaxing. West Virginia's Secretary of State James Manchin, 49, plays early in the morning to sharpen his mind, at lunchtime to unwind and in the evening to forget his problems. "At the machine," he says, "all the cares and woes of the world are remote...
...novel as an art from is dying, one sometimes suspects when the gimmickry of a Tom Robbins or the verbal pyrotechnics of a Thomas Pynchon seeking to conceal an empty core are accepted by critics as serious literature, or when intimate and vulgar biographies of the great or the merely eccentric push novels off the bestseller lists...