Leaving in 2013, he joined the DC-based think tank Center for a New American Security, where he directs a center on technology and national security.
The center revived in 1992 with the advent of Joan Finkelstein, the former dancer who directs the center today, and although it no longer produces at the Y it offers classes, lectures and informal showcases there.
Although children still die from cystic fibrosis, none have died at the center in Hartford since 1998, said Dr. Craig D. Lapin, a pulmonary specialist at Connecticut Children's who directs the center.
Yet Robert A. Woodworth, who directs the center's capital projects and has been associated with it since the beginning, sees the center as having been inevitable.
Cathy Ragland, an ethnomusicologist who directs the center's Mexican Community Cultural Initiative, was impressed by the unity among the usually competitive mariachis.
As for having Chabad as a neighbor, Mr. Gerson said he would be for it; the rabbi who directs the center, Mendel Mintz, is a friend, he said.
Looking forward, since the three-story building sits in the direct center of Hastings, a community with a wealthy population but very limited retail space, one can only imagine what Mr. Hoffman could pocket if he ever put it up for sale.
Created by Dino Stamatopolous (Mr. Show, MAD TV, Community), Moral Orel was a black comedy about a fundamentalist Protestant Christian town called Moralton in the direct center of the Bible Belt.
Make a mark in the direct center of your fireplace.
Put a filled in dot in the direct center of the circle.
