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Adam B. Ulam, the center's director and professor of Government, has an office in 106, at the middle of a long corridor on the first floor of 1737 Cambridge Street. The room resembles the kind of scholar's study that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...
Down the long corridor from Ulam, the center's premier figure, is Doctorow, who has yet to earn his academic spurs. Like most institutions, a favorite word describing many topics is used at the center--"deplorable--and Ulam, the veteran, and Doctorow assails the present Soviet regime as "deplorable." He claims that the recent inability of doctoral programs in history and Soviet studies to find jobs for their graduates is "morally deplorable." And when asked about the center's present financial condition, the director focuses on his pipe and responds "it's deplorable...
...person who is concerned about the center's finances is Toumanoff, an owlish, genial and relaxed man who occupies an office set far back from the scholars' corridor that Ulam and Doctorow inhabit. On Toumanoff's desk and shelves there are no dusty volumes, but a clipped article from the New York Times Week in Review section called "Can the World Organize to Save Itself?" (on food and resources), the latest Club of Rome report on dwindling world resources, and a two volume policy-oriented study entitled Rapid Population Growth...
...RUDEIS OILFIELD. Israel will give up the 72 oil wells along the Gulf of Suez that now provide about half its petroleum. It will also give Egypt a narrow corridor of land along the gulf running south to Abu Rudeis. Israel is building a road around the oilfields so that it can supply its forces further south at El Tur and at Sharm el Sheikh, which controls the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. But in a unique and symbolically important part of the agreement, Israel will share parts of the existing road inside the Egyptian corridor until...
...given singles or doubles, so if you asked for a small room you are more likely to end up there. The Yard is mainly composed of suites of two to five roommates with a living room and one less bedroom than there are roommates. But everyone on a corridor in the Quad shares a bathroom (sometimes they're coed, sometimes not), and the whole corridor can become a close group, much like many of the suites and smaller entryways in the Yard. Still, if you like privacy, you are more likely to find it at the Quad than...