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...University celebrates 350 years of Harvard and the "crimson handshake," Harvard's youngest graduate school, the Kennedy School of Government, is also marking 50 years of training students for government. In recent years, it has developed a powerful network of government contacts and established itself as a major think tank, with 12 percent of its roughly $19 million income in 1985 coming from federal research grants and contracts...
Council on Economic Priorities, New York City. A small think tank that looks at budget issues and wasteful Pentagon spending...
...opposition journalist. A week later Heritage issued a brisk nine-page report titled Nicaragua's Terrorist Connection, copies of which were distributed by hand to all Congressmen and to targeted staff members. Heritage's pro-contra blitz was on. The reign of the pensive, passive, pipe-smoking Washington think tank is under assault. These venerable research institutions, which sprang up in the first decades of this century, are being upstaged by groups of intellectual crusaders that helped make the Republicans the party of ideas and paved the way for Ronald Reagan's election. The new "advocacy tanks" see themselves...
...success of the advocacy tanks has spawned other tax-exempt offshoots. One new hybrid, which mixes the role of a think tank with that of a political- action committee, is connected to candidates with presidential aspirations. Then there are the "vanity tanks," whose existence centers on an individual, typically the founder. One example: the Ethics and Public Policy Center, founded by Ernest Lefever. Whether such organizations can survive after their original leader is gone is unclear. The Hudson Institute, Herman Kahn's future-oriented think tank, went through a precarious time financially after Kahn's death in 1983, and still...
...only major think tank with a leftish lean is the Institute for Policy Studies (1986 budget: $1.8 million), which started up in 1963. In recent years I.P.S. has done studies that criticize U.S. policies on human rights, disarmament and the military-industrial complex. "We would never do five-page reports like Heritage because the problems the country faces are too serious, and we have too much respect for the legislators," says Director Robert Borosage. Nevertheless, when I.P.S. completes a planned three-year, multimillion-dollar expansion, it intends to hold more congressional briefings and press briefings. "We want to take...