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  Manhattan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Manhattan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
New York County and the Borough of Manhattan are coextensive.
Marble Hill was originally part of Manhattan Island; but the Harlem River Ship Canal, dug in the late 19th century to improve navigation on the Harlem River, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan, and eventually the part of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble Hill from the Bronx was filled in.
Manhattan is connected by bridges and tunnels to New Jersey to the west, and three New York City boroughs: the Bronx to the northeast and Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island to the east and south.
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 Manhattan Institute: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The cato institute is a non-profit public policy research foundation (think tank) with strong libertarian leanings (despite wide public perception that it is...
The brookings institution is one of the oldest and best known think tanks in the united states....
Institute for Public Policy Research Institute for Public Policy Research quick summary:
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 John Locke Foundation | Informational Links
Because the pursuit of happiness and the enjoyment of life and liberty are matters of individual choice, the Institute addresses a broad variety of public policy issues from a free-market, pro-freedom perspective.
The mission of the Manhattan Institute is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.
A project of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, the Center is dedicated to fostering greater economic growth, opportunity and individual responsibility in the Empire State.
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 Manhattan Institute for Policy Research - SourceWatch
The Manhattan Institute is a conservative 501(c)(3) non-profit think tank.
The Institute describes its policy agenda over its 25-year history as having spanned "taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life, race, education, and many other topics.
Norman Solomon, The Manhattan Institute: Launch Pad For Conservative Authors (http://www.accuracy.org/article.php?articleId=49), Institute for Public Accuracy, March 1, 1998.
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 Manhattan Institute Scholar | Stephan Thernstrom
He held appointments as assistant professor at Harvard, associate professor at Brandeis University, and professor at UCLA before returning to Harvard as a professor in 1973.
In 1978-1979 he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University and Professorial Fellow at Trinity College.
He has been awarded fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the John M. Olin Foundation, and research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mathematical Social Science Board, the American Philosophical Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.
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