{"id":34400,"date":"2011-06-28T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34400"},"modified":"2011-07-08T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T17:56:14","slug":"the-demise-of-the-brandeis-bardin-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34400","title":{"rendered":"The Demise Of The Brandeis-Bardin Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Dennis was talking on the radio Jun. 28, 2011 about <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandeis-Bardin_Institute\">Brandeis-Bardin<\/a>: &#8220;Individuals make and break the world&#8230; Do you know how many organizations I&#8217;ve seen that were great because its leader was great and then the leader died or retired and the place became nothing? It just shriveled up and died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a personal story about it. It&#8217;s one of the only things I don&#8217;t recount because it would be too injurious to specific individuals. 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