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Amazing! Brandeis plans to close its Rose Art Museum and sell off its collection. That a famous university would do that is a sign of just how bad the economy is. The decision also reflects losses caused by Bernard Madoff, the con man who has deprived some big Brandeis contributors of their fortunes.

The collection of the Rose Art Museum contains the works of many modern masters. Collectors may be eyeing the stuff to buy at bargain-basement prices. Maybe Harvard's Fogg Art Museum will move in and grab some stuff.

Brandeis will have a tougher time in the future competing with the heavyweights of New England higher education, especially Harvard, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown.

Their endowments are much bigger and they didn't get in bed with Bernie.

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Terrence McCarthy said:

Will definitely put this one on my To Read list. I spent my ad agency days in Hartford. Cut my teeth at an agency run by a Mad Men era creative director and a Runyonesque PR guy. Three martini lunch guys. Afternoons at the agency were more interesting than mornings. First idea the boss bounced off me was boarding a Russian trawler that was making the news. Out there off the coast of Long Island. Two ad men trying to board a Russian ship? I was learning to brainstorm back then and knew there was no such thing as a bad idea. Oh really?

That one gave " thinking outside the box " new meaning. We never followed through with the idea, thank God. He sobered up and soon had me writing bank commercials

Link | January 27, 2009 11:19 AM
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