Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:03:15 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 11:51:23, Frederic Friedel wrote: >Correct me if I'm wrong: > >1. The Dutch Championship 2000 has by far the highest prize money of any >national championship in the world. > >2. The Dutch Championship 2000 is the only national championship with more than >30 visitors (when I went to the US championships in Colorado some years ago >there were two visiors who were not directly attached to the players -- I was >one of them). > >3. The Dutch Championship 2000 is the only national championship in the world >that makes the front pages of the newspapers (I noticed it was on page one of >the London Daily Telegraph this morning). Frederic: Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky were on the front page of every newspaper on planet earth. I suspect they wish they were not. IE not all publicity is _good_ publicity. I have been on the wrong end of a similar event back in 1981. This was not unexpected to have this sort of backlash.
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