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Subject: Re: 12th WCCC, Bar-Ilan University: why not to go.

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:18:20 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 00:06:34, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 09, 2003 at 17:20:21, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:45:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On December 09, 2003 at 10:06:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 08, 2003 at 10:00:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I have required classes, and to be able to go to Graz, several things had
>>>>to be shifted around. My univ thinks a world championship is important
>>>>enough to do this. You're a former world champion and for you nothing can
>>>>be arranged?
>>>
>>
>>I was told that for Gian-Carlo, v.d.Herik intervened to persuade his university
>>to let him off for the WCCC.
>>
>>Would you like v.d.Herik to call your university ?
>
>My university is not the problem.  It is _my_ work ethic that makes this
>a no-go.  I happen to enjoy working with students.  I don't feel like it
>is a reasonable thing to disappear for two weeks on a whim, after they
>have paid good money.


If they know that you are going to disappear for 2 weeks before they pay the
money then I do not see it as an unfair thing.

Uri



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