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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!ellis!hau4
  2. From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
  4. Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan3.023452.4572@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Date: 3 Jan 93 02:34:52 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec29.092353.707@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1992Dec31.060957.17312@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec31.164624.757@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
  8. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  9. Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
  10. Organization: University of Chicago
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  13. In article <1992Dec31.164624.757@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
  14. >
  15. >Gee! Maybe Bush should have paid Fischer $5 million to have the match here so
  16. >he could have been re-elected.
  17. >
  18. Chess wouldn't work - not popular enough. But another sport, like basketball,
  19. might. But that would be illegal use of campaign funds (and $5M wouldn't be
  20. enough to get the top players anyway).
  21.  
  22.     Sven
  23.