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Parrthenon wrote:
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> < Don't expect Johnsonpride to admit he's a trough-feeder. And Lord
knows he is
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> a trough-feeder. > -- Neil Brennen
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> But Eric did work hard at the Federation.
That doesn't mean he's not a trough-feeder. Remember the former Chess
Life staffer who was doing side work for chess politicos on USCF time?
She allegedly worked hard too.
My opinion is that the job was his
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> life. A calling of a kind.
> All I am saying is how infinitely REFRESHING it would be if
Eric were to
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> write: "I started out against the move to Crossville. Then I
realized that the
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> Federation would be losing nearly its entire experienced staff. My
life was
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> working in the interstices of organized chess, and the truth is that
I want
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> that job back. Which is why I am now showing my loyalty to the
powers that
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> be. Entre nous, I have also learned that many people considered me
rigid, and
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> my most secret thought is that they are right. I promise that if the
> Federation permits me to return, I will work hard to remove that flaw
from my
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> managerial thinking and conduct. I will cease seeking to find
reasons to
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> justify my decisions. If my original reasons are clearly wrong, I
will
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> immediately reconsider a given issue."
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> For at least some of us who knew Eric in the early-to-mid
1990s, the
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> above seems as obvious as the sun at high noon on a clear, dulcet
summer's day.
So you are saying that if Eric removes the "flaws" in his nature
(dishonesty, desire for control over others, sucking up to whatever and
whoever has power, etc, )that should cause all right-thinking
individuals to keep him out of New Windsor, he should be allowed back
in? Agreed. But it's hardly an original thought.
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