**Optional** meeting on Thursday (usual class time)

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

As I said in class today, I am willing to do an optional
lecture-cum-discussion of the MDP stuff
on thrusday--the usual class time. THis is purely optional--and will not
have any bearing on your grade in the course. 

Please send me an email if you are sure of coming. 

I realize that this is a busy time of the semester and many of you have
exams etc. So, I want to state explicitly that
you won't be offending me the slightest bit if you could not make it to
that meeting. 

cheers
Rao
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ps: My obligatory homage to GW...

"As I watched the president's fighter jet swoop down onto the deck
of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, I could not help but contrast
the reported simple dignity of President Lincoln at Gettysburg with the
flamboyant showmanship of President Bush aboard the USS Abraham
Lincoln," Byrd said. 

Byrd, who has been a persistent and vocal critic of Bush's policies
toward Iraq, said a "salute" to America's warriors was
appropriate, but he added, "I do question the motives of a
desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes
of a speech." 

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/06/byrd.bush/index.html