智慧人生篇章 (46)奥运通道 通往特权之路?(1)

The London Olympics has given us new vocabulary: ORNs and PRNs. Or as we’ve been hearing, Olympic Road Network and Paralympic Road Network. And as from today London commuters travelling along the Olympic network will have to beware of the 30 miles of Olympic Lanes crisscrossing the capital to speed athletes and officials to the Games venues. So far responses to these ...

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智慧人生篇章 (47)奥运通道 通往特权之路?(2)

The British propensity for non-deference militates against special treatment to anyone, unless of course you’re the official underdog. “The last shall be first” is a biblical theme which could just as easily have been written by a British attitudes and motivation committee. We really can’t cope when it turns out that “the first shall be first.&...

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智慧人生篇章 (52)从民族荣誉看奥运

Two weeks ago while at a soccer match in Houston, the woman beside me said she was in London last year and “the Olympics will be a mess”, or at least that was a polite paraphrase. It had been clear from my pink freckled skin and my lack of enthusiasm for using the word “awesome” that I was from elsewhere. Asking me if I was a Brit, the woman then sha...

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智慧人生篇章 (50)奥运拉近你我

On the train yesterday I sat next to a family with some very excited children who were off on holiday. You couldn’t help being caught up in their sense of excitement and anticipation. I know just how they feel. I keep wanting to say: Are we there yet? For the past five years as head of Multi-faith Chaplaincy for the London Organising Committee I’ve seen the Olym...

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智慧人生篇章 (56)世界的奥运

When I’m sitting in the Multi-faith Centre at the Athlete’s Village I can look around at the diverse representation of humanity I am with. We are men and women, younger and older from almost every continent. Some are very fit world class athletes and others of us, me included, are slightly over-weight middle-aged has-beens. Some believe in God as one distinct per...

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