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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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