Beijing Olympics
August 26, 2008
- From the manner in which the Chinese athletes win and lose, you can see the degree of freedom the people of the Middle Kingdom truly have. “The agony of defeat” is far more excruciating if the gymnast has yet to earn the home she has been promised, should she win gold. If the home is taken away because of her defeat, she and her family are demoted to the poverty of countryside. The ...
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August 9, 2008
- My eyes feasted in the explosion of colors and the sheer symmetry of human forms paying homage to the majesty of nature. Truly, the Beijing Olympics is the most beautiful of all the past Olympics games opening of all time.What made it extremely beautiful and distinctly the most memorable, is its message–all of humanity are one. And China is the truest living testament of that unity.For ...
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April 9, 2008
- So no sooner than I return to SF than I discover a friend of mine, Helen Zia, writer and lifelong civil and human rights activist, decided to run the O torch for 2 blocks through San Francisco. She is concerned for her safety given what's been going on in London and Paris (where the second day was cancelled). Moreover, Helen has been receiving disturbing e-mails about her decision and was ...
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