Word: confucius
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Sports simply wasn't a factor in a country where, since the days of Confucius, education levels and test scores dictated success. So Nike executives set themselves a potentially quixotic challenge: to change China's culture. Recalls Terry Rhoads, then director of sports marketing for Nike in China: "We thought, 'We won't get anything if they don't play sports.'" A Chinese speaker, Rhoads saw basketball as Nike's ticket. He donated equipment to Shanghai's high schools and paid them to open their basketball courts to the public after hours. He put together three-on-three tournaments...
...perhaps the application to participate in the trip best captures the spirit of FATAWE, facetiously asking students if they’ve defecated in the woods before and to describe the experience, and crediting Confucius with a proverb such as “FATAWE is a team expedition. There is no “I” in FATAWE...
...sayings he attributes to Jesus? John's Gospel is the most direct assertion that Jesus is the son of God, and if this Gospel were put aside as unreliable, then Christians would be much closer to being left with a man who is merely another prophet, a peer of Confucius, Buddha and Muhammad, but nothing more. Thomas Guy Boston...
...sayings he attributes to Jesus? John's Gospel is the most direct assertion that Jesus is the Son of God, and if this Gospel were put aside as unreliable, then Christians would be much closer to being left with a man who is merely another prophet, a peer of Confucius, Buddha and Muhammad, but nothing more. THOMAS GUY Boston...
...land of Confucius, Lu Weiding carries a heavy family responsibility. His father owns a $1 billion auto-parts supplier that controls the biggest privately run firm on China's stock exchange. But while Lu Guanqiu wanted his son to succeed him, the younger Lu rejected filial obligation and spent his teens careering around rural China in jeeps and on motorcycles. When he rear-ended a dump truck, Dad finally packed him off to Singapore to study and, says Lu, "to save me from becoming a failure...