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How to run the Olympic Games, the Lewis Carroll way ; EDITORIAL & OPINION

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070605
Author:Miles Kington

Today's question for consideration is as follows: how much can we learn from the dos and don'ts of organising the Olympic Games by studying the works of Lewis Carroll?

I ask this only because for weeks now I have had a newspaper cutting knocking around on my desk which reads as follows:

"A panel of MPs earlier this week ridiculed the original budget of [pound]2.37bn as 'Alice in Wonderland' costings and condemned the delay in publishing updated figures. Mr Swire said: 'The Chancellor ought to be spending his time sorting out the mess he has made of the Olympics budget."

Every time I come ...

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