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Posts Tagged “article” Aug 06 2008 Olympic Poetry? Posted by Christine Cavalier in Right-in Article from the London Times in the UK. August 4, 2008 Poetry at the 2012 Olympic Games? There’s no rhyme or reason why not If they had poetry and rhetoric in ancient Athens they can have medals for slam performances in London, says Fanny Walker Fanny Walker There is something historically incomplete about the modern Olympic motto of “citius, altius, fortius” or “faster, higher, stronger”. But in this lies an opportunity for the London Games. The original games of Ancient Greece included an intellectual component of poetry and rhetoric, something the Ancient Romans understood in their ideal of mens sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a healthy body. It is time to bring poetry back to the London Games. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: article, olympics, poetry, slam Comments Mar 04 2008 Convenient and believable expanation of my activities. Posted by Christine Cavalier in Media Social media is hard to explain to non-participants. Now we have an article from a ‘trusted’ resource, CNN, to which I can point in case anyone asks why I want to meet up and break bread with a bunch of strangers, why I’ve become a Jeff Pulver fan in a matter of months, or why Twitter is worth my time. (not that anyone anyone ever asks me that…) the URL or click here: http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/29/technology/kirkpatrick_socialmedia.fortune/ index.htm?postversion=2008022911 Tags: article, explain, Jeff Pulver, Media, Twitter Comments	Please Subscribe Example of a Cease & Desist Letter Find me.
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