Word: globalization
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...about Stanford. (Though I doubt he'll be invited back for many more ceremonial coin tosses anytime soon.) There are probably only two athletes in recent history who approached Tiger's global, iconic status: Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan. But I think the social import of both Ali and Jordan was different from Tiger's, in part because of the sports they played. Boxing and basketball are populated with athletes from poor and working-class backgrounds. And over the past several decades, both sports have been dominated by African Americans. That's never been true of golf - it's still...
...forget Pelé, another poor kid who became a global legend. No question that Tiger has revolutionized golf as a sporting event - you can see it in the television ratings. But by some respects, he'll only become a bigger attraction. Tiger's on the cover of People. He's now moving up in the Jon and Kate-Brad and Angelina celebrity solar system. You know what happens next: an appearance on Oprah with his wife Elin, national contrition. And even bigger ratings at his next tournament. Unless, of course, Mrs. Woods throws...
...busiest over the Black Friday weekend. Companies such as Aeropostale, American Eagle Outfitters and Old Navy were big winners, wrote Credit Suisse analyst Lejuez in a research note. Traffic to Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works was also strong, said Kimberly Greenberger, a managing director at Citigroup Global Markets...
Several student groups also commemorated World AIDS Day. The Harvard College Global Health and AIDS Coalition rallied yesterday for AIDS-related funding in front of Senator John Kerry’s Boston office. And tonight, the Health and AIDS Coalition and Queer Students and Allies will host a candlelight vigil in front of Memorial Church, illuminate a ribbon in front of Grays Hall, and hold a discussion on gay men’s health and Brazilian immigrants living in Boston in an event co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
...unique global reach of the 2005 controversy surrounding 12 caricatures of the prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper reflected mounting religious and ethnic tensions in Europe and the Muslim world, said the author of a new book on the subject at a Barker Center talk last night...