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...against the Houthis isn't the grand regional proxy war that Yemen and Saudi Arabia are alleging, regional analysts say it could very well become one if the key players keep crying wolf. "One of the things that the Yemeni government has gotten particularly skilled at doing over the past several years is linking their own domestic crises to larger regional and western concerns," says Johnson, noting that at other times Yemen has attempted to link the Houthis and al-Qaeda, a militant Sunni group that has openly targeted Shi'ites in other contexts, such as Iraq. "I think...
...about golf but about creating buzz around the brand. Will any of Tag Heuer's customers refuse to buy a pricey Swiss watch because Tiger is a pitchman? Probably not. But the company's initial skittishness doesn't bode well for Woods' Tag prospects. "They've already gotten their brand equity out of Tiger Woods," says Ben Sturner, founder and CEO of the Leverage Agency, a New York City-based sports-marketing firm. "He's not going to help them now." (Read "Can Golf Survive Without Tiger Woods...
...Francisco-based publishing house behind the project - trucked in an extra 3,000 copies that it had intended to distribute nationally and ordered a second printing. One newsie near the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, sold out of the paper before he'd even gotten out of his car. A local bookstore had a waitlist that totaled more than 100 names. Dave Eggers, McSweeney's founder and Panorama's mastermind, was shocked. "I thought there'd be some excitement, but this went beyond anything I expected," he said. With traditional media outlets facing staff cuts, budget restraints...
Instead of fading away, steampunk has gotten increasingly intense and relevant, and right now it seems to be rising to the surface. Scores of steampunk novels were published this year. There are steampunk housewares and steampunk bands and Victorian-inflected steampunk fashions. There are 27 steampunk iPhone apps available on iTunes. Magazines like Steampunk and blogs like Brass Goggles and the Heliograph track the scene. A museum in Oxford, England, is currently holding an exhibition of steampunk art. The steampunk meet-up at last summer's Comic-Con in San Diego was mobbed. In late October, Seattle hosted Steamcon...
...with a broken leg who beat Rocco Mediate. The most astounding aspect of the Tiger Woods scandal, besides the sheer number of alleged infidelities and the swift shattering of the man's manufactured character, is how he has taken it all sitting down. Amazingly, each and every day has gotten worse: humiliating text messages, allegations of bedding porn stars and prostitutes. And amazingly, Woods never punched back, leaving reasonable people to wonder whether it's all true. Now, employing the media spinmeister's trick of dumping news late on Friday afternoon, Woods has admitted on Dec. 12 to "infidelity...