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In their small but burgeoning scene - there are only a handful of Muslim punk bands in the U.S. and Canada - rebellion is an act of piety. Strident as their sound can seem, it is, in spirit, in harmony with other rebellious voices that are rising amid the breakdown of authority...
For attention seekers, controversy is the point, not the distraction. Private acts are public life. Whereas the attention controller draws power by withholding, the attention seeker draws it by exposing. (While Woods retreated, the Salahis were busy stringing Matt Lauer along, promising to show proof of their innocence - someday.) Living...
The balance of fame seems to be moving from attention controllers to attention seekers. So it makes sense that we're seeing crossovers. Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska until - bummed out by ethics investigations and the press - she could no longer manage as an attention controller (albeit one who...
But Woods is equally ill suited to the kind of kimono-opening demanded by this approach. He has always been prickly with the press about his personal life. So his statements have trickled out piecemeal - the worst way. "I don't see him going Oprah," says Kevin Sullivan, a former...
"There's some kind of calculus here," says Kenneth Shropshire, a professor of sports management at the Wharton School of Business. "You have to factor in the degree of the wrong, how quickly the apology was made and how many people were hurt." Against that, you have Woods' freakish ability...