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With these heady thoughts in mind, I went to the first event of the new era at the Pudding clubhouse last Wednesday night. Excitement may have been in the air, but if so, it was drowned out by awkwardness, as punches milled around sipping non-alcoholic beverages and making abortive attempts at small talk. The vast majority explained they had been expressly asked to attend—I was only able to find a handful who came as other punches’ plus-ones. When I inquired why so few unpunched guests showed up, one freshman volunteered that many probably...
...hands went...
...Ratnesar: My quick reaction: This went better than I expected. He is, unfortunately, a wooden public speaker, and it clearly took effort for him to make such an openly confessional statement. But he sounded genuine, genuinely sorry and chastened. In some ways, the shot of him and his mother after the speech was the most powerful one of all - he seemed in that moment, finally, vulnerable and all too human. And I think that if he hopes to win the public back, showing humility - rather than the imperious self-confidence that has long been part of his mystique - will...
While his wife Elin Nordegren was a no-show - a situation that crisis professionals never think is optimal - he quoted her and went out of his way to defend her reputation, bristling at the suggestion that she might have hit him with a golf club. He owned up to all that he had done to her and others in the room. "He had all the key elements of an effective apology," says W. Timothy Coombs, Ph.D., a professor of crisis communication at Eastern Illinois University. "I think it is important he noted his future behavior was the true mark...
...distance they fly off the 22-ft. half-pipe - far exceeded that of the other competitors. He executed back-to-back double corks (two flips and three body revolutions, like a corkscrew) on his winning run. Although he had already clinched the title, on his second run White still went all out and landed the Double McTwist 1260. That's a double backward flip with 3.5 revolutions, a maneuver that pushes the limits of what snowboarders can accomplish. Don't be fooled by White's shaggy looks: underneath those baggy jeans, he is more jacked than you'd think...