Word: classing
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...tabloid media and gossip machine are much more powerful today than they were then. Third, extramarital affairs are uniquely damaging - in particular, I think this will hurt his popularity with women. Fourth, he's a Stanford-educated golfer who supposedly did everything right. His image was premised on class, elegance, aspiration. He took flak just for being seen swearing on the course. I think this is going to be damaging, at least initially. (See pictures of Tiger Woods' best victory moments...
...this is a Stanford thing - it's really about the damage to your alma mater. Well, even Stanford guys aren't perfect (present company excepted, of course), but as you've noted, his image was about class and elegance. It's that image that has been shattered, sort of like the back window of his SUV, but maybe I'm pushing another metaphor too hard...
...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 the preserve of whites, élites and the affluent. Tiger changed that, broadened the appeal of the game and brought it to a mass audience...
...made them happen. In the 1980s, when Dubai's neighbors were either hibernating behind a curtain of oil wealth or dabbling, sometimes disastrously, in Middle East politics, Sheik Mohammed began transforming oil-poor Dubai from an Arab backwater into a global city. Within a decade Dubai had a world-class air carrier in Emirates Airlines and a glamorous, iconic "seven-star" hotel, the Burj al-Arab, as high as the Eiffel Tower. Within another decade, Dubai had become truly a global hub - the largest international financial center between Singapore and Europe, a regional headquarters for global brands from investment banking...
...that Dubai was crazy." Certainly few Arab leaders have demonstrated such a relentless drive to succeed. He imagined Dubai as a great city from Islam's rich heritage, a Baghdad or a Cordoba. His immense appetite for work is matched by a passion for play. He is a world-class thoroughbred racer and breeder and, at 62, he remains a celebrated equestrian who engages in arduous endurance races across hundreds of miles of terrain. Doubtless it takes a politician of supreme self-confidence not only to write Arabic poetry but to post it in volumes on his website...