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Bill Saporito: I don't think he's going to lose very many endorsements. Sure, he has been revealed as a fraud, but Michael Jordan, another big sports fraud and the very role model for Tiger, is still selling underwear (in a commercial with Charlie Sheen!). Tiger is famous for going OB and then hitting spectacular recovery shots. Follow that metaphor...
...Henderson will be remembered as being as smart and experienced as any GM CEO, but he appeared tone-deaf when it came to listening to Whitacre and the rest of his board of directors. Since he had no role in picking them and they owed him nothing, that proved to be a fatal mistake...
Just as important as Grimm’s guidance on the pitch, fellow midfielder Mitchell serves an important role to his teammates off the field. In addition to tallying seven points on the year, Mitchell is known as a mentor on the team, constantly looking out for the younger players...
...ability. Now, however, celebrity has become an end in and of itself—reality television creates cultural icons who are famous for nothing other than their own celebrity. Consequently, people seek prominence to gain more prominence, pulling stunts they think could land them a reality-television-show role. This obsession with fame for fame’s sake reflects a strange trend in American culture. While we recognize that the desire for prominence is nothing new, the new media machine that creates stars out of individuals with nothing noteworthy about them creates new temptations to take whatever means necessary...
...head of the list? "As a country, we industrialized later than others in Europe, but when it happened, it happened very quickly, so the change in diet occurred much more dramatically," says Dr. Xavier Formiguera, president of the Spanish Society for Obesity Studies. "And culture also plays a role. Lots of Spaniards still think a chubby child is a more attractive child." (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...