Word: loserness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attracted off-stage trouble?charges of wrecking cars and assaulting photographers?with the same magnetism that sets his fans screaming their lust at him. The aura of Celebrity Bad Boy has hung on the kid like the "Kick Me" sign on the back of a high-school loser...
Paula Radcliffe used to be the pluckiest loser on the track. Knowing only one way to run - at the front - made her a favorite with the fans but for 10 years failed to win her major titles. After leading the 10,000-m races from the gun at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at the World Championships in Edmonton last year, she was overtaken in the home straight to take fourth in each. The British runner was, though, successful off the track - winning world half-marathon and cross-country titles for the past two years. This year her track results...
...opportunity to give her 22 cents on the Harvard social life. “Being a sophomore is sooooo much cooler,” she explains enthusiastically. “There’s no pressure of ‘I’m going to be a loser if I don’t go out.’” Unfazed by the momentary distraction, FM follows its targets into the sweaty senate chambers. Sprow mingles with the crowd, periodically taking breaks to dance and check the cellpiece. Meanwhile, Baer and McPhillips become engrossed with each other...
...height of his career to do a love-sick ballad album is a risk. For him to do it without any meddling from his record company is a minor miracle--and a tribute to Beck's business savvy. When he arrived on the scene with 1993's Loser, a lo-fi novelty hit from which most critics thought he would never recover, Beck was inundated with record offers trying to capitalize on his status as the Slacker Guy. "I could have gone with it," he says. "That could have been my shtick. But I wanted to be something a little...
Galluccio now carries the baggage of being a three-time loser in his attempts to move up from city hall, as he has twice failed in bids for a state representative seat...