Word: superstar
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...wanted it. In the fishbowl world he inhabited - with his three young children, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (a.k.a. Prince Michael), Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson II - Jackson has managed to spark, then dodge, questions surrounding his various health problems. Much of time, the superstar behind such hits as "Beat It," "Thriller" and "Billie Jean" appeared to invite speculation, appearing in public wearing a surgical mask, as he did a decade ago, or in a wheelchair, which he used on certain occasions last year. The singer was always very thin and appeared frail. (See the top 10 Michael...
...were they a problem? The Beatles were the first superstar pop group to simply cease to exist except on record. As late as the 1940s, pop music was what bands played when people went out dancing. The records were just what you listened to at home. The Beatles were the first group to realize that pop had become records, and that they never needed to step on a stage again in their lives. That's a huge shift, and [although] I think it would have happened without them, they were the catalysts...
...Instead, sportswriters who wring their hands whenever the next superstar tests positive and college kids who cry foul when their roommates buy amphetamines express a more fundamental discomfort with our increasing ability to enhance natural capabilities. But is this unease at the prospect of juiced-up sluggers and pill-popping mathletes a morally legitimate intuition...
...SIPA trustee handles bankruptcies when the Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SIPC) steps in to take charge of fallen brokerage houses. Picard is considered the superstar of SIPA trustees, having handled the largest cases SIPC has managed, and other large non-SIPC cases, such as portions of airline TWA's bankruptcy. He has participated in at least 38 major bankruptcy decisions. According to Stephen Harbeck, president of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation, Picard has served as trustee in more brokerage firm liquidations than anyone else in the U.S. (See the worst business deals...
While three-time defending champion Princeton relied on the talent of a few superstar swimmers, Harvard used its impressive depth to decisively reclaim the title it last held...