As manager of the Mets, Bobby Valentine has managed to become embroiled in a series of disputes with some of his own players, most recently Darryl Hamilton.
And yet she has managed to become the boring candidate in this primary.
Eleventh Dream Day has managed to become a supergroup despite itself.
But Michael Grimes of Morgan Stanley, a gadget enthusiast with a computer science background, has managed to become Silicon Valley's banker of choice for initial public offerings.
She has managed to become, as Daniel Boorstin put it, known for being well known — or, as Buzz magazine recently said, "Cool for No Good Reason".
Café Luxembourg has managed to become a neighborhood fixture, a haven of dependable, if pedestrian, bistro fare in something of a culinary wasteland.
Alexander Portnoy's wildly energetic monologue on Jewishness, sex and, of course, masturbation has managed to become a monument without losing its freshness and funniness.
With $2.3 billion in sales last year, it is the only airline among the scores founded since deregulation that has managed to become a major carrier.
And it has managed to become, in its short seven-year life, the most credible voice on Parkinson's research in the world.
