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Hanger-on-dom, that more attainable yet rarely celebrated dream, is the subject of HBO's summer sitcom Entourage (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.). Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier) is a hot young actor who has just opened a blockbuster thriller. But the title refers to the homeboys from Queens--including his unofficial manager Eric (Kevin Connolly) and chucklehead pal Turtle (Jerry Ferrara)--who live in his L.A. house, ride in his Rolls, smoke his pot and score his surplus women. ("Come on, make out with me," Turtle cajoles one. "I'll show you where Vince eats breakfast.") In return, they make...
...DIED. DOM MORAES, 65, Indian poet whose work drew on his childhood in Mumbai and his years of bohemian dissipation in London; in Mumbai. While an undergraduate at Oxford, Moraes became the youngest-ever winner of Britain's prestigious Hawthornden Prize for his first collection of poetry, A Beginning, which he published at age 19. Despite moving back to India in 1979, Moraes never mastered an Indian language. He recently told an interviewer: "I don't think I belong anywhere...
...back down to the square by the River Mondego and grab a taxi across the bridge to the Quinta das Lágrimas (house of tears) in Santa Clara. The hotel was built on the site of Portugal's most tragic love affair. In the 14th century, Prince Dom Pedro fell in love with the beautiful Spanish noblewoman Dona Inês. They lived with their two children until one January night in 1355, when Pedro's father, King Afonso IV, fearing that Inês' Spanish brothers were plotting to usurp his throne, had Inê murdered...
...characters are approaching something like traditional happy endings: Phoebe married, Chandler and Monica becoming parents, Ross and Rachel headed for whatever closure the writers have devised, Joey going west for the Valhalla of spin-off-dom. Still, what a weird route they took. Friends may not have been as artistically great as NBC says, but it may have been more important than the show itself seemed to believe. If, as the headlines keep screaming, the culture war is not over, for half an hour a week over 10 years, we were able to forget it existed. What else are friends...
...Last year, with Dom Moore ’03 and Brett Nowak ’03, we ran our p.p. dominant to one side of ice,” Mazzoleni said. “I give a lot of credit to Coach McCann that he’s found the alignment that works. The last two months, our special teams have been as good as anyone. When we got healthy and had our special teams emerge, that’s when we started to make the turn...