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...were his own. Jetting around in a fleet of aircraft known as "Charlie's air force," he once went on a three-week tour of Europe with more than 20 family members in tow. His lavish parties would feature the host wandering around cradling a bottle of Dom Perignon, sometimes encouraging guests to jump in the pool fully clothed. His corporate executives would often find thick, neat packets of hundred-dollar bills under their plates when they went to Keating's house for dinner. Family members got a little more: Keating put relatives--including his son, sons...
...build ever so slowly and count their occasional victories dearly. So how come this newly minted N.F.L. team has made the playoffs in its second season of existence? Credit the quarterbacking of second-year pro Kerry Collins, the tackling of the best defense in the league, the coaching of Dom Capers, the savvy of general manager Bill Polian, the money of owner Jerry Richardson and the zealotry of Carolina fans, eager to be considered big time. The Panthers, in fact, have won more games in their two years than the New York Jets have in their past three. After Carolina...
...Crimson was learning that the Huskies were very, very fast. On offense, UConn could send the ball downfield and let its forwards catch up to it, while on defense, backs Chrisy McCann, Sara Whalen, Carey Dom and Sally Sakerlaris were quick enough to outrun any long ball that Harvard sent downfield...
...Last Don may be operatic ("God's world was a prison in which man had to earn his daily bread, and his fellow man was a fellow beast, carnivorous and without mercy"), but the setting and characters are commedia dell'arte. Puzo playfully admires the aging Don Dom. "Early on," he writes, "he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot...
...Harvard coach Scott Anderson] has done a wonderful job with the team," said Viriginia coach Dom Starsia said following the game. "They had a terrific season...