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The Red Sox by now certainly understand why people are upset about their public support for the vulgar, homosexual website "It Gets Better". Over the last three weeks the organization has been flooded with complaints -- many of them quite descriptive -- via phone, email, and US mail. We have personally talked to their representatives and explained in detail what that site entails. We also mailed a fairly descriptive letter to the Red Sox vice president of public relations. But instead of doing the right thing, the reaction by the Red Sox has been to dig in their heels. The...

Bin Laden may have just escaped U.S. forces August mission in Tora Bora almost snared 'high value target' A little more than a month ago, with the anniversary of Sept. 11 approaching and fears of a new al Qaeda attack rising, some U.S. intelligence and military analysts thought they had found one of the world’s two most wanted men just where they last saw them six years ago. For three days and nights — between Aug. 14 and 16 — U.S. and Afghanistan forces pounded the mountain caves in Tora Bora, the same caves where Osama Bin Laden had hidden...

Two decades later – it’s still about Iran MILITARY ANALYSIS By Lt. Col. Rick Francona July 5, 2007 It comes as no surprise that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force, the elite special operations unit, was involved in the January attack in Karbala that killed five American soldiers. The newer and somewhat surprising detail in the recent revelation by the American command in Baghdad is the direct participation of Lebanese Hezbollah operatives in Iraq. One of these fighters, Ali Musa Daqduq, was captured by American forces in March near Basrah. According to Daqduq, he was sent to Iran in...

Francona in hospital for testsWon't manage Wednesday's game against Yankees By Ian Browne / MLB.com 04/06/2005 11:11 AM ET NEW YORK -- Red Sox manager Terry Francona was taken to a hospital Wednesday morning after experiencing stiffness in his chest. The 45-year-old Francona, who will not manage Wednesday's game against the Yankees, was at Yankee Stadium doing his normal pre-game routine, including fulfilling media obligations, when he felt discomfort. He was taken by ambulance to New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. "He experienced some chest stiffness earlier this morning," Boston general manager Theo Epstein said. "The best course of...