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...this fall, Silverman cheered when the Sox’ season ended early—in 2005, he had been named president of the Tampa Bay Rays, who beat Boston in the American League Championship Series...
...Silverman was just seven years out of Harvard when he became the president of the team known then as the Devil Rays. In the team’s decade in the Major Leagues, Tampa Bay had never had a winning season and had finished dead last in the American League East all but once...
Silverman said the team’s success this year has raised the team’s profile in Tampa Bay, and with the future looking brighter, the team will continue its push for a new ballpark...
Meanwhile, in early October, another federal court ruling ordered the Bush Administration to release 17 Muslim detainees (who are of Uighur ethnicity but citizens of China) held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was one of the strongest judicial challenges yet to the Administration's claim of executive authority to bypass U.S. courts to hold and try suspected terrorists in special tribunals. The Justice Department has so far successfully resisted that order, and the case remains unresolved. Since the ruling, the Bush Administration has been working to find a country willing to accept the Uighurs, who cannot be handed...
...target ship at high speed with machine guns and RPGs blazing, there's little fighting back that the crew can do. Reports to the International Maritime Bureau on hijackings detail crews using water shot from fire hoses, evasive maneuvers that sometimes generate waves to keep the pirates at bay and "Mayday" calls to other ships as the key defenses against pirates...