Because once upon a time there was just one evil empire and it was named Microsoft.

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"There is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees, " the judges wrote.

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Assange, the strange recluse, peaks ones interest as some Lex Luthor who runs an evil empire from a subterranean lair.

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"In short, the record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees, " wrote the judges.

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The original Star Wars film, released in the UK in 1977, starred Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford as they took on the evil Empire "in a galaxy, far, far away".

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This led him to be vilified by the unforgiving majority of Red Sox fans, while the fire was further stoked by Boston president Larry Lucchino, who dubbed the Yankees as "the evil empire" in 2002.

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This means there will be all sorts of efforts designed to present AAPL as an evil empire and the way the company has managed the antenna issue on the iPhone 4 has thrown fuel on the fire.

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