By destabilizing the Evil Empire, we dealt with the cause of the Cold War not its symptoms and we won.

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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 evil-empire gang is joined by two very different groups, with no ties to the Republican Party.

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