The Bambino played for the Boston Red Sox as a pitcher and outfielder before going on to greater glory with the New York Yankees.

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To recapture its lost glory, he plans a clutch of new hotels, with perhaps a golf course on the site of a big Russian military base, which the Russians are quitting.

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As with the iPhone, new iterations of Mac OS X, or the first Android phones, a certain amount of glory awaits anyone who can be the first to demonstrate a method of remotely taking control of the device.

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