The Red Sox are the first team to accomplish the feat since Minnesota did it against

The Red Sox are the first team to accomplish the feat since Minnesota did it against Cleveland on June 24, 2002.Schilling (7-8) gave up two runs and six hits, struck out seven and walked one in seven innings to improve to 2-3 in six starts since Aug. genius! I can't think of a writer alive -- or dead -- who wouldn't get down on his or her knees and thank the Lit Gods for granting an image like that. team, judging by the real-life performances of its three first-round opponents last Wednesday.* The Czechs suffered a late meltdown, gave up a two-goal lead and were held, 2-2, by an otherwise unimpressive Turkey. To the contrary, more than 1 in 3 RNC members had no favorite; just under 1 in 3 DNC members had no preference.Among Republicans, Romney had the most backing among party insiders, with 20% support, followed by Giuliani with 14%, McCain with 10% and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia -- who has said he might enter the race in the fall -- with 8%.In a potentially worrisome sign for McCain, just over 1 in 10 RNC members said they would not support him if he won the party's nomination in his second attempt."It shows just how much resistance there is within the Republican establishment to McCain and how open the party is to candidates who either aren't very conservative, like Giuliani, or only recently minted conservatives, like Romney," Cook said.

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The nation's largest city without professional football trudges on today, idly, remorsefully, awash in the depression of another late-autumn weekend absent the greatest game on Earth.Sigh.Guess we'll just have to settle for USC-UCLA.Guess we'll just have to make do with the greatest neighborhood college football rivalry in the country, played by two of the best teams in the country, occurring in one of the country's most historic stadiums.Three of the probable finalists for the Heisman Trophy will be on the same field.The possible top two picks in next spring's NFL draft will be in the same huddle.Football's best coach is on one sideline, a national coach-of-the-year candidate is on the other, and all Bush is breaking out in the middle.The teams have gone a combined 20-1, featuring nine comeback victories, eight games of at least 50 points, and one glorious October day when a combined 175,032 from our sad, sacked town showed up to watch them.History is on the line, drama is at the gate, and across the nation, fans are tapping on the remote, crowding around television sets to witness this strange spectacle of great football being played in a town that is nationally renowned for not having any football.Sigh.Guess we're just killing time, waiting for the Chargers.*Enough, already.Enough about how nobody in this town cares about a sport that makes fat good.Enough about how folks here view football only as something you toss on the beach.The perception is old, tired and, as today so colorfully illustrates, dead wrong.Los Angeles a bad football town?Los Angeles has better football at more levels than the heart of Texas and the heat of Florida combined.Los Angeles is a sweeter football home than Alabama, with more football mines than Pennsylvania.You want to bet on the best football town in America, I'll spot you those three hours on Sunday and take Los Angeles.Despite its popularity with gamblers and fantasy players, the NFL is the most mercenary and dull in-person segment of football. "I think Arabs in general, and I would say the same thing about Jews, don't want a movie that's going to trivialize their side's suffering. Los Angeles Lakers."And summer league rosters filled with job-hunting guards jacking up shots in an effort to get noticed aren't the best place for a center to showcase low-post moves Then again, Bynum didn't spend much time in the low post. Then the conflict with Iran ended, and Hussein tried to curry favor with the war-weary Iraqi population.

He too offers "The Carrot Seed" and even more obscure gems -- oddities such as "Manners Can Be Fun," "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" and his most popular title, "The Churkendoose," narrated and sung by "The Wizard of Oz" scarecrow, Ray Bolger.Before television arrived and replaced audio as a major form of children's entertainment, kiddie records were big business, especially during the "Golden Age of Kiddie Records," from 1946 to 1956. He is part of a group of current and former skid row residents, called Youth Coalition X, who hope to change their community by documenting the reality of their lives.The result is a study released Thursday called "Toxic Playground: Growing Up in Skid Row," designed and conducted by the youths under the auspices of the United Coalition East Prevention Project, a social service agency that works with the young people of skid row."I hope people are listening to us," Michael said during a community forum at Little Tokyo's Japanese American National Museum, where five of the young interviewers talked about their findings. Aneek's flow is aggressive and battle-happy; Bluff is the corner poet; Six boasts of his real-life antics; Scoobs delivers carefree stream of consciousness; Element weaves politics and crime narratives without a line to blur, sometimes to the group's own detriment."It's Hard" was excised from "Sidewalk Mindtalk" because Element's verse graphically depicted the MC venturing onto the White House lawn with injurious intentions that involved a paperweight."We used to wild out all the time," Element says with a knowing smirk "Now, we got to keep it down because we're signed. Bernard Parish after Hurricane Katrina.Bozes is one of several pet owners who believe that deputies from the parish Sheriff's Office slaughtered their animals. The forum is a nonprofit trade group for makers of diesel fuel, engines and vehicles, including BMW Group, BP, Caterpillar, Cummins, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors and Volvo/Mack Powertrain."The refineries had to begin producing this new diesel fuel in June," said Allen Schaffer, the Forum's executive director. A journalist and author whose recent nonfiction book ("Having It All?") surveyed the lives of successful black women, Chambers first gained recognition in 1996 with "Mama's Girl," her poignant memoir of growing up in Brooklyn without a father. With an expected influx of $280 million in new funding over the next three years from a tax on wealthy Californians, Los Angeles County is set to launch a radical transformation of mental health services that will focus not simply on controlling symptoms but on providing clients with the housing, substance abuse treatment and other services needed to remake their lives.With the money from Proposition 63, county officials also hope to curb mental illness, reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with it, and vastly expand culturally sensitive services for the county's underserved ethnic communities."It's a little bit scary but also very exciting," said Marvin J.