The format of playing just one game a day makes this trip so much more attractive to our players' families. There's the beach, the various amusement parks and the weather. It's all good in San Diego.

For the first game of the year, to have two teams playing like that, that's pretty impressive.

Anything we can get out of him is good, but right now he's still one-dimensional.

If all we had was Boz, he'd be catching. He's just the kind of baseball player that can do it all, so we're real fortunate to have him.

If this team comes along at a normal rate and does the things that they're capable of doing, then we'll be a factor. There's a lot of good baseball teams this year. I'm real excited to see how it goes.

The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple of centuries or more ago.

Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ...

I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.

There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.