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...Thompson says Ashcroft's team was especially impressed by Mueller's extraordinary 1995 decision to abandon a lucrative private practice to take obscure murder cases in DC's hellish Superior Court. "He's not a person who's all that concerned about his ego," says Thompson. "He doesn't need to have a high-profile position to determine his self-worth...
...sketchy in spots, particularly in its portrayal of Kathleen. But Brown's music (lushly orchestrated with Brown himself on piano) is the least arid and most accessible of the scores turned out by his generation of Sondheim disciples. This is smart, lyric-driven music that doesn't abandon melody or variety. One number rocks; another harks back to '30s Tin Pan Alley. And a wistful, turn-of-the-century-style waltz sends you out of the theater with a lovely, warmhearted souvenir. Most of the souvenirs at The Producers cost 20 bucks...
...easy to see how that kind of detente could lay the footing for future joint projects. If AOL kept the legal heat off, maybe Microsoft would integrate AOL's Instant Messenger into the upcoming rethink of Windows and abandon its own anemic instant-messaging program. That might finally persuade AOL to kill off its Netscape browser, which everyone knows hasn't really worked for a few generations. Then AOL could officially adopt Microsoft's Internet Explorer. See how easy it is to play ball together...
...images and melodies twirl around in tiny zephyrs of sound. Twisted (Never Again) sounds like echoes from a carnival, with spinning ferris-wheel-like choruses and offbeat funhouse instrumentation. On the bluesy I Can't Lie, Seger lets herself go, howling some of the final lines with a gleeful abandon that evokes a carefree Janis Joplin...
...EDWIN HUBBLE when: 1927 what he did: Discovered that faraway galaxies all seem to be flying away from Earth, which suggested that the universe was in fact expanding. In doing so, Hubble gave Einstein scientific license to abandon the cosmological constant, whose creation the brilliant physicist dubbed the greatest blunder of his career. In retrospect, it was an inspired guess that could have won him another Nobel Prize...