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Ashcroft was a big man at his high school; he aimed higher than the average Springfield kid, went East to college and arrived at Yale just a few years before Bush. A childhood friend says Ashcroft's father had given him the name of an Assemblies of God church in New Haven, and Ashcroft duly showed up his first Sunday and announced his presence to the minister, who was not accustomed to seeing many Yalies in his congregation. He saw Ashcroft every week for four years...
Ashcroft grew up in rural Springfield, Mo., a green and rolling part of the state that has voted Republican since the Civil War. Back when Missouri sent 10 Democrats to Congress, Springfield was the lone Republican holdout. It was free-labor, antiunion territory, with antislave, Bible-belt, mountain people. Young John was the middle son of a renowned Pentecostal educator and minister. His was a strict and loving household, childhood friends say, where smoking, drinking and dancing were forbidden, and Sundays were for prayer and study, not work or play. When John was a teenager, he and his brother Wesley...
After law school at the University of Chicago, where Ashcroft met his wife Janet, he taught law for five years in Springfield. Without a whole lot of plotting--he noticed the Republican congressional candidate was unopposed in the primary--Ashcroft ran for Congress in 1972. "It is not logical," his father recalled his son saying, "to criticize the government if you aren't willing to do your part to improve...
...Spirit, like those bestowed on Jesus' Apostles. Separate black and white denominations soon formed, but Spirit-soaked, "experiential" Christianity took off. Globally, it is the fastest- growing Western worship style, with up to 500 million adherents. Nationally, its largest white-majority denomination is the Assemblies of God based in Springfield, Mo., into which John Ashcroft was born a kind of upwardly mobile prince...
...Shelby Lynne, "I Am Shelby Lynne" After a slew of corporate efforts that I and most everyone else never heard, Lynne jettisoned the Nashville production line and the cookie-cutter country cutie bag and made an album of deeply sultry roots-pop music that touches on everything from Dusty Springfield soul to down-home slide guitar blues. Tapping the crucial lode where familiarity and freshness commingle, the whole thing was written and played by Lynne and Bill Bottrell, who demonstrates that his tenure in Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music clubhouse was no fluke...