The music video for " Bitter Sweet Symphony ", which received heavy rotation on MTV, focuses on Ashcroft lip-synching the song while walking down a busy London pavement, oblivious to what is going on around and refusing to change his stride or direction throughout.

Hutchins's Tip of Oz, heavily mulling over ideas such as Pastoria-as-tailor and the execution of Mombi in The Lost King of Oz and similar material in The Giant Horse of Oz, received a one-paragraph citation in Eldred v. Ashcroft, and remains unpublished under the Copyright Term Extension Act.

Thelma received its world première in February 2012 in Croydon's Ashcroft Theatre, the centenary year of the composer's death, performed by Surrey Opera in a new transcription by Stephen Anthony Brown.

In 1994-1996 Lawrence played Katharine in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Taming of the Shrew in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London, for which she received a Dame Peggy Ashcroft award for Best Actress.

His predecessor, John Ashcroft, received 42 " no " votes just four years and three days earlier.

Southern Partisan received national attention in 2001 during the confirmation hearings of U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The song's music video, which received heavy rotation on MTV, focuses on Ashcroft lip-synching the song while walking down a busy London pavement, oblivious to what is going on around and refusing to change his stride or direction throughout.

She has received endorsements from, among others, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and the pro-life women's group the Susan B. Anthony List.

In 1980, Ashcroft was re-elected with 64. 5 percent of the vote and winning 96 of Missouri's 114 counties.

On June 6, 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft proposed regulations that would create a special registration program that required males aged 16 to 64 who were citizens of designated foreign nations resident in the U. S. to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), have their identity verified, and be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted.

According to White ,( 64 ) Ohio Falls ’ advertisement in the 1868 Ashcroft Railway Directory stated they had cars on hand ready for immediate delivery.

* John Ashcroft ' 64: 79th United States attorney general and Missouri Governor and senator.

While they sometimes used Hunter Pass to get to Ashcroft, an early camp on Castle Creek above the Roaring Fork, they preferred to take the southern route over the slightly higher Cottonwood Pass through Taylor Park and then back over Taylor Pass to get there, even though this made for a 100-mile ( 160 km ) journey, 40 miles ( 64 km ) more than the direct route offered by Hunter Pass.

In the end, Ashcroft won 57 percent of the vote and carried 106 counties — then the largest Republican gubernatorial victory in Missouri history.

" The Verve was subsequently forced to give ABKCO 100 percent of the royalties from " Bitter Sweet Symphony ", and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were given songwriting credits along with Ashcroft.

Ashcroft won 60 % of the vote against Democratic Congressman Alan Wheat.

The defeated Senator Ashcroft was nominated by Republican President-elect George W. Bush to be U. S. attorney general, and because cabinet appointments are subject to Senate approval, Senator Carnahan found herself in the unusual position of casting a vote on the nomination of her former opponent.

In the general election, Ashcroft faced a challenge from Governor Mel Carnahan.

In December 2000, following his Senatorial defeat, Ashcroft was chosen for the position of US attorney general by president-elect George W. Bush who was impressed by Ashcroft.

On November 9, 2004, following George W. Bush's re-election, Ashcroft announced his resignation, which took effect on February 3, 2005 when the Senate confirmed White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general.

While attorney general of Missouri, Ashcroft and his wife co-wrote a textbook titled College Law for Business.

In 2009, Ridge alleged in his book The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege ... and How We Can Be Safe Again that top aides to President Bush ( including defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and attorney general John Ashcroft ) pressured him to raise the alert level on the eve of the November 2004 presidential election.

In 1984 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri, losing the Democratic primary election to then-Lieutenant Governor Kenneth Rothman, who lost the general election that year to state Attorney General John Ashcroft.

With the release of Keys to the World, the general consensus was that Ashcroft was " back at the top of his musical game ", as he announced his largest UK tour for years for May 2006, culminating in three nights at London's Brixton Academy.

Also in 2006, the FBI, under the direction of United States attorney general John Ashcroft, began checking the 2257 records of several pornography production companies.

Wheat lost the general election to former governor John Ashcroft.

" Not long ago our attorney general, John Ashcroft, said that anyone who questioned his policies on civil rights after September 11 was aiding terrorists ; what Taruskin said was the aesthetic version of that.

When two state attorneys general obtained this email they wrote to John Ashcroft, the US attorney general:

In 1972, Ashcroft ran for a Congressional seat in southwest Missouri in the Republican primary election, narrowly losing to Gene Taylor.

In 1974, Ashcroft was narrowly defeated for election to that post by Jackson County County Executive George W. Lehr, who argued that Ashcroft, who is not an accountant, was not qualified to be the State Auditor.

In 1998, Ashcroft briefly considered running for U. S. President ; but on January 5, 1999, he announced that he would not seek the presidency and would instead defend his Senate seat in the 2000 election.

Prior to the 2010 election, Cameron gave Ashcroft a significant role in the election campaign but no post-election reward in the form of ministerial job.

Although arguably under Missouri law Mel Carnahan could not win, since he was dead and therefore did not " live " in the state, and Ashcroft actually won ( receiving the most votes of the legally qualified candidates ), Ashcroft did not contest the election certification of the Democratic Secretary of State, possibly because no legal precedent had been set.

— Source: Prepared Remarks of United States Attorney General John Ashcroft

* Nathan Barley ( 2005 ) TV Series — Dan Ashcroft

A heavily redaction | redacted page from a lawsuit filed by the ACLU — American Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft ( 2004 ) | American Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft

In 2009, one of the University's largest buildings, Rackham, in the centre of the campus, was demolished to make way for the brand new Lord Ashcroft International Business School.

As governor, Ashcroft helped enact tougher standards and sentencing for gun crimes, increased funding for local law enforcement, and tougher standards and punishment for people bringing guns into schools.

* Though Ashcroft initially opposed the legislation, while he was governor, Missouri enacted its first hate crimes legislation, creating penalties for ethnic intimidation and crimes committed for motives based on race, color, religion, or national origin, and penalties for institutional vandalism for damages to ethnically-related buildings and property.

In May 2005, Ashcroft laid the groundwork for a strategic consulting firm that bears his name.

The Ashcroft Group, LLC officially opened its doors in the fall of 2005 and as of March 2006 had twenty-one clients, turning down two for every one accepted.

After the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., Ashcroft offered the firm his consulting services, according to a spokesman for XM.

Ashcroft was responsible for proposing a draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, legislation which proposed to greatly expand the powers of the U. S. government to fight crime and terrorism, while simultaneously eliminating or curtailing judicial review of these powers for incidents involving domestic terrorism.

In 2009 a federal court of appeals in San Francisco found that Ashcroft could be sued and held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of material witness Abdullah al-Kidd – an American citizen arrested in March 2003 and held for 13 months in maximum security to be used as a witness in the trial of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen ( who himself was acquitted of all charges of supporting terrorism ).

A Justice Department spokeswoman said that Ashcroft knew nothing of the decision to spend $ 8, 000 for the curtains ; a spokesman said the decision for permanent curtains was intended to save on the $ 2, 000 per use rental costs of temporary curtains used for formal events.