----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
Ashcroft, like Ernst Roehm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohm, was popular with the rabble that brought Der Fuehrer to power but also a zealot and a lose cannon, and that bothered the elite, so he had to be replaced with more slick and agreeable functionary.
Wojtek
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You mean the James Watt syndrome?
My guess is the guy is probably exhausted; being a 24-7 bureaucrat in Rome can wipe you out.
Ian
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