Betts, Paul and Tom Mitchell.

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"What everyone has come to realize is that Tom has certainly risen to the occasion, " said Mitchell Moss, director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy at New York University, before the appointment was announced.

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Adapted from the book by David Mitchell, it lasts almost three hours, and boasts three directors: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and Andy Wachowski.

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Tom Donaldson, an ethics specialist at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, says Mitchell was too much of a Major League Baseball insider to be a truly independent investigator.

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They've put Bob Dylan at number one, followed by Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits (with Kathleen Brennan), Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell and Prince.

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