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The Germans and Scandinavians who settled in western Greater New England reinforced the secular puritan ethos, although they were more likely to be socialists than the Yankees, whose fear of corruption has often made them enemies of big government.
In an op-ed piece, FT columnist Philip Stephens wrote that those who fear Murdoch "should stop for a moment to savour the delicious irony of his latest obeisance before the Beijing gerontocracy."
What's more, if the owners (independent or corporate) of the Podunk Banner flinch from a story about contaminated groundwater or police brutality, the big media New York Times or 60 Minutes can parachute in and do the story without fear or favor.
When I reached Hatfield at his publisher's office, he told me that these sources are all old friends who have contemporaneous, independent knowledge of the alleged arrest, but that none would provide specifics for fear of being identified by Bush.
The movie couples sexual obsession with an epochal fear of sex: It says, "Don't go there, you won't like what you see."