"What we do is a reasonable measure to know the identity of each customer, " says John Ricci, general counsel for Green Dot, which apparently didn't get wise to Wamsley-Saxon (someone tipped off the cops) but cooperated with the investigation.

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Several Western speakers with the same message defensively stressed that Asia isn't being force-fed "Anglo-Saxon" formulas under the cover of international rules of the game.

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"Unlike the Anglo-Saxon approach, the French attitude toward cinema doesn't always make entertaining the audience a priority, " Mr. Wilson muses.

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But it is true that President Obama didn't care for Gordon Brown, and doesn't have an instinctive, ancestral love for the UK that is common among Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) on the Eastern seaboard.

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