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I hope that when she finishes her gig at the new consumer bureau â€" which, in the words today of CNN Money, is “set to sail with no captain” â€" Elizabeth Warren remembers where she came from. She may be an “Oklahoma grandmother,” but I hope she comes back to New England. I’d love to see her run for governor up here. Because she returns us to something we left behind some time ago: a New England work ethic. Work ethic, self-reliance and rugged individual character were synonymous with Emerson’s New England and even Thoreau’s. But we, the Irish who commandeered the neighborhood over these past hundred years, had a somewhat different approach.

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