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...almost always means more than politics, that it is more important to have name recognition than to answer questions about issues and that if you are a star, the media will do anything to cover your campaign. Arnold's election was about one thing: the cult of celebrity. John Cork Los Angeles...
...battle between commercial culture and folk culture, I favor home-made attempts, with cast-off clothing, burnt cork make-up and all the rest...
...money from Paris to the regions. To get there, Raffarin will have to confront ornery unions, suspicious voters and the Parisian élite who believe the Prime Minister is a symptom of French decline. "France is too hierarchical, too pyramidal," he says. All the decline-mongers are "like the cork in a champagne bottle judging the champagne. That cork has to pop so we can taste the champagne." There's still a long way to go before the celebrations can begin...
...international enough, not open-minded enough about the world. France needs to open up a bit. It's too hierarchical, too pyramidal. All the Baverezes of the earth are at the top of the pyramid, and they gaze down and evaluate French society. They're like the cork in a champagne bottle judging the champagne. That cork has to pop so we can taste the champagne. How will you pop the cork? Through decentralization and a new organization that gives more power to civil society. The state no longer has a monopoly over the general interest. France was raised...
...house hewn out of a rock cliffside so fire would pass over it. But after the fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more...