Word: michell
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Rural alienation runs deep. "They signed this complicated treaty without telling anyone," said Michel Forgeron, a Segonzac grape grower whose calloused hands and weathered face attest to a life outdoors. "Now we don't know where we are going." Until recently, he sold the spirits he distilled from 40 acres to Cognac's family firms. Now multinationals such as Seagram and Guinness have moved in: even Monnet's old company was once sold to Germans and then to Britons. "Decision makers in Toronto or Paris do not care whether we live or die," said Forgeron's wife Francine...
...German issue cuts both ways. Politicians such as former Prime Minister Michel Rocard call Maastricht a way to harness the "German demons." Folding Germany into Western Europe's strong embrace, the argument goes, will prevent it from turning eastward to build a new economic empire around the former Soviet satellites. On the other hand, a growing number of Frenchmen find the intimacy prescribed by Maastricht too close for comfort. "France has been a sovereign nation for 1,000 years," said Cognac Mayor Francis Hardy. "We have suffered too much in three wars with Germany to melt into one federal agglomeration...
...French debate on Maastricht used anti-German arguments to bolster their cause. While the "non" side argued that France should not get in bed with a German dominatrix, the "oui" group argued that France should not get in bed with a German such "German demons" (as former Prime Minister Michel Rocard put it) could only be controlled by a tight embrace...
...Democrats are out to get NEWT GINGRICH, and they've got some unexpected allies across the aisle as the conservative House minority whip campaigns for re-election. Gingrich has earned enmity in abundance for his junkyard-dog tactics. Case in point: House minority leader Robert Michel. Says a Michel aide: "Maybe the Democrats can't get Clinton elected, but at least they should be able to get rid of Newt. It would make our lives up here so much easier...
...veteran, more than 2,000 designers, illustrators, graphic artists and professional photographers have made the pilgrimage to immerse themselves in the new technology. Among those who have come to play at the center's 90 (mostly Macintosh) workstations are photographer Richard Avedon, graphic designer Milton Glaser and illustrator Jean-Michel Folon. (It was here that photographer Gregory Heisler created the Ted Turner-CNN composite that illustrated TIME's Man of the Year cover...