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...Subsequent readings revealed politics and sad reflection blooming among, “Indian paintbrush, sego lily, ordinary wildflowers . . . ” One of my favourite passages is about a general store on the edge of...
...Kathy Segos from Indiana describes how their decisions have dictated her life....
...A fixture of French political life for 30 years, Ségo, as my university friends and I used to call her, most famously ran against Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential run-off in 2007....
...We were on our way from Lake Powell to Zion National Park and our guide, Kevin Jackson of Epic Private Journeys, had heard that Sego in the little town of Kanab was something special. He’d heard right....
...“He said ‘Are you the woman in the Sego advert? There is a producer here who is interested to meet you.’” Who was the producer? The man would not say....
...You find some of the same stock picks in the respective “Sarko” and “Sego” certificates....
...Interestingly, you find some of the same stock picks in the respective “Sarko” and “Sego” certificates, based on their competing electoral programmes....
...Nor is the World Bank one of Ségo’s favourite institutions....
...Mr Sarkozy’s vote haul is close to Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s score in 1974; Ms Royal’s tally nearly matches François Mitterrand’s total in 1981. Both have platforms for change....
...Not everything is roses in France, either, and it is completely wrapped up in the Sego-Sarko war of presidential accession between Mlle Royale and M Sarkozy....
...Does he want to draw Ségo on to unfamiliar ground: foreign policy, one of her supposed weak spots?...
...While Sarko scares, and Sego unnerves, Bayrou soothes. In emollient prose, Bayrou, the surprise package of this election campaign, sketches out his own vision for France in Projet D’Espoir....
...Given that if you are 6ft, you’d have to weigh a paltry 135lb to have a BMI of 18, a Mars Bar might do the trick. observer@ft.com...
...“I’d argue there’s as much fluff [on the other networks],” he continued, before catching himself and trailing off into accolades for her interviewing skills....
...“Who’d have thought she was 53?!” the headline marvelled, even though she remains 52 years old until September 22....
...Or, in the words of some startled party members: “In Ségo, there’s an ego.” Some of her rivals have been extraordinarily bitchy about her ascent....
...The prospect of a “Sarko-Ségo” clash has already fired the imaginations of the political class. But the excitement is somewhat premature....
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