Paris Journal: Students in the streets

– By Scott Sayare –
PARIS – The green trucks and cleaning crews were there well before it was over, waiting in the streets behind the crowd. At 6:15, just before dark, thousands of marchers were asking, “Is it finished?” between cigarette drags. By 6:30, a line of 50 riot police and plainclothes officers in orange arm bands had [...]

Paris Journal: What a day for a daydream

– By Scott Sayare –
PARIS — Already you could hear more cars than usual down in the little one-way street, Rue Georges Pitard. Nothing else apparently different about this Thursday morning, though, except the sunlight pouring through the window of the third-story studio, instead of that diffuse, pavement-gray Paris haze.
It was the first day of [...]