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...final chapter to the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, are not the only Europeans with ancient scores to settle. Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons regularly take their differences to the streets. In the French city of Toulouse not long ago, TIME Correspondent Paul Ress got into a discussion about the brutal crusade led by Simon de Montfort, a northern baron, against the Catharist "heretics" of the Midi during the 13th century. The Toulousains seemed amiable, but Ress was told next day that they "didn't like you, though. They took you for a friend...
Paris Correspondent Paul Ress fought more basic elements to reach the Valley of Marvels in the Maritime Alps for a report to the Science section. The site of a rich collection of Bronze Age art, the valley is blocked by snow ten months of the year. Ress traveled there in a Jeep over a goat path, across creaky wooden bridges-in the midst of a rainstorm. If anything could dry up one's ardor for work, it might be covering a drought in India. New Delhi Correspondent William Stewart journeyed 1,000 miles to remote Andhra Pradesh, spent...
...resulting journeys can be grim. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress recently took such a trip, organized by the London-based Park Lane Travel agency, from Paris to New York. His round-trip fare was $250 v. $504 for the lowest-priced comparable trip on a scheduled airline. He was issued a voucher that he was to present at the Park Lane offices in Manhattan when he wanted to return, a common practice among consolidators. The Paris-New York trip took a torturous 26 hours-partly because the flight left not from Paris but from Frankfurt, Germany, to which Ress was hauled...
...huge manor house and spends much of each day at his desk, working on his books. His name has frequently come up for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but when the 1971 award was announced last month he was passed over once again. Recently, TIME Correspondent Paul Ress paid a visit to Malraux at Verrières. "Malraux was a bit put out that his two cats both climbed onto the interviewer, ignoring him," reported Ress. "Otherwise he was in fine form, talkative and incisive on many subjects." Some of them...
...chronic insomnia, he developed his profound sense of despair during one long nuit blanche (sleepless night) after another. Unmarried, he earns most of his modest income from part-time work as a translator and manuscript reader. "I don't make a living," he told TIME Correspondent Paul Ress last week. "I eke one out. But I don't wish to be well off." Cioran has not returned to Rumania in more than 30 years, and is a citizen of no country...