Word: champ
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...There’s meaning in being first, the champ, or even a maniac. But there’s meaning in simply doing (or watching, or writing about) what we love...
...Joining Tarantino are Jane Campion, with the Keats bio-pic Bright Star, Ken Loach with the soccer drama Looking for Eric, and Lars Von Trier with his horror film Antichrist. That makes for three winners of the Palme d'Or in the 2009 competition. Another returning champ: U.S. film-critic superstar Roger Ebert, of the Chicago Sun Times and many books and TV shows. Roger missed the last two festivals battling throat cancer but will be back this year, his critical voice as strong as ever...
...December 1984, Greg Page, 50, claimed the World Boxing Association's heavyweight title by knocking out the reigning champ. Though he lost the title the following year, Page continued to fight until a 2001 bout left him with permanent brain damage...
RETIRED Boxing's "Golden Boy" and 10-time world champ, Oscar De La Hoya, 36, announced his retirement on April...
...pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, "restrained myself from having sex for about five years." He tore through the amateur ranks, knocking out one opponent in a record eight seconds, and was heavyweight champ before he was 21. (His mentor died just before the big fight.) Those victories helped him realize that "I don't have to worry about anyone bullying me again...