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...August the 22-year-old hurdler strode back onto the medal podium: at the World Championships in Helsinki, he came a close second to France's Ladji Doucour?. And on Sept. 17, Liu raced to victory in front of a jubilant home crowd at the prestigious Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, defeating U.S. hurdling legend Allen Johnson. Trust China's fleet-footed boy to give that old story a new ending...
...superb blend of aesthetic minimalism and compelling emotions, it is not surprising that this film received the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival. The acting is uniformly first-rate; every actor from Murray to “girl on bus” plays his or her role with an attention to detail that contributes to the movie’s emotional power. Kudos to director Jim Jarmusch for eliciting such top-notch performances from all of his actors. He deserves perhaps even higher praise for writing this tightly-woven screenplay, which provides a springboard...
...their abandoned sons. The need for parental closure drove the characters played by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (which took the runner-up Grand Prix), Sam Shepard in Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, and William Hurt in James Marsh's The King. A similar theme, of past sins haunting and tainting the present, was the preoccupation of several other biggies: ancient murders in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, boyhood betrayal in Michael Haneke's Hidden, slavery in the American South in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay. The Grand Palais screen was streaked with guilty...
...addition, the restaurant offers a lunchtime three-course prix fixe menu for $19 from Monday to Friday. The real draw, however, is Sel de la Terre’s boulangerie. Here, head baker Michael Rhoads and pastry chef Peter Merrill have gained a loyal following. Many swear by Rhoads’ fig and anise bread ($5.25 a loaf) and pain levain ($6). The boulangerie also serves a number of soups and sandwiches...
...Bank. The men are also buying playthings. Motsepe owns the Mamelodi Sundowns, one of South Africa's most successful soccer teams. Sexwale, who bought the Oude Kelder winery outside Cape Town in 2002, sponsors the national soccer league and is financing a South African entry on the A1 Grand Prix circuit. Later this year, he will appear in a South African version of The Apprentice, in the Donald Trump role...