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Freshman Nico Weiler has been a winner all of his life. But unlike some people, winning only makes this outstanding pole vaulter work that much harder...
...winner in the 2007 and 2008 California state championships and an Under-18 World Champion, Weiler brought his pole vaulting pedigree to Harvard and the Ivy League, where he has dominated the competition since the beginning of the indoor season...
...sometimes, life can be a microcosm of sports, too. When a kid loses both parents, lives an adolescence defined by constant change, and uses his naivety to break down the barriers of segregation, we assign to him the most fundamental tenets of sport: winner, champion, victor...
...runner-up Grand Jury Prize went to Un prophéte (A Prophet), a complex, absorbing, fairly conventional prison drama directed by Jacques Audiard. In the manner of last year's Palme d'Or winner The Class, set in a Paris junior high school, this is a documentary-style study of French minorities in an enclosed environment that sets its own rules. The main tension - and there's plenty in the schemings of rival ethnic gangs - comes from the relationship of a young Arab (Tahar Rahim) and his aged Corsican mentor (Niels Arestrup). When asked at the post-show press...
...poor health, is now on trial for violating the terms of her parole, thanks to Yettaw; she and two housekeepers face up to five years in prison for allowing the aquatic visitor to spend two nights in the lakeside compound. If convicted, the Nobel Peace Prize winner could be locked up during elections scheduled for next year. Yettaw is also scheduled to stand trial and could spend six years behind bars. People who know the Vietnam veteran say he's a gentle man with an odd streak, but one of many furious Suu Kyi supporters calls him a "wretched American...