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but still cool Ryan Gosling (Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives"); and the disabled but acrobatic dancer Souleymane Deme (Mahamat-Saleh Harouns "Grigris").
• There was literal wildlife, too, including a cat named Hercules (the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis"), a vanishing giraffe ("The Great Beauty") and an unfortunate pooch caught up in Mexico's brutal drug war (Amat Escalante's "Heli"). Cannes, alas, is a dog eat dog world.
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A dozen years of heartbreak end for Brazil's Tony Kanaan with elusive Indianapolis 500 win
• INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Tony Kanaan had the car. He had the nerves. And he finally had the luck.
• Now he has the trophy, too.
• Kanaan won his first Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, ending 12 years of frustration with a crowd-pleasing victory for the popular Brazilian driver.
• After coming so close so many times, he couldn't help but feel nervous on that long, anticlimactic final lap under the yellow caution flag.
• "I started to check everything in my car," he said. "Do we have enough fuel? Four wheels? You kind of go crazy. The pace car guy, whoever it was, this guy is actually celebrating. I'm like, 'Go! Can you go quicker? It's going to be a long lap if keep doing that.'"
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Sales of camp sites throw Girl Scouts into turmoil
RYAN J. FOLEY,Associated Press
• IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- When it came time to draw up a budget, one of Iowa's regional Girl Scout councils reviewed its programs and made a proposal that would have been unthinkable a generation ago: selling its last four summer camps.
• Troop leader Joni Kinsey was stunned. For decades, the camps had been cherished places where thousands of young girls spent summer breaks hiking, huddling around campfires and building friendships. Kinsey, whose daughter learns to train horses at camp, immediately started a petition to fight the idea.
• Other scouting alums and volunteers have taken up the cause, too, packing public meetings, sending letters to newspapers and recording a protest song for YouTube. When those efforts failed, they filed a lawsuit.
• Nationwide, Girl Scout councils are confronting intense opposition as they sell (Continued on page 30)
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