The winners and the losers

• Winner: The history of "Les Amoureux Jeunes," a valuable painting by the Rococo artist Francois Boucher, is a tangled one since 1941, when it was confiscated by Nazi thieves. But there was nothing tangled or complicated in the way the Utah Museum of Fine Arts this week returned it to the daughter of the rightful owner. Somehow, it had found its way from the collection of Hermann Goering to Utah, but there was no question what had to be done once the painting's origin was determined. The prompt return is a credit to the museum and its directors.

• Loser: It always pays to remember the surveillance video cameras. A man from Provo forgot that this week. Angry that a store worker had ordered his illegally parked car towed, the man assaulted a clerk. Later, when confronted by authorities, he denied his guilt, forgetting that everyone who walks into a convenience store these days is an automatic guest on candid camera.

• Loser: No one wants to live next door to a perennial garage sale. Apparently, however, such things do crop up from time to time around the Salt Lake valley when the weather gets nice. As this newspaper reported earlier this week, a lot of cities have had to deal with this by limiting people to three or so sales a year, all at least 14 days apart. Frankly, we're suspicious about anyone who has so much junk lying around he has to keep holding sales every week. Sounds a little like a business.

• Winner: Five-year-old Sarah Hansen showed a lot of smarts this week when her grandmother suffered a sudden memory loss while driving her around. Sarah was able to guide her grandmother home using familiar landmarks, avoiding several possibly disastrous outcomes. While doctors try to determine what caused the grandmother to forget, few people can forget Sarah's maturity and presence of mind.