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...Staff writer Brenda E. Lee can be reached at belee@fas.harvard.edu. Her columns appear on alternate Wednesdays...
...month-long standoff with Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi militia, however, has thus far defied all efforts at a mediated solution. Fierce clashes provoked by Sadrist fire this week drew the Americans ever closer to fighting outside the sacred shrines in Najaf and Karbala. Sadr appears to be riding on the U.S. campaign against him as a means to eclipse his rivals in the battle for Shiite support. His tactics appear to involve goading the U.S. into increasingly risky actions around the holy sites, and then publicly lambasting Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani for failing to act on his warning...
Three years on, Byrne has taken Irina's character to heart. "So sad," she says, recalling Chekhov's play. As are her dark eyes, which appear huge and heavy on this unseasonally wintry Sydney morning. And Byrne hasn't stopped working. Cast as the love interest in what seemed like every Australian movie last year (in fact, only three), internationally her star's on the rise. "But Star Wars was a really small part!" protests Byrne, who played teary handmaiden Dorm? to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in 2002's Attack of the Clones. "I feel flattered that you bring...
...industry based on looks, Byrne's open face (of Irish-Scottish ancestry, she can appear almost Asian) should take her places. But it's her sense of humor as much as anything else that will see her through. As the brainy foil to Ben Lee's hippie wildchild in last year's The Rage in Placid Lake, she wisecracked like Doris Day on Benzedrine. Her ego won't get in the way, either. Director Clara Law, who cast Byrne in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), calls her "shy and very humble. She's got this thing about herself, that...
...analyses. For example, Dartfish's SimulCam technology, which Kirk and her coach used at the pool, allows separate video clips to be superimposed on one another so swimmers and gymnasts can compare their current strokes and dismounts with their best and worst performances. SimulCam also adjusts images so athletes appear to be the same size, even if, for example, the camera was zoomed in on the first shot-putter but zoomed out on the second. Another feature, StroMotion, can freeze a long jumper's position at various points in flight; the jumper resembles cartoon cels whooshing across the screen...