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...irregularity of the iris," he says. Irreverence, he thinks, might have helped his work. Daugman finally cracked the iris code by embracing randomness. "My system finds what it is looking for by failing to match a pattern," explains Daugman, who rarely mentions that the Queen made him a knight in 2000 for his work. If his iris system makes airports safer, he will have the thanks not only of the British monarchy, but of the world as well...
Rutgers senior midfielder Dustin Sheppard iniated the game winning attack. After controlling a Knight throw-in deep in Harvard territory, he served the ball to El Bialy wide of the right post. El Bialy sent the ball across the goal line but out of any Harvard player’s reach. Ludwig, who had been rushing towards the goal, one-timed the ball softly into the left corner of the net as senior goalkeeper Dan Mejias was on the right post...
...Victorious Actors Moving Forward treasurer candidate Kent McCord, of Adam-12, said, "I have never seen an attempt to obliterate the truth in the manner the Melissa Gilbert campaign has." The election was seen by many as a referendum on Harper-supporting outgoing president William Daniels, the voice of Knight Rider's K.I.T.T., who was faulted for his handling of the commercial strike this year. Others chose to see this election as a really funny mudslinging feud between '70s TV stars...
Lascivious, preposterous, acutely human: that's Shakespeare's fat knight, set to music by Verdi. Now Bryn Terfel, Wales' contribution to the gaiety of nations, has put the best of all possible comic operas on record, igniting every line with his sly wit and redwood-sized bass-baritone voice. Don't throw away your old Toscanini album--Claudio Abbado's conducting is sometimes a bit fussy--but Terfel is as fine a Falstaff as has ever lived, and Thomas Hampson is splendid as Ford, the hypersuspicious husband whom Sir John longs to cuckold. If current events are weighing you down...
...took our request to go to the village in good humor, though without enthusiasm. "Tea," he asked plaintively. No thanks, we said, we need to go. An aide wordlessly brought his ammunition belt, hat, gun, while he stood in the middle of the room like a knight preparing for battle...