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...Lola's growth curve is going up and she had a breakthrough this weekend," Graham said. "She slams the ball harder than anyone [and] has tons of talent, but she just has to learn how to play with more patience...
This movie is You Can Count on Me, a lovely independent drama that's way too unassuming to warrant a backlash - though it is a major breakthrough for Linney, 36, whose Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics Circle and Golden Globe nomination have propelled her into this year's Oscar race. Is Linney seeing gold? She stammers, "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't aware of it. People are excited for me and the prospect that I might be ... oh, it's so awkward I can't spit...
...meeting, Clinton wouldn't budge. The lawyers worked on language over the next two weeks, arriving at a formula in which Clinton admitted for the first time to giving false testimony under oath. By avoiding the word "knowingly," the President skirted the legal definition of perjury. With that breakthrough, the deal came together...
...National Security Agency. With the rise of the PC and then the Internet, libertarian-leaning computer hackers realized how easily the government could eavesdrop on their data and how important it was to get cryptography away from the Man and into the hands of the People. Diffie's breakthrough did just that. Throughout the '80s and '90s a ragtag group of like-minded crypto fiends built on his work and distributed it over the Internet, end-running the agency and ensuring that everyday citizens could keep their e-mail to themselves...
...only do what I fancy doing at the time," says Ritchie, who's wholly unapologetic to critics who say Snatch is too similar to his first film. He says he stuck to what he knew rather than jump into the big-budget studio arena after his breakthrough. "The second film is very important to a filmmaker. You're establishing things that you weren't sure if you got away with by accident on the first...