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...Atlanta the night Brad won the 200," says Schubert, who will coach the U.S. men's team in Sydney. "I told him, four years from now that could be him." "The crazy thing is that it could have been him in Atlanta," Blumkin says. "The trials were such a breakthrough for him, and he just kept improving after that. By the time the Olympics were held, he was the fastest backstroker in the world, but he wasn't in the meet...
...also one of the most compelling. When Seaman was released in Japan last year, it quickly sold more than 550,000 units to become the most popular Dreamcast game ever. A technological breakthrough, it's the first video game ever to use voice recognition. You talk; Seaman listens. The game comes with a little microphone, so you and your virtual pet can engage in virtual banter together, with Seaman relying on its 12,000 lines of preprogrammed dialogue...
...quickly became attached to my little sea puppies, and talking to them became part of my morning ritual, which caused my wife a certain amount of dismay. After a few days, we made our breakthrough. "I love you, Seaman," I said. Looking back at me soulfully, one of them replied, "I know." I'll always cherish the moment...
...Bush are alike on the issues is "like saying that the veterinarian and the taxidermist are in the same business because either way, you get your dog back." That's a line Gore uses regularly, yet he seemed to be hearing it for the first time--a real breakthrough, since his smiles on the stump so often feel digitized. All week long he appeared looser, happier and thus more plausible as both candidate and potential President. And Lieberman--in the same way that Cheney with his coolly effective convention speech surprised people who took him for a tree stump--displayed...
...fray by Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Manatt struggled for years to organize the executives but didn't get it done until a conference of business leaders from the Potomac River region last year led to a breakthrough. "It was a difficult sell, and it still isn't easy," Manatt says...