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  Condoleezza Rice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rice's father, John Wesley Rice, Jr., worked for Alma Powell's uncle as a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [4] Alma Powell is the wife of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell.
Rice was eight when her schoolmate Denise McNair was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by white supremacists on September 15, 1963.
Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004.
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 Condoleezza Rice -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Rice was eight when her schoolmate Denise McNair was killed in the bombing of the primarily African-American (Click link for more info and facts about Sixteenth Street Baptist Church) Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by white supremacists on September 15, 1963.
Rice states that growing up during (A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups) segregation taught her determination against adversity, and the need to be "twice as good" as non-minorities.
In 2003, Rice was drawn into the debate over the (A policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities) affirmative action admissions policy at the (A university in Ann Arbor, Michigan) University of Michigan.
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 Condoleezza Rice: National Security Advisor
Rice was a piano prodigy at 3, a college graduate at 19, a college professor at 26, a senior White House advisor at 34 and provost--a combination of chief operating officer and chief financial officer--of Stanford University at 36.
Rice was born Nov. 14, 1954, in Birmingham, Ala., the daughter of a college administrator father and music teacher mother, a family that was a fixture of the rigidly segregated city's fl middle class.
Rice's new career was shaped by her professor of international relations, Josef Korbel, a former Czech diplomat, refugee from communism and the father of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
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 Encyclopedia: Condoleeza Rice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Rice was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the only child of Angelena Rice and the Reverend John Wesley Rice, Jr.
Rice states that growing up during segregation taught her determination against adversity, and the need to be "twice as good" as non-minorities [3] (http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm).
Rice made use of her pianist training to accompany cellist Yo-Yo Ma for Brahms's Violin Sonata in D minor at Constitution Hall in April 2002 [12] (http://www.redludwig.com/news/archive/042402.html).
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 Condoleezza Rice
Rice served as a Hoover senior fellow from 1991 until 1993, when she was appointed provost of Stanford University.
Rice returned to Washington in 1989 when she was director of Soviet and East European affairs with the National Security Council.
Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a bachelor's degree in political science (cum laude).
www-hoover.stanford.edu /bios/rice.html   (391 words)

  
 www.AndrewSullivan.com - Greatest Hits - People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Her office is a few doors down the corridor from the Oval Office, she's a weekend guest at Camp David almost all the time, she's central to Russia policy, a fixture at war counsels, and reliable crisis-avoider and manager in all types of emergencies.
But Rice's widely acknowledged role as closest confidant to Bush is particularly striking given the stature of her colleagues.
Rice was born in 1954, the year that racial segregation in America's high-schools was finally ruled unconstitutional.
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 CNN.com - Rice spars with Democrats in hearing - Jan 19, 2005
Rice, who was a Soviet expert in the first Bush administration, said she was "completely and totally dedicated" to the program, and it would be a topic of discussion in an upcoming summit meeting between Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Rice conceded the nation faces "tactical challenges" and acknowledged some bad decisions were made, but said she was unaware that any offers of help from other nations had been rejected.
In her opening remarks, Rice compared the world situation to the challenges the United States and its allies faced at the end of World War II, when Europe and Japan lay in ruins and the Soviet Union was a rising threat.
www.cnn.com /2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/18/rice.confirmation   (1283 words)

  
 Rice: U.S. exit is up to Iraqis
Rice is expected to be easily confirmed this week, but the reception she received from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee illustrated the divisions over U.S. foreign policy that she'll inherit.
Rice wouldn't put a timetable on the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and gave no ground in defending President George W. Bush's March 2003 invasion or the number of troops used for postwar stabilization.
Rice also said she'll press other nations to increase their involvement in Iraq after Jan. 30 elections for a transitional Iraqi government.
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 Condoleezza Rice - SourceWatch
Rice was a Director of Chevron from 1991 to 2001.
Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995 and the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003.
Rice hasn't uncovered who, within her own White House, was reckless enough to have leaked a valued CIA undercover agent's name and personal data.
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 CNN.com - Rice says race can be 'one factor' in considering admissions - Jan. 18, 2003
In her statement, Rice, who is African-American, stressed she agreed with Bush's call for diversity and confirmed that the president had asked her views about the matter before filing the friend-of-the-court briefs.
Rice said when the administration decided to file the briefs in the University of Michigan cases, the president asked for her view on how diversity can best be achieved on university campuses.
Rice served as provost at Stanford University from 1993 to 1999.
www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/17/rice.action/index.html   (676 words)

  
 Condoleeza Rice off to predictable start - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Not surprisingly, Condoleeza Rice's declarations during the process to select her as the next US Secretary of State, show a lightweight, insubstantial, sour female with a bigoted sense of her self importance and yet again a total absence of the skills for the job to which she has been appointed.
Diplomacy for Condoleeza Rice, apparently, is to shoot off in all directions before she has even been appointed, like somebody with either an acute case of PMT or a chronic case of the menopause.
Rice is so honest and so taken with the truth, maybe she would like to answer a question: If Washington was right to go to war with Iraq, Washington had to have a legitimate casus belli under international law.
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 Search Tuna Report for Condoleeza Rice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Condoleeza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama....
Keith Devens - Weblog: Condoleeza Rice And The...
Rice was a piano prodigy at 3, a college graduate at 19, a college professor at 26, a senior White House advisor at 34 and provost-a combination of chief operating officer and chief financial officer-of Stanford University at 36....
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 ABC News: Bush Nominates Rice to Be Secretary of State
President Bush, right, lets National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, right, take the podium after Bush announced that she is his choice as secretary of state on Nov. 16, 2004.
If Rice's appointment is confirmed by the Senate, she will take over the job of international diplomat during a war that has divided the nation and the world.
Rice has loyally defended the Bush administration's track record on the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as its handling of intelligence before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
abcnews.go.com /US/story?id=254647   (850 words)

  
 condoleeza rice body language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
I saw the Condoleeza rice interview also, and her expression; her body language and her voice tone was...
Condoleeza Rice to accuse such critics of practicing "revisionist history." Neither Bush nor Rice offered a definition of this phrase, but their body language...
I saw the Condoleeza rice interview also, and her expression; her body language and her voice...
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 CNN.com - Bush picks Rice to succeed Powell - Nov 16, 2004
Condoleezza Rice speaks to reporters Tuesday after President Bush announced that she was his nominee for secretary of state.
Rice said it had been a privilege to work for Bush during his first term.
Rice's nomination is among a host of personnel changes in the Bush administration.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/16/rice.powell   (709 words)

  
 Condoleezza Rice
Rice became President George W. Bush's second Secretary of State in January 2005, despite opposition from a small band of Democrats who objected to her role in the war in Iraq.
Rice received a BA in political science from the University of Denver at age 19, followed by an MA in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1975, and a PhD from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981.
Rice later returned to Stanford, and was named provost, the university's budget and academic official, in 1993.
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 Condoleeza Rice to Have Surgery Friday - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
Condoleeza Rice, President Bush's nominee to take over as secretary of state in his second administration will be having surgery at a Washington area hospital on Friday according to a spokesman.
It is expected that Rice will be released from the hospital on Saturday and resume working within a few days.
Rice's nomination as secretary of state is subject to confirmation by the Senate although that is largely expected to be a formality.
www.elitestv.com /pub/2004/Nov/EEN419cc60ab8279.html   (140 words)

  
 9/11 Briefing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Condoleeza Rice: Sir, with all due respect, I'm still not certain how to address some of these facts.
Condoleeza Rice: But they have information, like the titles of the President's briefing on August 6th.
Condoleeza Rice: Sir, I was a Provost at Stanford.
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 address condoleeza rice
Condoleeza Rice reminds me of one of those shaggy little dogs that bark too much because their bite is...
Condoleeza Rice spoke on a wide range of topics including the Iraq war, Sept. 11, Liberia and affirmative action in an address to NABJ yesterday.
RICE IN 2008: There is a website urging Condoleeza Rice to run for the Republican nomination for President in 2008...
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 Serenading Condoleeza Rice
Condoleeza Rice is George W. Bush's National Security Advisor, but she seems to be feeling very insecure lately.
Condoleeza Rice has a very long history of telling lies to cover up George W. Bush's mistakes.
When Armitage was asked, "Is it true, as Dr. Rice said, 'Our plan called for military options to attack Al Qaida and Taliban leadership'?", Armitage replied "No." The truth is that Condoleeza Rice knew that what she was saying was false.
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 George W. Bush's Cabinet: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
In addition to sitting on Chevron’s board, Rice was also a director at two other multinationals—brokerage firm Charles Schwab and insurance company Transamerica Corp. She was the country's first female national security adviser and is considered one of President Bush's closest confidants.
Now, Bush wants Rice to take over for Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is resigning after a long period of tense relations with the administration.
Rice would inherit the enormous responsibility for improving U.S. relations around the world, which have suffered following the war in Iraq.
www.opensecrets.org /bush/cabinet/cabinet.rice.asp   (171 words)

  
 Condoleeza Rice to visit Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Spokesman Sean McCormack said Rice would leave Washington on Tuesday and sandwich a stop in Sudan between a trip to Senegal for an African economic conference and a journey to the Middle East.
He said Rice would meet with members of Sudan's new unity government formed under a peace agreement signed in January to end two decades of civil war, and travel to Darfur where she will visit a camp for displaced persons.
Rice's deputy Robert Zoellick has just made his third trip in four months to Sudan and its western region of Darfur where the United States has described more than two years of bloodshed as genocide.
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 childhood condoleeza rice
Condoleeza Rice was appointed National Security Advisor by Bush II - 2001...
Condoleeza Rice becomes the Presidents National Security Advisor and its worth noting her rise from a segregationist childhood...
Rice's parents were both educators, and her father...
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