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  Why War? Keywords: Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright, secretary of state during the Clinton administration and chair of the sur...
From 1981 to 1982, Secretary Albright was awarded a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution following an international competition in which she wrote about the role of the press in political changes in Poland during the early 1980s.
Albright was appointed ambassador to the UN shortly after Clinton was inaugurated, presenting her credentials on February 6, 1993.
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 Madeleine Albright   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Madeleine Albright is the first woman to be the, U.S. Secretary of State.
Madeleine Albright was born Marie Jana Korbel on May 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
He was one of Madeleine's professors from Columbia, and asked her to work for him at the White House, until 1980.
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 Santa Clara Magazine - Madeleine Albright
Albright was in Santa Clara recently to address The Commonwealth Club / Silicon Valley, and during her visit, I had the chance to sit down with her to talk about politics and religion, Tomáš Masaryk and Nikita Khrushchev, and dumplings and stewed cabbage.
Albright takes the Bush administration to task for going, as she says, “over the top” when it comes to invoking God as a “validator” for the actions of the United States on the world stage.
In Albright’s 1983 volume Poland: The Role of the Press in Political Change, she chronicled the rise of solidarity in 1980-81—which came on the heels of the visit by Pope John Paul II to his homeland.
www.scu.edu /scm/fall2006/albright.cfm   (4401 words)

  
 [ whollyshift.info | Madeleine Albright Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Madeleine Albright was essential Marie Jana Korbelová in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), raised Roman Catholic by her parents, who had discipled to Catholicism from Judaism in disposal to escape persecution.
Albright is multilingual, fluent in English, French, Czech in incorporation to Russian, with splendid asserting pondering know-how in German, Polish Serbian.
When Madeleine Albright was confirmed as the 64th Secretary of State of the United States, she became the number solitary female Secretary of State the highest-ranking dame in the past of the United States government.
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 Madeleine Albright
From 1978 to 1981, Albright was a staff member on the National Security Council, as well as a White House staff member, where she was responsible for foreign policy legislation.
Ambassador to the UN Albright was appointed ambassador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was inaugurated, presenting her credentials on February 9, 1993.
As Secretary of State, Albright incurred the wrath of many Serbs in the former Yugoslavia because of her role in the Kosovo and Bosnia wars as well US policy in the Balkans per se.
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 Biography of Madeleine Albright   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Madeleine Korbel Albright is America’s first female secretary of state and the highest-ranking woman to serve in the U.S. government.
Albright has been the president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit research organization that promotes the study and discussion of domestic and international issues, and a research professor of international affairs and the director of the Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
Albright was a staff member on the National Security Council and at the White House, where she was responsible for foreign policy legislation, from 1978 to 1981.
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 Madeleine Korbel Albright - Atlantic Storm - Center for Biosecurity of UPMC
In 1997, Madeleine Korbel Albright was named the 64th Secretary of State of the United States, becoming the first woman to hold that position, and serving as the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.
Albright was the Director of Women in Foreign Service Programs and a Research Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University during the decade prior to her return to public service.
Albright was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to America with her family after Communists took control of that country in 1948.
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 Women's History Month (March 2007) - Madeleine Albright - U.S. Embassy Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Rewarding Madeleine Albright for her support of Democratic Party candidates and making her the second woman to serve as chief of mission at the United Nations, he also signaled the weight to be assigned to international frameworks in American foreign policy by making her a member of his cabinet.
Madeleine Korbel Albright was born on May 15, 1937, in Prague, the daughter of a Czech diplomat.
Madeleine Albright was nominated by President Clinton in 1996 for the position of Secretary of State.
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 Madeleine Albright - By A.O. Scott - Slate Magazine
Albright's celebrity is less a matter of what she has done than of who she is: a candid, funny, and appealing woman with a life story rich in human interest and historical resonance.
Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelova (Madeleine is the anglicized form of Madlenka, her childhood nickname) in Prague in 1937, the eldest child of Josef Korbel, a diplomat, and Mandula Spiegel.
Albright's U.N. tenure is best remembered for two things: her sandbagging of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and her proclamation that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles took "not cojones" but "cowardice." Both of these statements were calculated to play well at home and to outrage the rest of the world.
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While Albright kept a fairly middle-of-the-road position when it came to the politics of the Democratic Party, she was highly regarded as a team player, and Clinton named her ambassador to the UN.
Hawkish and outspoken, Albright was a strong proponent of human and civil rights abroad and took a fierce stand against the ethnic persecution in Bosnia.
Albright has also indicated that an extensive, lasting peace in the Middle East is one of her top priorities and that she will continue to enthusiastically represent the United States in its support of democracy the world over.
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 Online NewsHour: Albright -- October 30, 2000
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: Well, I think we have thought we had a problem with their potential of the nuclear programs and through the agreed framework that we worked out in '94, we were going to freeze their fissile material programs.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: It was a repeat of their performance for the 55th anniversary of the Worker's Party.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: Well, I think the interesting part, and again, when I've listened to Prime Minister Barak, who went very far and was very bold at Camp David, deep down he's always saying that he'd like to figure out a way to go to a peace process.
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 Madeleine Albright - TV.com
Madeleine Korbel Albright (born as Marie Jana Korbelová on May 15 1937), was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States of America from January 1997 to Janurary 2001.
Madeleine was the U.S Ambassador to the U.N. from 1993 to 1997.
Madeleine was awarded Honorary Doctors of Laws from the University of Washington in 2002 and the University of Winnipeg in 2005.
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 Madeleine Albright - Public Diplomacy
She became Madeleine Albright in 1959 when she married Chicago newspaper journalist and scion of a wealthy newspaper family, Joseph Medill Patterson Albright, whom she had met working a summer job with the Denver Post.
Albright gained recognition as a foreign policy adviser to vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and to presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Albright was appointed ambassador to the UN, her first diplomatic post, shortly after Clinton was inaugurated, presenting her credentials on February 9, 1993.
publicdiplomacy.wikia.com /wiki/Madeleine_Albright   (1161 words)

  
 Dogpile - Web Search: Madeleine Albright Biography
Albright is America?s first female secretary of state and the highest-ranking woman to serve in the US...
Albright was nominated by President Clinton on December 5, 1996 as Secretary of State.
Madeleine Albright, more than anyone else in this administration, is driven by her own biography," one senior American diplomat told the Washington Post recently.
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 Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be named U.S. Secretary of State, will deliver the seventh Mary and Louis Fusco Distinguished Lecture at Southern Connecticut State University on Wednesday, April 20 at 7 p.m.
Albright was renowned for her courage in "telling it like it is." Now, our distinguished lecturer speaks with humor, insight, and eloquence about her life and career as a refugee girl who rose to become the world's most powerful woman.
Albright was the Director of Women in Foreign Service Programs and a Research Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University during the decade prior to her return to public service.
www.southernct.edu /faculty/paffairs/distinguished/index.php?file=madeleine.php   (593 words)

  
 Washington Speakers Bureau: The Honorable Madeleine Albright
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright speaks with humor, insight, and eloquence about her life and career as a refugee girl who rose to become the world's most powerful woman.
Albright sketches a vivid portrait of her years as Secretary of State, and offers candid descriptions of foreign leaders she encountered in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
While in office, Albright was renowned for her courage in "telling it like it is." Now, as she begins a new life as an aspiring author and businessperson, she provides audiences with a unique and no-holds-barred account of service at the highest levels of the American government.
www.washingtonspeakers.com /MAlbright   (401 words)

  
 A - Madeleine Albright - Wegbereiterin der Condoleezza Rice   (Site not responding. Last check: )
joseph korbel, dem vater von madeleine albright; korbel hielt vorlesungen über stalin.
joseph korbel und seine tochter madeleine albright haben condoleezza rice lange jahre familiären anschluss gewährt; die tschechischen emigranten waren von einer existentiellen wut auf alle hitlers und stalins, miloševics und husseins dieser welt beseeelt.
madeleine albright, zwar mit clintons amtsniederlegung nicht mehr in der vordersten reihe als außenministerin der usa tätig - sie hat ihren jüngeren ableger bereits effektvoll platziert - wer sich über condoleezza rice ausgiebiger informieren möchte, beschäftige sich deshalb vor allem mit ihren denk-wurzeln: sie sind zu finden in der autobiographie von madeleine albright...
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 Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Korbel Albright was sworn in as the 64th Secretary of State on January 23, 1997.
A professor and foreign policy expert, Albright was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1992 to be the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and head of the U.S. delegation to that body.
Albright presses on tirelessly with her message of freeing the world for democracy in her last year as Secretary of State in Clinton's administration.
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 AllPolitics - Players - Madeleine Albright
Albright has also been making her presence known domestically with visit to a kindergarten in Texas and a speech at Rice University on banning chemical weapons and increasing foreign aid.
The Czech-born Albright was twice forced to flee her native land with her mother and diplomat father, first to escape the Nazis and later the Communists.
Though the revelations that Albright's grandparents were Jews killed in the Holocaust threatened to eclipse the substance of the secretary's first tour, Albright managed to keep the attention focused on her message rather than her background.
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 Madeleine K. Albright - SourceWatch
Prior to her appointment, Secretary Albright served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations (presenting her credentials at the UN on February 6, 1993) and as a member of President William Jefferson Clinton's Cabinet and National Security Council.
From 1981 to 1982, Secretary Albright was awarded a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian following an international competition in which she wrote about the role of the press in political changes in Poland during the early 1980's.
Albright is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown [University] School of Foreign Service and the first Distinguished Scholar of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School.
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 Madeleine Albright Biography (U.S. Secretary of State) — Infoplease.com
Madeleine Albright was the first woman ever to hold the post of U.S. Secretary of State.
She married Joseph Albright in 1959; they had three daughters, and were divorced in 1982...
Madeleine Albright, 1997 People in the News - Madeleine Albright, born in Prague, became the first woman Secretary of State.
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 Interview: Madeleine Albright | World news | The Guardian
It is two years since Madeleine Albright was US secretary of state, but she still inspires the sort of deference reserved for the World's Most Powerful.
When Albright became a US citizen in 1957, she was 20 years old and spoke four languages: Czech, her mother-tongue, Serbo-Croat, which she learned when her diplomat father was posted to Yugoslavia, French, from schooling in Switzerland, and the English she learned in London, where the family evacuated to during the war.
Albright remade herself by getting stuck into her academic career - she'd taken her doctorate while raising the couple's three daughters - and was made professor of international affairs at Georgetown University.
www.guardian.co.uk /world/2003/oct/30/usa.emmabrockes   (1837 words)

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