Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the country is not "race-blind" and "we shouldn't deceive ourselves that we're race-blind," but said the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a key moment in history. Complete Story...
Freshman Willie Warren scored a career-high 31 points, Blake Griffin added 27 points and 11 rebounds and No. 4 Oklahoma overcame turnovers and bad shooting to beat Rice 70-58 on Monday night.
President George W. Bush's foreign policies may be unpopular in the Middle East, but Arab leaders showered his top diplomat with jewelry worth far more than a quarter of a million dollars last year. While Bush himself didn't fare nearly as well, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raked in at least $316,000 in gem-encrusted baubles from the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia alone, making her one of top recipients among U.S. officials of gifts from foreign heads of state and government and their aides in 2007.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the sting of international sanctions is forcing at least some Iranian leaders to second-guess the regime's rebuff of world demands that it roll back its disputed nuclear program.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at a farewell U.N. appearance Monday that Israel and the Palestinians have moved much further along the path to peace since President George W. Bush brought their leaders together a year ago — though they won't clinch an agreement by the end of the year.
Western Hemisphere nations agreed Wednesday to review labor and environmental practices in an effort to make sure that trade helps rather than hurts their countries.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Latin American nations Wednesday to continue fighting poverty and avoid the temptation of closing off trade as they are buffeted by the world financial crisis.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and designated successor Hillary Rodham Clinton have met and broken bread for the first time since the former first lady was tapped to become America's next top diplomat.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Panama for meetings aimed at finding ways for the hemisphere's poor to share in the benefits of free-trade agreements signed by nations of the region.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that it is "well past time" for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to leave office as evidenced by the nation's calamitous cholera epidemic and health care crisis.
On a trip that was probably her last firefighter's dash into the world's flare-ups, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's emergency diplomacy in South Asia ended without concrete accomplishments.
Pakistan's leaders know what's at stake after the terror attack in Mumbai and have acknowledged their duty to evict terrorists and prevent future attacks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.
Susan Rice, the first African-American woman named as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, brings to the job a lifetime's work on international issues, an insider's knowledge of the White House and State Department, and close ties to President-elect Barack Obama.
Happily contemplating another woman as the top U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will offer advice, privately, and then get out of the way.
The Bush administration stopped short of blaming last week's terror rampage in India on Pakistani extremists Monday, but said the new civilian government in Pakistan must cooperate fully and hide nothing.
Justin Mason scored 14 points and No. 6 Texas shook off any lingering jet lag from a holiday tournament in Hawaii with a 77-56 win over Rice on Sunday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says an Iraqi proposal to hold a national referendum next year on a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement does not necessarily mean the pact will be put off.
Rachel Allison scored 16 points and pulled down 14 rebounds, leading 10th-ranked Baylor to an 83-58 win over Rice.
Boston College senior point guard Tyrese Rice, the Atlantic Coast Conference's second-leading scorer last season, was suspended for the season opener against Central Connecticut for violating team rules.
In the second round of the NFL draft, Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome decided to take out an insurance policy.
An emotional Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reveled Wednesday in Barack Obama's election, calling it an "extraordinary step forward" for the nation.
It's Halloween, and Anne Rice has a new book — a memoir in fact — that's climbing best-seller lists. Everything is normal, then.
Chase Clement passed for two touchdowns and ran for two as Rice routed Tulane 42-17 on Saturday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that Mexico should soon have a $400 million U.S. aid package to help fight drug cartels.
1 can mandarin oranges (10 oz) 1 cup water 1/4 cup raisins 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 1/4 tsp dried tarragon 1.5 cup instant brown rice 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded & chopped 1/4 cup sliced celery 1/4 cup sliced green onion
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that despite President Bush's low approval ratings, people will soon "start to thank this president for what he's done."
This morning on CBS, Sunday Morning's Rita Braver interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In a portion of the interview that does not appear to have aired, Braver noted the results of the recent Pew Global Attitudes survey which found that "the U.S.
President-elect Barack Obama spoke with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday about the violence in Gaza
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview released on Friday only an "idiot" would trust North Korea, which is why the United States is insisting on a way to check its nuclear claims.
"Arab nations concerned about Iran's nuclear program want to meet regularly with the six international powers trying to ensure that it remains peaceful, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
Great take on Colin Powell's recent interview with CNN!
The new MultiPost Job Network enables employers to simultaneously broadcast open positions to MBA students and alumni of more than 50 top-ranked schools in the U.S., Europe and Asia - using one single job posting form.
Blogging about the Bush administration sometimes feels like a graduate course in Orwellian concepts.
Nowadays one of my axes to grind has national apathy toward the invasion and occupation of Iraq and lack of empathy for families with skin in the game. In the 60's and 70's when I served - and that was 6 years active duty USAF and 2 years Army Reserve - I did not have much occa …
Outgoing Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on Friday refused to deny the CIA had engaged in transporting terror suspects to countries that routinely practice torture, when asked by a Danish television reporter.
More than a third of the world's population can't afford propane or other petroleum-based cooking fuels, relying instead on biomass such as wood or charcoal. Most biomass is burned in inefficient stoves that emit soot, smoke, and toxic fumes.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- India put airports in New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai on alert after a terrorist threat as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan has evidence to act against the suspects in last week's attacks in Mumbai.
Susan Rice wrote a 2006 article in The National Interest blaming the terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001
The so-called government of Pakistan, which has no control whatsoever over half its own territory and population, sponsored and encouraged a Kashmiri terror squad known as Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Sure, Barack Obama appointed a number of women to prominent positions in his national security team, but he is still a patent misogynistic.
A new breed of rice has been created posing a solution to a common problem for rice growers; floods. This will allow more rice to be produced and could potentially aide world hunger issues.
Al-Qaida number two man Abu al-Qasin Al Zahrawi followed up his "house negro" insult of Barak Obama today with insults for many of the Washington elite.
It is an open secret that politics is a very serious and severe matter, and those women, who dedicate their lives to it, are forced to play the game according to men's rules. However, women are women, and every woman has her own soft corner.
While I'm not much of a cook, I do know how to read recipes, measure ingredients, and stir. Which is pretty much all you have to do with a rice cooker. After posting an seed recently about rice cookers. I got the bug and decided to check them out.
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible b …
The US senate is set to vote on a nuclear co-operation agreement between India and the US, the final legislative hurdle for a deal that overturns a 30-year ban on civilian nuclear trade with New Delhi.
Peasant organisations and their allies have clear, viable ideas about how to organise production and services and how to run markets and even regional and international trade. Ditto for labour unions and the urban poor, who have an important role to play in defining food policy.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted for the first time that she led high-level discussions beginning in 2002 with other senior Bush administration officials about subjecting suspected al-Qaeda terrorists detained at military prisons to the harsh interrogation techniq …
As the President has said, this is a financial crisis, but the fundamentals of the U.S. economy are strong. Everyone understands our great ability to innovate, the productivity of our workers, the ability of the country to move quickly.