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...well, ladies, we have passed another milestone. On December 5, President Clinton announced the appointment of U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State, marking the first time in U.S. history a woman has been chosen to fill this position. The State Department is the head of the U.S. foreign affairs team, which formulates, represents and implements the President's foreign policies. The Secretary of State is the highest ranking member of the department. That is, a woman today stands on one of the top rungs of the foreign policymaking ladder. If Albright had been born...
...soon as she graduated Wellesley College, proceeded to have twin girls and then a third daughter six years later. But included in this picture was a master's and Ph.D. at Columbia, serving as a legislative aide and congressional liaison, an adored and well-respected Georgetown professor and an ambassador to the United Nations. Many others have juggled the two worlds--but not many of them were playing with a foreign policy ball. Madeleine Albright has demonstrated and will hopefully further demonstrate that even in foreign affairs, with all its geopolitics, missiles, terrorism and embargoes, a woman's voice...
Will Clinton's new foreign policy team push the Indonesian regime to accept such concessions? When Cuba shot down two planes last April, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright furiously and stridently decried this aggression. It will be interesting to see if, as secretary of state, she speaks as passionately about the memory of 200,000 East Timorese...
...reading] re-opened my ears to poetry... It's exciting to see poetry proclaimed as a public event," said previous Kennedy fellow Henry Morgenthau, whose grandfather was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey during the pogrom...
...Years of public face-time as feisty U.N. ambassador, and she knows the subject; friend of Hillary; goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand...