Word: rice
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...medalist turned Hollywood actor, best known for playing the lead in 1935's The New Adventures of Tarzan; in Los Angeles. Brix was not the most famous Tarzan--an injury forced him to cede that role to Johnny Weissmuller-- but he was the favorite of Tarzan writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. Later, as Bruce Bennett, his stage name, he appeared in such acclaimed films of the 1940s as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, with Humphrey Bogart, and the Joan Crawford classic Mildred Pierce...
...Scotch went for toasts. The rival Kurdish warlords, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, signed an accord and unified their commands. Talabani is now the President of Iraq. Barzani is a powerful political leader in Iraq's relatively stable north. And Welch is one of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top deputies, tasked with jump-starting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which the Bush Administration hopes can add some much needed luster to its foreign policy legacy...
...term, the views of the U.S.'s diplomatic corps were largely dismissed by neoconservatives allied with Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But as the Iraq war drags on and its chief advocates fade, the diplomats are stealing some late-game limelight. That's due in large part to Rice, who has consolidated her authority over the Administration's foreign policy and made course corrections that have resulted in a denuclearization pact with North Korea, a new push in the Middle East and tentative moves toward negotiating with Iran and Syria about the future of Iraq...
Carrying out Rice's agenda is a handpicked team of weathered foreign service officers who have spent their careers troubleshooting and cutting deals in some of the most remote capitals of the world--the State Department's Hellhole Gang. "They've all been tested on the front lines," Rice told TIME. "I tend to like people around me who served in really difficult posts. It's a mark of character. It's a mark of toughness. It's a mark of being able to operate under difficult circumstances and not lose your perspective...
...addition to having done hot-spot duty, the members of the Hellhole Gang are distinguished by their pragmatism, which has allowed them to serve under Presidents of both parties. The team includes Rice's new deputy, John Negroponte, who was the first U.S. ambassador to post-Saddam Baghdad; David Satterfield, Rice's special adviser on Iraq, who served in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq; Anne Patterson, former ambassador to Colombia, who oversees law-enforcement training in Iraq and Afghanistan; Welch, who was in the U.S. embassy in Islamabad in 1979 when it was seized by a violent mob; Nicholas Burns...