Word: rice
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...Susan knows the global challenges we face demand global institutions that work. She shares my belief that the U.N. is an indispensable and imperfect forum." - Barack Obama, on Rice's appointment, Washington Post...
...Rice was Clinton's top Africa diplomat when al Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which led to her first middle-of-the-night official phone call - from Kenya's ambassador alerting her to the attacks. Working for Clinton's National Security Council, she also dealt with issues related to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, including the president's widely criticized decision not to intervene. In 1995, she was appointed the NSA's lead Africa expert; she became pregnant with her first child while in the post and didn't take leave until one day before...
...According to an article in the Stanford alumni magazine, while an assisant secretary of state, Rice once listened as Nigerian opposition leaders praised a recent tough speech she had given, completely unaware that the 5-foot-3, 33-year-old Rice was the one who had delivered it. Rice waited until the discussion had ended, smiled and introduced herself, shocking...
...were to characterize her, whether it's playing basketball or anything else, she's fearless." - Madeleine Albright on Rice's determination and drive, Washington Post, March...
...splendidly progressive of Clinton to place his Africa policy in the care of relatively young women ... On the other hand, he's utterly ignorant of a cultural reality." - Simon Barber, a journalist in South Africa, speculating that Rice would not be able to negotiate with Africa's older male leaders, as quoted in Stanford Magazine, November/December...