Word: rice
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...Holbrooke's key roles notwithstanding, each Democratic candidate has a deep foreign policy team. Obama's advisers include three former Clinton Administration appointees: Greg Craig, who headed the State Department's in-house think tank from 1997 to '98; Richard Danzig, a former Navy Secretary; and Susan Rice, an expert on terrorism and Africa. Clinton's roster features former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark and Craig's former deputy Lee Feinstein...
...DELHI India, on the brink of a food crisis, bans the export of nonbasmati rice...
Condoleezza Rice's return to the Middle East highlighted the lack of progress since last year's peace summit...
...responding to calls to shut them down. Hill, only five months into his post, wanted to bring the North back to the table, but the Bush Administration had a policy of not meeting one-on-one with Kim Jong Il's government, so Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice agreed Hill could meet with his North Korean counterpart only if the Chinese were there. When the Chinese didn't arrive to host the dinner in the ornate dining room of the St. Regis Beijing, Hill made the decision to go ahead anyway. That day North Korea came aboard, and two weeks...
...Rice protected Hill after his gamble, when powerful hawks in the Bush Administration were gunning for him for upending the strategy to further isolate the dictatorship. Rice, after all, would have known when she tapped him for the job that Hill was a pragmatic negotiator, a rep he earned as a key player in the accords that ended the Bosnian...