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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the Middle East, hoping to bolster Arab moderates - foremost among them beleaguered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - and revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The unstated objectives include helping to topple the Hamas-led government elected by the Palestinians in January, and seeking to rally moderate Arab regimes against Iran. So what are her chances of success? Let's just say it's probably easier finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq than finding any Arabs or Israelis optimistic over Rice's prospects...
...architecture. She used the house as her summer home and frequently held large social events at the estate, often welcoming distinguished military, naval, and official visitors. In 1915—the same year the library and estate were completed—she married then Harvard geography professor Alexander Hamilton Rice. She spent the rest of her life globe-trotting and financing philanthropic institutions including the Red Cross before she died in 1937. The Miramar also served as a retreat house and boarding school for several different owners before it was purchased by Panteleakis...
...Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk Analysis: Sure, China has agreed to block any trade with its neighbor's weapons programs. But its priorities are to engage Pyongyang and restart nuclear diplomacy - not necessarily the same as those...
...mean streets. Palestinians close to Abbas say that Fatah wanted to hobble the democratically elected Hamas government by a series of strikes by government workers (many of whom are loyal to Fatah) demanding that a penniless Hamas government somehow pay their wages. With U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice touring the Middle East this week, Abbas was also anxious to show the unpopularity of the Hamas government, as a prelude to dissolving Haniyeh's cabinet, sources close to the president told TIME...
Despite their more complex features, his films are, at their core, simply enjoyable to watch. Hearing the characters in “Mutual Appreciation” discuss death by “ass cancer” or watching Alan (indie rocker Justin A. Rice ’99 of the band Bishop Allen) play a small yet immeasurably passionate show provoke laughter without needing intellectualization...