WASHINGTON I WAS intrigued to learn that the president and I have the same favorite new TV series: Showtime's spectacular ''Homeland,'' set right here in the capital. The season finale is tonight, and finales of addictive shows can be tricky and disappointing. However it ends, though, they should dispense with the Best-Actors-in-a-Drama contest and...
NO HIGHER HONOR A Memoir of My Years in Washington By Condoleezza Rice Illustrated. 766 pp. Crown Publishers. $35. They were an unlikely pair: the cerebral A-student from a striving black family and the son of privilege who as a candidate for president couldn't name Pakistan's military ruler. But together they forged a vision of a muscular United...
ONE of the great tropes of Republican criticism of Barack Obama is that the president goes around the world apologizing for America's past misdeeds. ''Have we ever had a president,'' Mitt Romney asked in a foreign policy speech this summer, ''who was so eager to address the world with an apology on his lips and doubt in his heart?'' Mr. Romney...
Condoleezza Rice (født 14. november 1954 i Birmingham, Alabama, USA). Hendes mor var musiklærer og hendes far var præst. Derudover var begge universiteslærere. Hun læste musik på universitet sideløbende med dette læste hun også international politik. Hun blev den 22. januar 2001 udnævnt til præsident George W. Bushs nationale sikkerhedsrådgiver. Efter at Colin Powell havde annonceret sin tilbagetræden som udenrigsminister den 12. november 2004, indstillede den amerikanske præsident Rice til posten, og tjente fra d. 26. januar 2005 til d. 20. januar 2009.
Hun er den første afro-amerikanske kvinde, den anden afro-amerikaner (efter Colin Powell), og den anden kvinde (efter Madeleine Albright), som har denne post.
Under et besøg i Libyen, viste den daværende libyske præsident, Muammar Gaddafi Condoleezza Rice en masse billeder af hende, og spillede en sang han havde fået komponeret til hende: "Black flower in the white house". Fold ud