As Her Star Wanes, Rice Tries to Reshape Legacy

There was a time when, perhaps more than Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice seemed to have the best shot at becoming the first woman or the first African-American to be president. But that was before she sounded public alarms based on faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, telling CNN, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." It was before a former top Bush administration colleague, David Kay, charged with finding ... Full Story »

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by Patricia Blochowiak - Sep. 1, 2007

Well-written story providing new (to me) information about Condi's fallen star and her efforts to rise again.

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by Veronica Barlee - Sep. 1, 2007

a rather light piece from the NY Times about Condolezza Rice's role in the Bush administration and her efforts to safeguard her reputationl. Fails to grapple with any of the substantive issues of: leadership, integrity and personal responsibility.

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by Kaizar Campwala - Sep. 1, 2007
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by Kenneth Hittel - Sep. 2, 2007
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Sep. 1, 2007

This probably is the best one could expect from this newspaper with its highly slanted coverage of all issues relating to the Bush administration, including the supposedly objective news pages. Dr Rice has presided over a highly successful period for American foreign policy. New leaders have been elected in Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Georgia, Sweden, and other countries who are much more supportive of U.S. foreign policy than their anti-American predecessors who were in power ... More »

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