The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama dodged a politically perilous "bullet" when he declined to nominate Susan Rice as the next Secretary of State.
The 19-point win was Rutgers' largest in a Big East tournament game and this one was a rare laugher for Rice, who will be back next season, according to university athletic director Tim Pernetti.
Next we motored 12km south past tranquil rice paddies and simple stilt houses to Banteay Torp, a temple built to honour Jayavarman VII's troops for their defeat of the Cham.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to make another trip to the Middle East next week, in advance of a U.S.-initiated conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be held in Washington this fall.
The Philippines sought danger listing as a way to raise national and international support and cooperation in the preservation of these remote high rice fields maintained thanks to the transmission of traditional knowledge from one generation to the next.
Secretary Rice told senators yesterday that she expects Sunnis to turn out in large numbers for Iraq's next political landmark, the National Assembly elections scheduled for mid-December.