That is an act that infuriates nearby Russia, although Rice says there's no reason for them to worry.
Ms Rice says America will support Iran's civilian nuclear programme if it stops dabbling with technologies that can be used for bomb-building.
Former US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice says she has learned first-hand that you need women to participate in the peace process.
Although Clarke and other Clinton holdovers strongly warned the new Bush administration about al Qaeda, Rice says that they never presented her with a plan for what to do about it.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says talks are focusing on threats in the Gulf, the problem of extremism, whether by al-Qaida or Iran and, as she put it, Iran's tentacles in the region.
After a day of meetings with China's leaders, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she is optimistic that China will vigorously implement sanctions against North Korea that were brought in response to its nuclear test.
In interviews, Rice has gently criticized Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her triumphalism--"Carrying power quietly is sometimes a good thing, " Rice says--and expressed disquiet at seeing the U.S. military mobilized for far-flung humanitarian interventions.
Rice says it would be most beneficial to have a "360 degree network" of high performers, meaning surrounding oneself with successful people who are more senior than you, at your peer level and working beneath you.
While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important, " she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power.
Local politician Suresh Handsa says rice production has fallen because padi are contaminated .
Aaron David Miller of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars says Rice is interested in building her legacy.
Now, Riedel says Rice is facing a test that many secretaries before her have taken.
Douglas Brinkley, a well-known presidential historian and professor at Rice University, says it's not sure that Obama would have won the Democratic nomination without Kennedy's endorsement and that noteworthy part of his speech.
"I don't think they'll do outright nationalization, but they may be desperate to find ways to tax Western investors, " says Rice, who serves as a director of Chevron and Transamerica and is a member of J.
"We're building market share by opening in areas where we are growing the market, " says Troy Rice , Depot's senior vice president for store operations.
"Women want to do the right thing for their baby, and if the issues are explained to them, they will, " says Kathleen Rice Simpson, a nurse-researcher who conducted the study.
Olmert says that Rice was "embarrassed" because she planned to vote in favor of UN Security Council Resolution 1860, which calls for an immediate cease-fire between IDF forces and Hamas terrorists.
An adviser to six former secretaries of state on the Middle East, Miller says if Rice really wants to make her mark, she'll have to do more heavy lifting and some serious prep work for this conference.
Eventually the U.S. will come around, too, since it must replace as much as 50 gigawatts of existing nuclear power by midcentury. (One very large power plant produces a gigawatt.) "Describe to me how it works by 2040 if you don't have new nuclear plants built, " says John Rice, the 48-year-old vice chairman, who started out with Immelt in GE's plastics division.
Employees must "pre-clear" every personal investment and outside business activity with the firm's compliance department and Mr. Rice did so, she says.
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The order these Islamic militants have brought to the capital, says Ms. Rice, could actually be a good thing for Somalis.
Bruce Riedel of Brookings says part of Rice's legacy will be the role she played as national security adviser when the White House undercut Powell, including on the Middle East.
"I think we have a really good opportunity in the States right now, " says Sara Moleski-Rice, vice president for grants and government relations for Learning Care Group, the umbrella for ABC's U.S. operations.
This is according to a new poll by Marist College and WNBC which says a McCain-Rice ticket would beat either a Clinton-Obama or an Obama-Clinton combination, 49 to 46 percent and 49 to 44 percent respectively.
"We have from now until January to introduce a different energy to the panel, " says Fox Entertainment Chairman Rice, acknowledging the key will be chemistry, something Abdul no doubt shared with her fellow judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and newcomer Kara DioGuardi.
"Hybels really showed that churches can use marketing principles and still be authentic, " says Michael Emerson , a Rice University sociology professor who has studied megachurches.
The Guangzhou Food and Drug Administration says that 44% of rice samples collected locally contained dangerously high levels of cadmium, a heavy metal that causes cancer, kidney failure and other diseases.
And after two bumper years, the government says it has enough wheat and rice in store to prevent serious food-grain price inflation.
An independent monitoring agency set up by foreign donors says that a program distributing cheap rice to six million families is working, as are the scholarship and health programs.
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