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To: strider44
(The name "Condoleezza" is derived from the Italian music-related expression, "Con dolcezza", meaning "with sweetness".) - they got that right :O)

In 1974, at age 19, Rice earned her B.A. in political science and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Denver. In 1975, she obtained her Master's Degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame....In 1981, at the age of 26, she received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at Denver. In addition to English, she speaks Russian, French, German and Spanish.

At Stanford University, Rice was an Assistant Professor in Political Science (1981–1987), Associate Professor (1987-1993), and full Professor of Political Science (1993-July 2000)[40], Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. She was a specialist on the former Soviet Union

the first woman and the first African–American to be Provost of Stanford, she was also the youngest Provost in the university’s history. Dr. Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She has written or collaborated on several books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995), The Gorbachev Era (1986), and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). Business career Rice has served on the board of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, The Carnegie Corporation, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco. She was also on the Board of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan, and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.

ETC, ETC,ETC

In other words, BC, take your puny "honorary" degree and stuff it. It is not Condoleezza that would be honored, but BC - and why should she condescend to that?

6 posted on 05/03/2006 4:56:17 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." LINCOLN)
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To: maine-iac7

Did you ever hit the nail on the head! The last thing she needs is a stinkin' honorary degree. She has the real thing (a Doctorate) which is more than can be said for most of those whiners at B.C.


13 posted on 05/03/2006 5:16:21 AM PDT by Russ
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To: maine-iac7

Did you ever hit the nail on the head! The last thing she needs is a stinkin' honorary degree. She has the real thing (a Doctorate) which is more than can be said for most of those whiners at B.C.


14 posted on 05/03/2006 5:16:50 AM PDT by Russ
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