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U.S. Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) (D-Mass) waits to ask U.S. Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) a question during her testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 18, 2005. REUTERS/Larry Downing