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Robert Lynch of Glen Mills suggests we ask Who would make a better president? A. Hillary Clinton B. Condoleezza Rice

For the past month the United States has worked urgently to end the violence that Hezbollah and its sponsors have imposed on the people of Lebanon and Israel. At the same time, we have insisted that a truly effective cease-fire requires a decisive change from the status quo that produced this war. Last Friday we took an important step toward that goal with the unanimous passage of U.N. Resolution 1701. Now the difficult, critical task of implementation begins.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has made it clear time and again she has no desire to run for president in 2008. But based on a poll of more than 11,000 readers of HUMAN EVENTS, the national conservative weekly, Rice is their choice to be the GOP’s nominee. Rice leads 11 other potential candidates in the unscientific poll, which began tracking the Top 12 contenders for the Republican nomination on January 6, 2006. The poll is available on HumanEventsOnline.com and was e-mailed to subscribers. First Lady Laura Bush had mentioned Rice as a possible contender for the presidency when responding...

      Princeton University's Celebration of the 75th Anniversary Of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Secretary Condoleezza RicePrinceton University New JerseySeptember 30, 2005   (3:00 p.m. EDT)   SECRETARY RICE: Thank you. Thank you very much. Madame President, other distinguished members here on the dais, and especially to Anne-Marie Slaughter who I know not just as a fine Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School but also as an extraordinary scholar whose expertise I've tapped on a couple of occasions since I've been Secretary, thank you for your leadership of this great university and your leadership in...

SNIP On her first trip abroad, Rice warned the European Union not to lift an arms embargo on China, telling diplomats they would rue the day if U.S. troops ever faced European-armed Chinese soldiers across the Taiwan straits. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who then held the rotating European Union presidency, was so startled by her tough talk that he spilled his coffee in the lap of European foreign policy chief Javier Solana. "The Europeans sent delegation after delegation saying, 'Please be more flexible.' She did not yield," Burns said. "She told them, 'You've united the Democrats and the Republicans...

Rice's Titusville roots By HOLLY LANG BIRMINGHAM POST-HERALD Condoleezza Rice was the girl many remembered as always studying, her face close to her books as darkness would fall on her Titusville street in the 1950s and '60s. "Condi always put her studies first, even though we always played sports like baseball in the afternoon," Birmingham City Councilwoman Carole Smitherman said. Smitherman lived across the street from Rice. "She would never come out and play until all her work was done. From sunup to 5 in afternoon at least, she'd work," Smitherman said. "And it was all worth it." Last week,...