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MADISON — Sly, A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice (search) an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state.

Nov. 19, 2004 - Secretary of State-designate Condoleeza Rice underwent a relatively new procedure today to relieve uterine fibroid symptoms, according to published reports. Rice, 50, is "out of surgery and resting comfortably" at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, said deputy national security advisor Jim Wilkinson in a statement to CNN. The procedure took an hour and a half, he said. Rice was expected to return home tomorrow and go back to work on Monday. Uterine fibroids are the most common, noncancerous tumors in women of childbearing age, according to the National Institutes of Health. Uterine fibroids affect about 25%...

(CNSNews.com) - A coalition of black clergy Friday denounced recent "racial motivated attacks" by three editorial cartoonists, the Washington Post and the New York Times upon National Security Adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice, who was recently nominated by President Bush to serve as the next secretary of state. The Faith Based Leadership Council, a group of over 200 black clergy and members of the faith-based community, said cartoonists Jeff Danzinger, Pat Oliphant, Garry Trudeau, the Post and the Times have used racial stereotypes "to conduct their personal character assassination of" Rice's integrity because she chose to serve the Bush administration....

(AP) Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush's choice to be the next secretary of state, underwent surgery Friday to treat noncancerous growths in the uterus, a White House official said. The national security adviser underwent uterine fibroid embolization at Georgetown University Hospital, and it appeared to be successful with no complications, said Jim Wilkinson, a deputy national security adviser. "The surgery was successful and she is resting comfortably," Wilkinson said. Uterine fibroid embolization blocks blood flow to fibroids, noncancerous tumors in the uterus. It is meant to shrink the growths by injecting small particles into the blood vessels that "feed"...

Faith Based Leadership Council 4545 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 625 Washington, DC 20008 (202) 466-7701 (202) 558-2259 THE FAITH BASED LEADERSHIP COUNCIL DENOUNCES THE RACIAL MOTIVATED ATTACKS UPON DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE PRESS RELEASE November 19, 2004 (Washington DC)---- The Faith Based Leadership Council (FBLC)(formerly the National Faith Based Initiative Coalition), a group of over 200 black clergy and members of the Faith Based Community, denounced the racial motivated attacks upon Dr. Condoleezza Rice by Editorial Cartoonists Jeff Danziger, Pat Oliphant, Garry Trudeau, the Washington Post and New York Times. The three cartoonists have for several months used racial stereotypes to...

         #368 - Lebanese Information Minister: Martyrdom is "Art" and Creates a "Strategic Balance" NBN (Lebanon) - 11/17/2004 - 00:01:10    #367 - Lebanese 'Amal Movement Representative: "Palestine and Jerusalem will only be liberated by the Islamic belief, by martyrdom operations" Sahar TV (Iran) - 11/12/2004 - 00:01:10    #366 - Lebanese MP Nasser Qandil: Condoleezza Rice Has 'Black' Positions on Arab Affairs Al-'Alam TV (Iran) - 11/16/2004 - 00:00:32    #365 - Footage from "Jerusalem Day" in Iran Iran Ch.1 - 11/12/2004 - 00:01:29   MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may ONLY be...

The nominations of Condoleezza Rice for secretary of state and of Margaret Spellings as secretary of education were visually intriguing events, most notably because President Bush puckered up and gave both of them a congratulatory kiss. The president did not kiss Alberto Gonzales, his nominee for attorney general. He was congratulated with a strong handshake and the sort of torso tackle that men give each other in lieu of an actual hug. [...] As much as could be determined from the photo record, the president has never publicly kissed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld or Health and Human Services Secretary...

GUEST OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Washington Give the man his due: George W. Bush is emerging as one of the boldest, most audacious presidents in modern history. Whether he is also wise is a question that will preoccupy us for another four years, but the reshuffling of his team in recent days makes clear that he intends to stretch the powers of his office to their limits. Woodrow Wilson once wrote that "the president is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can.'' President Bush comes Texas-sized. By sending members of his White House...

Rice is having a uterine fibroid embolization, a procedure to block arteries that supply blood to fibroid tumours, he said. It does not involve cancer or a life-threatening condition, McCormack said.

THE HARDLINE RIGHT-WINGER PRESIDENT BUSH IS MAKING THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IF THERE were a monkey in the White House - and many reckon there is - then his trainer would be the world's most powerful person. In the case of George W Bush, almost everything he knows about foreign policy has been learnt from Condoleezza Rice. His choice of Rice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State means that, if Congress approves the decision, she will be the world's most powerful woman. Not only is she just as right-wing as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the others, she...

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WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice, nominated to be secretary of state, will undergo a minor surgical procedure at a Washington hospital on Friday, a spokesman said. Sean McCormack said Rice would remain overnight at the hospital and return to work the next day or so. He declined to identify the procedure, saying it was a private matter. He said it did not involve cancer or a life-threatening condition. President Bush announced on Tuesday that Rice, 50, currently his national security adviser, will succeed Secretary of State Colin Powell. Her nomination must be confirmed by the Senate.

Reigning in Foggy BottomBy Ben JohnsonFrontPageMagazine.com | November 17, 2004 This week, George W. Bush put an end to civil war in one of the world’s most important locales: his Cabinet. With the nomination of Condoleeza Rice to succeed Colin Powell – an heroic man and a patriot – as secretary of state, the president acted to replace internal gridlock with a smoother implementation of his anti-terrorism policies. This shakeup will have one vitally important effect on foreign relations, according to columnist David Gergen: “When Rice travels as secretary of state to other capitals, everyone will know that what she says...

The new US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, is a close friend of President Bush and his former foreign policy tutor. The 50-year-old is renowned for her intellect and her passion for football. She is also an accomplished classical pianist.Below are a selection of her own comments on subjects as diverse as Baghdad and Brahms.   IRAQ It's just nonsense to say that because we've confronted it [the terrorist threat], we've created more of it. Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?October 2004There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam Hussein] can acquire...

With the nominations of Condoleezza Rice at State, Porter Goss at CIA, Donald Rumsfeld (or an equally tough replacement) at Defense and Stephen Hadley at NSC, the president has created an all-Patton foreign and defense team. Moreover, he has a team that understands that among the necessary targets of their firepower must be, not only our foreign enemies, but also the slouching, sly, insubordinate bureaucrats under their chain of command.

Rice: War was right decision: http://pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_264765.html  printed on October 22, 2004the same under title   Rice: Insurgents 'can't win': http://pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_264619.html Editor's note: Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, sat down with the Tribune-Review editorial board Thursday [October 21, 2004 ] for a wide-ranging question-and-answer session about national security issues. Today's portion of the interview deals primarily with the war in Iraq, the elections that will be held there in January, the search for Osama bin Laden and the global war on terror. Rice assesses a troubled world  http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_265031.html printed on October 23, 2004 Editor's note: Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national...

BIRTHDAY GIRL NEWLY appointed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was shocked Saturday when her pals threw her a surprise 50th birthday party. Rice thought she was going to a low-key dinner, and was stunned when her driver pulled into the British Embassy. Katherine Manning, the ambassador's wife, had invited President and Laura Bush, Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, Colin Powell and Vernon Jordan. "And she was surprised," said guest Sheila Stainback of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Rice changed into a red dress Oscar de la Renta had sent over for the party.

The world knows Condoleezza Rice as President Bush's smart, soft-spoken, high-energy, no-nonsense national security adviser — a workaholic who is always at his side in the White House or on vacations at his Texas ranch. But there's a lesser-known side to the only child born to black educators in segregated Birmingham, Ala. — the A student whose parents told her that "even though I couldn't have a hamburger at Woolworth's, I could be president of the United States." For one thing, she's almost as compulsive about shopping and her appearance as she is about her work. "I love to...

Paris – The appointment of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state is bad news for the already fragile American-European relationship, European experts and commentators said Tuesday. Newspaper editorials and interviews with specialists in U.S.-European relations lamented the departure of Colin Powell and predicted more tension between the Bush administration and European countries as a result. In Spain, the newspaper El Pais said, "The White House has lost its moderate face," while the Kommersant newspaper in Russia went further: "Now the hawks will attack us." "Among the most pessimistic conjectures made when George W. Bush gained re-election was that with a...

On Condi and more. So it will be Condoleezza Rice. We must deny the temptation to ruffles and flourishes which, heaven knows, one might revel in for a good hour. A woman! An African American! An academic! Who had a high post at a tough, competitive major university! And — mirabile dictu — a conservative! Okay, slide by that and concentrate on the theoretical and historical challenges she faces. Some of these she had a role in creating; some, she just bumped into. Begin with Iraq. Tony Blair was just in town, injecting great drafts of high octane enthusiasm for...