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American voters approve 76–16 percent of the job George W. Bush is doing as President, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.This is a slight drop from President Bush’s 83–11 percent approval in a December 11, 2001, national poll by the independent Quinnipiac University.Secretary of State Colin Powell gets an even higher 85–8 percent approval, while Vice President Dick Cheney gets the lowest rating on the Bush team, 58–20 percent.Looking at Bush’s handling of different areas, American voters approve:·62–30 percent of his handling of the economy;·72–19 percent of his handling of foreign policy;·81–14 percent of his handling ...

Friday, 23 November, 2001, 15:07 GMT Condoleezza Rice: Defying all stereotypes Condoleezza Rice: Mr Bush's right-hand woman In a new BBC documentary, Gavin Esler charts the rise and rise of US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Adviser, is the most powerful woman in the world and the first person George W Bush speaks to every morning after his wife Laura. Rice named Outstanding Junior Woman at University of DenverShe is the first woman, and the first African-American, to hold the key post of advising the US president on foreign and defence policy, following in the ...

Pace of war a reflection of advisor at Bush's side Condoleezza Rice shapes U.S. policy BY JIM PUZZANGHERA Knight Ridder News Service WASHINGTON -- Since terrorists turned George W. Bush into a wartime president, Condoleezza Rice has become as omnipresent as his Secret Service detail. At the White House or at Camp David, traveling to China or to the World Series, Bush's trusted national security advisor is almost always at his side. ``Before Sept. 11, Condi was far and away the closest personal advisor to the president on foreign policy, and that relationship has gotten even closer since Sept. ...

<p>THERE'S A bracing bluntness and moral clarity to Condoleezza Rice's view of the world.</p> <p>Even as President Bush was courting Arab approval by his symbolic use of the word ''Palestine'' for a possible new Middle Eastern state, even as Secretary of State Colin Powell was professing his own eagerness to talk with Yasser Arafat, the national security adviser was disinclined to mince words about why Bush wouldn't meet with the Palestinian leader while they were both at the UN last weekend.</p>

Washington -- The name is fascinating and complex: Condoleezza, fashioned from the Italian musical notation con dolcezza -- to play "with sweetness" -- by a mother who taught her little girl to play piano before most children learn to tie their shoes. Condoleezza Rice, though, prefers to keep it simple. President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice. "Please call me Condi," she regularly tells visitors to her sunny West Wing office, where top-secret memos lie neatly atop a dark wooden desk and a black and silver Oakland Raiders football helmet is perched on her bookshelf. Rice, who turned 47 on ...

Happy Birthday To You Condoleezza Rice!!!. Thanks for all the great things you do!!!

Transcript for Nov. 18 Read the complete transcript for our Sunday, Nov. 18, program. PLEASE CREDIT ANY QUOTES OR EXCERPTS FROM THIS NBC&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;TELEVISION PROGRAM TO “NBC NEWS’ MEET THE PRESS.”&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;NBC News &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;MEET THE PRESS&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Sunday, November 18, 2001&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;GUESTS: CONDOLEEZZA RICE &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;National Security Adviser &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Professor BERNARD LEWIS &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Princeton University &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Author, “Islam and the West”&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AHMED RASHID &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Author, ...

<p>If she weren't a Republican, we black folks would be praying for her strength and celebrating how happy the elders must be looking down on her.</p> <p>Just imagine, a little black girl who grew up in segregated schools in Birmingham, Ala., who became provost at Stanford University.</p>

National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice previewed the trip President Bush will begin on Wednesday. Stops on the ten-day tour surround his attendance at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Thailand. Bush will first stop in California to participate in a roundtable discussion and deliver a speech on housing and the economy. He will meet with Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) before attending a Bush-Cheney fundraising event. Rice said that Bush's travel to Asia and Australia would focus on reaffirming alliances that are critical to the war on terror as well as advancing fair and free trade. President Bush and...

There is an old argument between the so-called "realistic" school of foreign affairs and the "idealistic" school. To oversimplify, realists downplay the importance of values while emphasizing the balance of power as the key to stability and peace. Idealists emphasize the primacy of values and the character of societies as crucial to states' behavior toward other nations. While this may make for interesting academic debate, in real life, power and values are inextricably linked. Great powers can influence millions of lives and change history. And the values of great powers matter. If the Soviet Union had won the Cold...