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National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice exhorts graduates to search for the truthUnder a bright blue sky, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told thousands of students Sunday that, as educated people, they have an obligation to search for the truth.Rice, a former university provost who is on leave as a political science professor, refrained from making policy statements during a speech at Stanford's 111th Commencement ceremonies. However, she made several references to last September's terrorist attacks and the increased responsibilities that graduating students face in today's world.Provost John Etchemendy, U.S. national security adviser and former provost Condoleezza Rice and...

Most speakers at high school graduations try to give words of advice and wisdom to the outgoing students. Condoleezza Rice was no different, but she wanted the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Class of 2002 to remember one thing: "I do not remember a single word my commencement speaker said, and neither will you," she said lightly. Rice blended humor with stories of her own experiences in her commencement address to the graduating seniors of B-CC at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Tuesday afternoon. Rice urged the departing seniors to find their passions, and follow their dreams. "Your mission over...

Egyptian Opposition Weekly: Condoleezza Rice "Has Damaged the World of the Blacks," and "She Is Suited Only to Work at a Nightclub or to Make Her Bed in the Heart of the Jungles" In an article titled "The American Snake," Kamal Sa'ad, a columnist for the Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu', attacked U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, writing: "Within a few days, Condoleezza Rice, the black woman, became the most famous woman in the world when American president George Bush appointed her his top advisor. She does not flinch from calling the Palestinian president Yasser Arafat a leader of terror....

In her first interview with a British newspaper since being appointed President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice tells David Wastell of the 'chemistry' between herself and the President On the secure telephone in Condoleezza Rice's airy White House office are numbered keys for each of the senior members of the Bush administration, including Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, and Colin Powell, the secretary of state. The tray marked "Intel" on her desk was carefully emptied before her interview, but there was no mistaking the significance of the telephone key numbered zero and labelled "Potus", short for President of the...

When Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School snagged National Security Advisor Condie Rice to be its June 4 commencement speaker, we thought it was a coup--in the nice, not the foriegn policy sense of the word.But according to the Tattler, the student newspaper (of Bethesda H.S.) some folks are grumbling.'Lately, with the inception of the Peace Studies class at Bethesda-Chevy Chase, an increasing number of students are taking offense to her stand on national defense specifically towards the war in Afghanistan,' writes Tattler reporter Michael Beacker.He quotes Peace Studies teacher Coleman McCarthy, our former Post colleague, as offering 'much praise to the...

Here’s my take on the democrats’ strategy to hammer away with “what did the President know, and when did he know it.” The democrats know that taking such a critical stance against a popular president is risky, however they are faced with a two far more dangerous threats. The democrats are bleeding potential voters in several critical segments; Women, Hispanics, Labor (male voters). One way to stop the bleeding is to tempt the republicans to dredge up Clinton failures in regard to Osama bin Laden. This will force voters to take a side not unlike the 2000 election. Hence, 50/50....

Secretary of State Colin Powell receives a pat on the cheek from National Security Adivisor Condoleezza Rice, right, in the Oval Office during the meeting between President Bush, and Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon at the White House Tuesday, May 7, 2002 in Washington (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) Secretary of State Colin Powell pats National Security Adivisor Condoleezza Rice, right, on the cheek in the Oval Office during the meeting between President Bush, and Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon at the White House Tuesday, May 7, 2002 in Washington (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

And here we were thinking that the Bush Administration's reaching out to President Clinton and offering him a role in the big East Timor delegation could be a long awaited reapproachment between the Clintons and the Bushes.Ever since USA Today ace reporter Bill Nichols broke the story of the appointment earlier this week, things have kind of slid downhill.The Clintonistas haven't liked all framing the backgound quotes that have described the reasons for the assignment, and one former Clinton aide has now gone so far as to tell 'The Note' in a huff exactly what they haven't liked.'The (Administration's) use...

Palestinian minister slams Rice's 'unacceptable arrogance' AFP Gaza City, May 5 Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat lashed out on Sunday at the "unacceptable arrogance and interference" of US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who said the current Palestinian leadership could not head an independent state. "This is unacceptable arrogance and interference into the Palestinian people's affairs," Erakat said. "Condoleezza Rice wants the Palestinian leadership to accept a surrender" to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposals to dump Yasser Arafat and revamp the eight-year-old Palestinian Authority. Rice said on Fox News that the "the Palestinian leadership that is there now, the...

Condoleezza Rice on 'Fox News Sunday': Chairman ArafaT does have responsibilities that he has not been meeting. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that the U.S. administration had not seen but would examine documents Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is reportedly taking with him to Washington to prove Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's connections to the financing of terror attacks. She added that the administration would consider the evidence. Sharon is carrying with him documents seized in raids on the West Bank that Israel says proves the Palestinian Authority presides over a terrorist network that finances and plans attacks. The...

This coming Saturday at the Washington Hilton there will be another White House Correspondents Association dinner, the annual bacchanalia that long ago evolved from an inside-the-Beltway dud into a gaudy celebrity fest accompanied by much hand-wringing by the serious press over the evening's downward spiral. First held in 1920, the gala was for more than half a century a chance for White House reporters to invite their sources to sit down over cocktails and gray chunks of meat and, the reporters hoped, spill some secrets. But as has been prodigiously reported, all that changed forever in 1987, the year Michael...

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice indicated Sunday that the Bush administration has no plans to recruit ex-President Bill Clinton to help in negotiating a settlement to the growing crisis in the Mideast. Asked by NBC "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert whether she would consider tapping Clinton for such a role, Rice said that all options that would "help" would be considered, but insisted that her boss was already on the right track. The exchange went like this: RUSSERT: In order to bring a bipartisan spirit back to this difficult situation, would you consider a special envoy like Democrat George...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hugo Chavez, the populist Venezuelan president who survived a coup attempt this month, did as much to undermine democracy in that country as those who tried to oust him, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Monday. "The threat to democracy in Venezuela didn't begin with those people in the streets," Rice told a foreign-policy forum. "We have to remember that Chavez also, in shutting down the press, for instance, was doing things to harm Venezuela democracy long before that fateful outcome." Chavez was ousted on April 12 by dissident generals. But the government headed by Pedro Carmona,...

Cheney for Chief JusticeBy Bruce Walkerweb posted April 8, 2002The Pickering defeat and subsequent Democrat posturing makes it clear that the necessary battle to reclaim the federal judiciary from liberals will have to be a political campaign, and not a refined discussion of legal theory. That means presenting judicial nominees who are actually political candidates, and it also means picking political candidate who is perceived as suitable to be good judges. Most Americans are properly unimpressed by what insiders in the mammoth legal industry consider good qualities in judges. The justice system is seen as something of a racket, with...

If Internet columnists and "bloggers" choose the Republican candidate for vice-president, it will be Condoleeza Rice by a landslide in 2004. She's surpassed the star power of such Bush administration luminaries as Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell, exceeded only by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the president himself.Rice is the first black woman to serve as national security advisor and her performance has been stellar. Based on her background, this achievement is unsurprising. She grew up in Birmingham under the regime of segregation. One of her childhood friends was killed in the 1963 church bombing...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Apr 08, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- AP White House Correspondent National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice dismissed Saddam Hussein's threat of an oil embargo Monday, and said it won't deter President Bush's quest to see the Iraqi leader ousted. "We ought to remind them that they're going to have a hard time eating their oil," Rice said, suggesting that Saddam needs money from oil exports more than the United States needs Iraq's oil. Rice urged other oil-producing nations to "step up" and make up the difference, as energy prices rose after Saddam's announcement. She did...

Bush-Rice 2004 is the latest fad among political junkies. But a lot of questions have to be answered first. SPECULATION about Condoleezza Rice as a possible vice presidential choice for the GOP ticket in 2004 has reached the proverbial tipping point. Everyone's talking about it, from Eleanor Clift on the left, to the good folks at National Review Online on the right, to Andrew Sullivan on the . . . well, wherever he is (the gay-Tory-Catholic center-right?). The Weekly Standard's own William Kristol has mentioned Bush-Rice 2004 as a serious possibility in several recent TV appearances, and lately the blogger...

Bush-Rice 2004? The rise and rise of Condi Her presence is not obtrusive but it is constant. President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, is rarely that far away from the president. Her office is a few doors down the corridor from the Oval Office, she's a weekend guest at Camp David almost all the time, she's central to Russia policy, a fixture at war counsels, and reliable crisis-avoider and manager in all types of emergencies. When Bush, for example, realized that he would face embarrassment at this weekend's Monterrey summit on foreign aid, it was a "Get me Condi"...

THE NEXT WORLD ORDER by NICHOLAS LEMANN The Bush Administration may have a brand-new doctrine of power. Issue of 2002-04-01Posted 2002-03-25 When there is a change of command -- and not just in government -- the new people often persuade themselves that the old people were much worse than anyone suspected. This feeling seems especially intense in the Bush Administration, perhaps because Bill Clinton has been bracketed by a father-son team. It's easy for people in the Administration to believe that, after an unfortunate eight-year interlude, the Bush family has resumed its governance -- and about time, too.The Bush...

Her presence is not obtrusive but it is constant. Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser to President George W Bush, is rarely that far away from the president. Her office is a few doors down the corridor from the Oval Office, she’s a weekend guest at Camp David almost all the time, she’s central to Russian policy, a fixture at war councils, and a reliable crisis-avoider and manager in all types of emergencies. When Bush, for example, realised that he would face embarrassment at this weekend’s Monterrey summit on foreign aid, it was a “Get me Condi” moment. The negotiations that...