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What Bush got right
By Philip Zelikow I will take a general view of what Chris raises here , but focus only on this question: How did the Bush administration contribute to defining the agenda for U.S., and global, public action? The 1990s were the prologue. In 1990 and 1991 the United States and its European ...
Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - Yahoo! News
Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com — AFP/Getty Images/File U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, (more) Rice shame-faced by Bush over UN Gaza vote: Olmert - ...
Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice voted into Baseball Hall of Fame
sports.espn.go.com — NEW YORK -- Rickey Henderson sped his way into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot Monday, and Jim Rice made it in on his 15th and final try. Henderson, baseball's career leader in runs scored and stolen bases, received 94.8 percent of the vote from ... (more) Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice voted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Rice, Eager to Depart, Heartily Defends Record
washingtonpost.com — Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 13, 2009; A06 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice didn't blink. Told that Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora recently said the United States simply can't deliver on its promises because of deference to ... (more) Rice, Eager to Depart, Heartily Defends Record
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