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To: Bill who wrote (88756)	11/19/2004 10:16:06 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Condi Rice is extraordinarily intelligent Ms Rice was born in 1954 and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama under the shadow of segregation. She has often said that to get ahead she had to be "twice as good" and her childhood chiseled her strong determination and self-respect. Taught by her parents that education provided armor against segregation and prejudice, Ms Rice worked her way to college by the age of 15. She graduated at 19 from the University of Denver with a degree in political science. A masters and doctorate followed and, at the age of 26, Ms Rice became a fellow at Stanford University's Centre for International Security and Arms Control. After serving as the Soviet affairs adviser on Bush Senior's National Security Council, Condoleezza Rice returned to Stanford in 1991 and, in 1993, became the youngest, the first female and first non-white provost. She is the most academic member of the Bush foreign affairs team.

To: Bill who wrote (88756)	11/19/2004 10:41:39 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 108807

No question about that.....

To: Bill who wrote (88756)	11/20/2004 1:27:45 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

In the final analysis, how bright someone seems is pretty subjective. I agree that Condi is reasonably well educated, and she isn't mentally retarded or anything, but she she seems intellectually inflexible, and narrow and unimaginative in her thought processes. You know, the classic overachiever who works extremely hard and is very focused is but not terribly creative. I have never heard her say anything really interesting. I think these conversations where just because of your underlying political beliefs you will defend anyone/anything that is a product of that ideology and try to destroy anyone/anything that is not are pretty one-dimensional, no one learns anything, and they are boring. Madeline Albright was a college professor as well, with a distinguished background. She went to better colleges than Condi did, as well. So in calling her a bag lady I have to assume you are just referring to her appearance, and this is as meanspirited and pointless as the couple of Condi cartoons which actually are racist. This is from the official U.S. State Department website: Madeleine Korbel Albright U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright was nominated by President Clinton on December 5, 1996 as Secretary of State. After being unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she was sworn in as the 64th Secretary of State on January 23, 1997. Secretary Albright is the first female secretary of state and the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. Prior to her appointment, Secretary Albright served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations (presenting her credentials at the UN on February 6, 1993) and as a member of President Clinton's Cabinet and National Security Council. Secretary Albright formerly was the President of the Center for National Policy. The Center is a non-profit research organization formed in 1981 by representatives from government, industry, labor and education. Its mandate is to promote the study and discussion of domestic and international issues. As a Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of Women in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, Russian foreign policy, and Central and Eastern European politics, and was responsible for developing and implementing programs designed to enhance women's professional opportunities in international affairs. From 1981 to 1982, Secretary Albright was awarded a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian following an international competition in which she wrote about the role of the press in political changes in Poland during the early 1980's. She also served as a Senior Fellow in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, conducting research in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. From 1978-1981, Secretary Albright was a staff member on the National Security Council, as well as a White House staff member, where she was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From 1976-1978, she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator Edmund S. Muskie. Awarded a B.A. from Wellesley College with honors in Political Science, she studied at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, received a Certificate from the Russian Institute at Columbia University, and her Masters and Doctorate from Columbia University's Department of Public Law and Government. Secretary Albright is fluent in French and Czech, with good speaking and reading abilities in Russian and Polish. Selected writings include Poland, the Role of the Press in Political Change (New York: Praeger with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 1983); The Role of the Press in Political Change: Czechoslovakia 1968 (Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University 1976); and The Soviet Diplomatic Service: Profile of an Elite (Master's Thesis, Columbia University 1968). Secretary Albright has three daughters. secretary.state.gov