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That leaves Powell to tinker on the margins. He's not averse to walking away from the ABM treaty. He's for Rice's "grand bargain" to couple a new defense shield with way-low offensive arsenals. But he's at odds with the others on how and when to get out of the treaty. He would like to do it more delicately, while making a sincere effort to talk Russia into agreement...
...successes. He brilliantly rallied the troops at State and rebuilt a demoralized institution. The White House lets him run free on Africa and AIDS. But he has had little time to put a distinctive mark on policy, in part because he is too busy cleaning up messes. He fought Rice to get Bush to renege on his campaign promise to bring home U.S. troops from the Balkans. He moved Bush back toward talking to North Korea. He quelled hard-line rumbling when he took charge of retrieving the American spy-plane crew from China; Pentagon officials seeking retaliation were forced...
...Star Search, included two platinum albums, a third album released in July and an appearance in last year's movie Romeo Must Die. The Brooklyn-born, Detroit-raised star was also set to appear in two sequels to The Matrix, and she starred in the movie version of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, to be released early next year. Grieving fans lined Manhattan's Upper East Side streets as the singer's coffin rode to the chapel in a horse-drawn, glass-paneled hearse. "Aaliyah had a refreshing outlook for one so young," said Gladys Knight. "With true...
Condoleezza Rice has a reputation for toughness, and in the first seven months of the Administration she has lived up to it. Originally pegged as a peacemaker between hard-liners and moderates, Rice turned out to be the driving force behind the Administration's early "my-way-or-the-highway" tone on such issues as Russia, North Korea and the Kyoto protocol on climate change. A diplomat meeting with her last spring complained that for the U.S. to drop Kyoto would set the fight against global warming back 10 years. Rice thought that was one more reason not to delay...
...Rice's personal story of hard work helps explain her tenacity. She grew up under segregation in Birmingham, Ala., willed her way to college at age 15 and eventually became a Soviet expert in the White House of Bush I--finding time along the way to become an accomplished pianist, ice skater and sports buff. Her hard-line positions have surprised even seasoned alumni of Republican administrations. J. Stapleton Roy, Bush Sr.'s ambassador to China, says Rice is "prone to the naive view that we are strong and they are weak and we should ruthlessly exploit that." Rice, like...