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Yesterday, National Security Advisor Condeeleza Rice also announced the appointment of Robert G. Joseph as special assistant to the president and senior director for proliferation strategy, counterproliferation and homeland defense. Falkenrath will serve under Joseph...

Author: By Lisa B. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: KSG Professor Appointed to Bush Staff | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

...viewed him as a savage for carrying an idol of a long-haired fellow nailed to a cross. In the 1800s, thousands of Western missionary families spread across China offering healthcare and famine relief, eliciting accusations of selective distribution to the faithful: Chinese referred pejoratively to peasant converts as "rice Christians." In the early 1900s, Chinese ultra-nationalists marauded across the countryside, decapitating missionaries in the xenophobic Boxer Rebellion. But it was only after the Communist Party swept to power in 1949 that evangelists were finally expelled and extensive church lands reclaimed for farming. Most religious leaders later spent decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Positioning Missionaries | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...subject of Condoleezza Rice, Israeli PM Ariel Sharon said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Feb. 19, 2001 | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...very nice legs" b) "If I were 75 years younger... " c) "Is she aware of the stereotype about belligerent Israeli men?" d) "What is Condoleezza Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Feb. 19, 2001 | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...lush, watery place in the rainy season, not the dry, red desert we associate with the word. And survive? The good people of Ogakor and Kucha are getting a whole lot of help. They may be on the peckish side, but as long as they're complaining about mushy rice you know they haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Survivors Would Be Eaten Alive in the Real Outback | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

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