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Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza "Condi" Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since 2020, she has served as the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A member of the Republican Party, Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state…
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politics · American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954) · politician · writer · political scientist · diplomat · autobiographer · pedagogue · university teacher · pianist · academic · also Condoleezza Rice, Condoleezza Condi Rice, Condi Rice, Condoleezza "Condi" Rice, Rice
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2026· 11 entries
“My parents had me absolutely convinced that, well, you may not be able to have a hamburger at Woolworth”
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“Those terrible events burned into my consciousness. I missed many days at my segregated school because of the frequent bomb threats.”
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“My parents were very strategic, I was going to be so well prepared, and I was going to do all of these things that were revered in white society so well, that I would be armored somehow from racism. I would be able to confront white society on its own terms.”
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“has been in exactly the right place”
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“stayed in for alliance management reasons more than anything else”
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“go step by step, make sure there”
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“while race-neutral means are preferable”
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Radio Prague International: Condoleezza Rice firma en Praga acuerdo sobre construcción del radar
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Middle East Monitor: Condi Rice and the belated “birth pangs of a new Middle East”
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2025· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: Condoleezza Rice on Beating China in the Tech Race: 'Run Hard and Run Fast'
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Yahoo! Sports: Condoleezza Rice Is The 2025 Dinah Award Recipient
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2023· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Images shared on social media authentically show Osama bin Laden posing with Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton.” Fake.
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AOL: Condoleezza Rice on China: The US has 'to make sure we don’t stumble into conflict'
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After former President Trump and Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis criticized US support for Ukraine, Rice stressed the need for any potential presidential candidates to understand the essence of the conflict, which she d
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2022· 5 entries
The NFL owners approved the purchase of the Denver Broncos by the Walton-Penner group
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The Guardian: Ex-US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice joins Broncos ownership group
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The Denver Broncos announced that Rice had joined the Walton-Penner ownership group (consisting of S
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WKYC3: Condoleezza Rice talks about QB Deshaun Watson and previous Cleveland Browns coaching rumor in virtual press conference
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Published “UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 6,818 times.
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2021· 3 entries
Yahoo: Condoleezza Rice says white kids shouldn’t be made to feel bad over CRT on ‘The View’
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Yahoo: Condoleezza Rice: Trump supporters felt ‘diminished by elites’
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The Guardian: George W Bush reveals he voted for Condoleezza Rice in 2020 US election
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2020· 3 entries
Full Fact rated the claim “Pictures show Condoleezza Rice, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama pictured with Osama Bin Laden.” All three pictures are fake..
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says photos show Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice posing with Osama bin Laden.” Pants on Fire.
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Published “UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 6,055 times.
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: 'Offensive' poem about Condoleezza Rice stokes New Hampshire verse rift
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“s rhetoric, especially on immigration, and warned that Trump needed”
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2018· 6 entries
The Guardian: There are far better female NFL head coaching candidates than Condoleezza Rice
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The Guardian: Browns reportedly considering interviewing Condoleezza Rice for head-coach job
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theScore: Report: Browns want to interview Condoleezza Rice for HC vacancy
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ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that a league source had told him that Rice was being considered as a candidate in the Cleveland Browns' head coach search
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Condoleezza Rice said, “If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it and now you’re on a really bad road to now…” Half True.
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Rice called decisions by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to make overtures to the South Koreans "clever" and expressed that he was more isolated and reckless than his father
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2017· 2 entries
Rice participated in a talk with the University of San Francisco, where she opined that the United States had entered "uncharted territory" with President Donald Trump due to his lack of government experience and that th
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Rice released Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, a book in which she makes the case for democracy over totalitarianism or authoritarianism
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails
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Published “Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life” in Nature Reviews Microbiology — cited 5,600 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Citing her role in authorizing the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", Human Rights Watch called for the investigation of Rice "for conspiracy to torture as well as other crimes
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Rice initially declined taking a public position on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action "because I know how hard it is to be in there as opposed to out here", but added, "This particular deal I think has some good ele
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2014· 2 entries
Rice joined the Ban Bossy campaign as a spokesperson advocating leadership roles for girls
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In 2014, Rice was named to the ESPNW Impact 25.
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2013· 2 entries
Rice charged Iran with having "done everything to make certain that you can't trust them", citing Iran's decades-long hiding of its nuclear program and giving the International Atomic Energy Agency "the runaround
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That Rice was writing a book to be published in 2015 by Henry Holt & Company
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance” in Clinical Microbiology and Infection — cited 11,643 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Rice wrote No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington, a memoir of her time in the Bush administration
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Horatio Alger Award (2010).
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“marriage is between a man and a woman ... But perhaps we will decide that there needs to be some way for people to express their desire to live together through civil union.”
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Rice released Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, an account of her upbringing
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2008· 2 entries
Rice played down any suggestion that she may be on the Republican vice presidential ticket: "I have always said that the one thing that I have not seen myself doing is running for elected office in the United States
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Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the secretary of state standing fourth in the presidential line of successio
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Eric M. Warburg Award (2007).
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Rice was involved in another nuclear agreement with North Korea (Pyongyang)
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The property arrangement was first revealed in Glenn Kessler's book The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy (2007), sparking rumors about the nature of Rice and Bean's relationship.
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2006· 2 entries
About the July 2001 meeting, Rice asserted she did not recall the specific meeting, commenting that she had met repeatedly with Tenet that summer about terrorist threats
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Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh announced the Agreement for Cooperation between the United States and India involving peaceful uses of nuclear energy
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2005· 7 entries
The Senate confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85–13
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North Korea agreed to give up its entire nuclear program in exchange for security guarantees and economic benefits to ensure its survival
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In 2006, North Korea test fired long range missiles
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Rice assumed office as Secretary of State
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“I will not run for president of the United States. How is that? I don”
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (2005–2009).
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“We have to remember that in this war on terrorism, we”
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2004· 1 entry
Bush nominated Rice to be Secretary of State
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2003· 3 entries
The Washington Post reported that Rice was involved in crafting Bush's position on race-based preferences
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Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft met with the CIA again and were briefed on the use of waterboarding and other methods including week-long sleep deprivation, forced nudity and the use o
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North Korea officially withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty
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2002· 3 entries
Rice wrote an editorial for The New York Times entitled "Why We Know Iraq Is Lying"
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Rice met with CIA director George Tenet to personally convey the Bush administration's approval of the proposed waterboarding of alleged Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah
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That it "would be disingenuous for me to say that the fact that she was a woman, the fact that she was black and the fact that she was young weren't in my mind
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2001· 5 entries
Rice was scheduled to outline a new national security policy that included missile defense as a cornerstone and played down the threat of stateless terrorism
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Rice met with Tenet in what he referred to as an "emergency meeting" held at the White House at Tenet's request to brief Rice and the NSC staff about the potential threat of an impending al Qaeda attack
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To become National Security Advisor to President George W
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Career landmark: United States National Security Advisor (2001–2005).
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Were rooted in "oppression and despair" and so, the U
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2000· 3 entries
Rice was named as National Security Advisor, upon which she stepped down from her position at Stanford
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“If you go back to 2000 when I helped the president in the campaign. I said that I was, in effect, kind of libertarian on this issue. And meaning by that, that I have been concerned about a government role in this issue. I am a strong proponent of parental choice—of parental notification. I am a strong proponent of a ban on late-term abortion. These are all things that I think unite people and I think that that”
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Published “EMBOSS: The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite” in Trends in Genetics — cited 8,505 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 13,101 times.
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1997· 2 entries
Served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-Integrated Training in the Military
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Published “Signaling Recognition Events with Fluorescent Sensors and Switches” in Chemical Reviews — cited 6,556 times.
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1994· 11 entries
“Nadie, especialmente el presidente, dejaría a gente desatendida por su raza.”
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“Los EE.UU. siempre se han reservado el derecho de intentar disminuir o de intentar eliminar la amenaza antes de ser atacados.”
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“These people are making a choice for peace and that means that the time is coming in which this insurgency will have no foothold, in which it will be defeated, defeated by Iraqis and in which we can fully come home.”
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“We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.”
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“...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.”
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“...there have been plenty of markers that show that this is a country that is worth the investment because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilizing factor, you'll have a very different kind of Middle East. And I know that from the point of view of not just monetary costs, but the sacrifice of American lives, a lot has been sacrificed for Iraq, a lot has been invested in Iraq.”
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“Creemos que este problema norcoreano puede ser resuelto aún por la vía diplomática».[sin fuentes]”
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“OriginaL. «As I was telling my husb— As I was telling President Bush.”
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“Castigar a Francia, ignorar a Alemania, y perdonar a Rusia.”
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“If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.”
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“Original: «People may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side.”
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1993· 2 entries
Chevron named a 129,000-ton supertanker SS Condoleezza Rice
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Appointed her as Stanford's provost, the chief budget and academic officer of the university in 1993 and she also was granted tenure and became full professor
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1992· 3 entries
Shultz, who was a board member of Chevron Corporation, recommended Rice for a spot on the Chevron board
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Rice volunteered to serve on the search committee to replace outgoing president Donald Kennedy
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Rice founded the Center for New Generation, an after-school program created to raise the high school graduation numbers of East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park, California
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1991· 1 entry
Rice returned to her teaching position at Stanford, although she continued to serve as a consultant on the former Soviet Bloc for numerous clients in both the public and private sectors
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1989· 4 entries
Awarded Candace Award (1989).
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Published “ANALYZING TABLES OF STATISTICAL TESTS” in Evolution — cited 6,719 times.
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And he asked Rice to become his Soviet expert on the United States National Security Council
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Published “Analyzing Tables of Statistical Tests” in Evolution — cited 5,162 times.
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1986· 2 entries
While an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rice served as special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Rice was appointed special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to work on nuclear strategic planning as part of a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship
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1985· 1 entry
But in 2002, it was revealed that they were operating a secret nuclear weapons program that violated the 1994 agreement
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1981· 2 entries
At age 26, she received her PhD in political science from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver
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Received a PhD from the School of International Studies at the University of Denver
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1977· 1 entry
During the Carter administration, as an intern in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
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1974· 1 entry
At age 19, Rice was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa society, and was awarded a B
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1968· 1 entry
Published “A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks” in Journal of Applied Mechanics — cited 7,036 times.
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1954· 2 entries
Born 1954-11-14.
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“s travel ban. Gun rights Rice says that she became a”
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