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No White House Dreams for Rice

Condi tells Harlem class she won't run

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 2, 2007 3:14 AM CDT

(Newser) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was grilled yesterday about her dreams, sleep patterns and White House ambitions (she doesn't have any, she claims). It was not nightmarish testimony on Capitol Hill but a visit to a Harlem school and a rare foray into the domestic... Read full story »

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