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i dunno--i was teaching at stanford while rice was provost, and i was less than impressed with her. very much less than impressed. but she seemed of a piece with the place, if you factored in the hoover institution.
if you hang around academicworld long enough, you learn that factoids like "she graduated college when she was 19" are no more than factoids--past a certain point, they indicate nothing.
i am not surprised by her nomination--she seems closer to bush politically than powell did. and i suspect the smear-powell element that you see coming from the right of the right is a function of it being evident that powell was more moderate than bush. rather than say this, however, you get "powell was more style than substance".
which is par for the course.
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