Madeline Albright

Women Leaders Still Face Challenges

Pamela Trotman Reid | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Education Reform, Women Leaders, Florence Chenoweth, Hillary Clinton, Christine Legarde, Madeline Albright, Atifete Jahjaga, Women News

Educators and parents can work together to give young women confidence and the tools to be bold and wise.

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Obama Awarding Big Honor

AP | Posted 04.26.2012

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WASHINGTON — The first female secretary of state, a former astronaut, and a musical pioneer are among this year's recipients of the Medal of Fre...

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Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection

Tracy Shaffer | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Secretary of State, War on Women, Denver News, Working Mothers, Working Women, Denver Around Town, Madeline Albright, Denver Art Museum, Stay at Home Mothers, Denver, Denver Art Museum Madeline Albright, Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection, Denver News

A well-placed brooch became not only Ms. Albright's fashion signature, but a silent signal to her host about what she expected from their meeting. "Read My Pins: The Madeline Albright Collection" is on view at the Denver Art Museum.

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Chuck Manatt, One of America's Great Democracy Activists, Both Here and Abroad

John Sullivan | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: National Democratic Institute, Republican National Committee, Lane Kirkland, Arab Spring, Ronald Reagan, National Endowment for Democracy, American Institute for Labor, Afl-Cio, Frank Fahrenkopf, Solidarity Center, Madeline Albright, Democratic National Committee, International Republican Institute, Chuck Manatt, Dante Fascell, Manatt Phelps and Phillips, World News

Charles T. (Chuck) Manatt passed away late last month at the age of 75. As Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 1981 to 1985, Chuck rebuilt that organization into a much more powerful force in the national political scene.

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Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit 2011

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Violence Against Women, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tina Brown, Isobel Coleman, Vital Voices, Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, Lydia Cacho, Zainab Salbi, Madeline Albright, Lesley Stahl, Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, Dr. Sharon Cooper, Women for Women International, Liesil Gerntholtz, Aung San Suu Kyi, Condoleezza Rice, Robin Morgan, Malika Saada Saar, Barbara Walters, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christiane Amanpour, Emma Bonino, The Daily Beast, Women's Issues, Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit 2011, Newsweek, World News

Women In the World: Stories and Solutions continues to lead and lay the groundwork for amplifying concerns that have too long remained out of view.

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President Clinton Reflects on the Bosnian War and Announces the First Clinton Global Initiative Commitment of 2011

Lauren Yanks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children of Tomorrow, Secretary of State, Herzegovina, Croatia, Non-Profit, General Wesley Clark, Christiane Amanpour, Dayton Accords, Clinton Global Initiative, Balkans, Madeline Albright, Peter Galbraith, President Clinton, Bosnian War, World News

This Wednesday, February 9, I attended an event hosted by President Clinton titled, "America at a Crossroads: The Dayton Accords and the Beginning of ...

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TEDwomen 2010: "Reshaping the Future"

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, World Pulse, Tony Porter, June Cohen, Madame Callista Mutharika, Women's Issues, Dina Kaplan, Shirin Neshat, Chris Anderson, Madeline Albright, The Palely Center for Media, V-Day, Suheir Hammad, Pat Mitchell, Tyrone Hayes, Sia Nyama Koroma, Gender Equality, Technology News, Malaya Pinas, Nancy Pelosi, Eve Ensler, Ted, Penelope Jagessar Chaffer, Hillary Clinton, TEDWomen Conference, Beverly & Dereck Joubert, Johanna Blakley, Stephen Lewis, Technology Entertainment Design, Naomi Klein, tedwomen2010, Technology News

When it was announced that the TED enterprise -- which features global conferences with idea innovators and change agents -- was gearing up to present a TEDwomen conference, there was immediate push back.

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The Meanings of Kosovo

Sohrab Ahmari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muslims, Kosovo Independence, Wesley Clark, Madeline Albright, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, International Court of Justice, World News

To fair-minded Muslims willing to question the hate preachers and conspiracists in their communities, there is no better proof of America's decency than American leadership during the Kosovo crisis.

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One Year After Cairo Speech: The U.S.-Muslim Engagement Initiative

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Violent Extremism, U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, Social Justice, Institute for Resource and Security Studies, MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program, Paula Gutlove, 9/11, Jim Luce, Riverside Church, Madeline Albright, Harvard, Christian, Peace, Global Citizens, Consensus Building Institute, Ideology, Iraq Study Group, Indonesia, Middle East, Egypt, Buddhist, Cairo Speech:, Cornell University, Stephen Hunter, Robert Jay Lifton, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Health Bridges for Peace, Australian National University, Islam-Bashing, John Marks, Bill Clinton, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Search for Common Ground, Balkans, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington DC, United States, Jim Forbes, Fundamentalist Anonymous, Barack Obama, Dick Luger, Muslim World, Boston University, Hindu, Caucasus, Secretary of State, Inaugural Address, Nuclear Weapons, Healing of the Nations Foundation, Fundamentalist Mindset, Cairo University, Cambridge MA, Georgetown University, Hillary Clinton, International Relations, Changing Course, Thought Leaders, Leon Panetta, Extremism, World News

Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in Egypt one year ago was ground-breaking and transformational. While its impact was an...

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Responding to Arizona's Immigration Law

Kety Esquivel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Martin Niemoeller, Citizenship, Hate Crimes, Latin America, Bravery, Civil Rights, Dream, The Trail of Tears, U.S., United States, Immigrants, Statue of Liberty, Madeline Albright, Pennsylvania, Arizona, China, William O. Douglas, New York, Cesar Chavez, Jim Crow, Human Rights, Inclusion, Segregation, Japanese American Internment Camps, Abraham Lincoln, World War II, Faith, Diversity, Albert Einstein, North Carolina, Politics News

Now, for the first time in my life, there is a level of fear for me attached with being -- and looking -- Latina. A few times now I have returned home during the day after realizing that I didn't have my U.S. passport on me.

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Celebs Who Teach (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, College, The Midwest, The South, Al Franken, Toni Morrison, Slidepollajax, Spike Lee, Jimmy Carter, The Northeast, Madeline Albright, Al Gore, The West, Salman Rushdie, College News

Al Gore, Oprah Winfrey, Al Franken, Spike Lee ... just a few bold-face names who have taught a course (or two) in college. HuffPost College has featur...

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Renewable Energy Expert Steve Smith Mitigates Conflicts in Congo, Rwanda, Sudan

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Peace Corp, Somalia, Darfur, United Nations, Refugees International, Twa, Thought Leaders, Thomas Pakenham, Madeline Albright, Hutu-Tutsi Genocide, Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Wikipedia, Global Citizens, Congo, Laurent-Desire Kabila, Human Rights Monitors, Women in Transition, Belgian Colonies, Tutsis, Democratic Republic of the Congo, National Peace Corp Association, Chic Dambach, Zaire, Ohio, Mobutu Sese Seko, Conflicts Resolution, Tanzania, French Language, Swahili, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Steve Smith, Chevron, Roman Catholic Church, The Scramble for Africa, Kinshasa, USAID Office of Transition Initiatives, Burundi, Hutus, Steven Smith, New York City, U.N. Development Program, Refugee Camps, Geneva, Eastern Congo, Genocide, Jimmy Carter, Sudan, Hillary Clinton, Operation Support Hope, Fortune 500 Companies, Usaid, Hotel Rwanda, Rwanda, Léopoldville, Kinyarwanda, World News

Multi-tasking is de rigueur these days, so it comes as no surprise that renewable energy expert and conflict resolution specialist Steve Smith has his hands full. His specialty comes from years of practice.

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12 Glamorous Role Models Talk About Their Role Models (PHOTOS)

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

If someone invited you to a dinner party, and told you that the other guests would include poet Maya Angelou, designer Stella McCartney, Ambassador Susan Rice, and comedienne Amy Poehler (oh, and Michelle Obama might just stop by for appetizers), how long would it take you to leap out of your seat and scramble over to the fete?

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Getting Inspired by the Women's Foundation of California

Nour Akkad | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: One Million Women for Women Campaign, Women, Dolores Huerta, Video, Kathy Goodman, Isabel Allende, Women's Policy Institute, Karen Bass, Madeline Albright, Women's Foundation of California, Carla Christofferson, Healthy Living News

One woman creating change is inspiring, but an entire organization of women creating change is groundbreaking.

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White House Pet Correspondent Lucky Sees Stars & Stripes!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Val Kilmer, White House Correspondant Dinner, David Gregory, Madeline Albright, 50 Cent, Chanel, Bo Obama, Animal Fair, Karl Shaughnessy, Petsmart, Chace Crawford, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Denise Shaughnessy, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Blake Lively, Design on a Dime, Ty Pennington, Pat Buchanan, Rick Ocasek, Wendy Diamond, John McLaughlin, Tammy Haddad, McLaughlin Group, Lucky Diamond, Jon Favreau, Gipper, Jaclyn Smith, Christina McLaughlin, David Adler, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, David Axelrod, Ronald Regan, Paulina Porizkova, Twinkle, Penny, Ella, Elizabeth, Tank, Ralphie, Bird, Diddley, Barbra Streisand, Kate, Coltrane, Iams, Healthy Living News

With all the presidential advice Lucky received this past weekend from the above-mentioned, she is well on her way to being appointed White House Pet Correspondent to Bo Obama.

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Put A Pin On It: Hillary's Best Brooches And What We Think They Mean (SLIDESHOW)

Lindsay Mannering | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you're thinking about becoming a Secretary of State, you better know how to spell "brooch" and how to pin one on silk blend.

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Martha Washington Redux: America's First MILF

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Hold on to your hats folks or at least your iPod earbuds, Martha Washington was actually a babe! Also, she avidly consumed Gothic romance novels. Me-ow!

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Obama Shatters Glass Ceilings with His Dream Team

Michelle Kraus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susan Rice, Obama Transition, Glass Ceiling, Wal-Mart Stampede, William Jefferson Clinton, Madeline Albright, Senator Clinton, Barack Obama, Governor Janet Napolitano, President Bush Regrets, Politics News

By goodness, check out all those notable women: there's Hillary, there's Janet, there's Susan, and even room for Madeline and her brilliance.

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Sorting Out Hillary's Secretary of State Decision

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Cnn, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Christopher Hitchens, Nancy Pelosi, Larry King LIve, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright, Gloria Borger, Politics News

It's time for the New York senator to take a step forward -- to use her experience for the benefit of the country.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Masterstroke, Mousetrap, Or Both?

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Potential Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Is it a masterstroke by President-elect Obama? A mousetrap for the Clintons? Is it even happening at all?

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Estrogen for Obama

Sara Davidson | Posted 05.25.2011

It's hard to describe how transported we felt walking out of that women's conference. Some were in tears. Others felt reassured to have heard in person the kind of policy Obama wants to enact.

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Maria Shriver's Gift to Women

Paige Donner | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Long Beach Convention Center, Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women, Wisdom, Special Olympics, We Invest, We Empower, Strength, Save the Children, Non-Profit, Bono, Madeline Albright, Maria Shriver, California Volunteers, The Women's Conference, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Women, Peace Corps., Non-Partisan, Safeway Inc., Cnn, Courage, Minerva Awards, Larry King, Condoleezza Rice, Jennifer Lopez, Lean Cuisine, We Care, Night at the Village, Warren Buffett, Sgt. Shriver, International Women's Day, Healthy Living News

"Be Who You Are" was the theme Maria Shriver designated for this year's California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women.

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A.P.: Obama "Nervously" Meets with National Security Leaders

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Nunn, Richard Holbrook, Madeline Albright, Greg Craig, Mark Lippert, Denis McDonough, Jenniver Loven, Barack Obama, Ap, Gary Hart, Politics News

Note the brazen absence of any facts or quotes supporting Loven's "nervousness" storyline, even though it contradicts Obama's own statement about how long the meeting had been in the works.

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Madeleine Albright: We Need Leadership, Effective Diplomacy

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, International Politics, Madeline Albright, Bryn Mawr, Global Warming, Sarah Palin, Home News

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told a group of college students what she thinks are the biggest issues facing our country in the coming years.

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Obama's National Security Experts Meet In Washington

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Election 2008, National Security, Obama on National Security, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, Madeline Albright, Tim Roemer, Eric Holder, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he would bring Osama bin Laden to justice in a way that wouldn't allo...

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