Condoleezza Rice's Yen for Shopping

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, from left, on Friday in Perth, in Prague last week and with Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo on Wednesday. (Photo: From left, pool photograph by Lee Griffith; Adam Berry/Bloomberg News; pool photograph by Roslan Rahman) President Bush’s infamous call for Americans to go shopping after 9/11 did not necessarily apply to his own extremely busy administration. No one understood that better than Condoleezza Rice, whose tireless habits included long days and nights at the White House followed by weekends often spent at Camp David with the president. There was not much time for shopping, a crucial step towards looks that “boldly eschewed the typical fare chosen by powerful American women on the world stage,” as Robin Givhan of The Washington Post once wrote of Ms. Rice. So when she let... [read full story]