According to the Sidney Morning Herald,.....
Gossips match Rice with Canadian MP
Star turn ... Condoleezza Rice and Peter MacKay in the Canadian Foreign Minister`s home town on Tuesday.
Star turn ... Condoleezza Rice and Peter MacKay in the Canadian Foreign Minister`s home town on Tuesday.
Something else I`ve learned about Secretary Rice is she loves the cool Atlantic breezes here in Nova Scotia and she left the window open last night.
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September 14, 2006
STELLARTON, Nova Scotia: There are perils to being unattached in the stodgy world of diplomacy. Sometimes it has seemed that all Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice needs to do is show up in public with a man, and people start talking.
The single, sophisticated U.S. secretary of state once drew notice for wearing black stiletto knee-high boots with an above-the-knee black skirt while reviewing U.S. troops in Germany, so she is bound to attract gossip.
That is particularly true on the dry, acronym-ridden diplomatic circuit of NATO meetings, APEC forums and ASEAN conclaves, where much imagination has focused on possible romantic links between Rice and her counterparts.
Until now, Rice`s rumored matches have been, shall we say, unlikely ever to appear on the cover of GQ magazine.
But it took a two-hour flight to Halifax, Nova Scotia, this week, followed by a 90-minute motorcade to Pictou County, for Rice to find herself linked to someone with similar star appeal: Peter MacKay of Canada, the single, sophisticated foreign minister, named Canada`s sexiest MP by The Hill Times in Ottawa, and the closest thing to eye candy on the diplomatic circuit.
Tall, athletic, young, blond and recently dumped by his girlfriend, MacKay does not look like your usual foreign minister.
There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Rice and MacKay are linked by anything more than their shared status as singletons.
But if you believe the blogs, MacKay has been sweet on Rice since their first meeting in Washington last year. "Peter McKay has a crush," said a headline on the Web site NowPublic, atop a giant photo of Rice, "on Condoleezza Rice."
On Tuesday morning, Rice and MacKay strolled up to their side-by-side dais to talk to the folks here. "I am just delighted to have Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, here in my hometown," gushed a beaming MacKay.
He switched to bad French, even to American ears, and said something about Longfellow`s poem, "Evangeline." Then, he said, "Something else I`ve learned about Secretary Rice is she loves the cool Atlantic breezes here in Nova Scotia and she left the window open last night."
Rice repeatedly called MacKay "Peter" (he called her "Secretary Rice" or "Miss Rice"), confirmed the sleeping-with-the-window-open bit, and then told the assembled local leaders that MacKay had introduced her to his family the night before.
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