Middleman
May 5 2008, AP

Seems no job’s too small for Condoleezza Rice when it comes to the Middle East these days.After initially resisting the idea, the top envoy for a Bush administration that once sniffed at Mideast peacemaking as a fool’s game is shuttling between Israeli...

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