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Secretary Rice (Sept. 15): "What we do when we fight for and struggle for education, when we confront what President Bush has called “the soft bigotry of low expectations,” is we fight for America’s confidence as a leader: confidence that our people will be capable of taking the jobs of the 21st century so that we do not have to turn inward and protect; confident that we will live up to our great national myth that it doesn't matter where you came from, it matters where you’re going, and that for each successive generation that will be truer; but confident too that, as a people, we are united in our belief and in our certainty that our national belief in the pursuit of happiness, the transformation that takes place when you’re educated, is available to all." Full Text
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|  | | U.S., Ghana Note Friendship of the Future
Secretary Rice (Sept. 15): "America was founded by Europeans and Africans together. And in that founding, we forged a relationship; we forged a relationship of blood and tears. Now, we forge on that basis a relationship of hope and promise."Full Text | | |  | | Cuba Rejects Relief Assistance
Spokesman McCormack (Sept. 15): "We informed the Cuban Government that the U.S. is committed to providing up to $5 million in relief assistance for Cuban hurricane victims, and that we could fly emergency relief supplies to Cuba as soon as...the Cuban Government authorized such assistance. ...the Cuban Government informed us that they would not accept a donation from the U.S. Our reply was that we regret that the Cuban authorities have not accepted this offer of humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people." Full Text l Fact Sheet | | |  | | Terrorist Bombings in New Delhi, India
The United States condemns the terrorist attacks targeting the citizens of New Delhi on September 13. There is no justification for the murder of innocent civilians. Our deepest sympathy and thoughts are with the families of those killed and injured in these attacks. Full Text
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Ambassador Foley (Sept. 12): "We are marking the achievement of the Administration’s goal for resettling Iraqi refugees in fiscal year 2008. On September 11, we crossed the 12,000 threshold. Thus far, 12,118 Iraqi refugees have arrived in the U.S. for permanent resettlement, and more than 1,000 are booked to travel to the U.S. by the end of the month." Full Text l Fact Sheet | | | ![State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Kent Patton discuss democracy in the Middle East during a policy podcasts interview. [State Department photo]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080916112450im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/thumbs/thumb96_policy_photo_me_dem.jpg) | |  | |
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 Saudi Arabia's current development plan focuses on economic diversification in addition to education and inclusion of women in society. The plan calls for establishing new universities and new colleges with technical specializations. Privatization as well as emphases on a knowledge-based economy and tourism will help in the goal of economic diversification. More l Jeddah: Post of the Month [PDF]
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