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(FILES) This December 22, 2008 file photo shows US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaking during an interview at the State Department in Washington, DC. Rice regrets having gone shoe-shopping and out for a night at the theater while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the US Gulf coast, she wrote in excerpts of her memoir released October 23, 2011. In "No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington," which arrives in bookstores next week, Rice, the top US diplomat during president George W. Bush's second term, writes ruefully that she later came to understand it was a major political misstep during one of the most violent and costly storms ever to hit US shores. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB / FILES