[USA Today] Barbara Slavin - A day after a bipartisan panel urged the Bush administration to try harder to broker Middle East peace, the State Department said Secretary of State Rice would devote more energy to reviving Israeli talks with the Palestinians. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Rice would travel to the Middle East early next year. "You are going to see her devote a tremendous amount of energy and...focus to create conditions" that allow peace talks to resume, McCormack said.
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