** FILE ** Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands at the end of a joint news conference at Abbas' headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, in this Aug. 2, 2007 file photo. According to a new biography, months into her term as secretary of state in 2005 Rice considered Abbas a weak disappointment, and she once judged President Bush's signature Mideast peace program unworkable. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)