Albright Glitters on Gray-Suited Diplomatic Stage

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Tossing out the first pitch of the baseball season and signing autographs are antics usually associated with press-the-flesh vote-stumping, not the rarefied, gray-suited arena of international diplomacy.

But in her four months in office, Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright has often acted as if on the hustings. She revels in crowds that greet her on her domestic travels, sports head-turning headgear, and maintains a "Reaching Out to Americans" site on the Internet, in which she exhorts ordinary folk to e-mail her their opinions on foreign policy (secretary@state.gov).

Combine all this with her status as the highest-ranking female public official ever to …