Condi's Dinner With Peter: No Candles

“It was a well-lighted dinner, with electricity-based lighting.”

That's State Department spokesman Sean McCormack exasperatedly explaining that, no, Condoleezza Rice did not share an intimate candlelit dinner with Peter MacKay, the foreign minister of Canada. In fact, McCormack pointed out, 14 aides and six security guards were there when the two diplomats dined. Part of the problem with being single, female and Secretary of State is that even the likes of the New York Times can't resist speculating on your love life.