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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed her diplomatic record on Thursday night, saying her time atop the State Department played a role in "restor[ing] America's leadership in the best sense."

Some Republican critics have charged that Clinton's tenure as the nation's top diplomat was heavy on jet-setting but thin on tangible accomplishments, but Clinton said that much of her work -- with Russia, with Iran, and elsewhere -- laid the groundwork for efforts that have now kicked into high gear.

In her forthcoming memoir, Clinton said, she devotes an entire chapter to the negotiations on Iranian sanctions that many have since credited with bringing the Islamic Republic to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.

"I write obviously a whole chapter about this, because this is the kind of...painstaking, microscopic advantages and putting together the international coalition" that eventually yields results," Clinton said, according to Politico.

That effort "changed the calculus inside the Iranian government," she said. "It took an enormous amount of effort on the part of a lot of us."

Clinton's remarks came during a panel discussion kicking off the "Women in the World" summit in New York City. Earlier on Thursday, she helped launch a new program from the U.S. Agency for International Development that hopes to harness new developments in science and technology to combat poverty.

More generally, Clinton said, she and the rest of the administration played a role in restoring American leadership in the world after two controversial wars and a global financial crisis.

I'm "very proud of the stabilization and the really solid leadership that the administration" in 2009 when she and President Obama took the reins, she explained, saying that leadership helped the U.S. "deal with problems like Ukraine" and other recent international crises.

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NEW YORK, April 4 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton and Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund exchanged a high-five during an appearance in New York at the suggestion both could be presidents.

The two women were in a discussion Thursday night moderated by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman as part of the "Women in the World" event. Friedman said Clinton could become U.S. president, while Lagarde, a former French cabinet minister and now the IMF's managing director, could be president of the European Commission.

Clinton remained cagy about her own plans, refusing to answer several times when Friedman asked her if she will seek the Democratic nomination in 2016.

After years of experience as a lawyer, U.S. senator, and secretary of state, as well as being the wife of a governor who then became president, Clinton said the double standard for women still exists. She said its survival in a "transformational" society like the United States shows how strong it is.

We have all either experienced it or at the very least seen it. And there is a deep set of cultural psychological views that are manifest through this double standard, Clinton said.

Clinton said the news media helps keep the double standard alive. She said young women need to learn how to deal with criticism -- not taking it personally -- and to develop resilience.

Believe me, she said, this is hard-won advice Im now putting forward here. Its not like you wake up and understand this. But its a process. And you need other women, you need your friends, to support you.

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For decades, questions posed to Hillary Rodham Clinton have turned on the subject of hair. But for all the eyerolls, that famous coif in all its scrunchie-to-bob iterations has turned out to be a very helpful talking point.

The occasion Thursday night was Tina Browns Women In the World conference in New York, and it was New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman introduced by Brown as a sensitive man who asked the former secretary of State and her co-panelist, International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde, to reflect on whether there was still a double standard in the media about how we talk about women in public life.

To laughter, Friedman recalled a news clip in which Clinton had said shed flown all night to meet with a foreign leader and had tied her hair back and you said when you came into the room, he was really frightened, Friedman said, because he had heard that when your hair was back, you were going to deliver unpleasant news.

Really, Tom? Clinton said with pause as the audience laughed (and Friedman rejoined that he was just moderating at the forum as a human sacrifice).

There is a double standard, obviously," she said. "We have all either experienced it or at the very least seen it. And there is a deep set of cultural psychological views that are manifest through this double standard.

Clinton recalled that as a young lawyer she had read an advice column in an Arkansas newspaper advising male professionals to decorate their office with family pictures to show they were a responsible, reliable family man, while suggesting that women should not, because visitors would think you wont be able to concentrate on your work.

Some of those attitudes, we know, persist, Clinton said at the New York summit Thursday. And thats why it's important that we surface them, and why we talk about them, and help men and women recognize when they are crossing over from an individual judgment which were all prone to make and have a right to make about somebody, man or woman into a stereotype.

So yeah, she added, the double standard is alive and well, and I think, in many respects the media is principal propagator of its persistence. And I think the media needs to be more self-consciously aware of that.

Touching on now-familiar talking points that have helped her connect with millennials, and particularly young women, Clinton said she was still concerned about the disparate attitudes of young men and women toward professional advancement.

Too many young women are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant, said Clinton, who is weighing a run for the presidency in 2016. At this point in my life and career Ive employed so many young people and one of the differences is, whenever I would say to a young woman, I want you to do this. I want you to take on this extra responsibility. I want you to move up almost invariably they would say Do you think I can? or Do you think Im ready?

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Polling suggests that Hillary Clinton would win over 50 of the vote in 2016, more than her...

With a crushing dominance shown in repeated polls, Democrat Hillary Clinton is on a path to do something her husband and two-term president never achieved: win a majority of more than 50 percent of the presidential vote in 2016.

In the latest poll, Zogby Analytics confirmed the trend showing the former secretary of state, one-term New York senator and former first lady beating Sen. Rand Paul, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie by more than 50 percent.

Seizing a majority would give her substantial bragging rights over her husband, who won in 1992 with just 43 percent of the vote and re-election in 1996 with 49 percent. In each year, Bill Clinton and the Republican candidate lost votes to independent Ross Perot.

Aided by a huge gender gap, Clinton in the Zogby poll edges Bush 51 percent to 33 percent, beats Paul 53 percent to 32 percent and wins over Christie 52 percent to 29 percent.

She leads the Republicans among virtually all groups of voters, including younger Americans, men, white voters and independents. Shes even supported by 36 percent of evangelical voters.

Asked where she falls short, pollster John Zogby told Secrets that she loses Republicans, conservatives and evangelicals.

For today, Mrs. Clinton is riding a crest and the GOP candidates are under water, said Zogby, who also does the weekly Obama Report Card for Secrets. It posts every Saturday morning.

Some of the details from Zogby's latest polling:

In a race against former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Mrs. Clinton leads 51% to 33%, with 16% undecided. A close look at the poll's internals suggests that the former First Lady and U.S. Senator strongly holds on to the main elements of the Democratic base that propelled Barack Obama to victory twice. She leads 49% to 38% among men and 53% to 29% among women; she holds big leads among all voting groups under 65; she wins 87% support among Democrats and holds a 17-point lead among independents (45%-28%); has a 37 point lead with moderates (58%-21%) and almost clears the deck with liberals (87%-5%).

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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the twosome from Pussy Riot, just had their prison sentences waved aside by Russia. They have made appearances in the United States especially at the Women in the World Summit.

Their reputation is one of being punk rockers and extreme rebels with a cause. The charges against them consisted of stirring up religious animosity via their punk prayer.

But now those charges have been dropped and they are free. The anti-Putin chants the girls took part in, when they entered a church and began the whole inflammatory act got them into trouble with Russian law.

But Putin is a pretty clever guy. Instead of reacting to the whole situation, he decided to gain sympathy for the Sochi Olympics and so he gave them a pardon.

However, the laxity is for the religious hatred act and not for the hooliganism they caused. The hooliganism sentence may extend to seven years.

Meanwhile, the two met Hillary Clinton at the summit. Clinton took the opportunity to have her picture taken with them. She said that it was such a delight to meet two brave and strong girls who will not have their voices silenced in Russia.

The punk rockers are not fools and they can see through the cunning Putins ruse. He is just being good to them in order to better his atrocious image in the world community.

In an interview, the two girls spoke of how they were given such oppressive treatment at the hands of the repressive government forces in Russia. When we got released, we didnt have any illusions at all that Putins regime became more liberal, said Tolokonnikova.

They said that they wanted Russia to be a free country. And they also thanked the ordinary people who had always taken their side. Where would they have been without the support of these kindred souls?

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