US SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice has become the most popular member of the Bush administration and a potential candidate to succeed her boss in the White House.

WHAT does it take to create havoc in the capital of the most powerful country in the world? Anthrax? An orange terror alert? Massive anti-war protests? Another day like September 11, 2001? These days, it’s a disgruntled farmer in a tractor.