CONDOLEEZZA RICE, DIPLOMAT, ACADEMIC, MUSICIAN

In 2010, Time magazine named Condoleezza Rice among the 100 people who are most influencing the world. When asked about the greatest learning moment of her life, she told the magazine that it was her effort to become a competitive figure skater. “I learned how to work very hard at something, not successfully, and still get up and keep trying,” she says. “For me that was more important than doing things that I did well.”

As most people know, Rice was a figure in the George H. W. Bush administration. After a stint back at Stanford University, she became the first woman national security advisor under President George W. Bush, and then, the second woman secretary of state after Madeleine Albright. ...

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