Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story (18 page)

Condi skating at age thirteen in Denver, Colorado, 1967. Condi’s parents spent several summers taking graduate school courses at the University of Denver, and while they were in class during the day, Condi practiced figure skating. She once referred to her lessons on the rink as “high-priced child care.” The Rices moved to Denver permanently in 1969.
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Condi, age seventeen, with her mother, Angelena, and father, John Wesley Rice III, on the day Condi was named Outstanding Junior Woman at the University of Denver, 1972.
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Two undergraduate portraits taken at the University of Denver.
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Condi’s father in a public speaking engagement at the University of Denver. John Rice was a lecturer as well as an administrator during his career at the university, teaching courses in black studies and serving as an associate dean, vice chancellor, and in other posts.
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Josef Korbel, University of Denver professor, father of Madeleine Albright, and Condi’s mentor in Russian and Soviet studies. Condi remembers him as one of the most important people in her life.
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At Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies with Dean Edward Thomas Rowe (left), and university Chancellor Dan Ritchie (right).
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Guest commencement speaker at the University of Notre Dame, where she received her master’s degree in government in 1975.
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Assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, age twenty-six.
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Professor Rice teaching at Stanford, May 1993, at thirty-nine.
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Provost of Stanford, 1995, enjoying a return to the classroom to discuss the fall of communism.
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Working out in the strength training room at Stanford. Exercise is a high priority in Condi’s life, and she keeps a rigorous daily workout schedule. “I put her through the same regimes I did with any athlete at Stanford,” said Stanford trainer Mark Mateska.
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On George W. Bush’s campaign trail in October 2000 with Laura Bush (left) and Barbara Bush (center) to support the “W is for Women” push.
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