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Rices interest in many things accounts for well-rounded nature. She loves the piano, ice-skating and Russia but few might not know that she also has a passion for football. Her claims that her appreciation for football helped her while she served as National Security Advisor. Elisabeth Bumiller writes that Rice was so well-educated about football that she would compare the strategy of football to that of war in that its all about taking territory (Rice qtd. in Bumiller 71). While one might not think football and politics bear much in common, Rice might beg to differ. Rice selected Notre Dame as a graduate school and one of the reasons Felix believes she decided to attend this university was because of its political science program. There Rice could take part in one of the countrys top Soviet study centers (Felix 89). David Brinkley states the Rice excelled at Notre Dame partially because she was a self-driven student (Felix 92). Brinkley also notes that Rice picked up Russian so easily simply because she had knack (92) for it. At Notre Dame, Rice did far more independent study work than any of the other students in the program (Felix 93). In 1980,

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