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University officials say Dr. Rice is working out of the Hoover Institution.
She will not be teaching right away but plans to work on a memoir, due out in two years.
Rice was a Stanford provost for eight years. She stepped down to become President George W. Bush's National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State.
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