Arianna Huffington: Benazir Bhutto: From the Oxford Union to her Last Rally in Rawalpindi

Arianna Huffington: Benazir Bhutto: From the Oxford Union to her Last Rally in Rawalpindi

Excerpt:
"The world is debating the political fallout from Benazir Bhutto's assassination -- from fear of chaos in Pakistan to the impact of her death in Iowa. But I want to write about the young woman I met in England before she became a player on the world stage. She was at Oxford. I was at Cambridge. And by a strange coincidence I became president of the Cambridge Union and she became president of the Oxford Union. The anomaly of two foreign women heading the two unions meant that we ended up debating each other around England. And in the years that followed, I saw her at the height of her power as the first prime minister in the Muslim world, and at her lowest moment -- in exile, her husband in jail, separated from her children. And through it all she radiated an unmistakable fearlessness and grace."
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