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...lived, Benazir Bhutto would probably have been her country's Prime Minister for an unprecedented third time - but she was a divisive figure despite that. To her friends and intimates, she will always be remembered by her nickname, Pinky. To millions of supporters, she was the inheritor of her father's political legacy and his Pakistan People's Party. To millions of others, she was a brazen opportunist - a onetime idealist warped by ambition. Bhutto's posthumous memoir, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, will do little to change those ingrained opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Divided | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...bombing of her homecoming rally in Karachi, at which some 150 died, are inserted almost randomly into otherwise fluid prose that appears to have been written long before. The ubiquitous references to terrorism, however, underscore an important point. As a Muslim, a political leader and later a victim, Bhutto was uniquely poised to present an impassioned argument: namely, that the war we should all be worrying about is not that between Islam and the West, but between moderate and fundamentalist Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Divided | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...white sales on the Washington's Day holiday; now we have blood-red fantasies of the killing of a fictional Chief Executive, told in a faux-real style that summons old memories of Nov. 22, 1963, and a more recent nightmare snapshot, from last Dec. 27, of Benazir Bhutto felled by bullets and bombs. Oh, it's nothing personal, current office holders. Not even political. It's just business - the movie business. If there's anything a mogul loves, on the screen and in the box office cash register, it's dead Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vantage Point: Assassination Fun | 2/23/2008 | See Source »

...time, though, and its first business is far more likely to be in Islamabad than in the lawless mountainous areas where al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are based. If the coalition plan announced Thursday by leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is implemented, there is even a chance Musharraf will be impeached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's Loss: Trouble for U.S. | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...former top CIA and NSC South Asia analyst. "If you get a credible government," says Riedel, "it'll be better positioned to move against al-Qaeda. All the atrocities that al-Qaeda has been conducting in Pakistan in the last several months, these bombings and the murder of Bhutto, could produce the kind of backlash that Pakistan could use against al-Qaeda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's Loss: Trouble for U.S. | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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