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...They are the only force capable of taking on the country's landowners and their military cousins. That is why, in recent elections, the Islamists have hugely increased their share of the vote and why they now control much of the west of the country. Benazir Bhutto was a brave, gutsy, secular and liberal woman. But she was a central part of Pakistan's problems, not a solution to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martyr Without a Cause | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...Benazir was certainly not a perfect political leader, but she sure was a brave one,” Fadiman said. “I think that she knew when she went back this time that there was a real chance she would be assassinated, but she went anyway...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Fondly Recall Bhutto | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...Benazir was certainly not a perfect political leader, but she sure was a brave one," Fadiman said. "I think that she knew when she went back this time that there was a real chance she would be assassinated, but she went anyway...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classmates Remember Strong-Willed and Patriotic Bhutto | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...Taliban leader and an influential tribal chief in Waziristan, a restive Pakistani province on the Afghan border. Pakistani intelligence services intercepted a supposed conversation in which Mehsud congratulated those who carried out the assassination. "Fantastic job," reads the transcript released by the Pakistan Ministry of Interior, "[They were] very brave boys who killed her." But a spokesman for Mehsud told the Associated Press on Saturday that the militant was not involved in the attack, calling the allegation "government propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bhutto's Jihadist Enemies | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...their lives. I don't know if that is a pure or an impure fiction, but it does not strike me as an entirely implausible sequence. I don't know if the composition of Tolson's team, as portrayed here, is entirely accurate either, since it carefully includes a brave and pretty woman (Jurnee Smollett) and a troubled, studly male (Nate Parker) for her to fall in love with. But it is true that the juvenile on the team (Denzel Whitaker) really was, as the film states, James T. Farmer, who grew up to be the founder of CORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Debaters' Gratifying Clichés | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

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