Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most of the world, Benazir Bhutto '73 is known as the prime minister of Pakistan and the first woman in modern history to lead a Muslim nation...
...until Bhutto left Harvard for graduate study at Oxford University that she really took on a leadership role. And as the first Muslim woman president of the Oxford Union--the University's prestigious debating society--she refined those political skills...
...woman who took enormous risks--she could have led a very leisurely life or followed a very pedestrian career," says Mahnaz Z. Ispahani, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and expert in Pakistani affairs. "Instead she chose a very difficult path, in a very difficult time, in a very difficult country...
...government thus far has been a fragile one, with serious opposition from a powerful army, from conservative religious groups who challenge her right as a woman to rule and from opposition political parties, which in recent months have grown in strength...
...member called "the tyranny of consensus." Harvard, they said, did not encourage dissent, but rather tried, behind-the-scenes, to dissuade the dissenters. Success for these outsiders was measured in small victories--the promotion of a junior faculty member, the election of a progressive overseer, the hiring of a woman or a minority...