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...Bhutto's proudest accomplishments was breaking through the "glass ceiling" as a woman in a Muslim society, she told The Crimson in 1998. Bhutto became the first female prime minister of Pakistan and of any Islamic country in 1988 at the age of 35, a position she would fill twice...
...laced with the fear that her death could throw the country into civil war. Some feel that even now, the general election scheduled for Jan. 8 should go ahead, as an essential first step in the political healing process. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who yesterday called Bhutto a "woman of immense personal courage and bravery," today announced that he had encouraged Pakistan's President Perez Musharraf to push ahead with the elections, as much as an act of defiance against terrorism as one of democracy. "This was a cowardly terrorist act designed to destabilize democratic elections ... I therefore encouraged...
...woman who chose to fight her battle until the end with a single weapon - the one of dialogue and political debate." Italian Premier ROMANO PRODI...
...contrasts that she embodied. She tended to wear blue jeans and baggy sweatshirts, fitting in with the dress code of the day, but she told me she dressed that way (never shorts, skirts, or t-shirts) also because it honored the Muslim custom of covering her body as a woman. Another contrast was between her nickname Pinky - she even typed some of her essays on pink paper - and her serious personality...
...those days. Later at Oxford, where we both ended up as grad students, she became even more intensely political. The summit of student politics there is the presidency of the Oxford Union, the venerable debating society, and she viewed it as her mission to become the first Asian woman in that post. She lost her first campaign for the post, but in early 1977, just before her father was deposed, she won the job on her second...