Diva of Courage ...And Corruption ; Bhutto, Exotic Oxford Student Who Became a Political Giant

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SHE was glamorous, clever and undeniably brave, though to her many critics she was also 'the diva of corruption'.

As a jet-setting, Western-educated woman and a democrat, Benazir Bhutto was certainly an affront to the radical Islamists who prefer bombs to ballot boxes. But there were other powerful enemies too.

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Diva of Courage ...And Corruption ; Bhutto, Exotic Oxford Student Who Became a Political Giant

And yesterday the former prime minister of Pakistan paid the ultimate price for pursuing her family's already bloodsoaked political ambitions.

The clocks of her alma mater, Oxford University, where she once threw the best parties and drove a yellow MG, had just struck a quarter past one when Miss Bhutto succumbed to her injuries in a Rawalpindi hospital.

With her, for the time be...

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