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“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” Bucking the mainstream of sympathy for Benazir Bhutto, I’m more inclined to nominate her for a Darwin Award. How often I have wondered at the seeming cupidity of the rich and powerful, and the actions of Bhutto only deepen my sense of wonder about such things. The pope now appears in a “Popemobile,” and with things like JFK one would think anyone of prominence would know they are at risk, especially when they have powerful enemies. And in Bhutto’s case, she must have known as a woman trying for power against fanatical Muslims she was at enormous risk apart from any political considerations. But we are as unlikely to learn the truth of her assassination as we are about JFK or 9/11. Where power and wealth are concerned, the “truth” is often what the rich and powerful want it to be. And while we fully expect a nation like Pakistan with such corrupt leadership to lie as a matter of course,...

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