Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister assasinated by a murderous suicide attacker this morning, held tangential ties to a politically prominent woman here in Maryland: former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
Kennedy Townsend and Bhutto were both contemporaries at Harvard University in the early 1970s, and both the daughters of great political fortune and tragedy.
In a 1998 Crimson article, Bhutto described how she later came to identify with Kennedy Townsend when her own father was executed in 1979.