Wow! I understand the good and the bad go in an obit but this is absurd and mostly opinion, attributed to no one.

And this graf, clearly needed to be near the top:

A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, she brought the backing of Washington and London, where she impressed with her political lineage and her considerable charm. She also became the first female leader of a Muslim nation when she became prime minister in 1988 at the age of 35.

It is graf 7 instead. Ms. Bhuttto clearly had enemies in the NYTimes. Compare the obituary of Zia ul Haq, who overturned the democratically elected government of Benazir Bhutto's father:

August 18, 1988 Mohammad Zia ul-Haq: Unbending Commander for Era of Atom and Islam

By DENNIS HEVESI

Mohammad Zia ul-Haq constantly promised democracy without ever really giving it during the 11 years he ruled Pakistan.

General Zia, who took power in a coup as his fractious nation deteriorated into fierce rioting, later refused to stop the execution of the man he overthrew, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, despite protests from leaders around the world.

He developed Pakistan's nuclear capability against the strong complaints of Washington, but overall was a cooperative ally of the Reagan Administration in its successful efforts to force the Soviet Union to withdraw its 115,000 troops from neighboring Afghanistan, where Moscow was helping the Kabul Government fight a civil war against American-backed rebels.

. . . ''With the help of the Almighty Allah, the armed forces will do everything we can to insure stability,'' he said shortly after the coup on July 5, 1977. ''I genuinely feel that the survival of this country lies in democracy and democracy alone.''

'A Reluctant Ruler' Who Imprisoned Many

President Zia, 64 years old, was a devout Moslem who tried to unify his nation of 102 million people under the banner of Islamization and played the precarious balances of international power politics with a certain finesse. But he never kept many of his promises, perhaps because he placed his own political survival above democratization.

President Zia presented himself as a humble man, and stories of his per-sonal touch were common. According to one account, he once stopped his official car and ordered his driver to take the victim of a road accident to a hospital. The next day, he visited the man. In the early days of his rule, he rode a bicycle in public to poularize it as a cheap mode of transportation.

He was, in fact, a man of simple tastes. In accordance with his Moslem beliefs, he did not drink alcohol and his only indulgence appeared to be British cigarettes. His walls were covered with embroidered verses from the Koran.

He was in fact, the grandfather of the Taliban and Al Qaida. But leave that aside, the style of the two obituaries could not be more different.

What explains this?