As much as we don't know what the future will bring, looking at one's past can help you take your next steps, which might even become a new pathway. This is true for Arianna Huffington, a high-profile commentator in the internet age.

Once you know that she is the daughter of a newspaper publisher in Greece, it seems perfectly reasonable that she would go on to study in England and become the first foreign-born president of the highly respected Cambridge Union, a debating society.