29 August 2005

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Cover story

President Hillary: can she do it?

She's still insisting she won't run in 2008, but she will, writes Andrew Stephen. She is rapidly positioning herself to be the next Democratic presidential candidate. And, with a little help from her new friend Rupert Murdoch, she will win

Features

The people's peacemaker

In Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam reached parts of the population most politicians simply never get near. Because of her, the divisions are more soluble than they used to be

What we don't know about drinking

Is there a connection between binge drinking, alcohol-related illness and the licensing hours? No one really knows, writes Barbara Gunnell, and that includes the government

Dancing to his tune

Ariel Dorfman grew up believing Einstein was famous for music, not physics. A mistake? Not quite, he writes

Bugging broadband

How vulnerable is your PC? As millions of us rush to embrace broadband, Britain is becoming the computer virus centre of the world. Charles Arthur explains

Regulars

For Iraq, talk is the only way

Darcus Howe wants a public enemy

Let us not make demons of those arguing the de Menezes case

Michael Portillo - With the gods

Opera - A hyper-elaborate cycle stays true to Wagner's intentions, writes Michael Portillo Der Ring des Nibelungen Seattle Opera House

Competition

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Culture

An own goal

Why is America immune to the charms of soccer? Perhaps because Hollywood has never paid it any attention. Now, it looks like Tinseltown has been bribed to do something about it. Boyd Farrow investigates footie's arrival at the flicks

The magic mountain

Art in Germany - Minotaurs and drag queens are attempting to save the old Ossie parliament building. Sebastian Harcombe joins them

Halcyon days

British impressionism - Have we ever matched Monet? Simon Poe revisits our own charming painters

Mark Kermode - On the road again

Film - Two lame-brained hill-billies make an unwelcome return, writes Mark Kermode The Dukes of Hazzard (12A) The Mighty Celt (12A) The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (U)

Zoe Williams - Child's play

Television - Eight hapless dads-to-be allow themselves to be patronised. By Zoe Williams He's Having a Baby (BBC1)

The fan - Hunter Davies prices the Chelsea bench

By the end of this season, Arsene will look like Auden's love child

Books

Out of shot

Frontline: the true story of the British mavericks who changed the face of war reporting David Loyn Michael Joseph, 458pp, £20 ISBN 0718147278

Fiction - Hocus-pocus

Specimen Days Michael Cunningham Fourth Estate, 308pp, £14.99 ISBN 0007156057

People power

Wild Grass: China's revolution from below Ian Johnson Penguin, 324pp, £8.99 ISBN 0141021551

On the edge

Liquid Assets: the lidos and open air swimming pools of Britain Janet Smith English Heritage, 188pp, £14.99 ISBN 0954744500

Fiction - Fockn' funny

Winkler Giles Coren Jonathan Cape, 312pp, £16.99 ISBN 0224074997

Observations

The strange fate of Flight ZU522

Observations on crash

A tale of two nephews

Observations on debt

I was an Edexcel marker

Observations on exams

Hello, I'm here and you're there

Observations on postcards

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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