World Affairs: North America
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Lights! Camera! Fiction!
- By Chris Weitz
- 08 May
A hundred years ago the job of screenwriter didn't exist in the early film business; today the script is the keystone of all movie production. The Hollywood screenwriter and director Chris Weitz reviews a history of the trade
A murky outcome
- By Andrew Stephen
- 07 May
After the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, the Democrats are increasingly backed into a corner, writes US editor Andrew Stephen
The way I see it: Adam Green
- 01 May
Green is a singer-songwriter from New York, best known as one half of the group the Moldy Peaches, whose music featured on the soundtrack to the film “Juno”. His solo album “Sixes and Sevens” is out now on Rough Trade records.
Obama's pastor 'juvenile'
- By Ian Reuben
- 30 April
Leading UK clergyman Joel Edwards has attacked Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright over his controversial views
Iraq dossier - watchdog ruling
- By Chris Ames
- 24 April
The government is attacked as "dodgy" after a ruling that criticises the way in which author of the September 2002 Iraq dossier has effectively been allowed anonymity
And the winner is: the lawyers
- By Andrew Stephen
- 24 April
Clinton's victory in Pennsylvania points the way to a farcical legal finale to the Democratic race
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