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Edition: South Pacific
Edition: South Pacific
No. 8
COVER
Guess Who Came to Dinner?
(Profile)
A visit from George Clooney, home handyman and the last true movie star
UNITED STATES
A Fight for the Texas Democrats
(Campaign '08)
For the first time in memory, Lone Star liberals will cast a crucial vote in a national race. Inside the Democratic challengers' battle to win blue votes in a red state
ASIA
A Matter Of Faith
Pakistan's election was a fight for democracy and a referendum on a dictator. But the true battle is over the nation's Islamic soul
The Short March
In a migration dwarfing that of America after 1945, millions of newly affluent Chinese are moving to the vast suburbs rising on the fringes of the country's megacities. This is the story of one family's new home — and how the exodus will shake the world
WORLD
Cuba's Chance
With Fidel Castro finally fading from the scene, his brother and heir Raúl has a golden opportunity to take the country on a new path to freedom. The U.S. can help if it is prepared to break some shackles of its own
GLOBAL BUSINESS
The Complex Task of Simplicity
(Corporate Strategy)
Dutch electronics giant Philips wants to make itself easier to manage
ARTS
Becoming Ms. Big
(Television)
White House, schmite house. TV examines how women handle power in the world of Big Biz
LETTERS
Inbox

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Photos: Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex
Pictures of the Week
Short List: TIME's Weekly Critics' Picks
Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel
Photos: Peru's Sacred Glacier Is Melting
New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending