Table of Contents - 16 Aug 2008

• COVER STORY: Solzhenitsyn, towering 20th-century prophet (John Ballantyne)
• EDITORIAL: Australia's faltering economy: a way out (Peter Westmore)
• CANBERRA OBSERVED: Does Peter Costello have what it takes?
• BANKING: Bendigo Bank praised by Reserve Bank governor (Ken Aldred)
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Why the Doha trade round collapsed (Colin Teese)
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Plum postings for Australia's new aristocracy (Warren Reid)
• RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM: Animal rights fanatics threatening our exports (John Morrissey)
• INTERNET: ISP-level porn filtering moves a step closer (Peter Westmore)
• STRAWS IN THE WIND: Musical chairs (Max Teichmann)
• EDUCATION: An education system worth fighting for (Kevin Donnelly)
• WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Opportunities for minor parties in WA election (Gerard Goiran)
• UNITED KINGDOM: London transport bomb plot trial collapses (John Miller)
• SPECIAL FEATURE: 1968 Prague Spring remembered (Jan Lidicky)
• CINEMA: The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger's 'creepy and mesmerising' finale (Siobhan Reeves (reviewer))
• BOOKS: A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO MUSIC HISTORY, by R.J. Stove (Mark Freer (reviewer))
• BOOKS: THE GREAT ARAB CONQUESTS: How the spread of Islam changed the world we live in, by Hugh Kennedy (Jeffry Babb (reviewer))
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