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296 THAT DAY WITH DIANA To accompany never-beforeseen images from his new exhibition and book, Diana, Princess of Wales by Mario Testino at Kensington Palace, the photographer recalls the way he got Diana to reveal her true beauty—and have a little fun too—at their iconic V.F. shoot, just months before her death.

304 "60 MINUTESIS GOING DOWN!" 60 Minutes IPs expose of George W. Bush's National Guard service was discredited as unfounded. But in an excerpt from her new book, the producer, Mary Mapes, argues that bloggers, attack politics, and corporate damage control buried a valid story, along with her career. Photograph by Jonas Karlsson.

310 THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED Is Kate Moss an out-of-control party animal or a hardworking single mother and style icon? Parsing the uproar that followed tabloid photos of Moss doing cocaine, Vicky Ward talks to Moss's friends and other fashion insiders about the 31-year-old British model's delicate balance. Photographs by Craig McDean.

318 AFRICA IN THEIR EYES Todd Eberle and Ingrid Sischy spotlight Jean Pigozzi's Smithsonian-bound collection of contemporary African art.

320 RECONSTRUCTING WOODY Through scandal, legal battles, and critical censure, Woody Allen keeps adding to an extraordinary film legacy. In his first exhaustive interview in years, Allen tells Peter Biskind about his love life, chasing the money to London while protecting his independence, and Match Point, the movie that could bring box-office redemption. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz.

328 MONDO DOLCE Todd Eberle snaps designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana on their yacht, as they celebrate two decades of their Mediterranean fashion odyssey.

332 ARIANNA CALLING! Whether she's running for governor of California or launching a new Web site, Arianna Huffington is impossible to ignore. Suzanna Andrews profiles a born provocateur. Photographs by Art Streiber.

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336 CHARLES AND CAMILLA, TOGETHER AT LAST Camilla Parker Bowles vowed she'd never give an interview, but the newly married Duchess of Cornwall let Bob Colacello speak to her family and friends, and shadow her and Prince Charles on their official rounds. The result: unprecedented access to a 34-year mystery.

F A N F A I R

143 31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE Mountain high—Slim Aarons snaps Aspen. Kristina Stewart Ward's social calendar. Elissa Schappell's Hot Type. A. M. Homes on Brokeback Mountain; Aaron Gell on Mrs. Henderson Presents; the holidays' top films. Victoria Mather travels well. Richard Merkin tests Wynton Marsalis's Jazz ABZ; Art Streiber backstage at the Oscars; MoMA's Pixar exhibition. Louise Rafkin spotlights Surf Movie Tonite!; online museums; Nick Tosches spins the Atomic Platters boxed set. Punch Hutton selects the season's finest gifts. Daniel Kunitz visits Todd Eberle's SFMoMA exhibition; Jessica Flint on how cargo crates stack up; Steven Daly flips through Jamaica's First magazine. The best beauty packages; Emily Poenisch on L'Occitane founder Olivier Bausson.

COLUMNS

172 LET THEM EAT PORK RINDS In Barbara Bush's opinion, evacuation to the Houston Astrodome was "working very well" for the "underprivileged" victims of Hurricane Katrina. In Christopher Hitchens's opinion, that's just the sort of "tumbril remark" that precedes a revolution.

180 KILL PBS? OVER MY DEAD VOLVO! The latest strategy in the right's long vendetta against public broadcasting is to attack PBS's "balance"—and to do it from within the organization. James Wolcott wonders how long before "Viewers Like You" get turned off.

192 SURVIVING THE DARKNESS In unexpectedly high spirits as he enters his ninth decade, Dominick Dunne also mourns another family death and recalls his intense history with Truman Capote.

198 PREPARED FOR THE WORST The early days of a political takedown have a fevered intensity all their own. Michael Wolff taps the Rovegate hotline, with its rumors of White House indictments to come, to assess how big this scandal will be. (Big!)

202 THE MASTER IN THE MIRROR Todd Eberle and Ingrid Sischy spotlight art legend Robert Rauschenberg, whose most daring decade is going on tour.

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204 AMERICAN RAPTURE Best-selling author and evangelical leader Tim LaHaye has contacts that extend to the White House. That could spell trouble, Craig Unger discovers, since his theology espouses a bloody apocalypse in Israel.

224 THEY'LL ALWAYS HAVE SAIGON Jonas Karlsson and William Prochnau spotlight a 30th-anniversary reunion of Vietnam War reporters and photographers.

226 THE GOLDSMITH STANDARD London "It couple" Ben Goldsmith and his wife, Kate Rothschild, have invested their passion in the Drones Club. Tamasin Day-Lewis reports on their smart bet. Photographs by Chris Craymer.

238 MOUNTAIN GIRL Peggy Sirota and Carolyn Bielfeldt spotlight Brokeback Mountains Michelle Williams.

240 THE WAR WITHIN THE WAR Jonathan Foreman embeds with the U.S. Army's Third Infantry Division as they fight to turn raw Iraqi recruits into soldiers. Photographs by Thomas Dworzak.

266 FIVE LITTLE WORDS Jim Windolf explains why a 13th-century tautology is suddenly on everyone's lips.

270 THE PLOT AGAINST SUGAR In an excerpt from his new book, Sweet and Low, Rich Cohen spins the distinctly unsaccharine narrative of his middle-class Brooklyn family's artificial-sweetener odyssey.

VANITIES

285 MOSELEY ON DOWN Ed Coaster gets real. Andrew Hearst presents tomorrow's magazines. George Wayne cross-examines Nancy Grace. Bruce Feirstein digs up a White House employee-satisfaction survey. Jim Windolf on Oprah's Book Club. Henry Alford's Common Grounds; Nell Scovell hears rich people complain.

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102 EDITOR'S LETTER

104 CONTRIBUTORS

122 LETTERS A Writer's Life

170 PLANETARIUM Possessed Sagittarians

368 CREDITS

370 PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE Maureen Dowd

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