JOINs in FROM...

I've been trying to use the JOIN syntax in the FROM clause instead of burying all the joins in the WHERE. (Does postgres actually support outer joins now? the user manual seems to imply it does, which version do I need as a minimum?) The resulting query is much simpler than my old UNION SELECT
cascade, but I must have done something wrong because I get a parse error.

Here's the query and the error.(formatted for monotype)
SELECT ldr.peopleid, ldr.firstname, ldr.lastname, ldr.name,
flw.peopleid, flw.firstname, flw.lastname, flw.name
FROM (people LEFT JOIN organizatios ON organization=orgid) AS ldr,
(poeple LEFT JOIN organizatios ON organization=orgid) AS flw,
couples
WHERE ldr.peopleid=leader and flw.peopleid=follower
ORDER BY ldr.lastname, ldr.firstname, flw.lastname, flw.firstname;
Warning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ","

1) What is the problem with my query?
2) Is there any good way to move the last two joins into the FROM?

Thanks
Eric

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