How far can you stretch Pages?

I was just recently commissioned to design and layout a 48 page quarterly magazine. I'm an experienced designer and my first inclination was to use Adobe InDesign. I own iWork, but have thus far left it untouched.
Are there any Pages pros around here? If so:
1. Do you think Pages would be capable of producing a quality 48-page publication? That is, something on par with InDesign?
2. I realize that it is designed to be easy-to-use. Is it - like many other iApps - capable of being pushed beyond that ease of use? How much creative freedom does it allow?
Thanks in advance for any feedback!

I've used InDesign and Word much less in the last two years than I had in the past and but there are two reasons why I wouldn't embark on your project with Pages: 1) 48 pages and 2) you say you've left Pages untouched this far. What I'd recommend instead is that having created the document in InDesign, at some point you recreate at least part of it with Pages.
Having picked up iWork '05 and spent a weekend playing with it, I decided to recreate a tri-fold brochure I'd already done in InDesign. It was a breeze and when I dropped by the print shop to see how it printed I was quite pleased. Of course the shop didn't have Pages but I gave them my PDF output. I'd been putting off redesigning the monthly tech newsletter and emboldened by the brochure experiment, I grabbed Pages and did the redesign. I've been using Pages for that newsletter and another I write.
However, every summer I do the local county fair's yearbook and my temple's yearbook. I didn't even think about doing them in Pages. It all boils down to control for me. Pages is sort of a neither this nor that kind of creature and one of my frustrations has always been the inability to grab objects conveniently. Layers is another frustration. Further, while I've never had any speed issues with Pages, I never doubted that others did and I felt certain that at some point, with a complex document I'd begin to find it.

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