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...Beatrix Potter Award for Impressive, if Childish, Illustration
...Livesey currently lives in Mather House with his wife Joanna Stephens, a semi-professional actress who will appear in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Bodas de Sangre,” and their two daughters Beatrix and Frankie...
...story of Beatrix Potter, she of Peter Rabbit and dozens of other much loved children's books. When we meet her, she is a superannuated virgin, living with her well-to-do parents, writing about her "friends," the woodland creatures. She claims to talk to them, which may account for some of the twitchiness that occasionally mars Rene Zellweger's performance in the title role. Potter, however, is made of willful stuff. She finds a publisher (Ewan McGregor) for her books, falls in love with him, achieves best-sellerdom and, in this telling of her life, status...
...very partial to the traditional Dutch raw herring." Her other great passions in life are soccer - she's an ardent fan of the Amsterdam club Ajax - and royalty. She says one of the highlights of her life came in 2001, when she was invited to tea with Queen Beatrix. "I considered it a great honor," Van Andel-Schipper told the Courant. "She was really nice. I let her ask the questions. I thought that would be best." Although her sight is failing and she's become a little wobbly on her feet, the former needlework instructor remains mentally alert...
...right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians in April 2001 by jettisoning all distinctions between gay partnerships and traditional marriages. "In the Netherlands, we don't have gay marriage," says Henk Krol, an activist who was knighted by Queen Beatrix for his advocacy of gay rights. "We only have one marriage, civil, open to any couple." Opinion polls attest to a growing acceptance of gay marriage - one recent poll (commissioned by Elle) in France found 64% of those questioned favored it. But for the Roman Catholic Church, it amounts to an abomination...