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...time is a series of dates, six weeks apart, chalked on the door of each house. Parwanna Begum steps from behind one of those doors and adds today's date to the list, followed by a fraction: 2/3. Out of three children under the age of five in the household, Begum, a local health worker, has vaccinated two against polio. The third is out playing. Begum will have to come back tomorrow, because one child missed in the nationwide vaccination campaign means a hole in the net the world is trying to throw over the crippling disease...
That may elicit groans from the stadium seats, but it probably gets sustained applause in the Knightley household. Knightley portrays her parents--playwright Sharman Macdonald and stage actor Will Knightley--as the noblest and humblest of theater folks. One of her favorite stories about how they suffered for their art has to do with her conception: "I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream...
Beijing: Fang Shan Restaurant Opened in 1925 by chefs who used to work in the Imperial household, this legendary restaurant doesn't do things by halves. Its Man Han Banquet features 134 hot dishes and 48 cold ones, plus a vast array of desserts, for $180 a head. You'll have to allow several days to work through it all, of course...
...Many royal watchers interpreted Naruhito's comments in May as a play to loosen the household agency's grip on his family's affairs?and see last week's "clarification," although the agency denies it, as a punishment by a displeased bureaucracy that has no intention of changing its ways...
...Such strains, along with what some Japanese media see as pressure to produce a male heir to the throne from those in the household agency who see that as her only real function, seem to have pushed the princess to the breaking point. After suffering a bout of stress-induced shingles this winter, Masako has lived in virtual seclusion. It's widely assumed that Naruhito and Masako would prefer to live like many modern European monarchs: basically as regular citizens but with nicer houses, cool crowns and invitations to all the best parties. And opinion polls indicate that most Japanese...