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...privileged background. The eldest son of a policeman, Tsang joined the civil service?Hong Kong's iron rice bowl?soon after high school. His diligence and loyalty pleased his British masters, who sent him to Harvard to get a master's in public administration and granted him a knighthood. Tsang acted as a crucial bridge during Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997, and fought off currency speculators during the Asian financial crisis, postcolonial Hong Kong's first big challenge...
BILL GATES, Microsoft founder, at a London press conference before accepting an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth...
...wife Ethel (their daughter Leonora died in 1944) as he ground out yet more tales of his fantasy world. Increasingly, as modern life coarsened and Cold War anxieties deepened, people decided they liked his world better than theirs. His countrymen eventually forgave his wartime indiscretions. He was granted a knighthood six weeks before he died. Today the Oxford English Dictionary contains 1,600 Wodehouse citations, and scholars dissect his writings for a depth that isn't really there. What is there, as fans can attest, is a timeless, effervescent cocktail of comic juxtapositions, smoothly musical prose and exuberant generosity. "Behind...
...forgotten how it feels to be a novice. Unsurprisingly for a man who answers questions with earnest soliloquies befitting a drama professor, he enjoys teaching. He gives several master classes a year and says that, even in interviews, "young actors are the ones I'm talking to." His 2001 knighthood only intensified his desire to help the next generation: "If my country is going to honor me with the title 'Sir,' I'm going to have to give back." His most recent student: Jonathan Ahdout, 14, who plays Behrani's son and found Kingsley an eager mentor...
...they "are most often biological mothers of the victims ... welcome medical tests that are painful to the child ... and appear to be very knowledgeable about the victim's illness." Such parents seem loving, yet enjoy the attention generated by their child's alleged illness. Meadow, now 70, earned a knighthood for his pioneering work, became the leading authority in the field and has been an expert witness in scores of cases involving allegations of child abuse through factitious illness by proxy. But now Meadow is under attack. Two high-profile criminal trials in which he was a witness have recently...