The Bowl Is Already BrokenPromise Whittaker, the diminutive but decisive acting director of the Museum of Asian Art, is pregnant again and that's just the beginning of her problems. Her mentor, the previous director, has suddenly quit, and is on a dig in China's Taklamakan Desert. Her favorite curator has dropped a priceless porcelain bowl, once owned by Thomas Jefferson, down the museum's steps. Another colleague has been embezzling from the museum to pay for her fertility