Forecasting the Fall of an Empire Frame Color:Unframed These skaters were their own

These skaters were their own silent partners on a wintery afternoon

Your 'friends' will disappoint you

Wise has made from it

replacing them with "more firm logical substance

Forecasting the Fall of an Empire Frame Color:Unframed These skaters were their ownArtist Tucker Nichols pokes fun at erstwhile predictions of empires collapsing with this illustration published with The Times Opinion article, Like Rome Before the Fall? Not Yet, February 24, 2010. The article was written by Piers Brendon, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. All too often, however, students of the past succumb to the temptation to foretell the future, wrote Brendon in The Times. The past is a map, not a compass. It