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Forecasting the Fall of an Empire square an impatient work force andArtist 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