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...British-born Yale University historian Paul Kennedy became a mass-market commodity with the publication of his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1987, a cross-century, cross-cultural study of the vital link between economic and military power. So what if Kennedy -- never a popularizer -- force-fed readers far more about the Habsburg Empire than most of them ever wanted to know? What mattered was that his thesis (a debt-ridden U.S. was fast running the risk of "imperial overstretch") perfectly captured the edgy mood of the late Reagan years, as opinion leaders began to brood...
...British-born Hooley, 35, has researched the effect that family relationships have on the recovery of patients with mental illness, according to Kagan...
...British-born pop star, who now calls himself Yusuf Islam, has been allowed to set up a "peace camp" for British Muslims behind the Iraqi lines and has appeared on Iraqi television...
FEAST OF FOOLS. Clowning through the centuries, British-born Geoff Hoyle is by turns a medieval jester, a fly-eating Arlecchino and two dueling waiters. | Imaginative and skillful physically, if a bit labored verbally, Hoyle peaks in an inspired bit of off-Broadway lunacy proving that, when it comes to dancing, three legs are better than...
...describing the dogfights above him in the Battle of Britain. Hurricanes, though less glamorous than the legendary Spitfires, took more punishment and could be patched up and sent back into battle quicker. "I'm an Anglophile," shrugs Dave Peterson, 39, who is directing the Hurricane's restoration. Peterson's British-born mother watched the great air battle and passed on her stories. "Hurricanes were the underdogs," says Peterson. "They stopped the Germans. I like that...