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...TIME's reporting on the manhunt for and arrest of London's suspected suicide bombers [Aug. 8]: I am a British Asian who has lived in the U.K. for most of my life. I am as proud of this country and its value system as any native-born Briton. Recently, for the first time, I have felt like a stranger in my own country. It will be a long time before I can take a rucksack or other bag on the tube without being looked at suspiciously by fellow passengers and the police, and I do not blame them...
...Numbers 6 hr. 13 min. Time it took Hilary Lister, a 33-year-old Briton paralyzed below the neck, to sail across the English Channel, sucking and blowing into straws to steer the vessel...
...strong British military presence helps the U.S. keep its distance. Some 1,000 British officers and men serve in the Omani armed forces on contract. Until last year, a Briton was commander of the army; British expatriates still run Oman's navy and air force. When Qaboos faced a Communist insurgency in the south in 1974, British troops helped to suppress...
...fashioned is precisely the description that the avant-garde would attach to Briton David Pownall's Pride and Prejudice, being given its U.S. premiere in a meticulous production by Kenneth Frankel at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Shrewdly and wittily adapted from Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel, Pownall's tale has a beginning, middle and end. Its intrigues of love, marriage and social climbing unfold in period costume on representational sets. The characters are affectionate exaggerations of recognizable types. This is satire without much bite: the play's boldest statements are that there is more to life than...
...only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced, whose family had a prospering shipping firm...