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Conrad Black: Lord of What Might Have Been

March 3, 2008

How strange it is that success can be such an impostor and only a warm-up for the main act of self-inflicted tragedy yet to arrive. When Lord Kylsant of Carmarthen lost all hope of appeal in 1931, the wealthy titan was taken off and spent the next year in London’s bleak Wormwood Scrubs prison. Until [...]

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The Baron of Baggage

February 5, 2008

Of all the indignities Conrad Black has had to endure, much of them admittedly at his own hands, none has been more symbolic than to go from being lauded as a British baron to being dismissed as a piece of “baggage” by the company he once headed. In our view, it has always been something [...]

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Hollinger Sets Another Record –And Not a Good One

December 18, 2007

Never have so many directors of a single publicly traded company been convicted on criminal charges in connection with their duties as board members. With the formal sentencing yesterday of F. David Radler today on one count of fraud following the prison terms set last week for Conrad Black, Peter Atkinson and Jack Boultbee, a [...]

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Is it Time for Hollinger (and Sun-Times Media) to Go?

December 8, 2007

It may be better to let these damaged and discredited names sink ignominiously into the history books as a cautionary lesson to all stakeholders in how not to run a company. The National Post recently took a look at the pitiable state of Hollinger Inc., and its subsidiary, Sun-Times Media Group, formerly Hollinger International. They [...]

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The Black Touch

December 5, 2007

The same Napoleonic scale of misjudgments and miscalculations that have dogged his business decisions are now inexorably shaping Conrad Black’s legal destiny. It is one thing not to show remorse for the crimes of which one has been convicted; it is quite another to wear them as a badge of honor while striding into the [...]

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The Trial of Conrad Black | Early Verdicts Part 2: Legacy Squandered

July 5, 2007

If Conrad Black is a great businessman, what and where is his legacy? Is it a thriving corporate empire, or is it just a Napoleonic ego exiled to some kind of legal Elba? As Conrad Black awaits his fate at the hands of a federal court jury in Chicago, one can only hope that he [...]

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