“Could it really be true? Could so much talent, intelligence and energy end up in a Chicago courtroom, surrounded by a fog of pathos? Had the most remarkable, confident and versatile Canadian of his generation somehow put himself in a position where he could be broken on the wheel of American justice? How could Conrad Black, of all people, have let this happen?
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“Yesterday, hoping to increase the length of the jail sentence, a prosecutor read aloud one of Lord Black’s glib e-mails. It had nothing to do with the crimes for which he was being sentenced and the judge wouldn’t have been fooled. But it must have been satisfying, just to drag out a little longer the pleasure of sending away someone so brilliant and arrogant…”
