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Conrad Black, who is both a baron and a press baron, was convicted recently of four felonies in Chicago. His friends, who include the founder of NATIONAL REVIEW and several of its editors and writers, notably Mark Steyn and John O'Sullivan, can point out that Black was acquitted on nine of the original fourteen charges, that the amount he and his fellow defendants are alleged to have stolen has been reduced from more than $500 million to less than $6.1 million, and that he is appealing the guilty verdicts and might still leave court an innocent man. The odds are against this, for technical rather than substantive reasons, but odds are always ...