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Waterloo For A True Believer.(Conrad Black)(Brief Article)
Asked by his own Sunday Telegraph last Christmas to recommend a little- known book, the newspaper tycoon Conrad Black nominated "Napoleon and his Marshals" by A. G. Macdonnell. "Napoleon emerges as a magnificent swashbuckler, more sinned against than sinning," wrote Black.
The ostentatiously erudite Canadian magnate yearns for the days of heroism. And indeed, his staunchly conservative attitudes seem drawn from an earlier era that prized principle over pragmatism. His company, Hollinger International, owns or has an interest in 77 dailies, including the Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post and The Daily Telegraph.
The Telegraph retains a fierce pro-Union position on Northern Ireland, an uncompromising anti-Labour line and a strong anti-European slant. Where Blair positions himself as a link between America and Europe, Black has pushed for closer ties to the States and calls for Britain to join the North American Free Trade ...
- Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel Get the Movie Treatment in CTV's Shades of...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 9, 2006 700+ words
...about embattled business tycoon Conrad Black, will premiere Monday, December...Albert Schultz as the legendary Conrad Black and Hollywood actress Lara Flynn...that surfaced a year earlier. As Conrad Black, Schultz delivers a cunning character...
- Jurors weigh high stakes: The fates of 4 men rest with a federal jury, but...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 13, 2007 700+ words
...trial involving former media baron Conrad Black and three other men will move into...MAIL / WIRE FRAUD: Mark Kipnis, Conrad Black, Jack Boultbee, Peter Atkinson...Canadian holding company controlled by Conrad Black that owns the majority of shares...
- Conrad Black's Franklin Roosevelt.(Franklin Deleno Roosevelt: Champion of...
- Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History Moore, Christopher April 1, 2004 700+ words
There is a moment in Conrad Black's immense biography of Franklin...but who would have expected Conrad Black to say so? Black's real news...books like this one, however, Conrad Black gives us a much better way to gauge...
- Black knight blocked.(Conrad Black - knighthood refused)(Humor)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Smith, Doug December 1, 1999 700+ words
It has been a pleasant summer for us Conrad Black watchers. Turning down Conrad Black's bid for a knighthood is likely to be the...could face if he does not immediately sanctify Conrad Black. Surely the world needs a patron saint of...
- Journalism's black hole. (Conrad Black's effort to gain control of Southam...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Smith, Doug January 1, 1993 700+ words
Conrad Black celebrated his recent nuptials by gobbling...chains controlled by Ken Thomson and Conrad Black in jounalism's evolutionary spiral...Force Colonel Yehuda Levy, who served as Conrad Black's hit man in destroying the Jerusalem...
- Loose connections.(High life)(Conrad Black)(Viewpoint essay)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Taki May 16, 2009 700+ words
...went to see W in order to plead Conrad Black's case during the closing days...friend Carly Simon asked him to. Conrad Black instructed his newspapers to back...months, but prison is prison. Conrad Black's being in a tough jail is a...
- Ruling class, eh? (suits filed by Conrad Black against the media)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Smith, Doug March 1, 1992 700+ words
...must haunt the ever litigatious Conrad Black (Motto: "Remember the statute...topper was the revelation that "Conrad Black's infatuation with columnist...While time has not been kind to Conrad Black's marriage, it certainly has...
- Bishop Henry and Conrad Black.(rancorous correspondence between Canadian...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight May 1, 2000 700+ words
...Bishop Henry's strictures on Mr. Conrad Black, using them to publish its own...large photo of the Bishop read: "Conrad Black is 'wrapping himself in the garments...reporter Marina Jimenez reported Conrad Black as saying that it was "outrageous...
Source: HighBeam Research, Waterloo For A True Believer.(Conrad Black)(Brief Article)