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...Telegraph and the Jerusalem Post, Black allegedly helped orchestrate a $32 million fraud. He was forced out in November 2003 when shareholders revolted over the surfacing allegations. Along with three other senior executives, Black is also accused of illegally pocketing $51.8 million from the sale of the company's Canadian newspaper assets, which he used to bankroll a lavish lifestyle including a $62,000 surprise birthday party for his wife. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Black and the other defendants deny the charges...
...print very low on detail, foggy and mysterious, would result, bearing no resemblance at all to the meticulously precise images many viewers expect from Adams.But a few of these pictures, unknown to all but the most resourceful Adams admirers, are startlingly successful. “From Moose Pass, Canadian Rockies, 1928,” is one of them—incredibly soft, small, composed of only a handful of shades of gray, and lacking detail, it’s the opposite of what people often think of as an Adams print. Yet it conveys that same sublime, pristine nature that...
...with the effects of globalization, Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm told a crowd of about 200 last night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Granholm, who was elected the first female governor of Michigan in 2002, is also a 1987 graduate of Harvard Law School. Many consider the Canadian-born governor, who delivered a prime-time speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, to be her party’s answer to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Michigan is the poster child for the deindustrialization of America,” Granholm said of her state, whose once...
...place doesn't lure much foreign investment. But the communist state does see a trickle of capitalists, from telecom engineers to bottled-water vendors. And, perhaps most surprisingly, animators. North Korea has some of the world's cheapest cartoonists, typically specialists in the art of propaganda. In 2001 French-Canadian Guy Delisle went to Pyongyang to manage the production of an animated preschool special for French television. "It was based on children's books with rabbits," he says. "I don't even remember the name...
MOBY, pioneering electronic musician: I have a friend whose Swedish mother--she's in her mid-60s--goes online to meet men. I was with my friend as he drove her to the Hilton to meet a Canadian doctor she'd encountered online, and I thought, How disconcerting. Because it was 10 at night and most likely she was going to meet this guy and stay in his hotel room. Go back 50 years, and she would have been in her Swedish village, depressed, a bit lonely and sad. Instead she's in midtown Manhattan, preparing to spend the night...