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Duranty’s prize has long been the subject of intense controversy. Last spring the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) initiated a campaign to urge its revocation by the Pulitzer Prize Board. After six months of consideration, the board decided on Nov. 21 not to rescind the prize. It concluded that the pieces in question, while they fell well below “today’s standards for foreign reporting,” showed “no clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception...
...passing up a chance to right a seven-decade-old wrong, the board tarnishes its image. As Canadian academic Lubomyr Luciuk, the UCCLA’s research director, tells me, its members have effectively “become apologists for Stalin’s apologist...
Conrad Black loves a good fight. The blustery press baron who owns the Chicago Sun-Times, Britain's Daily Telegraph and more than 140 other newspapers worldwide often writes letters to his own publications taking potshots at opponents. Two years ago, he even renounced his Canadian citizenship in a public battle with Prime Minister Jean Chretien in order to become a British peer, Lord Black of Crossharbour. As biographer Peter C. Newman put it, "He has the body language of a puma in heat...
...Black found himself at the center of a typhoon over alleged improprieties in his business affairs. On Wednesday, Black resigned as CEO of Hollinger International, his Chicago-based public company, after shareholders revolted against him, and regulators in the U.S. and Canada opened probes. Late Friday night Hollinger's Canadian parent company, which Black controls, announced that its four-member audit committee had resigned. Now the $1 billion newspaper empire he spent four decades building seems to be headed for the auction block...
...shareholders--asked about unusual-looking payments to Black and other executives. Ignored by Black and Hollinger's board, Tweedy, Browne persisted; and Hollinger announced last week that an internal inquiry had uncovered $32 million in questionable payments, including $7.2 million directly to Black and $16.55 million to Hollinger's Canadian parent company...