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...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...
...expand North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere (with the exception of Cuba), brought thousands of protesters to Miami this past week, as well as a delegation of Harvard students sent by the Institute of Politics to observe the action. Media mogul Conrad Black has labeled activists who resist trade liberalization “the political equivalent of football hooligans.” He maintains that, “They are incapable of coherent articulation and they should be dispelled with as little force as necessary whenever they become disorderly. They should...
...George S. Patton may have been on to something as he paused to remark: “When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.” In Miami, the FTAA failed to achieve the assent of many Latin American governments and, much to the chagrin of Friedman and Conrad Black, may have to undergo serious re-thinking...
Coming into this year, the varsity goalie situation was set with junior Jamie Roth to start and sophomore Ryan Johnson as the reliable backup, just like last year. But both Roth and Johnson went down with injuries, and junior Conrad Jones stepped into the leading role...
Johnson was finally replaced in the 79th minute by senior Russ Mosier, a new addition to the Crimson. Mosier, who was one of the men’s volleyball team’s tri-captains last season, was added to the Harvard soccer roster after juniors Jamie Roth and Conrad Jones both went down with season-ending injuries...