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Captive Audience

burnt

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The link below will take you to a column written by Conrad Black, a prominent writer and businessman who sits in prison in Florida due to his ineptitude at escaping the charges of white collar crime. It seems that some are better than others at doing this.

However, Black, in this column of his, is at his best in describing how his experience as a recipient of enforced state hospitality has affected both his life and the lives of a number of people whose paths have crossed his in that setting.

As much as I have always admired Black's way with words and ideas, he seems to scale some new levels in both literary and social achievements in this piece.

Some of the follow-up responses alone are worth the read!

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/14/conrad-black-the-transformative-effect-of-teaching-my-fellow-inmates.aspx
 

burnt

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If you don't know the story of Conrad Black, the link below will give you an view into the man Conrad Black.
 

per

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He if far to useful in his new found teaching position to consider appeals or early release for good behaviour.
 

don

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he'll probably spawn a whole crop of amoral, pompous blowhards with no way of coping other than deceit.
 

burnt

Well-known member
Funny thing is when we used to get McLean's magazine, I always read Barbara Amiel's (who is now Lord Black's wife) column first thing!!

She cannot be accused of lacking astuteness . . .

But whoa, don, if that is how we deal with those whom we dislike, who would be left alive??
 
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