The Toronto Star has some extraordinary figures from the Delaware headings at the end of last week:
Black's self-humiliation came in waves. His testimony marked the near-culmination of an arcane legal dispute over the beleaguered press baron's right to sell control of Toronto-based Hollinger Inc... Hollinger Inc. is poised to default on its bonds next month. Black is $351,225 (U.S.) in arrears on property taxes owing on his Palm Beach estate. His reputation in Gotham has suffered by his reneging on a $100,000 donation to one of the city's most tony charities, the New York Public Library. There was nothing left for Black last week but to turn out his pockets in vice-chancellor Leo Strine's court. It was "with great personal reluctance," Black said Friday, that the time had come for him to sell Hollinger Inc., and part with a business legacy 38 years in the making. Either that or face personal financial ruin.Yumpin' Yimminy! The unlinkable Star's coverage almost has me feeling for Big Con. Is that appropriate? Can you be in the House of Lords and a bankrupt? The Star was elsewhere with the story. The BBC, however, says you get the boot if you can't pony up for the coffee cream kitty.
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SayNay? - February 24, 2004 10:04 AM
The pomposity of this averment to the demise of the omnipotent Lord Crossharbour, that rara avis, arising from his sub rosa, sui generis procurements used to facilitate his modus vivendi, to which he contends he was entitled ex officio, and to which his critics point as proof that he is a malefactor, is a startling lese-majeste.
Maybe it’s true - he just doesn’t have anyone to “drown kittens” for him, anymore. See January20, 2004 Torstar article by David Olive)
SayNay? - February 24, 2004 10:08 AM
[you had to know you were going to get a post like the last one sooner, rather than later - where's Charles Tupper, Jr. when we need him]
SayNay? - February 24, 2004 6:18 PM
Literal translation of the first post: "The lack of grace of this emphatic declaration as to the death of the all powerful Lord Crossharbour, the unique person he is, coming out of his secret, “unique unto themselves” payments used to prop up his style and manner of living, to which he states he was entitled to virtue of his office, and to which his critics point as proof that his is a criminal, is surprisingly disrespectful."
SayNay? - February 24, 2004 6:24 PM
[even the literal translation sounds pompous]