Absent Juror Keeps Black Trial Waiting

THE media frenzy around the trial of Conrad Black - the grandiloquent former media mogul about to stand trial in Chicago for defrauding his company - was apparently not shared by one of the jurors, who failed to show.

Black Day In Court Ends With A Whimper

THE frenzy surrounding the trial of Conrad Black, the loquacious former media mogul about to stand trial in Chicago for defrauding his company, was not apparently shared by one of the jurors: he or she failed to show up.