The Globe and Mail has the story on Conrad Black's libel suit against his biographer, filed last week in Canada. (So that's $11 million Canadian dollars, roughly $12.9 not even $9.5 million here in the States.) My favorite element of the biography that Black finds objectionable? The claim that Tom Bower's Conrad & Lady Black Dancing on the Edge* portrays Black "a religious hypocrite or crank who delusionally imagines conversations with God in which he believes he receives reassurances about the divine acceptability of illegal and immoral actions."

But my absolute favorite part of the story is when Bower laughs off the suit, telling the G&M reporters, "Robert Maxwell sued me many times and look what happened to him." Oooooooooh, scary!

*Down here in the States, HarperCollins publishes the biography as Outrageous Fortune: The Rise and Ruin of Conrad and Lady Black. Rupert Murdoch publishing a book that makes Conrad Black look bad? Wow, never saw that one coming...