From the Guardian:

Smirking at the jury in Conrad Black's racketeering trial, Eric Sussman, the youthful American prosecutor, stumbled and stuttered on his words.

"Ca... col... cal... I don't know how to say that. Can anyone pronounce it for us?" he asked, gesturing theatrically to a word in one of the former Telegraph owner's typically verbose emails.

Lord Black's defence counsel, Ed Genson, had a stab at it in his gruff midwestern drawl before turning to his client with a weary sigh and asking: "Conrad?" The peer, showing no sign of appreciating the mirth around him, sourly replied: "Calumnies."

In bombastic, long-winded emails, Lord Black's words have come back to haunt him. The US government portrays him as a man of limitless arrogance who believed that Hollinger, the media empire he built, was a personal fiefdom. ...

Acknowledging that their client will never be a man of the people, Lord Black's lawyers have admitted that his attitude can be "arrogant" and "snotty".

Musings

"He goes a little too much for rhetorical musings," Mr Genson told the jury, conceding that the peer could be unpleasant in emails written late at night - and sometimes, he joked, in those composed the rest of the day too. "I wish you didn't have to hear them."