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Anglo-French Millionaire Sir James Goldsmith jets frequently between London, where he controls Cavenham holding company, Paris, where he owns the magazine L'Express, and New York City, where he watches over his Grand Union grocery-store chain. Goldsmith, 52, last week added another stop to his travels: San Francisco. He emerged victorious after an eight-month battle for Crown Zellerbach, the $3 billion California-based paper and forestry giant, and was named chairman of the board. Goldsmith now controls 51.3% of Crown's 27.4 million outstanding shares, and his investment partnership, General Oriental Securities, will get six of eleven...
...Goldsmith says he went after Crown Zellerbach for its almost 2 million acres of timberland holdings. Said he: "It's a huge gamble, but in the long run the price of timber will rise." Some industry observers think that he may restructure the company, keeping the forest holdings but selling off pulp and paper mills. In 1982 Goldsmith purchased Diamond International, another timber-products company, and then sold off pulp, paper and other divisions for an estimated $500 million gain. SCANDALS $10 Million in Back Taxes...
...Brian M. Goldsmith ’05 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...over management of the Iraqi oil-for-food program and new calls for U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to face charges of sexual abuse. War Stories BRITAIN Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is to review the government's decision not to disclose advice from Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on the legality of the war in Iraq. The review follows increasing pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair to reveal why the Attorney General, who reportedly questioned the invasion's legality in early March 2003, might have changed his mind and backed the war. Thomas will decide whether the document...
...Goldsmith Awards Program was launched in 1991, according to its website. Aside from the award for Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Awards Program includes two book prizes, Fellowships and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism...