James Michael Goldsmith (1933-1997), English-French industrialist and financier, achieved international renown as a corporate raider after a successful career in manufacturing and distributing consumer products. James Michael Goldsmith was born in...

Sir James Goldsmith was one of the most bucaneering and charismatic figures of the last 40 years. In every aspect of his life Goldsmith - who had been knighted in 1976 in Harold Wilson's infamous resignation honours list - displayed a total indifference...

BILLIONAIRE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH. By Ivan Fallon. Hutchinson; 500 pages; [British pounds] 18.99. Little, Brown; $22.45 PERHAPS Paul Getty put it best: to be seriously rich means that one no longer counts money. By the time Sir...

Benazir Bhutto's pale skin, designer clothes and degrees from Harvard and Oxford seem to contradict her self-appointed role as savior of Pakistan's poor and illiterate — particularly in Karachi's slums.Campaign posters of the former prime minister, once nicknamed "Pinkie" because of her rosy complexion, cover...

This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what...