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...firm that owns EMI, announced that the record giant had lost nearly $2.5 billion last year. Not only that, a brick wall looms: EMI has to raise more than $200 million in the next six months to ensure that it does not fall into the hands of Citigroup - the bank that lent Terra Firma, controlled by British financier Guy Hands, the cash to buy it 2½ years ago. (See the top 10 albums...
...sales of 13 million rereleased Beatles albums, EMI's record division is expected to make $312 million, with the publishing sector bringing in an additional $218 million. That will cover Terra Firma's interest bill of about $350 million. But it's not enough to keep Citigroup happy - the bank had agreed to lend the venture-capital firm $4.2 billion only if EMI could hit certain performance targets. As EMI's accounts dolefully note, there is a "significant shortfall" between the profit likely to be generated in 2010 and the target previously agreed upon...
...island of Guernsey in the English Channel, needs to inject about $200 million into the business by the summer; otherwise, Citigroup gets the keys. His allies say he can raise the money from third-party investors, but that is only enough to keep EMI out of the bank's hands for 12 more months. What Hands really needs is a deal with Citigroup to slash EMI's debts. But like any good band in crisis, Hands and his onetime partners at Citigroup have fallen out. (See the top 10 albums...
...Gaza with my eyes open and a deep understanding of the political and military situation there. I have studied the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for nearly ten years, I have edited a peer-reviewed book on the subject, and I have lived and worked in both Israel and the West Bank for extended periods of time...
Another voice of reason: "How about we all join Harvard's already established, maybe not in use now, Idea Bank, to have our concerns voiced and fleshed out and demand that the UC take...