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...fear that Citigroup simply wants to "flip" EMI by making a quick sale to Warner - a plan Citigroup denies. In its present state, however, EMI's future as an independent company is far from certain. "The trouble is that the future of EMI would look quite good if it wasn't for all the debt," Dyson says. "But it doesn't look like Terra Firma has a chance of hanging on in the current circumstances." There will probably be far fewer champagne parties in the future...
...birthday, he called it - I was at a loss to answer. No surprises, I said; even our routines already supply plenty of those. No extravagance: we're still in a recession. When I read about Naomi Campbell's $1.8 million party at a seven-star hotel in Dubai (still wasn't enough to save the local economy), or the British retail tycoon who marked his 55th by sending his guests a travel wallet with instructions to meet at a London airport and clear their calendar for five days, I'm not impressed; I'm exhausted. I count...
...wasn't always that way. I had to miss my fourth birthday - I had just had eye surgery and was not supposed to hang out with germy little kids - and my sense of justice was so aggrieved that six months later, in the middle of July, I invited all my playground friends over for a party. It would have all come off beautifully, had I not neglected to tell my mother...
...things I regret, but that's part of my past. When you get to the crossroads, whatever path you take, you've gotta take the good and the bad. I'm sad that I wasn't there for my children, either physically or mentally, for so long--until I quit drinking and getting stoned. But if you change any part of the journey, then I wouldn't be here now. Either good or bad, you gotta live with it, you know...
This increasing truculence is a direct reflection of a rapidly shifting economic balance of power. One of the consequences of the financial crisis of 2008-09 was the catapulting of China to the forefront of the global economic system. That trend wasn't created by the crisis, but the crisis certainly accelerated it. As the U.S., Europe and Japan contracted sharply, China registered its own brief, if scary, dip and then proceeded to use its trillions in foreign reserves to undertake a massive spending program. More effective than similar stimulus packages in the United States and elsewhere, the approach...