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...lofty pledge to become the world's biggest club by 2014, Chelsea, owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, launched a Mandarin website in January in conjunction with Sina, China's leading portal; in late March, the club unveiled another aimed at South Korea. The London team is also playing benefactor. Apart from hosting the Chinese Olympic football team in London in February, the club sponsors the Asian Football Confederation's Vision Asia project to develop grassroots leagues across China. Next summer, Chelsea will embark on its first-ever tour of China. Those preseason tours can be pure gold, giving sponsors...
...orphanage a potential donation, Jacob finds himself back in his native land in an attempt to save his life’s work and the children he loves so dearly. But his original mission soon devolves into a much more complicated tale. While in Denmark, Jacob meets the benefactor Jorgen (Rolf Lassgård), a man who seems curiously uninterested in the orphanage’s cause yet still considers giving it his donation. After a quick meeting, Jorgen casually invites Jacob to his daughter Anna’s (Stine Fischer Christensen) wedding that weekend. After the wedding, secrets long...
...there's any hope that Jacob might keep his institution solvent, it lies in an offer from a mysterious mogul in his native Denmark, who wants to meet with him before committing to fund his efforts. Reluctantly, he agrees to fly home to meet with his would-be benefactor...
...Once Jacob lands in Denmark After the Wedding - a rich, intricate and very gripping movie from Susanne Bier - takes off. His benefactor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard), is Jacob's opposite in every way. He's a large, bumptious man, open in his emotions - genial and generous in his family life - but devious and manipulative in his business dealings. He invites Jacob to attend the wedding of his adopted daughter, knowing full well that (a) he has married the great love of Jacob's life and (b) that the daughter is actually Jacob's child - a fact that becomes agonizingly clear...
...Wassersteins are long time donors to both the Law School and Harvard Business School. The family’s most prominent member, Lazard CEO Bruce J. Wasserstein, is an alumnus of both institutions and has been a major benefactor of HLS—he was one of 11 alumni who gave a gift totalling $5.1 million to the school...