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...Sikh girl determined to pursue a career in professional football. Her incredible on-field talent, though, is not enough to convince her religiously orthodox parents to allow her to trade the kitchen for the football pitch. So, she runs away from her home in West London to move to Hamburg and follow her sporting dreams. A charming, light-hearted picture that will appeal to even those who are unfamiliar with papadums and penalty kicks. Bend It Like Beckham screens at 1:30, 2:10, 4:05, 4:45, 6;40, 7:20, 9:15 and 9:55. (Anthony S.A. Freinberg...
...today own 47% of BMW's stock. The children of Quandt's third marriage, Stefan, 36, and Susanne, 40, sit on BMW's supervisory board. In 1999, angered by continuing losses at the automaker's Rover subsidiary in Britain, they ousted CEO Bernd Pischetsrieder in a boardroom coup. In Hamburg, the fate of Beiersdorf (Nivea skin cream) has been uncertain for months because of quarrels in the Herz family, which owns a 30% stake. The biggest shareholder, German insurer Allianz, is looking to sell its 44% stake, perhaps to Procter & Gamble. But the five Herz heirs to their father...
...Ottos' mammoth catalog and Internet retailing operation traces its lineage back to a postwar shoe factory in HAMBURG. Today the family also owns the majority of furniture seller Crate & Barrel...
...World War II, Werner Otto fled with his family to Hamburg from their Soviet-occupied home in what is now Poland. He won a license from the British authorities occupying the town to start a shoe factory, and in 1949 he founded a mail-order firm that is now the core of the family fortune. His son Michael was 28 when he joined the firm in 1971, and he became chairman a decade later. At the time, Otto Versand was a thriving German business with sales of about $2.5 billion. Today, recently renamed Otto GmbH & Co., it's a worldwide...
...History of Art and Architecture Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburg says that the Winthrop’s tour will not affect students or administrators too much...