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...Oxygen deprivation rendered him mute and quadriplegic at birth, forcing him to write with a "unicorn stick" strapped to his forehead. Yet Christopher Nolan, 43, became a literary sensation, besting authors like Ian McEwan and Seamus Heaney to capture the 1988 Whitbread Award for his autobiography, Under the Eye of the Clock...
...further $8.5 billion, and the Blackstone Group, which the Financial Times reported last week was planning a new record-breaking $11 billion fund. Indeed, private equity has become such a force that the mere rumor of a forthcoming deal can have a huge impact on stock prices. Shares in Whitbread, the British brewing and restaurant firm, jumped by almost 9% last Thursday on speculation that several private equity firms are circling. The stock dropped back again a bit on Friday; the company didn't comment. Why the flurry? Private equity funds typically oversee big management and strategic changes after...
...approached, the band of freshmen seemed to open up so that I could enter the tribal circle,” wrote T. Apollo Whitbread ’80. “As I penetrated the circle I saw six or seven leaders dressed in sheets jumping up and down in a frenzy, screaming in timely unison. ‘Toga! Toga! Toga!’ in between guzzles of beer...
...years after coming to Radcliffe, Madox has written articles for The Economist, the London Times and the Daily Telegraph. She’s authored eight books and won two Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the British Silver Pen Award, a Whitbread Award nomination and the Critics Circle Award for her writing...
Smith’s first novel, White Teeth, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ First Book Award...