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...short answer is that our names play an important role in shaping the way we see ourselves - and, more important, how others see us. Abundant academic literature proves these points. A 1993 paper found that most people perceive those with unconventionally spelled names (Patric, Geoffrey) as less likely to be moral, warm and successful. A 2001 paper found that we have a tendency to judge boys' trustworthiness and masculinity from their names. (As a guy whose middle name is Ashley, I can attest to the second part.) In a 2007 paper (here's a PDF), University of Florida economist David...
...acute cultural consciousness.A love story with the soul of a documentary, “Expired” follows two parking enforcement officers through Miniucchi’s vision of a real-life relationship. The characters—Samantha Morton plays a meek meter maid and Jason Patric is her embittered leading man—both battle loneliness, alienation, and abuse that comes from ticketed drivers and from each other.“We tried to make an honest film,” Miniucchi said in a question and answer session following the screening...
When negotiators shared details of the deal with writers Friday, many assumed they would be back at their laptops Monday. But WGA West President Patric Verrone told the more than 3,000 writers in attendance Saturday night that the strike would end only after they voted to approve the contract. With a vote of the WGA's 10,000 members likely to take until Tuesday, that means writers wouldn't return to work until Wednesday at the earliest...
Despite rumors and media reports of a deal struck over the weekend, WGA presidents Patric Verrone and Michael Winship e-mailed their members Sunday, saying, "We are still in talks and do not yet have a contract... Picketing will resume on Monday." The Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers (AMPTP) also waved off reports of a done deal, though an AMPTP source said to "stay tuned...
...Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP). And in the ensuing division between studio executives and screenwriters, one surprising group has taken their places on both sides of the picket line: Harvard alumni.A HOUSE DIVIDED“There are no negotiations going on right now,” Patric Verrone ’81, president of the WGA and a former Winthrop House resident, said last week. “We gave them a package of proposals. They walked off, and it’s up to them to tell us they have a response to those proposals...