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Heat waves bring out the same kind of self-delusion. Scott Sheridan, professor of geography at Kent State University, has studied heat-wave behavior--focusing particularly on seniors, who are at special risk in hot weather--in Philadelphia; Phoenix, Ariz.; Toronto; and Dayton, Ohio. He found that less than half of people 65 and older abide by heat-emergency recommendations like drinking lots of water. Reason: they don't consider themselves seniors. "Heat doesn't bother me much, but I worry about my neighbors," said an older respondent...
...percent were no credit, and 21.3 percent were ‘S’ for satisfactory, according to Brown’s Office of Institutional Research. More than 85 percent of Brown faculty and graduate students supported the addition of pluses and minuses, according to Brown’s Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. According to the report, the survey was conducted to address a growing concern among faculty about the “perceived impact of grade inflation on classroom conduct and its erosion of grades as a meaningful measure of learning.” But 70 percent...
...ensure that DATA was divorced from the stigma of vanity, Bono refused to bankroll it. After coaxing $1 million grants out of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, George Soros and software businessman Ed Scott, DATA got real office space and hired lobbyists--Tom Sheridan, a Democrat who had been a star of the domestic AIDS lobby, and Scott Hatch, a former Tom DeLay aide who ran the National Republican Campaign Committee. DATA employees churned out policy papers, while Hatch, Sheridan and Shriver organized intimate, bipartisan dinner parties (sample guest list: Senators Jesse Helms, Patrick Leahy and Orrin Hatch; former World...
...easy. “They think because it’s based on my life story that I’m playing myself,” 50 says of his critics. “You still have to really act in the film.”Director Jim Sheridan (“In America”) led 50 through every scene, and 50 was more than willing to follow. “I hadn’t made a film before so I would be a fool to be standing there saying, ‘No, we should...
Directed by Jim Sheridan Paramount Pictures 2 stars Sitting in the theater with my hood up and the Gs on my G Unit sneakers still spinning, I was prepared to enjoy the best film of the year. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” 50 Cent’s semi-autobiographical tale of rags-to-rap-stardom, promised everything that I look for in a film: drug-dealing, thugged-out raptors (rapper/actor), and a banging hip-hop soundtrack. Unfortunately, the film tells the same story we’ve heard hundreds of times...