"Gil is no Prince Charles, whose love for gardens is famous but only channels the past, " Nevins says.

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" Says Schafer of Nevins, "One of the things I love about Debby is that I totally trust her instincts.

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Sheila Nevins heads up the documentary department at HBO, and she came up with the idea of having this, the requiem.

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"These are like profiles in American courage, " an Atlanta gay rights attorney, Greg Nevins, said when we were discussing rural, gay life.

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All of this is well recounted by Joseph Nevins, an assistant professor of political geography at Vassar College in New York state.

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"I'm always trying to be minimal in my work, " says Nevins.

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When David Nevins took over as chief of entertainment at Showtime last summer, the premium cable network was hardly in the kind of shambles an executive shake-up typically entails.

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"Those strong arms keep the garden moving, " says Nevins.

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The most significant feature of Nevins's garden at Middlefield is the hornbeam room, entered as one moves up a flight of stone-and-grass steps toward a bench set on axis with what is the beating heart of any country house in summer, the well-used and much-loved screened porch.

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