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...inspiration from The Practice (ABC, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.). Last spring, with the legal drama--once a top-20 hit--bleeding viewers, writer-producer David E. Kelley fired four of its stars--Dylan McDermott, Kelli Williams, Lara Flynn Boyle and Lisa Gay Hamilton (who were negotiating raises)--and started afresh. Kelley blames himself for the decline; over seven seasons, the show was mired in melodrama. "It was difficult to juxtapose a personal story line and explore relationships," he says, "while trying to show a murder and the search for a missing head...
...largely by never losing sight of the big picture,” said Bok. “I think when he came in, the Corporation was getting far too much into minute details and was getting overwhelmed...he was very helpful in getting us to think afresh, get us focused far more on large, important issues and get away from the minutiae. He really helped us redefine the role of the board...
...become a religious theistic thing?a faith. And the young people are beginning to ask questions, 'Why should we circumambulate stupas? Why prayer flags?'" The message, he suggests, has been garbled by the very rites designed to promulgate it, and it may become lost unless it can be communicated afresh...
Andrews says he favors spending the spring to find a new plan and delaying the implementation to 2004. He says the committee should wait until D’Alessandro’s term expires in order to begin afresh with a new leader...
Critics often suggest that these photographs increase viewers’ awareness of the banal objects we confront on a daily basis. As Paul states on the wall text, “these idiosyncratic scenes not only allow us to see such everyday objects afresh but also draw our attention to the relation between objects and their users.” These images do not exist simply to give us a greater understanding of the importance of orange peels or pomegranate skins. Viewed in the context of his portraits, one begins to see that these disposable items are the traces left...