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Take the Civil Rights Act of 1990. It makes it easier for minorities to sue the boss if the employee roster does not meet some statistical measure of racial balance. A nightmare for employers, a bonanza for lawyers, a crumb for blacks. How many, after all, would be helped by such legislation, and at what cost...
...martial art that he practices each dawn. "He's an economic samurai," says a colleague. Starting in 1975, when he and four young colleagues left the William Morris Agency to form their own firm, Ovitz has managed to assemble the hottest stable in town. Creative Artists Agency has a roster of 675 clients ranging from superstars Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone and Madonna to directors Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese...
Afro-Am currently has one professor to itspermanent roster. Next semester, when Professor ofAmerican Literature and Afro-American StudiesWerner Sollors goes on leave, only visitingscholars and those with short-term appointmentswill teach department courses...
...Venice Biennale. Still, the force of feminism has helped improve the odds that a female artist's work will be exhibited and taken seriously. This year's most visible example was "The Decade Show," a three-museum summer exhibition in New York City that featured a multiracial roster of artists, including many women...
...painter before Titian had ever achieved such international success: not Michelangelo, and certainly not the blocked and endlessly worrying Leonardo. The work of this "king of painters and painter of kings" attracted every serious patron in Italy and half the military leaders and crowned heads of Europe. The roster of his clients and portrait subjects reads like a list of international society in the 16th century: the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, Alfonso d'Este, Duke Federigo of Mantua, Ippolito de' Medici, several ancient and cunning Popes, doges, admirals, art dealers, intellectuals. Even those who were deadly enemies, like Francis...