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Wells says she is basing the legal action on "violations of affirmative action laws under Title VII as regarding the procedures that were taken in the hiring of the new director...
...letter to university President David Saxch, the law student. Barbara Norris, said the university may be in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the anti-discrimination provisions of California state...
...eventually presided over branches in Moscow, Odessa, Kiev and London. He was principally supported by the Romanovs, notably the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna and her son Tsar Nicholas II. The Danish-born Empress introduced the jeweler to her sister Alexandra and Alexandra's husband King Edward VII of England, both of whom became steadfast patrons of Fabergé. Most of the Fabergéana at A la Vieille Russie were made for the Russian royal family. Among them are nine imperial Easter eggs, the works with which Fabergé is most closely identified. Their design was left entirely...
What the two exhibitions show above all is Fabergé's astonishing diversity. The artifacts range from relatively austere stone boxes and clocks, perfume flacons, letter openers and an art nouveau cigarette case given to Edward VII, to what Fabergé called his objets de fantaisie: a windup, tail-wagging silver rhinoceros, a love-sick frog on a silver column, and-in jade, nephrite, agate, chalcedony, quartzite and other gem stones-a dormouse out of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a litter of four sleeping piglets, and minimenageries of meticulously observed birds, fish and beasts...
Gaenslen added that the legal standard the court announced, "if that is correct, then Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is in a large measure repealed as far as academia is concerned." The Cornell Daily...