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...rage for fame more obtrusive than in his role as a collector of old masters and Impressionists, which he flew around the world as promotion for Oxy and himself. Hammer's proudest feat was his 1980 purchase, for $5.12 million (a big price then), of a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci called the Codex Leicester, which he renamed the Codex Hammer. It consists of 36 pages of notes on water movement. There is not a single drawing of aesthetic interest among the meager diagrams in the margins...
...Jefferson 250 Chemistry 30 Fogg Museum, Norton Room Chemistry 5 A-Q Memorial Hall R-Z Science Center A Engineering Science 151 Science Center C Italian Bab Sever 103 Mathematics 122 Science Center D Moral Reasoning 32 Science Center B Slavic 102 Boylston 11 Slavic Ca Boylston 11 Slavic Da Boylston 11 Slavic Ga Boylston 11 Visual and Environmental Studies 107 Sackler Lecture Hall FRIDAY JANUARY...
...Astronomy 150 Memorial Hall Celtic 128 Sever 103 Chinese 101a 2 Divinity Ave., Rm 18 Chinese 107a 2 Divinity Ave., Rm 212 Dramatic Arts 30 Sever 213 Economics 1035 Sever 103 Economics 1665 Harvard 201 Economics 2140b Harvard 201 German A Science Center B German Ca Harvard 201 German Da Science Center E Government 1060 Memorial Hall History 1561 Memorial Hall Japanese 103a 2 Divinity Ave., Rm 18 Japanese 106a 2 Divinity Ave., Rm 212 Near Eastern Languages 195 Emerson 305 Slavic 111 Memorial Hall TUESDAY JANUARY 15 VI, XVII, XVIII...
...stunning admission came as Darci Alves da Silva, 23, and his rancher father, Darly Alves da Silva, 54, went on trial in the Amazonian town of Xapuri last week for the murder of Francisco ("Chico") Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper and defender of the rain forests who became an environmental martyr after a single shotgun blast killed him in 1988. Asked by the judge if he "carried out" the murder, Darci answered, "I confirm...
That will not satisfy the seringueiros, who think Mendes' death was the product of a conspiracy that included some of the region's more powerful landowners and politicians. "Putting the Da Silvas in jail is not the solution," says Rosa Maria Roldan of the National Council of Rubber Tappers. "The only real way justice will be served is if the government gets to the roots of who was behind Chico's death." Roldan and others fear that once the trial is over and the spotlight gone, the violence against rubber tappers will resume...