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RAIN 10/11: Reparations, version control and dumping ground



National Post 9/23/00
Some still chained to slavery issues
Civil litigation about to bring reparation in U.S. to forefront
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000923/407592.html

by Diane Francis
Financial Post
Some of Germany's largest corporations agreed this year to pay billions of
dollars in reparations to individuals enslaved in their factories during the
Second World War. These include DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Siemens and
Volkswagen who created wealth partly through slavery, which is a crime
against humanity. Closer to home, the Anglican Church faces bankruptcy as a
result of claims arising from aboriginals who were abused in church homes.
Now a similar, but potentially gigantic, issue simmers south of the border.
For the past 10 years, a perennial bill has been rejected every year by
Congress, which would study the issue of reparations from corporations that
profited in some way from 250 years of slavery in America. Civil litigation
is about to be launched which will bring this issue to the front burner.


National Post 10/07/00
Life Insurance from Hell
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20001007/422915.html

by Diane Francis
Financial Post
Last week, there was a new development in the possible litigation south of
the border against corporations, or their direct predecessor companies, who
profited from slavery.
Gray Davis, California's Governor, has signed into law two bills authored by
Senator Tom Hayden (one of Jane Fonda's former husbands) that will research
these beneficiaries of slavery in the United States. Both bills hope to
enhance efforts by lawyer Deadria Farmer-Paellmann and others who aims to win
compensation through litigation.


ABC News 10/10/00
Boston bank offers web-based safe deposit boxes for electronic documents
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20001010_1208.html


Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) _ Metal safe deposit boxes have been a longtime staple of the
banking industry, now electronic documents are taking the concept to a whole
new level. Citing a new federal law that took effect Oct. 1 making digitally
signed documents legally binding, FleetBoston Financial Corp. on Tuesday
launched an online safe deposit box system called fileTRUST, a sort of
virtual safe deposit box. "It"s about ease of use and accessibility," said
Brian Moynihan, Fleet"s director of new-product development. Records can be
electronically stored in the virtual box, which can be "unlocked" and
downloaded 24 hours a day on the Internet through bank browsers. Downloaded
documents will carry the same legal weight as a photocopy.


Foxnews.com 10/10/00
Disney barred from confidential merger documents
http://www.foxnews.com/national/1010/d_ap_1010_208.sml

by Kalpana Srinivasan
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission barred The Walt
Disney Co. and its lawyers Tuesday from looking at any confidential documents
related to the America Online-Time Warner merger until the company sets
stricter safeguards against breaches.
"We are concerned by the apparent laxity in procedures used by Disney and its
counsel that resulted in the disclosure of the confidential material,'' wrote
Deborah Lathen, chief of the FCC's cable service bureau, in making its
decision.
Disney has been one of the most vocal opponents of the proposed deal between
AOL and Time Warner - the largest corporate merger in U.S. history.



The Tifton Gazette 10/08/00
Woman documents Berrien cemeteries
http://www.sgaonline.com/newsroom/001008/ttgnews1.html

by Wendy Baldree
NASHVILLE -- Sue Hancock would love to meet a ghost in a graveyard and sit
down and talk.
She'd like to ask him who he was, what he was like when he lived, and who are
these people in the graves next to him.
If she had met ghosts at every graveyard, her job would have been a lot
easier. She tried to locate the cemeteries in Berrien County and write down
who was buried in each cemetery, when they were born, when they died and if
they were a veteran. All this information was put into her book, "Berrien
County Cemeteries."


Modesto Bee 10/10/00
Skandi-Fest computer stolen, with vital files
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,202346,00.html

by Patrick Giblin
TURLOCK -- Burglars stole a computer, a printer and a half-eaten box of
chocolates from the Skandi-Fest offices during the weekend.
Festival organizers are asking for help in locating the computer, which had
important information stored on it.
"The computer is what really hurts," said Luana Fiorini, festival
coordinator. "We had 10 years' worth of business records and a mailing list
with 5,000 names on it."
The burglary was discovered at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the festival
headquarters, 349 S. Golden State Blvd., but could have taken place any time
from 6 p.m. Friday, Fiorini said.



Capitol Hill Blue 10/10/00
Podesta testifies in e-mail case
http://capitolhillblue.com/a/ap.washington/20001010/39e3804b.73d7.12/ap.asp

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said he waited
nearly 11/2 years to tell President Clinton about a computer glitch that had
deleted hundreds of thousands of incoming White House e-mails from government
archives.
Testifying about the e-mails in a civil case, Podesta said he learned about
the problem in a June 1998 memo, but didn't tell Clinton about it until
moments before a February 2000 press briefing. The briefing was held after
the case became public in a civil lawsuit.
A programming error in 1998 prevented thousands of incoming messages -
including some from Vice President Al Gore's office - from being archived. As
a result, they were not reviewed by White House lawyers to determine whether
they should have been turned over to investigators probing cases that
included the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Whitewater and campaign fund raising.



Financial Review (Australia) 10/11/00
Mind the draft: version control is here
http://www.afr.com.au/information/20001011/A43152-2000Oct10.html

by Peter Moon
You expect US attorneys to be sharp. Whether it is an overdose of courtroom
drama, or perhaps just cultural cringe, the very notion of a Yankee lawyer
conjures up images of a highly trained and even better organised legal
stormtrooper. But if our recent dealings are any guide, the concept of
document version control is not a standard tool in their armoury.
With five people spread over three time zones, collaborating on eight
generations of four documents, we soon had dozens of drafts in circulation,
each of them named, for all one could tell, randomly. With copies arriving by
e-mail, time stamped before and after the dateline, it was nearly impossible
to determine which was the latest draft.


Cleveland Plain Dealer 10/10/00
Probe of water funds now muddied by doubts
http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf?/news/pd/cc10caro.html

by Christopher Quinn
Two of Mayor Michael R. White's former finance officers said yesterday that
no document produced so far supports White's claim that $61.3 million in
Cleveland Water Division money was illegally mixed into the city's spending
account last year.
Former Finance Director Martin Carmody and former Treasurer Mary Christine
Jackman said during a City Council inquiry yesterday that White's documents
were too scant to support any concrete conclusion.
Carmody and Jackman worked


The Journal (UK) 10/10/00
NHS files dumped on waste ground - Probe launched after patient's
confidential records discovered
http://www.the-journal.co.uk/cfm/newsstory.cfm?StoryId=208917

by Neil McKay
HEALTH bosses in the North-East have launched a top level investigation after
confidential patients' documents were found dumped on waste ground.
Former police special constable Elaine Power found the papers and reports, in
health authority folders, when she was walking her two dogs.
A brief glance at the documents revealed intimate details about patients,
including confidential medical and family details.
Miss Power, 42, from Mitford, near Morpeth, said: "If these folders had got
into the wrong hands then the consequences could have been horrendous.


Deseret News 10/06/00
Seeking 1790-1920 census data? It's available on Ancestry.com
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,195019281,00.html?

PROVO - Ancestry.com,part of MyFamily.com Inc. has announced the availability
of the U.S. federal census online subscription through its proprietary Images
Online service.
Ancestry.com is posting electronic images of every record from the census
between the years 1790 and 1920, including its own reconstructed 1890 census
substitute. Digitized in 256 shades of gray, the new subscription area will
offer more than 10.5 million pages that contain more than 450 million
records.


Bergen Record 10/06/00
Archives of black America
http://www.bergen.com/region/schomburg200010063.htm

by Paul H. Johnson
While reading a book at the library about the Harlem Renaissance, Grant
Harper Reid saw a mention of his grandfather, Leonard Harper, who worked as a
choreographer.
He found the information at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture in Harlem, founded 75 years ago as a repository of African-American
history. That one mention of Reid's grandfather led to a three-year quest to
learn more about Harper, who had a long career on the stage and in the movie
industry. He also worked on a film produced in Fort Lee and performed at the
Orpheum Theater in Newark.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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