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RAIN 10/17: Trouble with Auctions



Today's posting contains many past stories from the NYTimes. Why? They have
changed their policy on how long stories are available for free. Now past
stories are available for two weeks free of charge, their former policy moved
the stories to the pay for view section after one day.

New York Times 10/14/00
Honoring Christian Science Founder
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/14/national/14RELI.html

By Gustav Niebuhr
BOSTON - In trying to describe New England in spiritual terms one is likely
to evoke a place identified with a religious establishment, whether that be
the Puritans of 350 years ago, their Congregationalist heirs or, most
recently, such important Roman Catholic jurisdictions as the Archdiocese of
Boston.
But New England has also provided fertile soil for original thinkers, not a
few of them women.
Take, for example, Anne Hutchinson, a prophetess exiled from Massachusetts as
a heretic in the 1630's; Mother Ann Lee, whose followers stumped the region
for her millennialist movement, the Shakers, after the Revolution; Ellen
Gould White, born in Portland, Me., a visionary crucial to the development of
Seventh-day Adventism; and Mary Baker Eddy, who taught a system of belief
about physical health and spiritual well-being called Christian Science.


New York Times 10/08/00
Files of Ex-Christie's chief fuel inquiry into art
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/08/business/08AUCT.html

by Douglas Frantz
This article was reported by Douglas Frantz , Carol Vogel and Ralph
Blumenthal. It was written by Mr. Frantz.
Last December, Christie's, the London-based auction house, was forcing out
its chief executive, Christopher M. Davidge, who had fallen from favor with
the company's new owner. Christie's executives and lawyers played tough and
negotiations turned bitter as Christmas approached.
Mr. Davidge, a third-generation Christie's employee attuned to slights in an
upper-class society where he never felt comfortable, was angered over what he
regarded as a paltry severance package, two friends said.
After all, he had driven Christie's from perennial second place to the equal
of its longtime rival, Sotheby's. But the friends said he was more worried
that he was being set up to take the blame if a dormant antitrust
investigation by the United States Justice Department in New York ever came
to life.


New York Times 10/12/00
Site-Seeing: Metabrowsers
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/12/technology/12SITE.html

If you are not inclined to set up a customized portal or download a
personalization taskbar, there are other tools that are designed to
streamline your Web browsing. They are sometimes called metabrowsers because
they provide information about the information you are viewing.
For example, you may be reading a Web page that mentions a jazz band that
interests you. Click on the band's name (even if it is not hyperlinked) and
these tools will open up a window on your screen offering related links, news
articles and, of course, online shops that sell the band's music. Many of
these applications also work outside the Web browser, with Microsoft Word
documents or e-mail messages, if you are using a Windows-based machine.


New York Times 10/11/00
Durst, a collector of more than buildings
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/11/arts/11DURS.html

by Celestine Bohlen
When he died in 1995, Seymour B. Durst owned so many books, maps, postcards,
pamphlets, newspaper clippings and brochures about New York City that his
five- story town house on East 61st Street was bursting at the seams. Just
eight years earlier, he and his books had outgrown a four-story brownstone on
East 48th Street.
Visitors to both houses described finding books on the stairs, in the
refrigerator and even in the bathtub, lovingly arranged by topic and by room
according to a quirky system that came to be dubbed the Durst Quintessimal
System.


New York Times 10/06/00
Lost Grand Central lamps turn up on an eBay listing
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/06/nyregion/06LAMP.html

by David Dunlap
And the winning bid for 15 original light fixtures from Grand Central
Terminal offered on eBay? A search warrant.
Three years ago, amid the tumult and upheaval of renovation, numerous ceiling
fixtures - handsome brass rosettes of oak leaves and acorns - disappeared
from the lower concourse of the terminal. Replicas had to be fashioned, at a
total cost of $15,000.
That seemed to be the end of the story until last week, when the fixtures
surfaced again. On eBay.
"Original N.Y. Grand Central Station Ceiling Lamp," the listing said. "The
lamps were given to one of the electricians in charge of the recent
renovations."


New York Times 10/05/00
I.R.S. agents seized records from a New Jersey school board
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/05/nyregion/05WYCK.html

by Robert Hanley
WYCKOFF, N.J., Oct. 4 - Federal tax agents have seized seven years' worth of
financial records from the headquarters of the school board in this affluent
suburban community as part of an investigation into possible money
laundering, corruption and budget irregularities, officials said today.
A few hours after the raid, the school board voted to suspend the district's
business administrator.
Ten agents of the Internal Revenue Service spent most of Tuesday afternoon at
the board's small, one- story office building examining files, and left with
several cartons of vendor lists, purchase orders, bills and a computer
containing financial data, Benjamin Fox, the president of the school board,
said.


New York Times 10/11/00
Proof from MetroCard ends fare-beating case
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/11/nyregion/11SWIP.html

by Randy Kennedy
City officials have decided to settle a federal civil rights case filed by a
19-year-old Brooklyn student who was arrested two years ago for jumping a
turnstile when he had, in fact, paid his fare using a MetroCard.
The case was one of thousands of fare-beating arrests that have been pursued
by the police over the last six years as they have focused on minor offenses
as a way to catch criminals wanted for more serious crimes.
But the incident involving the student, Omar Lovell, now 19, demonstrated how
the MetroCard system, besides providing discounts, can also provide evidence
to help exonerate or, in other cases, prosecute those arrested.


Editor & Publisher Online 10/16/00
Gray vetoes California Open-Records Bill
Democratic Governor is tough on crime (and newspapers)
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/101600n11.htm

by Joel Davis
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed for a second time
legislation that would have allowed Californians to ask the state attorney
general to review public agencies' denials of requests for public records.


Vero Beach Press Journal 10/16/00
Mountains of records
Some public records are saved for years, some go to landfill
http://www.tcpalm.com/vero/16v331.shtml

by Jayne Hustead
If you're stopped for a minor traffic violation, a copy of that flimsy little
paper the police officer gives you only stays in the courthouse 60 days. But
commit a felony and, sorry, your dossier remains on file for 75 years - or 10
if you're not convicted.
Being divorced with children keeps you in the system until your oldest child
is 18 and then another 10 years after that.
Get your small claims suit resolved and you're on file for two years. Enter
into larger civil cases and hang around five years.



Business Wire 10/10/00
Content Technologies previews MAILpreserver Email Archiving Soluction for
Microsoft Exchange 2000
MAILpreserver(TM) enables management of unchecked mailbox growth, and
preserves email within a secure archive for future retrieval
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/001010/tx-content-technologies

DALLAS (BUSINESS WIRE) - Content Technologies today previewed
MAILpreserver(TM) for Microsoft Exchange 2000.
This new product will allow customers to preserve, index and retrieve email.
MAILpreserver(TM) enhances administration of mailboxes with policy-based
archiving, which provides an audit trail for legal, regulatory and standards
compliance, and reduces total cost of ownership by minimizing downtime.


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/16/00
Unearthing Wisconsin's history
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/oct00/hist16101500a.asp

by Robert Wade
Special to the Journal Sentinel
Madison - Nearly a century ago, horse-drawn wagons carried the contents of
the State Historical Society from space at the Capitol to a building at the
heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
On Thursday, the society will hold a re-enactment of that trip at noon to
mark the centennial of the dedication of its Madison headquarters on State
St. The event will kick off two days of events designed to commemorate the
anniversary.



Portland Press Herald 10/16/00
War's labors found
http://www.portland.com/news/state/001016diary.shtml

by Ray Routhier
Elaine Herrmann doesn't know how the diary of a Civil War sailor ended up in
her basement in Monterey, Calif.
She knows only that at some point the story of Josiah Parker Higgins, a
sailor from Maine, touched her. And made her believe it was worth preserving.
"It was a blessing and a curse to have this amazing Civil War document end up
in my lap," Herrmann said from her home in Monterey, south of San Francisco.
"I thought, if it had sat in the basement all these years, who will preserve
it? If I do nothing with it, who will?"



Nando Times 10/16/00
Florida court rules anonymous net postings not protected
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500269480-500419505-502600227-0,00.

html

by Catherine Wilson
Associated Press
MIAMI (October 16, 2000 5:04 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - In a
ruling that challenges online anonymity, a Florida appeals court ruled Monday
that Internet service providers must reveal the identities of people who post
defamatory messages on the Internet.
Critics of the ruling say it could have a chilling effect on free expression
in Internet chat rooms.
The ruling comes against the efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union to
protect the identity of eight individuals who posted anonymous missives on a
Yahoo! financial chat room about Erik Hvide, the former CEO of Hvide Marine
Inc.





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

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