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RAIN 11/13 Part 1: Paper Purge, Cricketer's Letters and Privacy



Los Angeles Times 11/11/00
Paper purge by Art Festival Board draws attention
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/ocnews/20001111/t000108062.html

by Sharon Nagy
Special to The Times
Employees and artists at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts said they have
witnessed documents being shredded and bags of papers being torched in a kiln
on the famous grounds, but festival board members contend that it is nothing
more than a little autumn housecleaning.
Still--with a large chunk of the festival board having been recalled and
suspicions rampant--nobody seems to know quite what to make of the situation.
Five board members, who drew fire when they tried to move the 68-year-old art
festival to San Clemente, have until Tuesday to clear out. And until they
leave, employees and artists said, they don't know what they will--or
won't--find.


The Sunday Telegraph 11/12/00
Bradman's letters withdrawn from sale
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1405612%255E421,00.html

by Simon Kearney
A SYDNEY bookseller who attempted to cash in on Sir Donald Bradman's private
letters has withdrawn them from sale after public outrage.

Sir Donald reacted angrily when he learned on Friday of Glebe bookseller Paul
Feain's offer to sell the deeply personal and grief-stricken letters for
$20,000.
Yesterday Mr Feain apologised unconditionally after community leaders and
sport lovers called for him to desist.
"The last thing I want to do is upset such a great person as Sir Donald and
all I can do is apologise for causing him any hurt," Mr Feain said.
"I've offended Sir Donald Bradman and that wasn't the purpose of the exercise
- I'm a cricket fan and Sir Donald's an icon in Australia. I'm not about
upsetting people like him, I'm not about upsetting anyone, let alone a great
Australian."


The Australian 11/11/00
Bradman's letters of loneliness
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1402550%255E421,00.html

by Ben Mitchell
INTENSELY personal letters between Donald Bradman and his book publisher
about the death of his wife and the frustrations of his life have been
obtained by a Sydney bookshop owner who plans to sell them next week.
The 35 letters to Tom Thompson - the publisher of Sir Don's Farewell to
Cricket - between 1996 and 1998 reveal a frustrated, angry and lonely Sir Don
after the death of his wife, Jessie.
Sir Don yesterday condemned the sale of the letters by Mr Thompson, saying he
never intended the letters to be made public.


The Age 11/12/00
Bookseller bows to public anger
The Bradman Letters
http://www.theage.com.au/news/20001112/A43212-2000Nov11.html

by Heath Gilmore, Jim O'Rourke and Daniel Dasey
Bookseller Paul Feain yesterday refused to reveal what he would do with
personal letters by Sir Donald Bradman about the death of his wife, Lady
Jessie, despite withdrawing them from sale yesterday after an angry public
response.
The letters reveal the deep pain and despair suffered by the intensely
private Sir Donald after the death of his lifelong partner.
Sir Donald had described the proposed sale of the 35 letters - which include
a moving account of his wife's death - as intrusive, greedy and a betrayal.
The owner of Cornstalk Bookshops in Sydney's inner-city Glebe and Newtown, Mr
Feain said he decided to cancel the sale because of the effect on Sir
Donald's private life.


Bergen Record 11/10/00
Trash agency documents subpoenaed
http://www.bergen.com/region/pmpcua200011105.htm

by Mitchel Maddux
FBI agents have served subpoenas on the Passaic County Utilities Authority,
ordering the agency to turn over information about its past contracts with
attorneys, accountants, and other professional firms, officials said
Thursday.
The subpoenas, which were delivered to the agency's downtown Paterson office
Wednesday, appear to focus on the trash agency's no-bid professional service
contracts, said several officials familiar with the requests. They demand a
vast array of the PCUA's documents stretching over a five-year period, they
said.
The development is the latest in a federal grand jury probe into Passaic
County government.
Last Friday, the FBI subpoenaed a wide range of information about bank
accounts maintained by the Passaic County Sheriff's Department, as well as
the agency's purchasing files. Federal agents also served subpoenas last week
on Passaic County Community College, the county welfare board, and the
county's Technical Institute in Wayne.


Reuters 11/08/00
Privacy boundaries slowly erode in fortress Germany
http://news.excite.com/news/r/001108/01/germany-privacy

by Adam Tanner
BERLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - After decades of passionately defending their
privacy, more Germans than ever are letting down their guard and telling
marketers about their private habits and hobbies, often just for the chance
to win a modest prize.
The result, say critics, is that some of the world's toughest privacy and
data protection laws, formed as an antidote to Germany's 20th century history
of intrusion by the Nazi Gestapo and East German Stasi secret police, are
under threat.
And if you can't be sure of your privacy in Germany, some argue, you can't
count on it anywhere in the Internet age.
"The privacy problems are increasing very significantly," said Roland Cuny,
vice president at German software firm webwasher.com.
Direct marketers say consumer surveys over the past four years, as well as
the growth of Internet companies offering bonuses in exchange for personal
data, give firms an unprecedented house-by-house view into the world's third
largest economy.


Bergen Record 11/10/00
Germany's archives given Schindler's list
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/shind10200011108.htm

Associated Press
BERLIN -- An Israeli historian Thursday presented Germany's national archives
with an original copy of the famed list of nearly 1,100 Jews saved from Nazi
death camps by the industrialist Oskar Schindler.


Los Angeles Times 11/12/00
Taking paperwork out of home transactions
http://www.latimes.com/class/realestate/news/20001112/t000108417.html

By Jennifer Oldham
This isn't going to come as a surprise to anyone who's purchased a home:
About 300 documents change hands before a buyer gets the keys.
Now a handful of online real estate ventures are out to move all this paper
pushing online.
What's known in industry jargon as a "transaction management platform" has
replaced home listings compiled by local residential realty boards as the
must-have item for real estate Web sites.
"We've reached a point where everyone out there now has comparables, home
listings and neighborhood reports," said Nate Smith, a producer of Yahoo's
real estate site. "What will be interesting now is to see how companies bring
transaction services online."




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

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