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RAIN 11/15 : Door No 1, Door No. 2 or is it Door No. 3?



Bangor Daily News 11/13/00
3 tribal governors continue documents dispute
http://www.bangornews.com/cgi-bin/article.cfm?storynumber=23810

by Susan Young
INDIAN ISLAND - Governors of three of the state's Indian tribes, who were 
found in contempt of court last week for not turning over documents relating 
to water regulation to three paper companies, will be at the Androscoggin 
County Courthouse at 9 a.m. today. They will not be there to turn over 
documents. 
Superior Court Judge Robert Crowley ordered the three men to show up at the 
building in Auburn that also houses the county jail at that time unless they 
decided to turn over the documents or file an appeal of his ruling. Such an 
appeal would be filed with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Portland. 


USA Today 11/13/00
Jury's in: Lawyers find in favor of Net Ability to research and file 
documents online raises level of efficiency
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20001113/2831938s.htm

by Michelle Kessler
Greg Siskind has a happy marriage, lives in an area he loves and enjoys 
practicing law -- thanks to the Internet. 
In the early 1990s, Siskind was working for one of the largest law firms in 
Nashville. He took the job after graduating from nearby Vanderbilt University 
law school and was courting a woman he hoped would be his wife. There was 
just one problem -- Siskind discovered that he wanted to be an immigration 
lawyer after handling a few cases for his firm, and there wasn't much demand 
for that specialty in the middle of Tennessee. 
He looked for jobs out of state, but his fiancée made it clear that she 
wasn't moving. 
Then the Internet took off, and Siskind suddenly had a way to communicate 
with potential clients around the world. During a frantic three months in 
1994, he got married, put up a rudimentary Web site and started his own firm.. 


Los Angeles Times 11/13/00
Court records will soon be at your fingertips
http://www.latimes.com/editions/ventura/vcnews/20001113/t000108852.html

by Holly J. Wolcott
There won't be any smiling faces or pleasant banter about the latest hot 
case, but local court officials promise that a new records section will be a 
friendly place. 
In a couple of weeks--give or take a couple of weeks--the Ventura County 
Superior Court hopes to have its virtual public records counter up and 
running on the Internet. 
The site, which is several months behind schedule, will provide access on 
traffic stuff, infractions and other criminal records for information about 
charges, a case's status and hearing dates. 


Edmonton Journal 11/13/00
Museum given 40,000 Italian records
Revered collection staying in Canada, despite overseas bid
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news1/stories/001113/4861130.html

Frank Carenza is ready to say goodbye to thousands of recordings on the 
shelves of his east Toronto home, the friends he and his wife Rose have cared 
for lovingly over the past 50 years. 
Caruso. Toscanini. Mascagni. Italian pop songs. The folksongs that Italians 
sang as they prepared to move to Canada or the United States in the years 
after the Second World War. The songs they sang after arriving in North 
America. Dramatic performances by Italian actors. LPs. 45s. 78s. 
"As I've listened to some of the tunes, I've been shedding a tear or two when 
I realize I'm not going to hear them anymore," says Carenza, a 74-year-old 
retired broadcaster, who is donating his collection of more than 40,000 
recordings -- which have filled three entire rooms -- to the Canadian Museum 
of Civilization. 


USA Today 11/13/00
Book lovers defend Colo. Store
Owner refuses to share records with police in drug case
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20001113/2832143s.htm

by Tom Kenworthy
DENVER -- In a little over a quarter-century, the Tattered Cover Book Store 
has become a Denver institution, revered in its own quirky way as much as the 
city's football team or its Red Rocks outdoor amphitheater. 
The Tattered Cover's funky, sprawling building in the Cherry Creek 
neighborhood, with cozy armchairs and couches nestled in nooks crammed with 
reading material, is a Mecca for book lovers from throughout the USA. 
Noted for its ambience, huge selection and customer service, Tattered Cover 
is widely regarded as one of the nation's best general bookstores, a place 
that houses 500,000 volumes and will scour the earth for any it does not 
stock. 



Salt Lake Tribune 11/14/00
Bid records were kept vague
http://www.sltrib.com/11142000/utah/43366.htm

by Linda Fantin
Olympic bid officials were told by their lawyers to intentionally keep 
minutes of meetings vague, advice that could well undermine the usefulness of 
those records in the Salt Lake bribery case. 
Confidential documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune show that in the 
early days of the 2002 bid, campaign chief financial officer Craig Peterson 
complained to attorney Kelly Flint that minutes of executive committee 
meetings were not detailed enough. Flint said it was done on purpose to 
protect trustees from potential litigation, Peterson recalled in the 
documents. 
Another attorney with the Salt Lake City law firm Ray Quinney & Nebeker, Jim 
Jardine, in a February 1996 memo also cautioned against making the minutes 
more exact
Flint is now general counsel for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and 
Jardine continues to provide outside legal advice. Both declined comment for 
this story, citing attorney-client privilege. 


Honolulu Advertiser 11/14/00
Historical photos stolen from Arakawa's
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/1114localnews19.html

by James Gonser
WAIPAHU - Several pieces of Hawai'i's plantation history disappeared last 
week during two burglaries of the former Arakawa's store on Waipahu Depot 
Road. 
According to police, burglars broke into the vacant, plantation-style store 
sometime between the afternoon of Nov. 9 and early Saturday morning, making 
off with about a dozen historical photos framed in koa or sugar cane, and a 
surfboard.
Former store owner Goro Arakawa said the photos depict the Waipahu area 
before development took over and the sugar industry died.
He said customers would recognize the photos, which for decades hung in the 
store.


New York Times 11/14/00
Mother lode of TV comedy is found in forgotten closet
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/14/arts/14SHOW.html

by Glenn Collins
The Egyptians may have King Tut's tomb. But now New Yorkers have Max 
Liebman's closet. 
The staff of the City Center in Manhattan has found 47 boxloads of long-lost 
scripts and other memorabilia from "Your Show of Shows," "The Admiral 
Broadway Revue" and many other pioneering television productions. 
The papers were stashed away in the closet by Mr. Liebman, a legendary 
producer from the golden age of television who died in 1981 at the age of 78.. 
The closet, which was locked and painted shut, is believed to have been 
undisturbed for close to 40 years.


New York Times 11/14/00
Closet reveals comedy treasure trove
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Comedy-Rediscovered.html

Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- When workers cracked open the door of a forgotten closet in 
midtown Manhattan, they uncovered a treasure trove of comedy more than 40 
years old.
``It's as exciting as an Egyptian tomb that's been opened,'' comedian Carl 
Reiner told The New York Times. ``Did they find any dead writers there?''
Not exactly.
But the City Center staff did find box upon box of scripts and other 
memorabilia from ``Your Show of Shows,'' ``The Admiral Broadway Revue'' and a 
number of other pioneering television shows, the Times reported Tuesday.


Nando Times 11/14/00
Holocaust lawyer goes underground
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500279709-500438847-502811220-0,00.

html

by Pauline Jelinek
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (November 14, 2000 5:28 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A 
former Nuremberg prosecutor warned the FBI in 1969 that he feared Holocaust 
revisionist author David Irving planned to tamper with transcripts or tapes 
of the Nazi war crimes trial in U.S. archives. 
The British historian visited the National Archives numerous times. The 
agency's retired expert on World War II records said Tuesday he knows of no 
evidence that Irving mishandled records he examined. 
A letter that the late Robert M.W. Kempner, who prosecuted Nazi war crimes 
suspects in the postwar Nuremberg trials, wrote to then-FBI Director J. Edgar 
Hoover, was among documents released by the FBI and the National Archives and 
Records Administration. 


Las Vegas Sun 11/14/00
Black sailors served in Civil War
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2000/nov/14/111400450.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers have documented that approximately 18,000 
blacks, including more than a dozen women, served in the U.S. Navy during the 
Civil War, the Pentagon said Tuesday. 
The number is about 8,000 more than researchers had expected to find when 
they began examining records at the National Archives, including personnel 
files. The work was done by researchers from the Naval Historical Center in 
conjunction with Howard University's Department of History and the National 
Park Service. 


Times of India 11/15/00
Documents damaged in Churchgate fire
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/15mbom1.htm

MUMBAI: One person was killed and another injured while property and several 
documents belonging to the Western Railway (WR) were damaged in two separate 
incidents of fire in the metropolis on Tuesday morning. 
According to the fire brigade, one Murtaza Mushtaq (25) was killed and 
Shakeel (20) was injured following a explosion due to gas leakage from a 
cylinder at Oshiwara. Several hutments and a garage were also gutted in the 
blaze which occurred at 11.10 a.m. 
Earlier, property and several railway documents were destroyed in a fire that 
broke out in the first floor of the administrative office of WR at Churchgate 
station. However, no casualties were reported. 



Portland Press Herald 11/14/00
Tribal leaders appeal ruling, stay out of jail
http://www.portland.com/news/state/001114tribes.shtml

by Roberta Scruggs
AUBURN - The governors of the Penobscot Nation and Passamaquoddy Tribes 
stayed out of jail Monday and avoided turning over documents to three paper 
companies by appealing, reluctantly, to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
"I don't feel, sitting in jail, I can really be a leader to my people," Gov. 
Barry Dana of the Penobscot Nation said at a news conference Monday. "I'm not 
sure being a martyr is going to get us anywhere."
On Thursday, Superior Court Justice Robert Crowley stunned Dana and 
Passamaquoddy Govs. Richard Doyle of Pleasant Point and Richard Stevens of 
Indian Township by citing them for contempt of court and ordering them to 
jail. 


Orange County Register 11/14/00
Criminal used the DMV for aliases
Identity: Felon repeatedly altered his appearance and thumbprint to obtain 83 
driver's licenses
http://www.ocregister.com/news/dmv01114cci1.shtml

by Kimberly Kindy
It took the Department of Motor Vehicles over eight years to catch up with 
the many faces of Randall Clifton Kling. 
The convicted felon managed to fool the DMV 83 times, securing a driver's 
license for each of his numerous aliases and using the licenses to bolster 
his life of crime, according to department and court records. 
He was brazen. Visiting as many as 10 DMV offices in one day, the 44-year-old 
repeatedly posed for the department's cameras, using plastic surgery and hair 
dye to alter his appearance over the years, according to DMV documents, 
police and interviews with victims. 


Las Vegas Review-Journal 11/14/00
Curiosity drives genealogy enthusiasts
Researching family trees requires sleuthing skills old and new
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2000/Nov-14-Tue-2000/living/14775733.html

by Joan Whitely
Feed a family genealogist one tidbit of information, and he or she 
immediately craves more. Their appetites are insatiable. 
Helen Smith of Las Vegas, for example, started searching about 25 years ago 
to learn more about her grandparents, all of whom came from Finland. 
At last report, she has traced her lineage back to 1430. Her 14th 
great-grandfather on her maternal grandfather's side was Ragvald Koiraniemi 
from the Finnish province of Vaasa. 
Without stepping outside the United States, Smith was able to view Lutheran 
church records from the Genealogical Society of Finland -- thanks to the 
Internet. 



Denver Post 11/14/00
Treasury report on Indian trusts sought
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1114d.htm

by Bill McAllister
Denver Post Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON - Lawyers for the Colorado-based Native American Rights Fund asked 
a federal judge Monday to make public an internal report on six Treasury 
Department lawyers accused of improper conduct in the handling of Indian 
trust records. 
Treasury officials are attempting to keep the report secret, saying it deals 
with personnel issues. 
U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has not indicated when he might rule on 
a request from Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to seal the report on the 
lawyers' conduct. Dow Jones Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has 
asked Lamberth for the right to intervene in the case so it can argue for 
releasing the report. 


Huntsville Times 11/14/00
Two honored for historic preservation work
A&M history professor, Echota Cherokee leader recognized by state
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Nov2000/14-e9743.html

Staff reports
A history professor at Alabama A&M University and a leader of the Echota 
Cherokee Tribe of Alabama have won state awards for their work in historic 
preservation. 
Dr. James Johnson of A&M and Billy Shaw of Cullman were among 10 people who 
received distinguished service awards Saturday night at the state Capitol 
from Alabama Historical Commission. 
They were among 80 nominees for the awards. 




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

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