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RAIN 11/19: Weekend Update Part 2



New York Times 11/12/00
Counterintelligence: She shopped till she dropped everything off at the museum
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/living/12COUN.html

by Alex Witchel
WHEN Valerie Steele, the acting director of the Museum at the Fashion
Institute of Technology, met Evangeline Morphos last week, she grasped her
hand eagerly. "You've become a mythical figure for me," she exclaimed.
Ms. Morphos looked pleased and a little embarrassed. An associate professor
in the theater division at the School of the Arts at Columbia University, and
the wife of a Columbia history professor, she does not seem a likely
candidate to inspire such breathlessness from the high-fashion crowd. But
after acting on a millennial New Year's resolution to clean out the storage
room in her Upper West Side apartment, Ms. Morphos has found herself the
newest object of Seventh Avenue's affection.
In addition to 2,000 Playbills and 10 years' worth of Architectural Digest,
Ms. Morphos turned up 193 pieces of Perry Ellis signature clothing
(color-block sweaters, cropped trousers, oversize jackets) she had bought and
worn in the early 1980's. She contacted Perry Ellis International offering to
donate them, and a team was dispatched to examine the goods, which Ms.
Morphos displayed on racks in her dining room. For the company, it was a
windfall; following the designer's death in 1986 it moved several times and
had no material archive of the clothing, only videos.



Bergen Record 11/18/00
Yale fight song still fun
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/yalee200011185.htm

by Diane Scarponi
Associated Press
When Yale's football team was getting ready to play Harvard in 1900, a
student put together a simple, fun-to-sing song to rouse the crowd at the
Yale Bowl.
A hundred years later, the song's refrain, "Boola Boola," is synonymous with
old-time college football and steeped in mystery, as befits the Ivy League of
yore.
The recent discovery in Montclair of documents from the song's author is
helping put some of the mystery to rest.
Contrary to popular myth, "boola" doesn't mean anything in Hawaiian, and the
song wasn't written by Cole Porter. The author was 1901 Yale graduate Allan
M. Hirsh, who adapted the song from an 1898 song called "La Hoola Boola."



New York Times 11/19/00
Key's holder unlocks mystery of TV treasure
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/19/nyregion/19KEY.html

by Glenn Collins
So just how did all those television scripts get into Max Liebman's closet,
and why did they remain undiscovered for so long?
Those were just a few of the questions raised on Tuesday, when The New York
Times reported that the staff of the City Center in Manhattan had unearthed a
trove of 47 boxloads of scripts and other memorabilia in a locked,
painted-shut closet that had not been disturbed for decades. The papers were
stashed away by Mr. Liebman, a legendary producer from the golden age of
television who died in 1981 at what was believed at the time to be the age of
78.
The closet was a few steps from the sixth-floor office at 130 West 56th
Street long known as the writers' room, where Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca and
Carl Reiner worked with young writers like Mel Brooks and Neil Simon to
create their classic comic sketches in the 1950's for "Your Show of Shows."



Rocky Mountain News 11/19/00
Public records making way to Web
Efforts to increase security will probably intensify debate over information
access
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1119secr3.shtml

by John Sanko
Secrets at Colorado's Statehouse?
You bet.
There always have been, and there always will be.
But things have changed dramatically from the days when lawmakers hid behind
closed doors for political caucuses and committee hearings.
Laws today force meetings to be announced in advance and be open to the
public.
Records are being put on the Internet in growing numbers.
But the fight over information that is public -- and that which is hidden --
continues. More battles likely will occur in the next few years, partly due
to efforts to increase security for government officials and the public.
Opponents of wider public access to government data often cite individual
rights to privacy.



Rocky Mountain News 11/19/00
Concealed-gun permits often secret
Officials disagree on whether lists of permit holders must be made available
to public
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1119guns2.shtml

by Kevin Vaughn
More than 9,100 Coloradans have a license to pack heat, and two-thirds of the
state's sheriffs don't want you to know who they are.
Those sheriffs -- 41 of the 62 across the state -- relied on one
interpretation of Colorado's public records laws to deny public access to the
identities of those who have obtained permits to carry concealed weapons.
Other sheriffs released printed lists of permit holders, basing their
decision on another interpretation of state law.
It's an issue that has confounded and confused lawmakers, concealed-weapons
permit holders and sheriffs alike.



Rocky Mountain News 11/19/00
Cities find Web pages more useful
http://www.insidedenver.com/news/1119riot3.shtml

by John C. Ensslin
The ashes of a Boulder riot in August had barely cooled when city officials
plastered color pictures of the revelers on the city's Web page.
Officials hoped that Web surfers would be able to identify some of the
rioters so police could arrest them. It's worked before.
"We made six arrests in the Halloween riot," city spokeswoman Jennifer Bray
said of the Oct. 30, 1999, disturbance that seriously injured a police
officer.
"I believe the photos on the Web site were a direct reason for those
arrests."
It worked again in August, leading to five more arrests, Bray said.
Fingering rioters is just one of many uses that Colorado cities, counties and
state agencies have made of their Web pages.



Denver Post 11/19/00
Hopes dim for settlement of Indian trust lawsuit
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1119b.htm

by Bill McAllister
Barely a month after Congress directed the InteWrior Department to settle the
massive lawsuit over its 300,000 mismanaged Indian trust accounts, the
chances of an out-ofcourt resolution of the billion-dollar dispute have faded
dramatically.
Treasury officials admitted last week that they had destroyed another four
boxes of documents related to the claims, a statement that infuriated lawyers
for the Indians. The lawyers quickly threatened to reopen the first phase of
the case.
"We're back at all-out war," said Dennis Gingold, the Washington lawyer who
has taken a lead role in pressing the case. Efforts to resolve the case out
of court have collapsed, said Gingold, who used to practice law in Denver.
Gingold disclosed that lawyers representing American Indians had reached an
agreement with the Interior Department on Aug. 14 that would have resolved
all the issues from the first phase of the case. In return, the government
would drop its appeal of the dispute to a federal court here in Washington
and begin to wrestle with the issue of how much damages the Indians are due.



Los Angeles Times 11/19/00
Clinton Library shaping up
http://www.latimes.com/wires/wpolitics/20001119/tCB00V0206.html

by Peggy Harris
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK--In the hours before dawn, 50 tons of President Clinton's
memorabilia were unloaded Sunday into an old auto dealership remodeled to
store the country's largest presidential collection.
The first shipment for the Clinton Presidential Library contained paintings,
antiques, books, and gifts from the heads of state of foreign countries, said
Skip Rutherford, coordinator of the privately funded $25 million project.
The gifts, which actually belong to the United States, have "high intrinsic
value and high diplomatic value," Rutherford said. "They are one of a kind."
The first shipment arrived in six tractor-trailer trucks. Several others will
follow until Clinton officially leaves the White House on Jan. 20.



Asbury Park Press 11/19/00
Ciba papers show possible health threats considered
http://www.app.com/news/app/story/0,2110,322284,00.html

by Jean Mikle
TOMS RIVER -- The documents are certainly tantalizing for those Dover
Township residents who have long thought the former Ciba-Geigy Corp. is
responsible for health problems here.
Internal company memorandums attached as exhibits to a lawsuit filed
Wednesday in Ocean County Superior Court appear to show Ciba employees were
at least aware of potential health and environmental contamination connected
to waste-disposal practices at the Route 37 chemical plant.
The memorandums are attached to the latest lawsuit filed against Ciba and
United Water Toms River by lawyers Norman M. Hobbie, Angelo Cifaldi, Michael
Gordon and Christopher Placitella.
"We have uncovered documents that reveal that the defendants had knowledge of
air and water pollution for over 40 years," Gordon said of the papers turned
over to the four lawyers over the last few months.
The suit was filed on behalf of 144 people who believe they have been harmed
by contaminated water and air emanating from the Ciba plant, which was placed
on the federal Superfund list in 1982.





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

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