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RAIN 12/17: Weekend Update Part 3



Richmond Times Dispatch 12/17/00
A family in focus
Dementis' cameras have captured for posterity images of times long past
http://www.timesdispatch.com/flair/MGBLECUPPGC.html

by Janet Caggiano
Four years ago, sixtysomething Betty Dementi telephoned her cousin and told
him she was selling the family business.
But Wayne Dementi would have none of that.
A 31-year veteran with Bell Atlantic, Dementi quit his job as director of
customer service for Virginia and West Virginia, bid farewell to his
co-workers and returned to his roots.
"I had a great career," Wayne Dementi said. "And I didn't want to leave it.
But I didn't want the family business to go either."
So in 1997, he took over as president of Dementi Studio, Richmond's oldest
surviving photography studio. And his cousin, now 70, continues working by
his side as secretary-treasurer.



Sacramento Bee 12/17/00
Terminal chic: San Francisco's sleek new facility for fliers is not your
ordinary gate mall
http://www.sacbee.com/lifestyle/news/lifestyle10_20001217.html

by Patricia Beach Smith
Be careful! The diversions at San Francisco's new International Terminal are
so good, you might miss your plane while checking them out.
Waiting for planes has practically become a profession, so airports have
wised up and realized they have a captive audience for everything from
shopping and eating to browsing through art exhibits.
SFO's new, $2.1 billion terminal, which opened Dec. 10 and is designed to
serve 12 million passengers per year, is in step with the worldwide trend.
Everything from permanent and changing art exhibits to the Discovery Channel
Store and two Aerzones -- business centers complete with loaded PCs, Internet
connections and copiers -- awaits travelers with time on their hands.



Chicago Tribune 12/17/00
Key to art Nazis stole may be locked away
Commission's plan to publish postwar loss claims in peril
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0012170403,00.html

by Ron Grossman
COLLEGE PARK, Md. As a government commission on Holocaust reparations
prepares to issue its final report, a massive cache of World War II records
documenting Nazi looting of works by some of the greatest artists in history
may remain virtually inaccessible, despite the commission's earlier plans to
publish it.
Those records--a list of claims made immediately after the war for missing
works of art by Old Masters and pioneers of modernism such as Degas, Renoir,
Tintoretto and Tiepolo--have been hidden away in government archives for half
a century, frustrating efforts by a dying generation of Holocaust survivors
and the art world to track down thousands of paintings and sculptures. Now a
lack of funding and bureaucratic mishaps could again consign those documents
to an obscure shelf in the National Archives here, instead of being organized
into a computer-searchable archive.



Cincinnati Enquirer 12/17/00
Court orders release of stadium documents
'Public has a right of access,' ruling says
http://enquirer.com/editions/2000/12/17/loc_court_orders_release.html

A court ordered Hamilton County officials Friday to release documents and
correspondence about cost overruns during the construction of Paul Brown
Stadium.
County officials had refused to make the documents public despite repeated
requests by Enquirer reporters.
The county contended the documents could remain secret because they involved
records from the private firms hired to do work at the stadium.
But the Ohio 1st District Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the records
involved a huge public expense and should be made public.



Dallas Observer 12/14/00
Meet John Doe
Trinity Industries certainly wants to, at least when it comes to Internet
critics
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2000-12-14/news.html

by Mark Donald
Let's say you're a disgruntled employee working for corporation, and your
boss, the CEO, really pisses you off. You've grown weary of his sharp
business practices, his wasteful spending, his penchant for young women.
Let's say you are sitting at home in front of your computer, and you decide
to log on to an Internet message board, where thousands of like-minded
bitchers and moaners can post their thoughts, frustrations, and opinions
virtually uncensored. You assume a screen name--something cute like
cybervengeance4me--believing you have the reached that final frontier of free
expression where, under the cloak of anonymity, you can say anything without
fear of retribution or litigation.





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

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