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RAIN 12/27: Washington's Will and TJ's Plan



New York Times 12/26/00
Bush to get 'whistle clean' office
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Empty-White-House.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is the hub of government, yet the new
staff that walks into the West Wing on Inauguration Day will be lucky to find
a scrap of paper to jot down a phone number.
When a president leaves office, the White House is swept clean. File drawers
are emptied. Hard drives are yanked from computers. Office furniture is piled
in the hallways. Institutional memory disappears.
``The White House they enter is whistle clean. It contains empty desks, no
files from their predecessors,'' says Martha Kumar, one of several
presidential scholars working to smooth the 10-week presidential transition,
which is even shorter this year because of the postelection ballot drama.
This clean sweep is mandated by federal law, but presidential experts say
starting from scratch might not be the best way to begin a new presidency



Richmond Times Dispatch 12/26/00
Cyberspace's seamy side
Detective's beat: AOL archives
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGB2DCVZ6HC.html

by Paul Bradley
LEESBURG - Criminal solicitation of a minor for sexual purposes in
Pennsylvania. Second-degree rape in Maryland. A death threat in Connecticut.
Distribution of child pornography in Mississippi.
Ron Horak, a longtime detective in the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office and
the department's chief cyber-sleuth, has glimpsed them all.
"I don't think a day goes by when I am not just amazed by what I see," Horak
mused during a recent interview. "Just when you think you've seen it all,
something else even more amazing comes up."



Richmond Times Dispatch 12/26/00
Seminal letter is sold
Jefferson outlined U.Va. starting plan
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGB90LWZ6HC.html

by Carlos Santos
CHARLOTTESVILLE - Of all the letters Thomas Jefferson wrote - and there were
many - few have been as important to Charlottesville itself as Jefferson's
15-page paper on building the University of Virginia.
The 1817 document, really a memorandum, went on sale in mid-December at
Sotheby's, where it was bought for $280,750 by a New York City gallery.
The document, dry, long, detailed and to the point, is not easy to read. But
it's priceless.
"It was really more important than any letter because it got the university
under way," said Karin Wittenborg, the university librar- ian.



Richmond Times Dispatch 12/25/00
Washington's will undergoes facelift
American relic being restored page by page
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGB5R6KD5HC.html

by Steven Ginsberg
Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service
ALEXANDRIA - Christine Smith enters the vault. She slides over to flat file
cabinets in a rear corner, opens the top drawer and lifts a sheet of white
cardboard, revealing tattered, tannish pages with script penned in dark ink.
Smith plucks one. It is Page 25 of the last will and testament of George
Washington - on which he divvies parts of his estate among relatives - and
she takes it to her desk, where she will mend holes caused by unusual wear
and tear.
"This is humbling," Smith says as she places the sheet on her desk in her
Alexandria office.



The Daily Sentinel 12/26/00
Court records available on web
http://www.gjsentinel.com/auto/feed/news/local/2000/12/26/977840768.26396.9416

.0279.html

by Gary Harmon
Coloradans now can find out on the Internet if their babysitters have any
criminal convictions. Sometime next year, they'll be able to learn if their
sitters ever have been arrested in the state.
Court records now are online through CoCourts.com, a site that presents court
records in real time. In other words, when changes are made in a case,
they'll appear on CoCourts.com as soon as they're placed in the system by
court officials.
CoCourts.com is the result of an effort by the Colorado Judicial Department
to place public information on the Web, said Linda Bowers, public access
manager for the department.



Dallas Morning News 12/26/00
Universities staking claim to president-elect's papers
Baylor, SMU each offering library for Yale alumnus
http://www.dallasnews.com/bush/246574_library_26tex..html

Associated Press
WACO - President-elect George W. Bush hasn't yet moved into the White House,
but that hasn't stopped two Texas universities from fighting over where he'll
keep his books.
Southern Methodist University has entered the fray to land the second Bush
presidential library in Texas, pitting itself against Baylor University in
Waco.
"Any decision of this nature is going to be made on the merits of the
institution and the location involved," SMU spokeswoman Patti LaSalle told
the Waco Herald-Tribune on Monday. "We feel that we offer the best of both,
and we will make a good-faith effort to bring the library here."



Baltimore Sun 12/26/00
History of area brought to light
http://www.sunspot.net/content/news/story?section=news-maryland-sun&pagename=s

tory&storyid=1150520217903

by Jay Apperson
ELKTON - Anybody who knows anything about Maryland history and the War of
1812 can tell how a certain national anthem was composed beneath the rockets'
red glare. They might even know how a band of citizen-soldiers helped save
Baltimore from British invaders at the Battle of North Point.
But how many could find Elk Landing on a map?
Mike Dixon is preparing a little history lesson, and it comes with a sunken
ship, a 19th-century cannonball and a trove of records, writings and
knickknacks - all newly discovered and part of a planned "living history"
museum an hour's drive north of Baltimore.



Local historians share community treasures
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20001226history3.asp

by Jan Ackerman
Nate Marini, Beechview's amateur historian, doesn't have any formal training
in historic research. He's a retired bricklayer who built Beechview's history
brick by brick, cementing it with his own curiosity and common sense.
"Publishing it was tough -- especially when you are a one-finger typist,"
Marini, 71, said.
Working from his dining room table, Marini put together three booklets of
historical information about his community, which now is on file at the
Carnegie Library in Beechview.
Once a month, Marini shares his knowledge about his community with amateur
and seasoned historians from other communities. For the past five years, they
have been meeting in the upper room of the Overbrook Fire Station on Route
51, a room known around the community as the Overbrook Center.



The Age 12/26/00
AXA sues Pacific Century over loss of agents, data
http://www.theage.com.au/business/2000/12/26/FFX36MH05HC.html

by Gren Manuel
Asian Wall Street Journal
Hong Kong

Executives from AXA China Region received a tip several months ago: the
insurer's fiercest rival here, the Richard Li-controlled Pacific Century
Insurance Holdings, was using an office in the same building to poach some of
its most prized agents. They decided to find out for themselves.
What they discovered was far more startling. Scattered about the shelves of
the office, Room 701 in Miramar Tower, was classified AXA paperwork -
internal sales memos, draft contracts and confidential data about the firm's
clients.



The Times Of India 12/27/00
Papers worth crores found in PWD office
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/27indi41.htm

INDORE: That government departments here are working at a snail's pace can
well be explained by the recovery of valuable land and building documents
worth crores of rupees from the office of the public works department.
The documents were recovered by Indore collector Manoj Shrivastava on the
last day of the city contact drive, called the ``Nagar Sampark Abhiyan''. The
documents, recovered from circle no.1 office of the public works department
(PWD), have revealed lapses of a huge proportion on the part of PWD
officials. The department officials not only failed to recover lease money
worth crores of rupees from the parties in four cases, but also did not take
any step to renew the lease deed despite expiry of the lease period.






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

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