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RAIN 02/06: Do I keep it? or Do I cash it?



New York Times 02/04/01
What gift-givers can do with a Presidential check
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/politics/04CLIN.html

by Dean E. Murphy
So you've given a gift to the president and his wife, something you hoped
would make them comfortable in their post-White House years. A television.
Some fine china. A chandelier, perhaps?
Suddenly, a check arrives in the mail signed by none other than William J.
Clinton or Hillary Rodham Clinton. Because of the political heat generated by
your generosity, the former president and current senator have decided to pay
you back.



Edmonton Journal 02/05/01
Bittersweet memories of Canadian soldiers at war
Items stripped by Nazis arrive at home after 55 years
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news1/stories/010205/5119508.html

by Michael Tutton
CP
The weathered brown pay books, containing poetry and photos of long-ago
lovers, don't appear to have strategic military value.
But for 55 years, the 30 personal items stripped from the uniforms of dead
and captured Canadian soldiers were carefully catalogued and then archived
first by Berlin and -- after the Russians occupied the city -- carried off to
the former Soviet Union.
Only late last year did Russia return the dog tags, letters and booklets to
Britain. From there, they finally found their way to the surprised eyes of
Veterans Affairs officials in Charlottetown.



The Times 02/05/01
Church-based museum keeps photo record of Sewickley
http://www.timesonline.com/news/news/4410286.htm

by John Hanna
SEWICKLEY
The 100 or so photographs on display in the basement social room of St.
Matthews AME Zion Church in Sewickley are just part of the collection of
historic pictures accumulated by the David B. Matthews Historical Society.
The problem is there isn't enough wall space for the entire collection of
photos that provides glimpses of the lives and times of African-Americans in
the Sewickley area. The collection just keeps growing.



New York Times 02/05/01
Einstein and Freud on Swiss bank Holocaust list
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/world/holocaust-swiss.html

Reuters
ZURICH, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud appeared on a
list of some 21,000 dormant accounts judged most likely to have belonged to
Holocaust victims that was published by Swiss banks on Monday.
Swiss bank officials were unable to say whether the famed German-born
physicist and the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis were in fact the account
holders or if the names were just coincidence.



Haaretz 02/05/01
Shredding documents to prepare for a change of government
A new study shows Israel lacks a culture of orderly change of administration
http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?id=109192&wordd=shredding&ma

dor=5&se=true&datee=2/5/01

by Mazal Mualem
"Our replacements at the minister's office will come into a completely empty
office. We shall simply disappear, (but) not before we shred documents and
empty our computers of all important material." This statement by a senior
aide to a very senior minister in Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government a
few days before the election testifies to the preparations being made for a
possible change of administration to Likud candidate MK Ariel Sharon's
people, on the assumption that the opinion polls are right. Its basis is a
"thorough clean-out." This policy also characterizes less important
ministries.



Accountancy Age 02/05/01
Customs audit checks to cut red tape
Customs has launched a new initiative to speed up the processing of imported
goods by first identifying which companies have inaccurate reporting systems.
http://www.accountancyage.com/News/1117195

By our parliamentary staff
The aim of the new procedures is to cut costs and reduce red tape by using
traders' records and systems to verify import records.
Customs & Excise audit teams are being instructed to document key controls
and weaknesses in trading companies' importing systems before allowing them
to speed goods through ports.



Daily News 02/06/01
SLFP to document its history
http://www.lanka.net/lakehouse/2001/02/06/pol01.html

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party has decided to write down its 48 year history and
set up an archives depicting its evolution at party headquarters for the
benefit of historians, researchers and the general public.



PRNewswire 02/05/01
Travis Street partners seeks documents relating to executive housing in
Britain
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010205/tx_travis_.html

HOUSTON, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Travis Street Partners, LLC (``TSP''), formed
by a group of private Houston investors to acquire ICO, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICOC -
news), and the owner of 5.11% of ICO common stock, demanded last Friday to
review ICO books and records relating to the lease of three specified
residential properties in England, including two houses near Northampton and
an apartment in London.



Capital District Business Review 02/05/01
John Botti: The documented man
http://albany.bcentral.com/albany/stories/2001/02/05/story2.html

by Richard A. D'Errico
John Botti talks of the days in 1985 when he was a student at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. BitWise Designs Inc. came out of a senior project.
"I'm employee 1," Botti says.
At 37, he's also the CEO and president of the company. But BitWise, if Botti
has his way, is about to go by the wayside--the name, that is, not the
company.
BitWise started out building PC-based test equipment. Then it built PCs. Then
it built specialized PC-based document-storage systems. Then it invented
AuthentiDate. Now the company is about to name itself after its latest
product to reflect its new focus.



ComputerWorld 02/05/01 (Thanks to Rae Cogar JD for the tip)
Destroy E-mail, and find trouble
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV47-81_STO57277,00.html

by Emily Frye
An interesting approach to the problem of e-mail was published recently
[Technology, Jan. 1]: Destroy it. If e-mail creates legal havoc - so goes the
logic - why don't we just get rid of it? Even better, let's encrypt it and
manage the keys so that no one can access our messages again. In other words,
let's make e-mail disappear, thereby destroying it in a way deleting never
can.
But there's a problem with destroying e-mail. It's destroying evidence, and
that can land you in more legal trouble than you were trying to avoid in the
first place.



Computerworld 01/01/01
An e-mail shredder
This could be a hot ticket in our litigious society: e-mail that 'expires'
and can't be read or retrieved by anyone after a set date
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47-81_STO55565,00.html

by Barry D. Bayer
Most computer users with some experience treat e-mail with the informality of
an untaped phone call.
As Bill Gates and a host of lesser-known e-mail users have discovered, this
can be a big mistake. Increasingly, old e-mail, even internal e-mail, is
likely to be used as evidence in a court case. Sometimes, what was written in
an informal e-mail in the heat of the moment doesn't always look so good when
your company is under a litigator's microscope.
Obviously, you can delete e-mail, but deleted computer files have a nasty way
of resurfacing. A lawyer looking for provocative e-mail will send in a
forensic team to make image copies of your company's local and network hard
drives and backup tapes and then scan them for the proverbial "smoking gun."
What you may need is disappearing e-mail from the San Francisco firm that
calls itself Disappearing Inc.


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

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