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RAIN 02/08: Lamplighters, Big Orange, 84K and "You lost what?"



Boston Globe 02/07/01
Maine tribal leaders risk jail in pollution dispute
<http://www.boston.com/dailynews/038/region/Maine_tribal_leaders_risk_jail:.
shtml>

by Matt Kelley
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) In a test of tribal sovereignty, three American Indian
leaders in Maine are waging a court fight to avoid jail in a high-stakes
battle over paper, pollution and political power.
The Indian leaders say they're willing to be locked up rather than hand over
tribal documents to three timber companies that oppose the tribes' bid for
federal regulation of wastewater from paper plants.


Associated Press 01/25/01
Cuba to declassify secret papers
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010125/21/int-cuba-bay-of-pigs

HAVANA (AP) - Cuba will declassify a series of secret documents about the
Bay of Pigs invasion this year for the 40th anniversary of the disastrous
invasion attempt by a group of CIA-trained exiles, a senior Cuban official
said.
"This will be the first time that an important group of documents related to
the Bay of Pigs is declassified in Cuba," said Jose Ramon Fernandez, who
headed the Cuban troops who battled more than 1,000 invaders for two days
beginning on April 17, 1961.




Daily Yomiuri 02/07/01
Court leaked papers on judge's wife
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010207wo24.htm

The Fukuoka District Court leaked photocopies of documents on a case
involving a high court judge's wife who allegedly threatened to kill another
woman to the Fukuoka High Court, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The photocopied documents included a search warrant request and other papers
pertaining to the investigation, including an arrest warrant for the judge's
wife.


Knoxville News-Sentinel 02/07/01
ESPN asks that UT be ordered to hand over more documents
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/23362.shtml

by Laura Ayo
ESPN's ability to defend itself against federal defamation lawsuits will be
hindered if a magistrate's order limiting the number of documents it can
subpoena isn't altered, the sports network argued.
So ESPN attorneys S. Russell Headrick and Howard Vogel have asked U.S.
District Judge James Jarvis to order the University of Tennessee to produce
the thousands of student records and university documents it originally
subpoenaed in August.
Their request came in the form of an appeal of U.S. Magistrate Thomas
Phillips' Jan. 17 ruling that said UT only had to give ESPN limited
information relating to allegations of academic fraud or academic
improprieties involving the two people suing the sports network.



Knoxville News-Sentinel 02/07/01
U.S. magistrate Thomas Phillips' original rulings
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/23363.shtml

U.S. Magistrate Thomas Phillips ordered the University of Tennessee to
provide ESPN with any documents:
* That relate to allegations of academic fraud involving Victoria Gray, a
former UT tutor, and football player Reginald Ridley, or reasonably
calculated to lead to such information.
* That relate to investigations of alleged academic abuse in the Athletic
Department since July 1998 which would be reasonably calculated to lead to
information concerning acts of academic fraud involving Gray and Ridley.



Canoe.ca 02/07/01
Report reveals 20-year EI ripoffs
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonNews/lf.lf-02-07-0023.html

by John Ward
CP
OTTAWA -- For 20 years, workers in British Columbia's lower mainland have
been ripping off Employment Insurance with false papers, while government
agencies fumble, the auditor general said yesterday.
Faulty procedures and poorly trained bureaucrats were hapless to combat this
massive fraud, even though Human Resources Development Canada and Canada
Customs and Revenue were aware of the scheme, Denis Desautels said in his
annual report.




New York Times 02/07/01
News photographer's quick eye revealed an artist at heart
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/07/arts/07TEEN.html

by Stephen Kinzer
PITTSBURGH - A huge trove of photographs that depict half a century of black
American life is about to go on view here, giving a vivid face to
communities seldom explored by outsiders.
The 84,000 images were controlled by a private dealer for more than a
decade. Now, because of a court decision, they have been moved to a museum
and are being excitedly reviewed by scholars.
The works are the legacy of Charles H. (Teenie) Harris, a staff photographer
for The Pittsburgh Courier who ceaselessly chronicled daily existence on the
Hill, then the center of black life in Pittsburgh. Apparently he never threw
away a negative, from the day he started freelancing in the early 1930's
until he died in 1998.
The archive is breathtaking in scope: images range from a beaming Duke
Ellington signing autographs to a child immersed in a comic book, from a
proud shoemaker behind his bench to President John F. Kennedy giving a
speech in Pittsburgh while a police sharpshooter stands in silhouette atop a
nearby building.
An exhibition devoted to Harris's work is to open on Feb. 24 at the
Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh. It
will be the first time his pictures have been printed, framed and displayed
as fine art.




Arkansas Democrat Gazette 02/07/01
NY penthouse melded into Clinton library
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Wed/ark/A01xfoundation7.html

by Elisa Crouch
It's 1,248 miles away and doesn't resemble an archival facility, but former
President Clinton's posh office in Manhattan is now part of his library
project in Little Rock.
Members of the foundation raising money to build the Clinton library say
spending an annual $300,000 in donations on the rent for Clinton's New York
penthouse is the same as spending money on a "program without walls."
Among other things, the former president will use the office to develop the
Clinton School for Public Service, which will be housed in the 19th-century
Choctaw railroad station when the Clinton center opens in 2003 or 2004.





Central Europe Online 02/07/01
Poland opens Pandora's box of former secret police files
http://www.centraleurope.com/polandtoday/news.php3?id=284649

Agence France Presse
WARSAW, Feb 7, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) A possible Pandora's box was
opened Wednesday in Poland when Poles gained the right of access to former
communist secret police files.
All Poles can apply beginning Wednesday to see their secret police files,
but it is the National Remembrance Institute (IPN) which will decide who was
a victim of communist repression and should be allowed access to files.




Canoe.ca 02/07/01
Politics behind probe of Manitoba native treatment centre, lawyer charges
http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/CANOE-wire.Native-Treatment-Centre.html

WINNIPEG (CP) -- Election politics, not fiscal prudence, is behind Health
Canada's bid to audit a controversial Manitoba treatment centre, the lawyer
for the Virginia Fontaine Addictions Foundation charged Wednesday.
Numerous Health Canada officials knew beforehand that the centre was going
to conduct staff training on a Caribbean cruise ship, but they only got
upset when it became front-page news last October, said the centre's lawyer
Martin Tadman.




Florida Times-Union 02/07/01
Saving black history
Preserving blacks' fading heritage enters a 'a renaissance'
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/020701/met_5333980.html

by Alliniece T Andino
As part of any tour of Jacksonville's black heritage, passengers ride by a
few historic places where the buildings no longer exist.
Shops, hotels, nightclubs and movie theaters, places where black people
thrived, were torn down years ago -- before they could become monuments of
Jacksonville's African-American culture.
But recent developments indicate that is changing.





Los Angeles Times 02/07/01
The relentless reach of Laura Heilig
http://www.latimes.com/living/20010206/t000011145.html

by Fred Dickey
Special to the Times
VISTA, Calif.--Late in January, as the small audience in this courtroom
north of San Diego awaits the judge's entry, all eyes seek out the
defendant's table, then turn away, but always turn back. It is where David
Paul Frediani sits, accused of a murder that few even remember. His gaze is
fixed straight ahead, seemingly locked on the state seal above the judge's
empty bench. Surely, one thinks, he knows that everyone sitting behind him
is staring at the back of his head.
He is tall and sinewy, a swarthy man of 46 who looks younger, with a
physique even younger yet. He is an MBA who served as a financial analyst
with Pacific Bell in San Francisco at the time of his arrest. In a different
setting he might be considered handsome, but here he looks hard and mean,
the type of man who always wins a staredown. Longtime acquaintances know
little about him, but one thing is said time and again--he has problems with
women.




Salt Lake Tribune 02/07/01
State is unwilling to release Oly files, Welch, Johnson claim info could
help defense.
http://www.sltrib.com/02072001/utah/69272.htm

by Linda Fantin
As lawyers for Tom Welch and Dave Johnson prepare to dissect the federal
Olympic bribery case in court, state prosecutors are battling to keep their
findings secret.
The Attorney General's Office is refusing to release its case file on the
Salt Lake bid scandal despite having shelved the investigation almost six
months ago.
Disclosure, the state claims, could compromise the investigation if
reactivated, or possibly jeopardize the defendants' right to a fair trial.
Justice Department prosecutor Richard Wiedis and attorneys for Welch and
Johnson said they will not try to block release of the documents.




The Scotsman 02/07/01
Museum loses rare sword in move
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=44828

by Kate Foster
IT was one of the finest items in a superb collection of Scottish historical
artefacts; a mid-17th century claymore described as "unique" by experts.
The antique sword had been in the Earl of Moray's family for centuries, yet
he was happy to loan it to the National Museums of Scotland when a scholar
asked to study it.




Salt Lake Tribune 02/07/01
London lamplighters demand more pay
http://www.sltrib.com/02072001/nation_w/69284.htm

Associated Press
LONDON (AP) -- Lamplighters demanding extra pay for keeping city streets
aglow over Christmas won their bonuses Tuesday -- 236 years after filing
their claim.
Trade unionist Brian Strutton came across the claim, written in 1765 by the
Careful Society of Lamp-Lighters, during an exhibition several months ago at
the British Library:
"So hope kind Sirs you will maintain the fame,
"And raise immortal Glory to your Name;
"And at this merry time 'twill much delight us.
"For useful are We, tho' your poor Lamp-Lighters."





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