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RAIN 02/23 Part 1: Clinton library, sailing the bounding main and relics



Dallas Morning News 02/21/01
Clinton maelstrom hasn't hurt library
Controversy is good, director says
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/292628_arclinton_21te.html

by Suzi Parker
Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The head of the William J. Clinton Presidential
Foundation says recent controversies haven't hurt fund-raising efforts.
"Controversy is good for the library," Skip Rutherford said. "Friends and
supporters tend to keep coming out. The perspective now is that the library
has become politicized. The library is now in the political arena.
"It's short-term pain for long-term gain," he said.



Kennebec Journal 02/21/01
IN the wake of Columbus - just a bit later on
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/010221atlantic.shtml

by Dan McGillvray
AUGUSTA - For 18 days, James Henderson patrolled the semidark decks of
"Redwing" as the 45-foot-long sailboat cut across the Atlantic Ocean, pushed
along by the same trade winds that led Christopher Columbus to the New World
more than 500 years ago.
"The new thing for me was the overnight sailing. I had the 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.
shift. What impressed me most were the sounds you heard. The swish through
the water, the sails and the creaking sounds throughout the boat," said
Henderson, an experienced day sailor along the Maine coast.



Computer User 02/21/01
Public hearing over online court documents planned
http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/02/21/news7.html

by Brian Krebs
A panel of federal judges will hold a public hearing next month to help air
concerns over a plan to provide public access to federal court documents via
the Internet.
The Subcommittee on Privacy and Electronic Access to Case Files, a panel of
eight judges created last year by the Judicial Conference of the United
States, will examine the security and privacy issues surrounding the
government's plan to link files from all federal courts under a single
system, known as PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records).



New York Post 02/21/01
Bill, Hill can give - to themselves
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/24435.htm

by Marilyn Rauber
WASHINGTON - The Clintons can use any of the tons of gifts and goodies they
turned over to the National Archives - and even move the prestigious White
House crafts collection to Chappaqua if they want to.
"There's nothing to prevent former first ladies or presidents from borrowing
items that have been deeded to the archives," said Nancy Smith, director of
the archives' presidential materials office.



Cincinnati Enquirer 02/20/21
Ohio wants households to document travel
Diaries will help state allocate funds
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/02/20/loc_ohio_wants.html

Associated Press
TOLEDO - Where are you headed? That's what the state wants to know.
An Ohio Depart ment of Transportation (ODOT) consultant plans to call
randomly chosen households statewide asking people to keep diaries of all
their trips during designated 24-hour periods.
State officials plan to use the information to analyze where, why and how
Ohioans travel.



New York Times 02/20/01
The Key vanishes: Scientist outlines unbreakable Code
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/20/science/20CODE.html

by Gina Kolata
A computer science professor at Harvard says he has found a way to send coded
messages that cannot be deciphered, even by an all-powerful adversary with
unlimited computing power. And, he says, he can prove it.
If he is right, and he does have some supporters, his code may be the first
that is both practical and provably secure. While there are commercially
available coding systems that seem very hard to break, no one can prove that
they cannot be cracked, mathematicians say.



Salt Lake Tribune 02/21/01
Shurtleff will not appeal order to open Oly files
http://www.sltrib.com/02212001/utah/73356.htm

by Linda Fantin
Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will not appeal a state Records Committee
decision ordering the release of investigative files pertaining to the
Olympic bribery scandal.
The records, Shurtleff said Tuesday, could be released by the end of the
week.
The state unsuccessfully argued last week that the case was never closed.
Disclosure, officials insisted, could compromise the investigation if
reactivated and violate promises of confidentiality offered to witnesses in
exchange for information.



Nashua Telegraph 02/20/01
Prosecutor to fight murder document
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=25&SubSectionID=378&ArticleI

D=26854

by Harry R. Weber
HANOVER - New Hampshire authorities offered few answers Monday to lingering
questions in the murder of two Dartmouth College professors.
And that apparently will continue to be the situation as an assistant
attorney general said prosecutors would fight unsealing court records related
to search and arrest warrants in the case.
Assistant Senior Attorney General Malinda Lawrence said at a news conference
Monday afternoon investigators will seek secrecy so as not to compromise the
investigation.



Canoe.ca 02/21/01
Law firm switched donation, documents show
Practice sent initial cheque
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSPolitics0102/21_alliance-sun.html

by Anne Dawson
Parliamentary Bureau Chief, Sun Media
Confidential Canadian Alliance documents reveal a controversial $70,000
donation to the party was made by the Calgary law firm that defended
Stockwell Day in a costly defamation suit.
The documents, obtained by the Sun, also show that shortly after a $70,000
receipt was issued to the law firm Bennett Jones, the firm asked the Alliance
to issue a new receipt saying the donation was actually from an individual
lawyer in the firm -- William Britton -- not the law firm.



Montreal Gazette 02/21/01
Quebec eyes medical 'smart card'
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/010221/5095427.html

by Kevin Dougherty
The Quebec cabinet will consider proposals to track Quebecers' consumption of
medical services and pharmaceutical products - a move that would go against
the government's initial commitment to keep computerized medical records
confidential.
A spokesman for Deputy Premier Bernard Landry, who is likely to be designated
as the successor to Lucien Bouchard as Quebec premier next week, said
yesterday Landry is willing to look at any measure that will cut the
province's health costs.



New York Post  02/21/01
Missing the Marc
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/24454.htm

by Brian Blomquist
WASHINGTON - House investigators last night watched the deadline come and go
for subpoenaed Marc Rich documents - but they had little to show.
The Democratic National Committee turned over some financial records on
Denise Rich, the ex-wife of the billionaire fugitive who received a last-day
pardon from Bill Clinton.



Christian Science Monitor 02/22/01
On-ramps to Congress
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/02/21/text/p8s2.html

Congress would do well to pass a measure widely endorsed by public interest
groups that would give citizens greater access to some of the same
information senators and representatives easily obtain.
Sens. John McCain (R) of Arizona and Patrick Leahy (D) of Vermont have teamed
up to sponsor a Senate resolution that would put key documents on the
Internet for public viewing. Among them, Congressional Research Service (CRS)
reports and disclosures about lobbying and gifts given lawmakers.



Salon.com 02/20/01
When the saints go up for auction
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/02/20/relics/index.html

by Jeff Sypeck
There's a story Thomas Serafin enjoys: During the Middle Ages, a traveling
monk hoping to purchase a saint's relic for his monastery found little
success and returned home disappointed. Luckily, he soon encountered a
merchant who offered to sell him the skull of John the Baptist. The monk was
dumbfounded. Hadn't he just seen the skull of St. John in a church during a
recent visit to France? "That was the skull of St. John when he was a child,"
explained the merchant. "This is his skull when he was an adult."



Salt Lake Tribune 02/21/01
Ex-slave files a prize for history buffs
http://www.sltrib.com/02212001/utah/73340.htm

by Bob Mims
A new Mormon church CD-ROM packed with thousands of records from the
Freedman's Savings and Trust Co., a post-Civil War bank for ex-slaves, is
being hailed as a monumental boon to scholars and black genealogists alike.
The searchable, digital archive -- to be officially unveiled by The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at a news conference Monday -- will make
available rare, poorly organized and aging paper files on more than 70,000 of
the bank's account holders.


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

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