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RAIN 3/25: Weekend Update Part 3



Amarillo Globe-News 03/20/01
Editorial: HUD needs to come clean
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/032001/opi_hudneeds.shtml

If the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has nothing to hide,
then it shouldn't be so hesitant in abiding by federal law.
In December, The Galveston County Daily News requested HUD to release
information as to why New York received far more funding for homeless issues
than Texas. Seems like a reasonable request, especially after the Empire
State got about four times as much money as Texas.




Arkansas Democrat Gazette 03/22/01
U.S. attorney plans to appeal decision on sealing warrants
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Thu/ark/B2xwilson22.html

by Amy Upshaw
U.S. Attorney Michael Johnson has filed a notice that he plans to appeal a
federal magistrate's decision declaring unconstitutional an Eastern District
of Arkansas rule automatically sealing all documents related to search
warrants.
In a March 8 opinion, U.S. Magistrate J. Thomas Ray called Amended General
Order No. 22 unconstitutional, saying, "a simple request from the public or
press generally should be sufficient to gain access to review all documents
contained in a search warrant file, so long as the search warrant has been
executed and returned."




Fox News 03/22/01
Attorney General releases Olympic scandal files
http://www.foxnews.com/national/0322/d_ap_0322_260.sml

by Paul Foy
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Olympic scandal files released Thursday by the Utah
attorney general's office appear at once to support and also to undercut the
defense being mounted by indicted bid leaders who won the 2002 Winter Games.
Some of the information in the files backs a claim by Salt Lake bid committee
President Tom Welch and Vice President Dave Johnson's that they didn't try to
hide scholarship payments to relatives of International Olympic Committee
delegates.



Bergen Record 03/22/01
DYFS supervisor testifies to ordering case 'audits'
http://www.bergen.com/region/dyfsnp200103226.htm

by Nancy Parello
A high-level supervisor in the state Division of Youth and Family Services
testified Wednesday that she ordered caseworkers to reconstruct case files
partly because they could become evidence in a lawsuit against the division.
Peggy Kehs, district office manager in Cape May, said she instructed all 23
caseworkers under her supervision to review about 400 case files and bring
them up to date -- an unusual undertaking, according to several DYFS workers
and child protection experts.



Daily Southtown 03/21/01
Bill approval will keep Earnhardt photos sealed
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dssports/pro/222sd4.htm

Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A Senate committee unanimously approved a bill
written on behalf of Dale Earnhardt's widow that would keep autopsy photos
sealed.
The legislation is needed to keep autopsy photos of the NASCAR driver and
others off of Web sites like the Gallery of the Grotesque, Death n Dementia,
Celebrity Morgue, Faces of Death and the Dead Body Picture Page, said bill
sponsor Sen. Jim King.
"Twenty years ago there was no such thing as the Internet," said King,
R-Jacksonville. "Today we live in a world where a picture taken from your own
home can be transmitted almost galactically."



Dallas Morning News 03/22/01
Medical privacy bill approved by Senate
Marketing companies would lose access
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/318207_privacy_22tex..html

by Terrence Stutz
AUSTIN - Medical records of Texans could no longer be sold or handed over to
advertising and marketing companies under a privacy bill passed Tuesday by
the Senate.
The Texas Medical Privacy Act is aimed at halting the growing practice by
companies of sharing medical information, such as a patient's prescription
drugs, to market products.
"Our health is our business, and marketing companies should not be allowed to
rifle through our medicine cabinets," said Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound,
author of the legislation.



New York Times 03/22/01
Kerouac's 'Road' scroll is going to auction
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/22/arts/22KERO.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Kathryn Shattuck
Fifty years after its completion on April 22, 1951, the product of a
three-week typing marathon said to have been stoked by Benzedrine and coffee,
the scroll on which Jack Kerouac composed "On the Road" is to be auctioned on
May 22 at Christie's in Manhattan.
The single-spaced quasi-autobiographical ode to free living is nearly 120
feet long and pasted together in sections about a dozen feet long, the seams
later reinforced with tape. A faint pencil line runs along its right edge,
suggesting that Kerouac cut the paper to fit his typewriter. Darkened with
age, the scroll is tattered near its beginning, probably from handling.
(Kerouac was fond of showing it, unrolled and roadlike, to friends.) And its
final paragraphs are torn away, a mishap that Kerouac attributed to his
friend Lucien Carr's dog chewing off the end.



Canoe.ca 03/21/01
Ontario needs standards for faulty medical files: privacy commissioner
http://www.canoe.ca/OntQueTicker/CANOE-wire.Ont-Health-Privacy.html

TORONTO (CP) -- The case of an Ontario farmer who won the right to have false
information on his medical records expunged should prompt the provincial
government to clean up its act on all medical records it knows to be
inaccurate, the province's privacy commissioner said Wednesday.
One day after ordering the Ministry of Health to fix the file of sheep farmer
Ian Murray and all other patients of Dr. Alexander Scott, who bilked the
Ontario Health Insurance Plan of more than $500,000, privacy commissioner Ann
Cavoukian said the clean-up shouldn't stop there.



Washington Times 03/22/01
Parts auctioned for fraction of value
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/default-2001322221139.htm

by Jim Keary
Metropolitan Police Department officials last year illegally disposed of
about $300,000 worth of new automobile parts as junk without proper
documentation or authority.
Documents obtained by The Washington Times under the Freedom of Information
Act reveal that most of the parts classified as "obsolete" actually were
usable by the police department.



New York Times 03/18/01
My passion for Cashin: A young student remembers her fashion mentor
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/18/magazine/18STYLE.html

by Stephanie Day Iverson
When I met Bonnie Cashin nearly four years ago, I wore my first Cashin -- a
turquoise leather coat that was designed in 1974, one year and a spring
collection after I was born. The coat was the reason that Bonnie and I were
meeting. I fell in love with its matching silk crepe lining and hip-height
encirclement of pockets, designed for carrying books, the first day I saw it
in the Sotheby's fashion department, where I worked as a researcher. I was
also working on my M.A. at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the
Decorative Arts, Design and Culture. Reading about Bonnie (who died in 2000
at the age of 84) and finding that little had been published about her nearly
seven decades of costume and clothing design, I wanted her to be the subject
of my thesis.




The Daily Princetonian 03/16/01
Death Masks: what lurks in a Princeton library
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010316/odd-151

by Vanessa Woods
(U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. -- If you find yourself deathly afraid of entering
Firestone Library, there may be a good reason.
Among the rows of carrels and books of Firestone Library hide a collection of
death masks - plaster molds made of people's faces soon after their deaths.
Firestone houses more than 100 death masks, according to reference librarian
and archivist Margaret Sherry, which were donated by a man named Laurence
Hutton.




Federal Computer Week 03/19/01
Report: Congress awash in e-mail
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0319/web-email-03-19-01.asp

William Matthews
It's tempting to fire off an e-mail message to your congressman when an issue
comes up that you care about - so tempting that Congress is being overwhelmed
by more than 6.5 million e-mail messages a month.
Members of Congress received 80 million e-mail messages in 2000, according to
the Congress Online Project.
That's as many as 8,000 e-mail messages for House members and as many as
55,000 for Senators - far more than congressmen and their staffs can read,
let alone answer. E-mail volume is up from 20 million messages in 1998 and 48
million in 1999.



Arkansas Democrat 03/23/01
Parties settle on FOI revisions to cover electronic data
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Fri/ark/A8yxgr-foi23.html

by Chris Osher
Media representatives, a state official and lawyers who helped draft a bill
that would revise the state's Freedom of Information Act to cover
electronically maintained documents reached a tentative agreement Wednesday
aimed at easing concerns over the bill.
"We made very, very good progress, and I think that we have got our
differences resolved," said Nathan "Mac" Norton of Little Rock, a lawyer who
helped draft the bill.
Norton declined to offer specifics, saying he wanted the revised bill "down
in black and white" before he would give details.




Canoe.ca 03/23/01
'Helpful' computer program behind release of children's records, says reports
http://www.canoe.ca/WesternTicker/CANOE-wire.E-mail-Childrens-Records.html

EDMONTON (CP) -- A computer program just trying to be helpful was behind the
e-mailing of confidential records from Alberta Children's Services that went
in error to an Edmonton man, says the province's privacy commissioner.
The commissioner's report, released Friday, suggested the problem occurred
through an Internet service provider that used a program that sent an e-mail
message with an incorrect address to another subscriber with a similar
address.



New York Times 03/23/01
Castro the hero as Cuba declassifies Bay of Pigs
<http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-cuba-us.html?searchpv=reut

ers>

Reuters
HAVANA (Reuters) - In the first major declassification by President Fidel
Castro's government, Cuba published on Friday a wad of intelligence papers on
the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, most centering on Castro's commanding role.
While the 158 pages of previously top secret reports contain no dramatic
revelations, they demonstrate how aware Cuba was of CIA-backed covert
training of Cuban American exiles in Florida and Central America prior to the
disastrous landing.




New York Times 03/23/01
Warning from Microsoft on false digital signatures
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/23/technology/23SOFT.html?searchpv=nytToday

by John Markoff
SAN FRANCISCO, March 22 - The Microsoft Corporation warned computer users
today that someone posing electronically as a company executive had fooled
VeriSign Inc, a provider of digital signatures, into issuing fraudulent
electronic certificates in Microsoft's name.
The false documents could potentially be used by software virus writers or
other vandals trying to trick unsuspecting users into running hostile
programs on their computers.
Digital certificates are issued by VeriSign, as well as other companies, to
prove identity in a digital era where commerce is increasingly transacted
anonymously over computer networks. They are intended to ensure computer
users that Web sites and software are what they appear to be.




New York Times 03/23/01
When linking isn't better business
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/23/technology/23CYBERLAW.html

by Carl S. Kaplan
Links, it can be argued, are the fundamental innovation of the World Wide
Web. The ability to click on a word or phrase and be transported to another
page on a distant Web site is the catalyst for the Internet's unprecedented
growth.
But not everyone loves hypertext links. Take the Better Business Bureau, for
example. Recently, the consumer protection and educational organization sent
an e-mail demanding that a Web publisher take down its unauthorized links to
the group.



USNewswire 03/21/01
GAO report shows government agencies slowly adapting to electronic mandate of
new -E-FOIA law
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/0321-121.html

WASHINGTON, March 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Most federal agencies have begun to
open electronic reading rooms and to expedite handling of the public's
requests for government documents, but several lag behind in implementing a
1996 law intended to speed the processing of Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests and to provide electronic versions of documents to the
public, according to a new report by the General Accounting Office (GAO),
Congress's "watchdog" arm. The report, based on a survey of 25 major federal
departments and agencies which account for 97 percent of all FOIA requests,
was requested by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the prime author of the 1996
"E-FOIA" law; Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), who chairs the Senate Committee
on Governmental Affairs; and Rep. Stephen Horn (R-Calif.), who chairs the
House Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial Management, and
Intergovernmental Relations of the House Committee on Government Reform. The
1996 Electronic Freedom of Information Act (E-FOIA) requires federal agencies
to set up electronic reading rooms stocked with frequently requested
documents and reference materials to help the public locate government
records or information.



Dallas Morning News 03/25/01
Remember, death certificates can be wrong
http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/columnists/319460_tree.html

by Lloyd Bockstruck
In a democratic society, the issues of freedom of information and privacy can
be in harmony or in opposition. Because family historians are forced to rely
on governmental records, they are keenly aware of the regulations governing
access to public records and are vigilant to maintain or obtain access to
them.
Vital statistics are among the controversial record groups. Many states now
require the Social Security numbers of a prospective couple on a marriage
application. While marriages have previously been open to the public, the
inclusion of a person's Social Security number raises important questions.
The parties are still alive, so the question of their privacy is real.




New York Times 03/24/01
Acting governor released documents from his past
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/24/nyregion/24JERS.html?searchpv=nytToday

by David M. Halbfinger
TRENTON, March 23 - After enduring weeks of critical news coverage of his
past financial dealings, Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco released a stack
of public and private documents late today. They range from his tax returns
for the past seven years to a 1992 police report on a fatal auto accident in
which a car in which he was riding struck and killed a pedestrian.



New York Times 03/24/01
Witnesses to revolution wrote history's first draft
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/24/arts/24SHEL.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Edward Rothstein
In 1777, during the American Revolution, a British Army officer recorded in
his journal the aftermath of a brutal battle fought over terrain near
Ticonderoga, N.Y. "The wolves," he wrote, "came down in numbers from the
mountains to devour the dead, and even some that were in a kind of manner
buried, they tore out of the earth; the great stench thro the country being
the cause of their coming down."
It is a stench that assaults the senses again and again in this powerful
collection of original documents, the stench of rotting corpses from the
forests of Brookland (later Brooklyn), from the swamps of Long Island, from
the fields of Virginia. Here are letters, proclamations, chronicles of
battles, newspaper articles, diaries and memoirs by British and American
participants, by writers familiar and obscure. In their accounts the war
takes on a detailed texture that is startling one moment, numbing the next.






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

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