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RAIN 04/11: Red Tape, Cuban Archivist and Films on the Net



Globe and Mail 4/9/01
Bailiffs seek Grand-Mere bank-loan documents
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/National/20010409/USHAWM.html

by Daniel Leblanc
OTTAWA -- The Business Development Bank of Canada made a surprise seizure of 
documents over the weekend in relation to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's 
lobbying of the Crown corporation for a loan to a hotel in his riding.
The BDC had bailiffs take documents from the home, the cottage and the office 
of its former president, François Beaudoin, Mr. Beaudoin's lawyer said.


Chicago Tribune 4/10/01
Lincoln library funds not endangered
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/article/0,2669,ART-51085,FF.h

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by Jennifer Loven
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- President Bush's proposed budget for next year does not 
specifically earmark dollars for an Abraham Lincoln library in Springfield. 
But it doesn't erase federal funding, either. 
One provision in Bush's massive fiscal 2002 budget, sent to Congress on 
Monday, wiped out language approved by Congress last year allowing the 
federal government to spend up to $50 million on the Abraham Lincoln 
Presidential Library and Museum through 2006. 



Detroit News 4/10/01
Lions must release stadium files
Pontiac seeks data to assess economic blow of losing team
http://www.detnews.com/2001/metro/0104/10/a01-210253.htm

by Jennifer Chambers
PONTIAC -- Internal documents on the Detroit Lions' new $315-million stadium 
will become part of a lawsuit between the city of Pontiac and the team over 
its decision to leave the Silverdome. 
Oakland Circuit Judge Fred Mester ruled Monday that Lions officials must 
share their documents regarding Ford Field in Detroit because the information 
may be relevant to Pontiac's claim that the city will suffer economically 
when the team leaves the Silverdome. 



Inland Empire Online 4/10/01
Hemet School Board may have broken law 
At issue is what the state Department of Education calls a gray area of the 
Public Records Act
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/stories/041001/hagree.shtml

by Ionna Partingenaru
Hemet teachers union President Jerry Hall and school board member Tom 
DeSantis both say they're angry. 
The reason? The Hemet Unified School District wouldn't provide copies of 
contracts for assistant superintendents until the school board approved them 
last week. 
By doing so, the district may have violated the state's Public Records Act. 



Journal-Sentinel 4/10/01
Man called back to court; POW groups say he lied
Judge to hear drug dealer's case after claim of fraudulent record
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/apr01/pow10040901a.asp

by Lisa Sink
Waukesha - A judge who gave a drug dealer credit for his self-reported POW 
status in Vietnam has ordered the man back into court after prisoner-of-war 
groups said Monday the man was a fraud.
"He lied to the judge; he lied to the attorney," said Mary Schantag, whose 
Missouri organization, POW Network, has Pentagon lists of POWs and MIAs.



Newsroom 4/10/01
New chief executive of Archives New Zealand announced
http://www.newsroom.co.nz/story/43018.html

The State Services Commissioner, Michael Wintringham, announced today the 
appointment of Dianne Macaskill as the chief executive of Archives New 
Zealand and the Chief Archivist. Ms Macaskill is currently a Deputy 
Government Statistician at Statistics New Zealand. 
Ms Macaskill will take up the appointment at Archives New Zealand on 11 June. 
She will be the first permanent chief executive of the department since 
Archives became a department on 1 October 2000. Mrs Lyn Provost has been the 
acting chief executive since October. 



New York Times 4/10/01
Adobe and Amazon start e-book partnership
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-adobe-amazon.html?searchpv=re

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Reuters
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc.(ADBE.O) said on Tuesday online retail 
giant Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O) will sell electronic books using its 
technology, marking a big step for the publishing software firm as it tries 
to build steam behind its digital books effort.
Under the deal, Amazon will initially sell about 2,000 titles in the United 
States using Adobe's format for e-books, which can be read on a personal 
computer using Adobe's free Acrobat eBook Reader software, the companies said.



New York Times 4/10/01
'Double Fold': microfilm gets a black eye from a friend of paper
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/10/arts/10KAKU.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Michiko Kakutani
Chief among the casualties in an increasingly virtual world are books, 
newspapers and periodicals: old paper-based repositories of knowledge and 
information that libraries are hastily converting to microfilm and optical 
disc. So says the novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker in his impassioned 
and compelling new book, "Double Fold."
Mr. Baker makes no secret of his point of view: he believes that primary 
records, in all their papery glory, should be preserved; that reports about 
the aging and deterioration of paper have been vastly exaggerated; and that 
the disposal of these original texts by space-squeezed libraries is a crime. 
"This isn't an impartial piece of reporting," he writes in a preface to his 
book. "I've tried not to misrepresent those whose views differ from my own, 
but I make no secret of my disagreement; at times, a dormant prosecutorial 
urge awoke in me, for we have lost things that we can never get back."



New York Times 4/10/01
The Times and N.B.A. settle lawsuit over photos
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/10/business/10TIME.html?searchpv=nytToday

by David D. Kirkpatrick
The New York Times Company and the National Basketball Association have 
settled a lawsuit over who owns the right to sell newspaper photographs taken 
at basketball games.
The lawsuit is part of a wave of disputes pitting sports leagues and other 
live entertainment companies against news organizations. Both sides are 
eyeing the money to be made selling images and information about live events 
over the Internet and elsewhere. 


Baltimore Sun 4/10/01
Secret Agency labors to release its secrets
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-ar.secrets10apr10.story?coll=bal%2Dlocal

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by Laura Sullivan
Inside a large yellow warehouse within the iron gates of the National 
Security Agency, thousands of boxes stuffed with the nation's secrets are 
piled to the ceiling.
For decades this place has been hidden from public view, a catacomb holding 
more than 15 million pages of documents filled with information about 
everything from the Vietnam War to President Kennedy's assassination to the 
Persian Gulf war.



The Moscow Times 4/10/01
The reality of car registration for foreigners
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2001/04/10/018.html

by Ana Uzelac
If driving a car in Moscow seems like a challenge, that probably means you 
are lucky enough to never have tried anything more demanding, like 
registering one with the local traffic police or passing their car inspection.
However, chances are pretty high that life will throw you into the jungle of 
legal and practical obstacles put in the way of an ardent car-lover who also 
has a predilection for abiding by the laws of the country where he lives.



The Moscow Times 4/10/01
Unraveling the red tape that binds small business
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2001/04/10/040.html

by Igor Semenenko
Bureaucrats in Moscow City Hall have a nasty reputation for strangling the 
growth of small business with piles of paperwork, frequent inspections and 
the occasional bribe. But the headache of opening and running a business is 
finally being eased by local and federal initiatives aimed at unraveling the 
red tape. 
Many an entrepreneur dreaming of opening his own small business in Moscow has 
thrown in the towel long before setting out to find an office or hire staff. 
The reason: red tape.



Washington Post 4/10/01
Archivist preserves Cuba history in longhand
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61332-2001Apr9.html

by Kevin Sullivan
TRINIDAD, Cuba
For 56 years, Carlos Zerquera has preserved Trinidad's history with his only 
tools: a pen, a steady hand and the patience of a redwood tree.
Working in a straight-backed chair at a tiny desk in his bedroom, Zerquera, 
the city historian, has been copying -- in longhand -- a trove of historical 
documents here in one of Cuba's oldest cities. With little more than his pen, 
he is racing against tropical humidity, insects and time, which are 
destroying birth, death, land and commercial records dating to 1585 -- an 
intimate timeline of Cuba unmatched anywhere else.



Washington Post 4/10/01
Film archives on the Net
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62444-2001Apr9.html

by David Hall
When a book goes out of print, you can still read it -- it doesn't 
dematerialize into a cloud of paper and ink molecules. But when it comes to 
out-of-print Web sites, your options are limited by the fleeting nature of 
the Internet. Unless you've printed out a defunct site's text and images or 
saved them to a disk, they're pretty much gone for good.





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

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