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RAIN 5/13: Weekend Update Part 2



ZDNet 5/11/01
The future of electronic paper
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010511/tc/the_future_of_electronic_paper_1.h

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COMMENTARY--As a laboratory prototype, electronic paper has been around for
some time, and demonstration of the technology usually lead to wild
predictions about e-books and electronic newspapers. Now some of these
technologies are approaching availability for hardware manufacturers--and it
is becoming clear that it could have a considerable impact


The Guardian 5/11/01
Vaz under renewed pressure as documents deadline looms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,489243,00.html

by Anne Perkins
The political future of Keith Vaz, the beleaguered Europe minister, was under
renewed uncertainty last night as it emerged that his wife, Maria Fernandes,
had yet to comply with a deadline to hand over documents to the Commons
ethics watchdog by midday today.
If she fails to produce the documents, required by the standards and
privileges committee after hearing evidence from her in February, Ms
Fernandes will be in contempt of parliament and could be fined.



News Daily 5/11/01
Morrow tour pleases archives employees
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1799272&BRD=1099&PAG=461&dept_id=990

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by Jacqueline J. Holness
As Morrow officials anticipated a multimillion-dollar yearly impact resulting
from the relocation of the state archives, employees from the archives were
pleased with what they saw during a city tour Thursday
A team of employees from the Georgia Department of Archieves and History
toured the city along with city officials as a part of a "fact-finding
mission." Results from the tour are to be reported to the remainder of the
55-employee state archives.



Toronto Star 5/11/01
Watchdog will fight to protect sanctity of PM's datebook
http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?GXHC_gx_sessi%2

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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal privacy watchdog says throwing open Prime Minister
Jean Chretien's agenda books to scrutiny would be tantamount to
''informational rape.''
George Radwanski made the comments in a scathing letter to the federal
Information Commissioner John Reid, who is locked in a court battle with the
Prime Minister's Office over releasing Chretien's agenda.



Cincinnati Enquirer 5/12/01
Court says coalition can get school records
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/05/12/loc_court_says_coalition.html

Associated Press
COLUMBUS - The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday ordered the state to make
documents and other information immediately available to the coalition of
schools suing Ohio over its school-funding system.
In a victory for the coalition, the court ruled 6-1 to require the state to
turn over documents and allow interviews of state officials as requested by
the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding.



Daily Yomiuri 5/13/01
Collection bears marks of Occupation
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010513wo62.htm

A rare collection of Japanese children's books that survived the Occupation
is currently on display at Waseda University's Aizu Museum in Shinjuku Ward,
Tokyo. Along with the 600 picture books, comics and magazines, about 20
official documents concerning censorship by Occupation authorities also are
on show.



Washington Post 5/12/01
FBI found papers during fifth search
Failure blamed on storage lapses
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16242-2001May11.html

by Edward Walsh
The FBI four times ordered its field offices to turn over to prosecutors any
material they gathered during the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing.
But it was only in response to a fifth directive, sent in December, that the
field offices discovered they had overlooked thousands of pages of documents,
FBI officials said yesterday.



Freedomforum 5/12/01
Legislature dims Florida's sunshine laws
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13905

Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The sunshine dimmed on open records laws in Florida this
legislative session.
State lawmakers passed 15 bills creating new exemptions to the public-records
laws, routinely met in secret, and approved legislation so quickly some
members didn't know what they were voting on.



Lincoln Journal Star 5/12/01
Exon Library
http://www.journalstar.com/local?story_id=3522&past=

by Martha Stoddard
CRETE - Doane College students now tackle class assignments from the wooden
desk and leather chair where former U.S. Sen. Jim Exon once dealt with
national issues.
And the conference table where his Omaha staff conferred about constituent
concerns now plays host to students sharing pre-test angst and working on
group projects.



New York Times 5/12/01
Proud prison documents its past
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/12/nyregion/12PRIS.html

by Lisa W. Foderaro
Napanoch, N.Y. -- In the annals of historic preservation, it is a most
unlikely player: a maximum-security state prison teeming with beefy
correction officers and their hard-bitten charges.
But the staff and inmates of Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a
granite fortress here in the shadow of the Shawangunk Mountains, have
commemorated the prison's first 100 years by producing a book, a video, a
monument and an official postal cancellation.



Columbus Dispatch 5/12/01
State forced to turn over school-funding documents
http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/may01/692979.html

by Darrel Rowland
Exactly a year after their last major victory, opponents of the state's
school-funding setup nabbed a key procedural win yesterday from the Ohio
Supreme Court.
In a 6-1 decision written by Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, the court
rejected state officials' attempt to keep secret numerous documents relating
to how a new school-funding plan was formulated in recent weeks.



Akron Beacon Journal 5/12/01
State ordered to yield records
Court orders cooperation on school funding papers
http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/014469.htm

by Dennis J. Willard and Doug Oplinger
COLUMBUS: State lawmakers and Gov. Bob Taft have been ordered by the Ohio
Supreme Court to start turning over secret documents to a group of school
districts that twice has successfully sued the state over education funding.



The Clarion-Ledger 5/12/01
Unsealed spy agency records prompt suit
http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0105/12/m4.html

by Theresa Kiely and Jimmie E. Gates
A white woman once branded by agents of the now defunct-state segregation spy
agency for having a romantic relationship with a black man is seeking $5
million over the agency's actions.
The federal lawsuit by Mabel Worsham is the only known such lawsuit arising
from unsealed records of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission.





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

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