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RAIN 5/28: Weekend Update Part 1



There are 6 stories in this update.

Hartford Courant 5/25/01
Fiscal flaws seen at agency
http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=4621928&render=

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by Tom Puleo
State auditors have found administrative shortcomings at the agency 
overseeing $771 million in downtown Hartford development - including a 
failure to advertise or bid some contracts, poor investment strategies and 
the granting of raises without written evaluation guidelines. 
One of those raises went to the Capital City Economic Development Authority's 
executive director, Brendan M. Fox Jr., elevating his salary more than 15 
percent, to $150,000. 



New York Times 5/25/01
Antiques: Fabrics for stars are themselves the stars of a sale
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/25/arts/25ANTI.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Wendy Moonan
"For those who love to watch women, couture houses are the most erotic places 
on earth," the French novelist Irène Frain wrote in a recent essay, "Mémoire 
du Chic." "There, in the salons and ateliers, among bolts of fabric, pin 
cushions, needles, scissors, sketches, buttons and embroideries, the machine 
of love marches on." 



New York Times 5/25/01
Cyber Law Journal: Cool Sites for 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/25/technology/25CYBERLAW.html?0525inside

by Carl Kaplan
Every year about this time I like to reveal secrets of the cyberlaw guild by 
writing about some of the free legal Web sites that help or inspire me the 
most. I hope you can find time to saunter through them during the coming 
summer days. If you're like me, you'll visit them again and again with 
delight. 



New York Times 5/25/01
Memos point to ties between auction houses
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/25/business/25AUCT.html

by Carol Vogel and Ralph Blumenthal
Handwritten memos at the center of the collusion case of Christie's and 
Sotheby's auction houses suggest that the companies secretly altered 
time-honored and costly inducements used to attract sellers. Acting together, 
they dropped low-interest loans, ceased making donations to sellers' favorite 
charities and devised a system to increase their profits when art sold above 
a guaranteed minimum, according to the documents.



San Francisco Chronicle 5/25/01
FBI violated privacy rights, judge rules
Documents seized in S.F. minority contract probe are inadmissible
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/05/25/MN103411.DTL

by Chuck Finnie and Lance Williams
San Francisco -- In a potential blow to prosecutors, a U.S. judge said that 
federal investigators violated a San Francisco city official's privacy rights 
when they searched her office looking for evidence of fraud in a city 
minority contracting program. 
The FBI seized hundreds of pages of records from the San Francisco Human 
Rights Commission office of chief contract compliance officer Zula Jones in 
August 1999. 



PRNewswire 5/25/01
'Oldest Know' pair of Levi's jeans showcased on The History Channel's 
'History's Lost & Found' sold for record $46,532 on eBay
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010525/sff021a.html

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Through a special auction presented 
by The History Channel®, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY - news) and Butterfields, the 
``oldest known'' pair of Levi's® jeans in existence was sold tonight for 
$46,532.00 to Levi Strauss & Co. These authenticated 1880s jeans had an 
estimated value between $25,000 and $35,000 according to appraisers at 
Butterfields Auctioneers. 




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

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