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RAIN 8/12: Weekend Update Part 1



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Business Day 8/9/01
Council papers may not reflect events
http://allafrica.com/stories/200108090326.html

Cape Town
A council paper trail does not necessarily reflect events as they happen but
rather as they are intended.
That was the position taken yesterday by deputy mayor Belinda Walker under
cross examination at the Heath inquiry into the city's street renaming
scandal.


Antelope Valley Press 8/9/01
School district votes to comply with subpoena
http://www.avpress.com/n/thsty6.hts

by Jannise Johnson
PALMDALE - Against advice, Palmdale School District trustees voted to release
potentially sensitive documents to the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The board voted 4-1 not to retain the Encino-based law firm of Kester and
Isenberg to contest a subpoena from the L.A. district.


Chicago Sun-Times 8/7/01
Clerk's office helps nab scam suspect
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-scam07.html

by Abdon M. Pallasch
Legal Affairs reporter
An Indiana minister-turned-scam artist masqueraded as a Chicago lawyer and
others to defraud the state of Florida out of $1.2 million, according to a
federal affidavit that outlined a trail of phony mail drops, stolen
identities and foreign bank stashes.


Daily Yomiuri 8/10/01
Police raid security firm in Akashi overpass probe
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010810wo22.htm

Police on Thursday raided the Fukuoka head office of Nishikan, a security
firm that is suspected of professional negligence resulting in death and
injury in connection with the fatal crush on a pedestrian overpass in Akashi,
Hyogo Prefecture, on July 21. Six other locations connected with the firm
were also searched.


Dallas Observer 8/9/01
Dust to Dust
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2001-08-09/stuff.html

by Robert Wilonsky
Ten years ago, Robert Harris picked up the phone to find on the other end a
relative stranger bearing extraordinary news. This man was at a film exchange
in Toronto, where movies are housed and rented out to exhibitors, and he was
holding in his hands canisters of film containing what Harris considered
something akin to the Holy Grail: a pristine, uncut 70mm print of John
Wayne's initial directorial effort and the Duke's labor of love, 1960's The
Alamo.


Florida Times Union 8/9/01
Harris expert: no abnormal erasures on secretary of state computers
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/080901/D7DPHC900.html

by David Royse
AP
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Computers in Secretary of State Katherine Harris' office
that were released to the media for inspection didn't appear to have been
tampered with in advance, a consultant hired by Harris said in a report
released Thursday.


Florida Times Union 8/9/01
Harris' files not enough
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/080901/met_6903606.html

by David DeCamp and Jim Saunders
TALLAHASSEE -- Despite Democratic charges that state-owned computers were
illegally used to help Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, an
ethics official said yesterday it would be difficult to prove misdeeds in the
office of Secretary of State Katherine Harris.



Houston Press 8/9/01
Forgotten Footprints
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-08-09/insider.html

by Tim Fleck
An unusual slogan and graphic grace the Web page for Gerald Womack's Houston
City Council campaign. Next to a photo of Womack -- a 44-year-old,
pencil-thin real estate company executive and former congressional staffer --
is the headline "Footprints Through District D," accompanied by a pop-up
silhouette of tracks made by a pair of bare feet.



Houston Press 8/9/01
Punched out
http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-08-09/news2.html

by Richard Connelly
Houston, get ready. Every grandma who's been baffled by a VCR, every
technophobe who's quailed at having to program a new remote control, every
significant other who's ever refused to Read The Goddamn Manual and instead
just yells for your help when the printer isn't working, all of them are
going to have to learn how to operate a newfangled voting system next year.



IDG.net 8/9/01
Adobe/Xerox tiff slows Internet fax standard
http://www.idg.net/crd_idgsearch_2.html?url=http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articl

es/hn/xml/01/08/09/010809hnintfax.xml

by Carolyn Duffy Marsan
Network World
THE INTERNET ENGINEERING Task Force has slammed the brakes on its plans to
develop a common way of sending faxes over the Internet, due to last-minute
licensing problems between rivals Adobe Systems and Xerox.


The Press-Enterprise 8/9/01
Woman leaves $20,000 to A.K. Smiley Library
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/stories/080901/nesmile09.shtml

by Jacquie Paul
The A.K. Smiley Library got a nice surprise in the mail this week: a check
for $20,000 from a deceased woman whom library officials say they never met.
The check, from the estate of Doreen M. Legg, arrived Monday in an envelope
sent from the office of Redlands attorney Guay P. Wilson.


Naples Daily News 8/9/01
Democrats question political documents
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/08/florida/d665061a.htm

by David Royse
AP
TALLAHASSEE - The state Democratic Party chairman on Wednesday accused
Florida's top elections official of breaking the law by allowing political
work to be done in her office during last year's presidential campaign.



San Francisco Chronicle 8/9/01
New bid to fill Nixon's Watergate tape gap
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/09/MN169341.DTL

Edward Epstein
Chronicle Washington Bureau
Washington -- Federal archivists asked for audio experts' help yesterday in
solving one of the country's great political mysteries: What did President
Richard Nixon and aide H.R. Haldeman say during the infamous 18 1/2-minute
gap in the Watergate tapes?


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

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