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RAIN 8/20: Weekend Update Part 1



There are 19 stories in this posting

New York times 8/17/01
A wild west transformed by nostalgia and assimiliation
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/17/arts/17COTT.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Holland Cotter
"Spirit Capture: Native Americans and the Photographic Image," at the
National Museum of the American Indian, is packed with dream- haunting 19th-
and 20th-century pictures. But it isn't a show of photography in the usual
sense. It's a show about photography, and specifically about who has
produced it and why.


New York Times 8/18/01
Archaeologists unearth the old world under New York City
 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/18/arts/18ARCH.html

by Celestine Bohlen
Standing on a hot stretch of sand and debris on Staten Island's western
shore, Anne-Marie Cantwell fantasized how the bleak landscape of rotting
piers and oil tanks might have looked to the Paleo-Indians who camped here
11,000 years ago.


Detroit News 8/18/01
Battle rages over file in long-dead Kentucky Capitol sex and gambling case.
http://detnews.com/2001/nation/0108/18/nation-272291.htm

by Mark R. Chellgren
Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Legislators and lobbyists being entertained by half-naked
exotic dancers during gambling, golf and sex junkets. Liquor-fueled parties
in a Capitol office, with women being harassed and even a "condom tree."
The stuff of a tawdry novel?


Times-Union 8/16/01
Check was in the mail ... and the IRS lost it
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyKey=63968&BCCode=B&newsd
ate=8/16/2001

by Kevin Harlan
New York Sen. Charles Schumer is asking the Internal Revenue Service how it
lost the checks of about 1,800 New York and New England taxpayers and what
it's doing about the problem.
In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti dated Wednesday, Schumer, a
Democrat, also asked the IRS to be more proactive in contacting affected
taxpayers to warn them about the dangers of identity theft and other
potential crimes.


Chicago Tribune 8/19/01
How Nazis targeted world's finest violins
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0108190236aug19.story?coll=chi%
2Dnews%2Dhed

by Howard Reich and William Gaines
Simon Geldwerth, whose family fled Austria during the Holocaust, lost his
prized Stradivarius. David Katz, whose family died in concentration camps,
left behind a roomful of precious fiddles. And Chicago Symphony Orchestra
violinist Francis Akos, who was forced into the Hungarian Army, never again
saw his centuries-old Italian Gagliano. Each of these men felt blessed to
have survived the Holocaust and considered the loss of an instrument a
relatively small sacrifice. But none knew that the instruments he
lost--worth relatively little at the time--would be valued in the millions a
few decades later.


Lexington Herald-Leader 8/16/01
Were people named in inquiry notified by state, judge asks
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/081601/statedocs/16downey.h
tm

by Jack Brammer
FRANKFORT -- A judge, weighing whether to remove the names of several people
from the files of a former legislative official's sex-and-gambling
investigation, said yesterday that he is ``struggling with'' whether
everyone named was given adequate notice by the state to review the records.



Chicago Sun-Times 8/13/01
Class shows vulnerability of networks
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-hacker13.html

by Howard Wolinksy
A worker on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico noticed that the cursor on his
computer screen suddenly was hijacked at two in the morning.
Was it a poltergeist?
If so, this spirit was trying to penetrate the oil company's network, where
it could abscond with planning reports, payroll information and other
competitive data.
''Who are you? What do want?'' the startled worker typed into his system.


Reuters 8/16/01
Coca-Cola buys lost 1931 Norman Rockwell painting
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010816/re/arts_cocacola_rockwell_dc_1.ht
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by Paul Simao
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co., often viewed as an icon of modern
American culture, said on Thursday it had acquired a lost 1931 painting it
commissioned from renowned U.S. artist Norman Rockwell.
``The Barefoot Boy'' was one of six Rockwell oil paintings commissioned by
the soft drink giant between 1928 and 1935. Copies of the painting appeared
on nearly 2 million Coca-Cola calendars, on posters and in window displays.


Amityville Record 8/15/01
County Breaks ground for Historical Documents Library in Riverhead
http://www.amityvillerecord.com/news/2001/0815/Front_Page/014.html

The Suffolk County Department of Public Works has broken ground for the new
Historical Documents Library at the Suffolk County Center in Riverhead. The
announcement was made recently by S.C. Clerk Ed Romaine.
The Historical Document Library will house some of Suffolk County's oldest
records, including Early Deed and Mortgage Libers dating back to the 1700's,
Suffolk Court Records (1760-1900), Vessel Liens (1875-1968), as well as
records from the Suffolk County Almhouse, County Jail, Children's Home and
photographs and maps.



ABC28.com
Documents: Firestone knew cheap safety cap reduced tire failures
http://home.abc28.com/Global/story.asp?S=438633&nav=0zGK2RaY

AP
McAllen, Texas-AP -- Court documents show Bridgestone/Firestone knew that
tires with an inexpensive nylon layer would be up to five times less likely
to fail than those without the caps.
Lawyers for a family suing the tire maker in McAllen, Texas, say company
memos show the firm knew a nylon layer called a cap strip or shoulder strip
greatly reduced tread separations, but chose not to use them.


New York Times 8/15/01
Egghead.com to file for bankruptcy
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Egghead-Bankruptcy.html

AP
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Online technology merchant Egghead.com Inc.
(news/quote) on Wednesday joined the procession of unprofitable Internet
businesses limping into bankruptcy court.


New York Times 8/18/01
Eight Marine officers are charged in Osprey false-records case
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/18/national/18OSPR.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Christopher Marquis
Washington Aug. 17 -- A two- star general is among eight Marine Corps
officers who have been charged with misconduct in the falsification of
maintenance records of the V-22 Osprey aircraft, Marine officials said
today.
Maj. Gen. Dennis T. Krupp, the commanding general of the Second Marine
Aircraft Wing, was charged with dereliction of duty on the grounds that he
"knew or should have known" of false maintenance reports on the troubled
aircraft, the officials said.


Pittsburgh Post Gazette 8/19/01
Experts say preserve the records
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010819archives0819p2.asp

by Marylynne Pitz
As the leader of a Cranberry company that is preserving 300,000 books for
the Library of Congress, Richard Spatz knows what it takes to save old books
and paper.
He also knows how unpleasant it is in the North Side warehouse where 200
years worth of Allegheny County's history is deteriorating.
County officials, Spatz said, "need to go down and look at it themselves,
and they'll get disgusted by the dirt and the filth and the fact that those
books are just stacked up."


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 8/19/01
Westmoreland County's record keeping ranked among the best in state
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010819recordsqueen0819p3.asp

By Marylynne Pitz
Lucy Yakulis, a former teacher, heads the Westmoreland County department
that stores and retrieves the records of 55 county offices and makes them
accessible to people in a public reading room.
It's a program that's "state of the art," according to Susan Hartman, who
oversees the local government, state judicial and statewide services section
of the Pennsylvania Archives.


New York Times 8/19/01
F.B.I. is investigating a senior counterterrorism agent
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/national/19FBI.html?searchpv=nytToday

By DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 - The F.B.I. has begun an internal investigation into
one of its most senior counterterrorism officials, who misplaced a briefcase
containing highly classified information last year. The briefcase contained
a number of sensitive documents, including a report outlining virtually
every national security operation in New York, government officials said.


Los Angeles Times 8/18/01
GAO may file suit over energy papers
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-081801cheney.story

by Eric Lichtblau
WASHINGTON--Congressional investigators, refusing to back down in a
three-month standoff with Vice President Dick Cheney, threatened Friday to
sue the White House if it continues to withhold documents detailing how a
Cheney-led task force developed its national energy policy.


San Jose Mercury News 8/17/01
Groups sue for access to air-quality records
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/airboard17f.htm

by Michael J. Coren
Fearful that air pollution violation records are being destroyed and the
community has been shut out of the region's air quality plans, environmental
groups filed suit Thursday against the Bay Area's air pollution control
agency in state Superior Court in San Francisco.


New York Times 8/9/01
How is libel different in cyberspace
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/09/technology/10CYBERLAW.html

by Carl S. Kaplan
There's an old legal adage that "talebearers are as bad as talemakers."
A talemaker, as you might guess, is someone who wrongly communicates or
publishes a whopper of a lie about someone else. That person may be guilty
of defamation. In addition -- and here's the kicker -- a person who
carelessly or recklessly re-publishes or circulates a defamation -- the
talebearer -- may also be guilty of libel. After all, as courts have long
pointed out, the last utterance of a false statement that injures a person's
reputation may do just as much harm as the first.


SmartPros 8/13/01
How to read a legal document
http://legal.smartpros.com/x13632.xml

by Ned Steel Communications
Aug. 13, 2001 (SmartPros) - Controllership is the glue that keeps a company
together. Whether in the public or private domain, controllers operate
within a range of different parameters. Because of this versatility, a
controller must report to many different bodies within a corporation, and
must also have a rock-solid knowledge of many different types of legal
documents.

Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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