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RAIN 8/20: Weekend Update Part 2



There are 18 stories in this posting

The Record 8/16/01
Identity theft surging in U.S.
http://www.bergen.com/news/idtheft2200108164.htm

by Peter Pochna
Sohaam Yaghooti of Fairview came home from work, flopped down on her bed,
and began opening her mail. It was like any other afternoon for the young
marketing manager, until she opened the letter from the credit card company.

It said the company was processing her application and would likely send a
credit card in a few days. The problem was: She hadn't applied.


Tampa Tribune 8/17/01
Jurors demand housing records
http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA4S1LEHQC.html

by Laura Kinsler
A federal grand jury Thursday made a sweeping demand for city records
related to housing chief Steve LaBrake, his controversial new house and a
host of other city officials.
The subpoenas delivered to the city attorney's office were the first in what
promises to be a series of demands for records and witness testimony.


San Francisco Chronicle 8/16/01
New Plan for online court filings
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/16
/BU197915.DTL&type=tech

by Carrie Kirby
A committee of federal judges has a plan for putting court documents on the
Internet that seems to satisfy the concerns of both privacy watchdogs and
open records advocates.


New York Times 8/19/01
Nuggets mined from the corporate past, for a fee
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/business/19HIST.html?ex=998884800&en=4b68d
70433b8a824&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

by Lynnley Browning
hen Corning Inc. (news/quote) began preparing for its 150th anniversary,
executives wanted to chronicle the company's innovations, which have
included the mass-produced light bulb, Pyrex ovenware and optical fiber.
So in 1996, Corning hired the Winthrop Group, a company of historians and
archivists, to delve into its records and to write two scholarly books to
coincide with the anniversary this year. Those books, "The Generations of
Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation," by Davis Dyer and
Daniel Gross, and "Corning and the Craft of Innovation," by Margaret B. W.
Graham and Alec T. Shuldiner, were published this past spring by Oxford
University Press.


Washington Post 8/18/01
Pinch-hitting historian
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28061-2001Aug18.html

by Jennifer Frey
John Holway is settled on the couch in the living room of his Springfield
home, telling the story of how he met Satchel Paige, the great Negro leagues
pitcher, 25 years ago.
Paige was hard to find by the time Holway went looking. Always loquacious in
his playing days -- he was a rookie in 1927 and pitched his last inning in
1965, at the age of 61 -- Paige didn't abide much tale-telling to strangers
as he got older, and Holway had gotten his address from an old teammate by
pleading a bit. Then a middle-aged guy with a job at the U.S. Information
Agency and a growing obsession with the Negro leagues, Holway flew out to
Kansas City, Mo., with a notebook and hope.



Washington Times 8/16/01
Racing to create Internet2
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20010816-74688205.htm

by Christian Toto
Sequels rarely outshine the original. For researchers working on Internet2,
though, the goal is just that -- to improve upon the existing Internet by
breaking down technological barriers such as narrow bandwidth and
inconsistent service.
Bad sequels often abandon the formula that made the original a success. That
isn't the case for Internet2. Its backers are re-creating the atmosphere
that helped the first online system grow -- banding academic groups together
outside the commercial world to foster a nurturing environment where
innovation can thrive.



Fort Worth Star Telegram 8/17/01
Museum acquires top photo works
http://web.star-telegram.com/content/fortworth/2001/08/17/fwnews/fw010402-08
17-XB001-art.htm

by Mark Lowry
In the two years that the Amon Carter Museum has been undergoing its $39
million expansion, its curators have been busy acquiring new works to add to
the museum's already substantial collection. On Thursday, the museum
announced three major photography acquisitions.



New York Times 8/16/01
A Family Album that morphs online
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/16SHOP.html

by Michelle Slatalla
The memory of my worst lapse in judgment since becoming a parent is
beginning to fade, so I am willing to share the horrifying details to help
others avert catastrophe.
The problem was not that I allowed my eldest daughter to invite 16 guests to
a sleepover party to celebrate her 10th birthday. Or that two of the girls,
allergic to cats, had to be driven home at 2 a.m. Or even that I condoned
the use of that colored hair spray that stained everyone's pillowcase a
caustic pink.



New York Times 8/16/01
The defense never rests at the Alger Hiss Web site
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/circuits/16HISS.html?searchpv=n
ytToday

by James Baron
The Alger Hiss case, which swirled through the second half of the 20th
century with low-tech evidence like documents that may or may not have come
from a certain manual typewriter, has made it into the 21st century and onto
the Internet. And so has the debate.



New York Times 8/16/01
The F.B.I. investigates complaints about Lewis Hine prints
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/arts/design/16HINE.html?pagewanted=all

by Ralph Blumenthal
How did one of America's most famous photographers manage to sign his name
again and again on paper that did not exist in his lifetime?
For more than two years, dismayed dealers and collectors of art photographs
have been contemplating this anomaly in the works of Lewis W. Hine, the
social realist known for his documentary images of immigrants, child
laborers, factory toilers and ironworkers on the Empire State Building.



Associated Press 8/15/01
Panel recommends restricted access to court records online
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/62013p-893524c.html

by Gina Holland
AP
WASHINGTON (August 15, 2001 6:25 p.m. EDT) - Americans could use the
Internet to learn about their neighbor's argument with his boss but not
about a criminal case against him under recommendations for federal court
record keepers.
A panel of judges proposed a tentative step into the Internet age, with
courts nationwide making most civil cases available online, cleansed of
personal information that could be used by cyber criminals.



The Union Leader & New Hampshire Sunday News 8/19/01
Records provide detailed look at history of NH prisoners
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=4678

by Nancy West
They are New Hampshire's most notorious - convicted horse thieves,
murderers, mutineers, rapists and assorted criminals and scoundrels dating
back almost two centuries.
Folks like William Hill, a horse thief from Barrington who became New
Hampshire State Prison's second inmate in 1813. And Howard Long, inmate No.
5,995, a 32-year-old child-molesting murderer infamous as the last man
hanged by the state on July 14, 1939.



The Star 8/16/01
File'em in e-papers, lawyers urged
http://thestar.com.my/tech/story.asp?file=/2001/8/16/technology/16law&sec=te
chnology

by M. Madhavan
PETALING JAYA: Pushing the legal fraternity to adopt electronic paper
(e-paper) and doing away with paper where possible would require plenty of
education, according to Adobe Systems Pte Ltd.
"It's a matter of educating the legal fraternity to adopt a more efficient,
productive and time saving format," said Raymond Lee, the company's regional
licensing manager.



Toronto Star 8/16/01
Bourassa files never lost, archives say
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic
le_Type1&c=Article&cid=997965436786&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=96833218
8774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&col=968350116467

CP
QUEBEC (CP) - Documents belonging to late premier Robert Bourassa were never
lost despite reports they had been missing for seven years, an official at
Quebec's archives office said today.
After thoroughly searching through their Bourassa documents, officials
determined they still had all the boxes that were dropped off in 1994, the
year after he left office.



Toronto Star 8/17/01
Mail snooping restricted
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic
le_Type1&c=Article&cid=997999330686&call_page=TS_Canada&call_pageid=96833218
8774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&col=968350116467

by Allan Thompson
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA - The federal customs agency has agreed to modify its policy on
opening private mail and forwarding it to the immigration department.
Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski yesterday called the move a ``victory
for the privacy rights of Canadians,'' after receiving word the Canadian
Customs and Revenue Agency had agreed to revise its mail-opening policy.



New York Times 8/16/01
To the Navy's ranks, add webmaster
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/16NAVY.html

by Nancy Beth Jackson
Aboard U.S.S. KITTY HAWK, off Japan -- In their long stretches at sea on
this storied aircraft carrier, Chief Petty Officer Lance Lindley and Petty
Officer Third Class Jacob Hickman rarely meet face to face.
Chief Lindley, 36, works days in the public affairs office, just a ship's
ladder from the flight deck. Petty Officer Hickman, 20, works nights in the
print shop under the main galley below the waterline. But together they man
www.kittyhawk.navy.mil, which can be boarded by any outsider at any time
without requesting the captain's permission.



The Japan Times 8/17/01
Wartime Red Cross donation secretly made in '49
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20010817b3.htm

GENEVA (Kyodo) Japan offered to donate 10 million Swiss francs under the
name of the late Empress Kojun to the Geneva-based International Committee
of the Red Cross during the last days of World War II and the money was
secretly transferred in 1949 after a fierce battle over the fund, according
to documents at the Swiss Archive Office and the ICRC archives.



Wall Street Journal 8/17/01
An executive's memos offer a look at an unfolding art-auction scandal
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB997994945996093798.htm

by Kathryn Kranhold
NEW YORK -- As the two largest art-auction houses prepared for the 1995
spring season, Christie's International PLC executive Stephen S. Lash
worried that something was terribly amiss in his clubby world.
Two major art collections with works by Picasso, Matisse and Renoir were up
for grabs. One group belonged to the estate of a prominent New York banker,
Donald Stralem, and his wife, Jean. Mr. Lash and others at the two rival
auction houses expected Christie's to land the collection, valued at more
than $60 million, in part because Mrs. Stralem had close ties to both Mr.
Lash and popular Christie's auctioneer Christopher Burge.

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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