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RAIN 12/16: Weekend Report Part 1



There are 13 stories in this posting.
Some of the stories in this posting and following posts may have previously appeared on the Archivist listserv.

New York Times 12/07/01
Man stole rare items at Yale, police say
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/nyregion/07YALE.html

by Yilu Zhao
NEW HAVEN, Dec. 4 - It was a summer job, and the duties for Benjamin W. Johnson were simple: to move boxes of documents at Yale University's rare books library.
But the treasure of half a million rare books and several million manuscripts housed at the university's Beinecke library proved to be too much temptation for Mr. Johnson, a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin student, according to the Yale police


New York Times 12/06/01
The 30 year path of e-mail
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/06/technology/circuits/06EMAI.html?ex=1009012211&ei=1&en=8bfa0adcbabcb181

by Katie Hafner
It wasn't an accidental invention, exactly, but it was certainly one that followed an unexpected trajectory to glory.
Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer scientist at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, an engineering firm in Cambridge, Mass., sat down at his computer and wrote a relatively simple computer program that enabled electronic messages to travel from one computer to another.



New York Times 12/10/01
Online archive for Coke Advertising
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/10/business/media/10ADCO.html?ex=1009003039&ei=1&en=ddbc575d4a8cd56c

by Allison Fass
In N a marriage of Big Red and Big Blue, the extensive marketing records of the Coca-Cola Company (news/quote) - from calendars created by Norman Rockwell to corporate memoranda to the famous commercial in which a chorus proclaims its desire to "teach the world to sing" - have been digitized in an online archive with the help of I.B.M. (news/quote)



Chicago Tribune 12/10/01
Editorial: Locking up presidential papers
http://chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0112100170dec10.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsopinion%2Dhed

Under federal law, Ronald Reagan's presidential papers became available to the public as of Jan. 20, 2001. But if you're a journalist, historian or simply an interested citizen, you may find that law and reality are two different things.



New York Times 12/05/01
Clinton dedicates presidential library
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Clinton-Library.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- With a golden shovel full of dirt, Bill Clinton broke ground Wednesday on a presidential library that promises to document both his triumphs and scandals.
``The impeachment? Absolutely,'' Clinton said. ``What I did wrong is a matter of record, but what I want is the whole record out.''
Clinton was impeached by the House in December 1998 on two articles of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. But in February 1999, the Senate voted to acquit Clinton.


Denver Post 12/05/01
Court-appointed hacker altered Indian accounts
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E254976,00.html

by Bill McAllister
WASHINGTON - In an extraordinary step approved by a federal judge, a computer expert hacked his way into a government-run, Denver-based financial system last summer, created a false account and later altered yet another account. All this happened without the hacker being detected.
Those steps, endorsed by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth in advance, were revealed Tuesday as part of a court case involving the Interior Department's handling of more than 300,000 trust accounts it is supposed to manage for American Indians.



The Times-Picayune 12/05/01
Auditor presses fight for records
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/newsstory/odom05.html

by Laura Maggi
BATON ROUGE -- A day after his auditors were refused access to documents by Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle went to court Tuesday to get copies of the records.
Odom called security Monday to escort two auditors out of his office building after denying them access to previously requested documents, according to a petition filed with the district court. "Mr. Odom became irate and he began to yell at our auditors using vulgar and threatening language," Kyle said.



E-Week 12/03/01
IM Genie out of the bottle
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D703%2526a%253D19359,00.asp

by Lisa Vaas
When the tamale seller sets up his cart on the sidewalk in front of Pacific International Marketing Inc., MIS Director Bryan Searcy-and most employees at the Salinas, Calif., produce broker-usually gets an instant message about it from somebody in the office.



Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 12/05/01
Accord reached on public records
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/dec01/private05120401a.asp

by Amy Rinard
Madison - A deal struck by representatives of public employees, the news media and Wisconsin municipalities is likely to make it easier to win legislative approval for a clarification of the state's open records law, the chairman of a committee working on the measure said Tuesday.



New York Times 12/06/01
Justice Dept. bars use of gun checks in terror inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/06/national/06GUNS.html

by Fox Butterfield
The Justice Department has refused to let the F.B.I. check its records to determine whether any of the 1,200 people detained after the Sept. 11 attacks had bought guns, F.B.I. and Justice Department officials say.



(Los Angeles) Daily News 12/05/01
Millions owed in records dispute
http://www.dailynews.com/news/articles/1201/05/new01.asp

by Beth Barrett
Gov. Gray Davis has forgiven $120 million that the Los Angeles school district owed the state for inflating student attendance figures, a move that was heralded by local school officials Tuesday but blasted by state Controller Kathleen Connell.
Davis spokesman Steve Maviglio said the governor made his decision after hearing repeated complaints from school districts that audits of attendance records created a "bureaucratic nightmare" for administrators.



Newsroom 12/05/01
PR firm admits seeing MP's Army records
http://www.newsroom.co.nz/story/76819-30-0.html

by Marie McNicholas
The army's public relations firm, Communications Trumps, has admitted that several of its staff were made privy to details of NZ First MP Ron Mark's military file.
A State Services Commission Inquiry into army leaks has been widened to include whether the accessing of the file by the head of the army, Major General Maurice Dodson, was legitimate.



The State 12/09/01
S.C. department releases data on e-mail
http://web.thestate.com/content/columbia/2001/12/09/local/rehab09.htm

by Kenneth A. Harris
After consulting the attorney general's office, officials at the S.C. Department of Vocational Rehabilitation reversed their stance and agreed to release information on a controversial e-mail.





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