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RAIN 12/16: Weekend Report Part 4



There are 17 stories in this posting

New York Times 12/13/01
Bush makes Justice papers secret
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush-Privilege.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Since taking office, President Bush has sent a clear message to Congress: Some sensitive information Capitol Hill lawmakers have been used to getting will be off limits.
Bush sent the most powerful part of the message Thursday when he invoked executive privilege to protect the confidentiality of prosecutorial documents Congress has often received in the past.



New York Times 12/013/01
California stops selling personal data
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/technology/circuits/13DATA.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Katie Hafner
Over the last six years California has sold its database of birth and death records, in whole or in part, nearly two dozen times - to local governments, law offices, medical groups and genealogy research firms.



New York Times 12/13/01
Digital Mementos of Terror's victims
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/technology/circuits/13ARCH.html

by Lisa Guernsey
At 9:05 a.m. on Sept. 11, Linda Kostenko stared at her e-mail box with eyes wet from crying. She had just arrived at work in Paterson, N.J., after hearing on her car radio about a plane crash at the World Trade Center. One of her close friends, Jean DePalma, worked on the 100th floor of the north tower, and the more Ms. Kostenko heard about the crash, the more her body filled with dread.



New York Times 12/13/01
E-mail gets the cold shoulder in Congress
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/technology/circuits/13CONG.html

by Rebecca Fairley Raney
In theory, e-mail should be a useful tool for democracy, an easy and prompt way for citizens to reach their representatives. And with the fear and disruption resulting from the discovery of anthrax in Congressional mail, e-mail might seem an ideal alternative.
But although many members of Congress asked constituents to switch to e-mail after mail delivery to their offices was halted in October, the trend on Capitol Hill seems to be a backlash against the medium.



New York Times 12/13/01
Judge allows prosecutors to see Rich documents
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-crime-rich.html?searchpv=reuters

Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. district judge Thursday ruled lawyers for pardoned financier Marc Rich should turn over documents and testimony withheld from a grand jury probing Rich.
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin issued a ruling that federal prosecutors were entitled to the documents because any attorney-client privilege covering Rich and his associate, Pincus Green, ended when the two men sought pardons and their legal representation was no longer ``adversarial.''



New York Times 12/13/01
Pooh-poohing the purists, a scholar revels in netspeak
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/technology/circuits/13NEXT.html

by Anne Eisenberg
The future of the Internet isn't just commercial or technical. It's linguistic, too - at least in the eyes of Dr. David Crystal, an eminent Welsh authority on language and the producer of many scholarly volumes, including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. His new book on Internet communication was just released by Cambridge University Press.



New York Times 12/14/01
Judge says turn over pardon papers
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Marc-Rich-Pardon.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge said lawyers for Marc Rich acted ``principally as lobbyists'' in helping the fugitive financier win a pardon from President Clinton and must hand over documents withheld from a grand jury investigating the controversial pardon.
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said attorney-client privilege does not protect the materials from release.



Bergen Record 12/13/01
Safeguarding artifacts of a tragedy
http://www.northjersey.com/region/artifac13200112134.htm

by Tara Burghart
AP
NEW YORK -- At first glance they appear unrelated: a coffee-stained cup, a vertical blind twisted into a crazy conical shape, a card on which the U.S. flag is made of macaroni painted red, white, and blue.
But all are now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society because of their connection to Sept. 11.



New York Times 12/13/01
Senators seek gun purchase records
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Senate-Guns.html?searchpv=aponline

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Democratic senators urged Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday to preserve gun purchase records that investigators want to review for any connection to the Sept. 11 hijackers.
The FBI has asked the Justice Department for access to those records, but the department has refused.



Carthage Press News 12/14/01
Red Cross documents now available at Jasper County Records Center
http://www.carthagepress.com/display/inn_news/news1.txt

by Ron Graber
Historical records detailing the local work of Red Cross volunteers during World War I are now available to the public at the Jasper County Records Center.
"It is extremely important to maintain the value of our history," said Kobi Watford, executive director of the Southwest Missouri Chapter of the American Red Cross. "We want to keep this information in good shape and available to the community."



Chicago Sun Times 12/14/01
House panel wants Andersen Enron records
http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-enron14.html

by Vicky Stamas
WASHINGTON--A U.S. House committee called on Chicago-based Arthur Andersen LLP to provide records of its Enron Corp. audits and to make David Duncan, its partner in charge of the Enron account, available for questioning.



Reuters 12/13/01
Lost Kennedy photos spark industry reflection
http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?section=Entertainment&storyId=300125

by Christopher Noble
BOSTON (Reuters) - Jacques Lowe, whose intimate, understated images of the Kennedy family helped create and sustain the myth of Camelot, was among the most careful of photographers.
He stored his precious negatives in a fireproof bank vault and closely monitored their use. When a publication or museum wanted prints, he personally took the negatives to the lab for printing. When the job was done, he retrieved them himself.



US Newswire 12/07/01
National Archives offers $50,000 for information regarding fire at storage facility
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1207-124.html

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin announced today a reward of $50,000 for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons who are responsible for the Dec. 4 fire at the National Archives storage facility in Suitland...



US Newswires 12/14/01
National Archives releases report on current recordkeeping practices in the federal government
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/temp/1214-109.html

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin announced today the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA) release of a "Report on Current Recordkeeping Practices within the Federal Government." The report is an analysis of two significant data collections that were conducted by NARA and SRA International, Inc. (SRA) to assess the state of recordkeeping and records use in the Federal Government.


Los Angeles Times 12/14/01
Pooh case records to be opened
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000099117dec14.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness

by Meg James
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered that court files chronicling a 10-year battle with Walt Disney Co. over the value of Winnie the Pooh merchandise royalties be unsealed.
Superior Court Judge Earnest M. Hiroshige said the court papers, which have been closed since shortly after the case was filed in 1991, should be open. "It serves the public interest," Hiroshige said in granting the motion filed by The Times.


Rocky Mountain News 12/14/01
City auditor's defeat in open-records case decried
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_908869,00.html

by Todd Hartman
Local First Amendment lawyers on Thursday roundly criticized a Grand County district judge's ruling that the Denver auditor isn't a "natural person" under Colorado's open-records laws.
The ruling, issued Wednesday by District Judge Richard Doucette, dismissed a lawsuit under which Denver City Auditor Don Mares had used the Open Records Act to seek records related to Winter Park real estate transactions.



Hudson Valley Times 12/13/01
NorthEast keeps up with records management
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2774018&BRD=1703&PAG=461&dept_id=71557&rfi=6

by Kristin Charles
Members of the NorthEast Town Board met with Records Advisory Officer for Dutchess County David Lowry on Dec. 4 to discuss the status of current applications and to explore possibilities for the next cycle, which begins in Feb. 2002. The Town of NorthEast will continue reorganizing their record keeping systems with the help of grant funding.
When a municipality participates in records management it increases their chances of receiving grants to assist them in setting up and implementing new records-keeping practices.





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