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RAIN 01/13: Weekend Update 01/10 Part 2



There are 13 stories in this posting.

Los Angeles Times 01/10/02
History was what car designer made it
http://www.latimes.com/editions/valley/la-000002503jan10.story?coll=la%2Deditions%2Dvalley

by Patricia Ward Biederman
Even when shopping for a new car, most people dump the advertising brochure as soon as the salesman turns his back. But the late David R. Holls, a well-known car designer, was an avid collector of car-related materials.



Reuters 01/09/02
Disney to save radio programs to aid FCC reviews
http://money.iwon.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&news_id=reu-n09334932&feed=reu&date=20020109&cat=INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The 50 U.S. radio stations owned by The Walt Disney Co. (DIS) recently agreed to save recordings of their programming for 60 days which will aid federal reviews of whether obscene or offensive material is aired, a top communications regulator said on Wednesday.



Washington Post 01/10/02
Md. panel considers preserving public access to court records
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22944-2002Jan9.html

by Manuel Roig-Franzia
A plan to strictly limit public access to Maryland court records would be abolished under recommendations presented this week to a committee appointed by the state's highest court.
Members of the Committee on Access to Court Records expect to vote within two weeks on whether to recommend abolishing the plan, which would have banned public access to computerized court records and given court clerks the right to question citizens about their reasons for requesting documents and discretion to deny access to many paper records.



The Jackson Citizen-Patriot 01/05/02
Much anticipated university library to open on Monday
http://ja.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20020104jsaulibrary.frm

by Brian Wheeler
Roy Meador was told to lay the groundwork for a new library the day he arrived at Spring Arbor University. The existing building was small, didn't feature many high-tech goodies and needed to replaced.
"The first thing I got when I came here was to start preparing for a new building," the university's library director said.
That was eight years ago.



Christian Science Monitor 01/10/02
Paper files in the towers: lost and (maybe) found
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0110/p18s1-wmcr.html

by Seth Stern
NEW YORK - When the World Trade Center collapsed, every last piece of paper and bit of evidence at the law firm of Thacher Proffitt & Wood simply disappeared.
In the weeks since, the firm's 300 attorneys and staff have put thousands of files back together again, using old e-mails and previously scanned documents.



Associated Press 01/10/02
Papers from Nuremberg Trial on Web
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020110/us/nuremberg_papers_1.html

by Sheila Hotchkin
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Documents that helped convict Nazi war criminals and then gathered dust for decades in a law firm began appearing Thursday in an online college law journal.
The first installment published by the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion lays out a Nazi plan to eliminate Christianity and convert its followers to an Aryan philosophy.



Pasadena Star-News 01/10/02
Court records get spot on Web
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1002,542%257E325928,00.html

by Susan McRoberts
Interested parties can now access information about civil and small claims court lawsuits over the Internet, thanks to a recent decision by the Judicial Council of California.
According to the decision, certain types of family law case records -- including divorce, custody and child support information -- also must be made available on computers at county courthouses.



Rocky Mountain News 01/10/02
Secret Columbine inquiry
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/columbine/article/0,1299,DRMN_106_935741,00.html

by Kevin Vaughan
Jefferson County school officials conducted an internal, in-depth investigation of the Columbine High School tragedy as they prepared to defend themselves in court.
But today that report remains locked in a lawyer's office, protected by state laws that make almost all attorney-client communications off-limits to the public.



Roll Call 01/10/02
Ruling could end release of FEC files
http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/01/news0110e.html

by Amy Keller
Federal Election Commission officials say a recent ruling by a federal judge may lead the watchdog agency to end a 25-year practice of publicly releasing all documents related to closed enforcement cases.



San Diego Union-Tribune 01/09/02
Archivist shares society's collection with community
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20020109-9999_m1m09tfrsf.html

by Robbin O'Neal
RANCHO SANTA FE -- Fran Foley likes to keep things in order. And she had better be organized because, as the archivist for the Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society, she keeps track of more than 5,000 items pertaining to local history.



Richmond Times Dispatch 01/10/02
Students investigated in alleged hackings
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/archive/MGBF4T7Z9WC.html

by Chris Dovi
Henrico police and school officials are investigating two J.R. Tucker High School students in connection with allegations that include using their county-issued iBook laptop computers to hack into the machines of teachers and other students.
One of the students, using the hacker name "the Matrix," allegedly used pirating software to manipulate files on those machines and then leave messages to mark his electronic tracks, Henrico School Superintendent Mark A. Edwards confirmed.



New York Times 01/10/02
The Internet's invisible hand
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/technology/circuits/10NETT.html?ex=1011678204&ei=1&en=b7e16ebf144d0b34

by Katie Hafner
No one owns it. And no one in particular actually runs it. Yet more than half a billion people rely on it as they do a light switch.
The Internet is a network whose many incarnations - as obscure academic playpen, information superhighway, vast marketplace, sci- fi-inspired matrix - have seen it through more than three decades of ceaseless evolution.



Wall Street Journal 01/11/02
Arthur Andersen admits it destroyed documents related to Enron account
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1010695966620300040.htm

by Jonathan Weil, John Emshwiller and Scot J. Paltrow
The storm cloud hanging over Enron Corp. and its longtime outside auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, just got darker.
In the latest revelation in the collapse of Enron, Arthur Andersen disclosed to federal agencies investigating the energy trading firm that individuals at the accounting firm in recent months disposed of "a significant but undetermined number" of documents related to its work for Enron.


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