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RAIN 02/02: Weekly Update 01/29/02 Part 2



There are 17 stories in this posting.


Bergen Record 01/24/02
Former homeless man sues for right to review his police files
http://www.bergen.com/morris/kreimer200201247.htm

By JOHN CICHOWSKI
A litigious former homeless man, who created an uproar in Morristown in the early 1990s, emerged from long seclusion Wednesday to sue for access to police records
he says authorities kept on him in the 1990s.


Associated Press 01/29/02
Auditors begin scrutiny of Duke Power records
http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/news/MGBUWAA32XC.html

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Auditors have begun reviewing Duke Power's accounts in a two-state
investigation that stems from a whistleblower's claim that the utility underreported roughly $100 million in profits from 1998 through last year.
The audit got under way after a one-month delay over how much access the auditors would
have to company records and employees. Letters between lawyers for Duke and an outside
accounting firm detail the utility's effort to set tight parameters on the unprecedented probe.



Gainesville Sun 01/29/02
Archivist collects black history
http://www.sunone.com/articles/2002-01-29d.shtml

by Ashley Rowland
As a teen-ager, Joel Buchanan made headlines for going to classes in an allwhite
school.
Nearly four decades later, the University of Florida graduate and archivist collects yellowed newspapers, faded photographs and dated business records - anything that documents what life was like in Gainesville's black neighborhoods before segregation ended.



InfoWorld 01/29/02
Court denies news outlets access to Microsoft depositions
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/01/29/020129hndenied.xml

by Cara Garretson
WASHINGTON -- NEWS organizations do not have the right to attend upcoming
depositions in the continuing antitrust battle between the nine hold-out states
and Microsoft, a U.S. District Court judge ruled.



InformationWeek 01/28/02
New Way To Work
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020124S0028

by Aaron Ricadela
In 1987, Apple Computer produced a short promotional video, imagining how people would use technology at the dawn of the 21st century. Its anticipation of the way  professionals would one day work was remarkably prescient. In the video, a globe-trotting professor uses a portable computer to download data from a worldwide  information network. An intelligent software agent becomes his liaison to online information. He speaks commands to his machine in plain English and authors an interactive, multimedia document for colleagues to share.



National Review 01/29/02
Disarming America, Part III
http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment012902.shtml

by Melissa Seckora
Last fall when I interviewed Emory University history professor Michael Bellesiles about his award-winning book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, he
claimed more than once that he had used an archive of San Francisco County probate inventories located at the San Francisco superior court.
When it was determined that the probate inventories he cited in his book, in  correspondence with other historians, and on his website, could not be found at the San Francisco superior court because they were destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, he changed his story.



New York Times 01/29/02
Still Family After All These Years
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/nyregion/29FAMI.html

by Glenn Collins
Enrons they are not.
These are venerable New York City institutions: the company that supplied glass
eyes to Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Falk; the company that created Times Square
extravaganzas that blew giant smoke rings, filled gargantuan martini glasses and brought Niagara Falls to life; the company that supplies the nation's billiard tables with green baize.


New York Times 01/29/02
The Giuliani Papers
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/opinion/L29RUDY.html

It is dismaying to find you describing my efforts to ensure that former Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani's papers are preserved for history and catalogued for the use
of scholars and journalists as a "hijacking."


New York Times 01/29/02
Bush Says Privacy Is Needed on Data From Enron Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/business/29ENRO.html

By STEPHEN LABATON and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
President Bush today defended his refusal to turn over to Congress information about
contacts between Enron (news/quote) and the administration's energy task force, saying the request was "an encroachment on the executive branch's ability to conduct  business."
"We're not going to let the ability for us to discuss matters between ourselves to become eroded," the president said this afternoon at a session with reporters. "It's not only important for us, for this administration, it's an important principle for future administrations."



New York Times 01/29/02
School Worker Is Not Guilty in Release of Pedophile's Files
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/29/nyregion/29NOTI.html

WATERBURY, Conn., Jan. 28 — A former state mental health worker
who warned a suburban neighborhood that a mildly retarded man
classified as a pedophile was moving in was acquitted today of charges that he
illegally removed the man's confidential medical records.



The Times 01/29/02
What to keep and what to destroy?
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,76-2002043452,00.html

BY JONATHAN PICKWORTH
In the wake of Enrons collapse,companies need a clear policy on
destroying documents to avoid legal pitfalls.
Senate hearings on the collapse of the American energy giant Enron,
particularly the mass shredding of documents by its auditors, are due to
start today. In the UK most company directors would recognise that
the destruction of a document which is the subject of a subpoena
would offend the law.


USA Today 01/29/02
Investigators face legal bog
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020129/bs_usatoday/3809403

by Martin Kastendorf
HOUSTON -- Delivering a barbed sound bite at a House hearing, Rep.
John Dingell, D-Mich., called the shredding of Enron documents
''criminally stupid or stupidly criminal, or both.''
But assuming that people have acted criminally in the Enron scandal is easier than proving it. Sending anyone to jail will depend on whether federal investigators can obtain cooperation from key players, nail down facts leading to indictments and convince jurors that felonious intent was behind the energy firm's collapse.



The Daily Texan 01/25/02
A tragedy's remnants
History center displays Whitman documents
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/01/25/3c51072b3cb4a?in_archive=1

By Courtney Morris
"If there exists a God, let him understand my actions and judge me accordingly."
UT student Charles J. Whitman wrote these words in a letter at 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1966, 15 minutes after he killed his mother. Three hours later, he killed his wife,
Kathy Whitman, a high school biology teacher.


Wall Street Journal 01/29/02
Lawyer Says He Has Data for U.S. Showing Ford Mustang Safety Issues
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,4286,SB1012279726101996600,00.html?mod=home%5Fwhats%5Fnews%5Fus

By NORIHIKO SHIROUZU
DETROIT -- A lawyer who recently settled a case with Ford Motor Co. said he is going to turn over to federal auto safety regulators information, including Ford internal documents, that he says shows Ford compromised on the safety of the Ford Mustang
since the mid-1990s.


The Wall Street Journal 01/29/02
Editorial: The Waxman House Rules
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,4286,SB10122695322...31600,00.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks

We have a deal for Congressman Henry Waxman: If Vice President Dick Cheney releases the list of everyone he's ever discussed energy policy with, then will Mr. Waxman disclose the name of every campaign donor he's ever met with?
Come to think of it, why not expand this arrangement so every Member of Congress discloses everyone he or she has ever met while writing legislation?
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch could also tell us what he discussed with Netscape, Sun Microsystems and Novell executives while preparing for his anti-Microsoft hearings. Democratic Senator Tom Daschle could release the notes from his meeting with Homestake
Mining reps before stumping for a $1 billion subsidy for its South Dakota gold mine. The list could certainly be educational.


New Strait Times 01/29/02
Birth certificates in five minutes, smart ICs in a fortnight
NRD shaves waiting period for important ID documents
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/Frontpage/20020129164022/Article/

by Brenda Lim
Birth certificates can be obtained in five minutes and smart identity cards (MyKad) in a fortnight at most National Registration Department offices nationwide.
NRD director-general Datuk Azizan Ayob said this can be done at the 39 offices that have yet to go online by April.
He said the NRD with 187 branches nationwide would be the first Government department to be fully computerised.







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