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The Register Archive.org suffers Fahrenheit 911 memory loss By Ashlee Vance in Chicago Published Friday 9th July 2004 16:13 GMT Opinion You don't often think about libraries in terms of strength. Few mayors tout the large sack of the local book depository or put it up against a massive skyscraper during PR stunts. Libraries are pretty passive creatures that receive some credit for the quantity of volumes they hold but not much credit these days for being powerful entities. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/ Bob Bullock Collection To Open At Baylor University July 09, 2004 by Lori Scott Fogleman Researchers and the public will get their first look at the papers of the late Texas statesman and Baylor University law graduate Bob Bullock, when the Bullock Archive opens July 12 in the Baylor Collections of Political Materials (BCPM). http://pr.baylor.edu/story.php?id=005219 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2672405 The Capital Times Dave Zweifel: Historical Society chief is impressed By Dave Zweifel July 9, 2004 I had a delightful lunch this week with the new director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Ellsworth Brown, who is impressed by what he's seen so far of Madison. http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=6502&ntpid=1 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Military files show lives of servicemen By SIOBHAN MCDONOUGH ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON -- Snapshots from the history of the U.S. military: -Eighteen-year-old Humphrey Bogart's 1918 application to become a Naval Reserve seaman, listing his short, slight particulars - 136 pounds, 5 feet 7 1/2 inches, smallpox mark over right eyebrow. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1155&sl ug=Archives%20Military%20Files http://snipurl.com/7o9h Northwest Indiana Times Homicide history now online CRIME, INTERNET: Northwestern University Web site showcases 60 years of Chicago murder By MIKE COLIAS Associated Press Writer CHICAGO -- Do a search on Northwestern University's new historical homicide Web site for murders that occurred Feb. 14 and you'll get perhaps this city's most infamous crime: the bloody shooting of seven mobsters in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2004/07/10/news/local_illinois/924d961e cfff24e386256ecc007fdb47.txt http://snipurl.com/7o9j Air Canada and WestJet to have expert hunt for documents in 'espionage' case CRAIG WONG Canadian Press TORONTO (CP) - Air Canada and WestJet Airlines are trying to rise above website spying and dumpster diving. The bitter-rival companies agreed Thursday to find an expert to search for relevant documents at the discount airline in connection with Air Canada's lawsuit alleging corporate espionage. http://www.canada.com/businesscentre/story.html?id=265EA51F-8093-46E3-8861-6B5 51739B4D0 Forward Then They Came for the Gypsies: The Legacy of Death's Calculator By EDWIN BLACK July 9, 2004 In April 1941, a Romanian census taker came to the home of a suspected Roma Gypsy working as a blacksmith in the picturesque town of Schaas. The senior Nazi statistical official observing the process wrote, "He did not dare to deny his ethnical descent as Gypsy." The census taker instructed: "Now, please write: Gypsy." http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=black200407071159 ( New York Times July 9, 2004 Pentagon Says Bush Records of Service Were Destroyed By RALPH BLUMENTHAL OUSTON, July 8 - Military records that could help establish President Bush's whereabouts during his disputed service in the Texas Air National Guard more than 30 years ago have been inadvertently destroyed, according to the Pentagon. It said the payroll records of "numerous service members," including former First Lt. Bush, had been ruined in 1996 and 1997 by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service during a project to salvage deteriorating microfilm. No back-up paper copies could be found, it added in notices dated June 25. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/campaign/09records.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39707-2004Jul9.html The Telegraph Sam Fuller's last testament (Filed: 10/07/2004) Fuller's life The American filmmaker's great Second World War movie The Big Red One, based on his own experiences, never appeared as he wanted it during his lifetime – but now it's been restored. By Michael Pye Nobody knew what survived in those boxes; and Warners only kept them because they'd come with the archive of an outfit called Lorimar. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/07/10/bfred10.xml&sS heet=/arts/2004/07/10/ixtop.html http://snipurl.com/7o9n Globe and Mail Forensic inspector to search WestJet files Will look for documents related to rival Air Canada's claim of corporate espionage By PAUL WALDIE Friday, July 9, 2004 - Page B3 Executives at WestJet Airlines Ltd. are likely sitting on a pile of documents obtained through corporate espionage that should be turned over to a court as soon as possible, a lawyer for Air Canada told a court hearing yesterday. Earl Cherniak, a Toronto lawyer representing Air Canada, said his client may seek more court orders prohibiting use of the alleged material once it has been released. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040709/RWEST0 9/TPBusiness/Canadian http://snipurl.com/7o9o Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va