R. Jeffrey Smith and Jo Becker have the fairly important story that is relegated to page four of today's issue of The Washington Post.

A file folder containing papers from Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s work on affirmative action more than 20 years ago disappeared from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library after its review by two lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department in July, according to officials at the library and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Archivists said the lawyers returned the file but it now cannot be located. No duplicates of the folder's contents were made before the lawyers' review. Although one of the lawyers has assisted in the Archives' attempt to reconstruct its contents from other files, officials have no way of independently verifying their effort was successful.

It is rare for the Archives to lose documents in its care and the agency has requested an investigation by its inspector general, said Sharon Fawcett, the assistant archivist for presidential libraries.

When Sandy Berger apparently "lost" documents in the course of the 9/11 investigation, the right screamed treason and all but called for Berger's head. What's more, they claimed it was indicative of the callousness of the Clinton administration. So what, prey tell, does the loss of these Roberts documents mean?