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...hundreds of thousands of indignant citizens have flooded the bureau's Washington headquarters with messages of angry protest. In an age of computer hackers, cell-phone eavesdroppers, Internet "cookies" and surveillance satellites, much of the public lacks faith, it seems, in the bureau's guarantee of total confidentiality. Like draft-card burners from the 1960s, some privacy-loving Americans have even vowed to pay the government's $100 penalty for nonfiling rather than satisfy Uncle Sam's Big Brotherish curiosity about such matters as whether their home has a working flush toilet...
...weeks leading up to yesterday's meeting, each member of the Trust's grant subcommittee worked on a piece of the draft of the application...
Avery said that she and the committee will fuse the separate sections into a final version of the grant application in the coming weeks. The separate sections include the grant procedure mission statement, potential guidelines for applicants, a possible budget form, a timetable for the grant awards and a draft of a follow-up questionnaire for grant recipients...
...other points, the proposal D'Alessandro submitted was significantly more specific than the draft recommendations she presented last month...
...loser's values had to be in the right place, but they also had to suggest that society's were in the wrong place. Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title because he refused the draft, to protest the Vietnam War. He wasn't a hero to everyone, but people recognized the gesture...