announced last week that from now on it would judge on a case-by-case basis FBI requests for reports on activities of Americans travelling abroad.
The ECB has declined to comment as yet, on the basis that requests for a copy of the book has fallen on deaf ears with its publishers.
Such a program could be used as the basis for requests for appropriations, for expenditures, and for allocating scare materials.
It contained the subject line, "Request for Attorney General" and a subheading, "Basis for Request".
Charlie Savage reported in The Times that there is wide agreement in the administration "that it is lawful to target Mr. Awlaki," but disagreement about the basis for requesting dismissal of the lawsuit.
But apart from special areas of concentration -- music this year (and this afternoon) by Thomas Ades, the composer in residence; discussions of Bach performance next year by the cellist and Baroque specialist Anner Bylsma -- they have little say in the repertory, which is determined on the basis of request lists from the participants.
Mr. Giuliani, at his daily news conference at City Hall, said he had concluded that there was no legal basis to request an injunction to stop the appointment, but he continued to express strong opposition to Mr. Levy, describing him as a puppet of the teachers' union and others.
"The system would have a central database of undesirable URL's that would be loaded on the distributed hardware boxes at each POP and updated on daily basis," the request for proposals says, referring to uniform resource locators, the unique addresses for specific Web pages, and points of presence, or access points.
