Of course, the other, slightly more absurd side to all this is that attempting to stop the documents from spreading is, by now, a Sisyphean task.
In the late 1980s, while he was active in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (Act Up), Mr. Hilferty produced and directed a 24-minute film, "Stop the Church," documenting a demonstration at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan by gay rights and abortion rights advocates.
Sobered government officials are scrambling to stop the hemorrhage of documents, even as antisecrecy radicals are discovering that some secrets may be worth protecting after all.
The action came one day after F.B.I. agents raided the state university's 366-student Stratford campus to stop the shredding of documents in the office of Warren S. Wallace, the senior associate dean for academic and student affairs at the School of Osteopathic Medicine.
The government will not release its own assessment of the risks posed by its NHS shakeup, despite a second legal ruling that it must stop keeping the document secret.
But after the election, a primary candidate for a mayoral race in the western state of Yaracuy asked the top court to stop the destruction of the documents.
The government, he said, also wanted to stop the disappearance of important documents.Many hope that this banking crisis will be the country's last.
If it later turns out you didn't do so the first time around, at least the new documents stop the penalty clock on your mistake.
"The first time, I had to stop the process because they wanted documents that I could not obtain," says McBride--documents that indicated the number of hours for each course and individual final-exam results.
Unions and solicitors accelerated their campaign to stop the privatisation in May after documents leaked to the Guardian showed that Land Registry executives had secretly appointed a company secretary and considered KPMG as a possible private sector partner.
