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...panel charged with figuring out why the FBI, the CIA and other federal agencies were unable to stop the Sept. 11 terrorist plot is about to seek a huge budget boost. Sources tell TIME that commission chairman Thomas Kean has concluded that the $3 million allotted in legislation passed late last year is not nearly enough. He is expected to ask Congress for $12 million to $15 million. That's a fivefold increase, but still far less than the $50 million allotted for the probe of last month's space-shuttle catastrophe...
...panel got off to a slow start last year when its first chairman, Henry Kissinger, resigned rather than comply with financial-disclosure and potential-conflict requirements. Now, three months after the commission was signed into law, most of its members still don't have the required security clearances--including Kean, though sources tell TIME his is expected to come through soon...
Phillipa Kafka certainly wasn't. Kafka, 70, a former professor of English literature at Kean University in Union, N.J., and her husband Oliver Kenen, 56, a former high school physics teacher, moved to Boulder City, Nev., after retirement. There they turned a long-standing passion for design, decoration and fixing up old homes into a business by starting Boulder City Upgraders. Since 2000, the two have renovated and sold one house and have begun work on three others in Nevada and California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka...
APPOINTED. THOMAS KEAN, 67, moderate former G.O.P. Governor of New Jersey; by President Bush; as new head of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks; in Washington. Kean replaces Henry Kissinger, who resigned because the work would have required him to divulge clients of his private consulting business...
Nowak and Union’s Jason Kean got into a confrontation at the Dutchmen blue line, a tussle that ended with Nowak standing atop Kean and keeping him pinned down to the ice. No penalty was whistled on the play, much to Union’s frustration, and the puck trickled back towards the two players. Nowak scooped it up, skating in from the blue line on a breakaway before wristing a shot by Mayotte...