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...chairman of the defunct 9/11 commission has lashed out at the Bush Administration for failing to address publicly claims that the panel ignored a tip that Atta had been flagged in the U.S. as a terrorist well before he led the 2001 attacks. Former chairman Tom Kean told TIME that the White House should confirm whether, right after 9/11, Congressman Curt Weldon handed then Deputy National Security Adviser Steven Hadley a 1999 Pentagon chart pegging Atta as a member of al-Qaeda. Weldon makes the allegation in a book he published this summer and claims the commission failed to scrutinize...
...audiences, who sometimes show an ornery independence from critics, apparently disagreed. In nearly 17 years, the show has been performed more than 15,000 times in 15 countries, and it has titillated, shocked and outraged roughly 86 million people. "There is always some reaction to Oh! Calcutta!," says Norman Kean, its producer and promoter. "Its message is theatricality--outrageous theatricality--which goes beyond the twilight zone into a territory that had never been explored onstage before...
...changes are overdue. "If this is the crown jewel of our intelligence system, it was a pretty shoddy product," says Tom Kean, who reviewed Bush and Clinton Administration briefings as chairman of the 9/11 commission. Bush has had his own problems with the PDB. Last year, an expert he was consulting on Iraq complained that the CIA spent too much time providing updates for the PDB on relatively obscure matters. Bush's response: "So that's why those bastards keep telling me about Mozambique." The new approach is getting some good reviews. State Department intelligence officials have been pleased...
...good feeling and continued prosperity, voters in last week's humdrum off-year elections thumped for the status quo. New Jersey's Republican Governor Tom Kean, who won by only 1,797 votes four years ago, crushed his young Democratic challenger, Peter Shapiro. In a state where just 20% of the voters identify themselves as Republicans, Kean won more than 70% of the vote and every major city and district. The G.O.P., hitching a ride on the Kean juggernaut, achieved a majority in the state assembly for the first time in more than a decade...
While Republican National Committee Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf boasted that Kean's victory "destroys the old Democratic coalition," others argued that it was simply a vote of confidence for an amiable Governor who had turned New Jersey's $500 million deficit into a $600 million surplus and reduced the state unemployment rate from 9% to 5%. " Kean, who has approved the withdrawal of New Jersey investments from companies doing business in South Africa, won more than 60% of the black vote and was endorsed by the state's AFL-CIO. In what may become a model for moderate Republicans, the Governor...