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...speech that Iraq's oil resources would be used "for the benefit of the owners: the Iraqi people." Although some Pentagon advisers had hoped oil sales would help pay for the war, others at State counseled that the politics of appropriation would be damning. They suggest that an international panel could oversee oil operations until they could be handed back to Iraq. But Washington would expect Iraq's postwar oil revenue to help finance reconstruction, easing the burden on U.S. taxpayers...
...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...
Although the award is run by USA Hockey, it will have no U.S. bias, provided that the 13-member panel abides by the selection criteria as written...
...devices will sell? They already do. In techno-savvy Japan, a recent survey showed that 50% of desktop PCs sold in January 2003 came with built-in hardware and software, allowing them to handle TV signals. In other words, the Japanese get it: they are plugging computers into flat-panel displays, forming a home-entertainment center with no idiot box required. For now, few will be initially willing to pay a converged price; an 81-cm Sony flat-panel TV and a Netvigator Pro media PC clock in at a combined $7,000. Prices won't remain so high forever...