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...Consider Charles Krauthammer, an influential Washington Post - and TIME magazine - columnist and administration ally. He is the probable source of Rumsfeld's quote, having used it in his August 11 newspaper column about Iran. In doing so, he joined what writer Ross Douthat calls the growing number of conservatives who see "Iran's march toward nuclear power" as "the equivalent of Hitler's 1930s brinkmanship." And a Nexis search reveals that Krauthammer tends to see Hitler analogies everywhere - he trotted out the same Borah quote to denounce the alleged appeasement of China in 1989 and North Korea...
...summer winds down, I'm dreading scenes like that one from seventh grade. Already the carefree August nights have given way to meaningful conversations (a.k.a. nagging) about the summer reading that didn't get done. So what could be more welcome than two new books assailing this bane of modern family life: The Homework Myth (Da Capo Press; 243 pages), by Alfie Kohn, the prolific, perpetual critic of today's test-driven schools, and The Case Against Homework (Crown; 290 pages), a cri de coeur by two moms, lawyer Sara Bennett and journalist Nancy Kalish...
...Considering the intensity and the general tone of Bosnia's dirty election campaign, it's almost a miracle that violent incidents involving Serbs and Muslims - who share many cultural traits, but not a religion - have been relatively few. Yet there were some: on August 11, an explosive device damaged the tomb of Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia's wartime (and Muslim) president; most Muslims blamed the Serbs, who for their part insisted that Muslims staged the explosion; the ongoing investigation has so far been fruitless...
...Cindy Gabriel of the city's Joint Hurricane Housing Task Force says many evacuees attempted to return to New Orleans this summer, only to retreat upon finding services unable to reestablish them. To combat that, on August 21 a center was set up called Journey Home to provide evacuees with a sense of what is available back home...
...bussed to the Astrodome, circumstances from the beginning were worse, and remain challenging. According to the report, 40% of its New Orleans transfers have left. But Houston still has 35,000 people among its evacuees in temporary housing, and funding vouchers are running out for some 5,000 by August 31, another 2,000 in September and all of the remaining by October...