This may be a day or two late, but it deserves mentioning. For lost amid the coverage of Katrina, and perhaps understandably so, has been the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Beslan, Russia, a defining event in recent Russian history, when on September 1, 2004, militants at a school took 1,100 hostages. Two days later, 331 of those hostages, including 186 children, were killed.