It's Nord Ost all over again, but a whole lot worse. Not just because there are children among the hostages being held in the school in Beslan, North Ossetia. And not just because the school building, unlike the Dubrovka Theater, isn't a concrete cube that can be stormed following a gas attack. Gas would simply disperse in the school. And the hostage-takers will have learned the lessons of Nord Ost, making sure that the explosives strapped to the female suicide bombers in their ranks go off if and when the building is stormed. But also because the ongoing hostage crisis...