Headlines Near Closing Time — 9/7/05

* ‘Napoleon’ dynamite for back-to-school: ‘It will have a nice little run and, in all likelihood, will have a short life’ /Washington Post — Mebbe Planet Hollyweird wouldn’t be experiencing such a slump this summer if it made more fare like “Napoleon Dynamite.” Gosh!

* Displaced to get $2,000 debit cards: Federal aid to provide ‘immediate cash assistance to those who are in shelters’ /Associated Press — Now, there’s a freebie I’m glad I’m not qualified to claim.

* FEMA: Don’t photograph corpses: Media policy to be sure victims ‘treated with dignity and the utmost respect’ /Reuters — This may be one of the few times I agree with the gummint. How’d you like to be a survivor who sees a photograph of his/her decaying relative in a puddle of New Orleans water?

* Mayor, governor at odds over evac: ‘The governor, and that would be me, would have to enforce it’ /Fox News — Tweedledee and Tweedledumber.

* U.S. forces rescue American hostage: Raid farmhouse, free man held for 10 months in southern Iraq /Associated Press — Out of the lion’s den …