Milestones

By Unmesh Kher, Harriet Barovick, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and Deirdre Van Dyk

DIED. SERGIO VIEIRA DE MELLO, 55, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary-General Kofi Annan's envoy to Iraq, in last week's bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. In a career that spanned more than three decades, Vieira de Mello dedicated his keen intellect and considerable charm to rebuilding war-torn states, from Bangladesh to Mozambique. The Brazilian diplomat won accolades for helping restore a measure of civilian order to Kosovo in 1999. His greatest acclaim resulted from his work from 1999 to 2002, when he oversaw the transformation of East Timor into an independent democracy after centuries of foreign occupation and a bloody civil war. He pursued his duties in Iraq with a savvy that won him friends throughout the country's competing political factions. A devastated Annan noted, "I can think of no one we could less afford to spare." --By Unmesh Kher

PAROLED. KATHY BOUDIN, 60, a 1960s radical, Bryn Mawr graduate and former member of the Weather Underground who served 22 years in prison for her admitted participation as a decoy in a 1981 armored-car robbery and shoot-out that left two police officers and a security guard dead; in Bedford Hills, N.Y. The daughter of the late civil rights attorney Leonard Boudin, she had been denied parole by different commissioners three months earlier.

RELEASED. The accident report on a fatal crash in which, officials say, the Cadillac driven by WILLIAM JANKLOW, 63, famously fast-driving Republican Congressman from South Dakota, struck and killed motorcyclist Randolph Scott, 55, at a rural intersection in Trent, S.D. The report concludes that Janklow, the former four-term Governor, had been speeding.

DIED. MAZEN DANA, 43, award-winning Reuters cameraman and father of four; after being shot by U.S. soldiers who mistook his camera for a weapon; as he was filming outside Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. Dana spent most of the past decade covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Hebron, where he grew up. It was the second death of a Reuters cameraman since the war began.

DIED. BOBBY BONDS, 57, three-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove--winning outfielder and father of San Francisco Giants slugger Barry; of lung cancer and a brain tumor; in San Francisco. The elder Bonds, whose pro career lasted from 1968 to 1981, had a rare combination of speed and power, attributes for which his son is also celebrated.

DIED. JOHN GEOGHAN, 68, former priest imprisoned in 2002 for sexual abuse; after being attacked by a fellow inmate; in Boston. Revelations of Geoghan's misdeeds--130 people sued him for molesting them as children--led to a nationwide scandal for the Catholic Church after it was discovered that Geoghan and other similarly charged priests were moved to new parishes rather than prosecuted.

DIED. CONNIE REEVES, 101, pre-eminent U.S. cowgirl; days after being thrown from her favorite horse, Dr Pepper; in San Antonio, Texas. The oldest living honoree of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, Reeves taught more than 30,000 girls how to ride, urging them to "Always saddle your own horse."

BY HARRIET BAROVICK, LISA TAKEUCHI CULLEN AND DEIRDRE VAN DYK