Milestones

CONVICTED. Richard Scrushy, 53, founder of HealthSouth, based in Birmingham, Ala., and Don Siegelman, 60, former Democratic Governor of Alabama; of bribery and mail fraud for a scheme in which Scrushy gave $500,000 to Siegelman's campaign for a state lottery in exchange for a seat on a state board that regulated HealthSouth; by a federal jury; in Montgomery, Ala. The verdicts came one year after Scrushy, who still faces several civil trials, was acquitted of a $2.7 billion accounting fraud at HealthSouth.

PLEADED GUILTY. Bernard Kerik, 50, ex--New York City police commissioner, whose quick responses in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks led President Bush to nominate him to be head of the Homeland Security Department before a variety of ethics questions forced Kerik to withdraw his name; to charges that he took gifts while in office without reporting them; in a deal that requires him to pay $221,000 in fines but serve no jail time; in New York City. Kerik admitted accepting while correction commissioner $165,000 in home renovations from a contractor who was seeking a license with the city. Kerik offered no apologies, saying, "Now I can get on with my business."

DIED. Moose, 16, Jack Russell terrier who played the watchful, knowing and often mischievous Eddie, Frasier Crane's bete noire on TV's long-running comedy Frasier; in Los Angeles. Before retiring from films six years ago, Moose played the title role in the 2000 movie My Dog Skip.

DIED. RYUTARO HASHIMOTO, 68, controversial former Prime Minister of Japan; of multiple organ failure; in Tokyo. A short-tempered politician and dapper dresser, Hashimoto achieved international fame as Trade Minister in 1995, when he feuded with Washington in an auto-sales dispute. As Prime Minister from January 1996 to July 1998, he launched financial reforms modeled on London's "Big Bang" deregulation and defused a crisis over U.S. bases in Okinawa. An expert swordsman, he quit politics last year after a scandal involving donations to his party.

DIED. Arif Mardin, 74, record producer and arranger who, over an illustrious 40-year career, helped create the R&B-pop "Atlantic sound," won a dozen Grammys and artfully guided recordings by musicians who included Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler and, most recently, Norah Jones; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. After his production Good Lovin' became a No. 1 hit for the Young Rascals in 1966, the Turkish-born jazz lover arranged and co-produced two of the Queen of Soul's defining albums--I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Lady Soul--and later suggested that Barry Gibb use the falsetto that came to epitomize the Bee Gees' 1970s disco sound in such hits as Stayin' Alive and You Should Be Dancing.

DIED. LLOYD RICHARDS, 87, pioneer of African-American theater and Broadway's first black director; of heart failure; in Manhattan. The son of a Jamaican carpenter, he studied theater in college, was named artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference in 1968, and in 1979 was appointed dean of the Yale School of Drama. Richards was an unknown director in 1959 when he staged the first Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun. An inspiring drama teacher and cultivator of young talent, he championed such young playwrights as Wendy Wasserstein, David Henry Hwang and, most famously, August Wilson, with whom he collaborated for 15 years. Richards won a Tony award for directing Wilson's Fences in 1987 and received a National Medal of Arts in 1993.

DIED. Abbye Stockton, 88, trailblazer for women's weight-lifting known as the First Lady of Iron, who in 1947 organized the first official lifting meet for women; in Santa Monica, Calif. With husband Les, Stockton--nicknamed Pudgy for her childhood baby fat--helped popularize Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the 1930s and '40s with demonstrations that included the human pyramid and the high press, in which she stood on Les' hands while balancing a 100-lb. barbell.

UPDATE

Where Ayaan Hirsi Ali goes, controversy seems to follow--and linger. The Somali-born activist, named to 2005's TIME 100 for her campaign against Islamic extremism, quit the Dutch Parliament in May after being told she would be stripped of citizenship for lying on her 1992 application for asylum. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk flip-flopped last week, saying Hirsi Ali's citizenship was safe. But the Dutch coalition government was not, and collapsed amid discord over Verdonk's original move. Hirsi Ali, 36, regrets that the citizenship issue was politicized and not debated more seriously. "This is absurd," she says. "The more this goes on, the more I think, Let's just all get on with life." She's moving to Washington to join the conservative American Enterprise Institute and is finishing her memoir. Its working title is a reminder that Hirsi Ali has no fear of stirring things up: "I want it to be called The Infidel."

DIED. Johnny Jenkins, 67, acrobatic, left-handed blues guitarist who as a boy jammed with a guitar he made from a cigar box and rubber bands, then went on to deeply influence Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; after a stroke; in Macon, Ga. As a gofer for the Pinetoppers, Jenkins' college-circuit ensemble, Redding drove the band to Memphis, Tenn., in 1962 to make a record for Stax Records, and during a lull sang These Arms of Mine. When the song became Redding's breakthrough hit, Jenkins, who feared flying, opted not to tour with the rising star. The flamboyant Jenkins impressed fellow lefty Hendrix, who incorporated some of Jenkins' antics into his repertoire after seeing him play in Macon. A few years after recording the 1970 classic Ton-Ton Macoute! for the storied Capricorn label, Jenkins fell out of sight, but he re-emerged in 1996 with the acclaimed album Blessed Blues.

With reporting by Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Hillary Batchelder, Aram Hur, Clayton Neuman, Kate Stinchfield, Jeff Chu