Milestones

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Michelle Derrow, Brian Doyle, Tam Gray, Lina Lofaro, Robert Morse, David Spitz and Chris Taylor

MARRIED. CHRISTOPHER DODD, 55, U.S. Senator from Connecticut; and JACKIE M. CLEGG, vice chair of the Export-Import Bank; in East Haddam, Conn. It is Dodd's second marriage.

MARRIED. ERIK MENENDEZ, 28, older of two Beverly Hills siblings responsible for the 1989 murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez; to an as yet unidentified woman; in the Sacramento, Calif., state prison where he is serving a life sentence.

ARRESTED. PHILIP DURAN, 22, for allegedly providing a handgun to minors, in this case, Columbine High School gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold; in Golden, Colo. Duran is suspected of introducing the boys to Mark Manes, who sold the teenagers a gun used in the attack.

FINED. COLUMBA BUSH, 45, wife of Florida Governor Jeb Bush; $4,100, by U.S. Customs officers; for failing to declare $19,000 in clothes and jewelry bought in Paris; in Atlanta. She paid with a check and apologized for "exercising bad judgment."

DIED. BASIL CARDINAL HUME, 76, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales; of cancer; in London. Hume, appointed by Pope Paul VI in 1976, was entrenched in tradition, yet had a modern sensibility that irked his critics. For example, he said that most people who ignored the church's position on birth control were "good, conscientious and faithful."

DIED. J.F. POWERS, 81, National Book Award-winning author for Morte d'Urban, his first novel; in Collegeville, Minn. Powers never reached a wide audience, but his lives of Roman Catholic priests were gems of storytelling.

DIED. DAVID SUTCH, 58, leader of Britain's Monster Raving Loony Party and the country's longest-serving party leader; of suicide by hanging; in London. Though he was never elected, the former rock-'n'-roll singer irritated scores of somber candidates by running in some 40 political races--often in gold lame. His slogan? "Vote for insanity. You know it makes sense."