Milestones

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Rachel Dry, Julie Grace, Ellin Martens, Benjamin Nugent, Michele Orecklin, Julie Rawe, Amanda Ripley, Josh Tyrangiel

BORN. To PRIYANKA GANDHI, 28, daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of three Indian Prime Ministers who inspires a Princess Diana-like devotion in India; and businessman husband ROBERT VADRA: their first child, a son; in New Delhi.

NEW TRIAL GRANTED. For LORI BERENSON, 30, American imprisoned in Peru; after serving almost five years of a life sentence for treason, ordered by a military tribunal; in Lima. Peruvian authorities say new evidence shows Berenson was not a terrorist but an accessory in a radical group's attack plan. If convicted, she could receive a minimum sentence of 20 years.

AILING. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 48, paralyzed actor-director and tenacious champion of spinal-cord research; with a broken left thigh bone that snapped during routine physical therapy; in Los Angeles. Because of his paralysis, Reeve has bones that are especially brittle. His dream of walking by his 50th birthday, he admitted in June, is somewhat illusory: "2002 was a thing I put forward as a way to motivate the scientists."

DIED. JOHN HOLAHAN, 83, philanthropist, cereal executive and creator of Lucky Charms; in a car accident that also killed his wife Rosalind, 84; while going to visit their comatose 51-year-old daughter who was dying of liver cancer in Richfield, Minn. Holahan often told schoolchildren he created his "magically delicious" cereal during a 1963 brainstorm in which he cut up orange marshmallow peanuts and sprinkled them over Cheerios. Two days after the accident, daughter Shannon Kilkenny died.

DIED. ANTHONY ("Tony Ducks") CORALLO, 87, last of the old-time Mafia dons; in prison while serving a 100-year sentence for racketeering; in Springfield, Mo. Corallo, former boss of the Lucchese family, was known as Tony Ducks for ducking subpoenas; he also ducked the limelight. Passionate about secrecy, he sat impassive in court, "like one of these big stone idols" said a prosecutor, as tapes played his rare slipup: a bugged 1982 talk with his driver on Mob control of New York City's construction industry.