Milestones

By Melissa August; William Han; Nadia Mustafa; Elizabeth Sampson; Deirdre van Dyk

FREED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, 57, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia; after six years in prison; when the nation's top court overturned a 1998 conviction for sodomy that led to his removal from office and triggered a major political crisis; in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Once considered the heir apparent to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who retired last year, Anwar maintained that he was being persecuted for having crossed his former boss. When Mahathir fired him in 1998, Anwar led thousands in protests demanding democratic reform.

INDICTED. BILL CAMPBELL, 51, former mayor of Atlanta; on charges of racketeering, bribery and wire fraud; following a five-year federal investigation into corruption during his tenure at City Hall from 1994 to 2002; in Atlanta. Campbell, who has denied the charges, is accused of taking illegal campaign contributions, cash, free trips and home improvements in exchange for city contracts. Ten people who worked for him have been convicted of corruption.

DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and custom-motorcycle builder known as Indian Larry who was a legend among biking enthusiasts; of injuries he suffered while performing an impromptu stunt for fans in a parking lot; in Charlotte, N.C. Once a favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash and burn" lifestyle, Desmedt won attention for a chopper he built in 1996 and dubbed Grease Monkey.

DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs elegantly interpreted Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Ark. Best known for the light tensile wooden Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture, designing buildings that blend comfortably with their natural surroundings. He typically relied on stone, cedar siding, wood shingles and discreet lighting for his creations, which included fountains, gardens and pavilions.

DIED. HERBERT HAFT, 84, pharmacist and discount-store pioneer; in Washington. Haft opened his first shop, Dart Drug, in 1955, and slashed prices on everything from nonprescription drugs to toothpaste. Sued by manufacturers who set prices, Haft ultimately prevailed in a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that triggered a retailing revolution. A family struggle for control of his empire in the early 1990s sundered his marriage and left some of his holdings bankrupt. Haft ceded control in 1997, taking a $50 million settlement.

DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work on concert documentaries such as the 1970 Oscar-winning movie Woodstock; in San Francisco. He also worked on such feature films as George Lucas' 1971 futuristic debut THX 1138 and Alan Rudolph's 1977 drama Welcome to L.A.

DIED. FRED WHIPPLE, 97, inventor and rocket scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Mass. Whipple correctly proposed that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its tail is formed by particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the sun. Over seven decades at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper, or Whipple shield, to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today.