Milestones

By Melissa August; Harriet Barovick; Elizabeth L. Bland; Jeninne Lee-St. John

INJURED. GIULIANA SGRENA, 56, Italian journalist abducted in Baghdad in early February; with shrapnel wounds from gunfire by U.S. soldiers guarding a checkpoint, who fired at the car ferrying her to safety after her release; in Baghdad. Nicola Calipari, an intelligence officer who had negotiated her release, was killed trying to protect her. Pentagon officials said the soldiers had not been told of the release and signaled in vain for the car to stop. Though President Bush expressed regret, a stunned Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, "We were turned to stone" by the news. "We must have an explanation for such a serious incident, for which someone must take responsibility."

SETTLED. A civil lawsuit brought against KOBE BRYANT, 26, Los Angeles Lakers star, by a woman who claimed Bryant raped her in a hotel near Vail, Colo., in June 2003; by the parties' lawyers, who did not discuss the terms; in Denver.

CONVICTED. ABU BAKAR BASHIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terrorism group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the October 2002 attacks in a Bali nightclub that killed 202; by a five-judge panel in Jakarta. At the same time, Bashir was cleared of terrorism charges related to the August 2003 bombing of a Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 12, and the more serious charge of directing the Bali attacks. Sentenced to 30 months in prison, he was given credit for the 10 months he had already served.

DIED. JEF RASKIN, 61, known as the "father of the Macintosh," who, as Apple Computer's 31st employee, envisioned a truly user-friendly computer and in 1979 founded a team to create it, sparking the personal-computer revolution; of pancreatic cancer; in Pacifica, Calif. He named the project Macintosh (after his favorite apple) and headed it until 1982, when he had a falling out with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and left the company--two years before the first Macintoshes hit the stores.

DIED. TILLIE FOWLER, 62, once the highest-ranking woman in Congress; of a brain hemorrhage; in Jacksonville, Fla. Known for her candor, graciousness and friends on both sides of the aisle, the Florida conservative, who rallied for the impeachment of Bill Clinton, was often dubbed the "steel magnolia"--a hybrid of Southern belle and drill sergeant. Fowler, who had made a promise to serve no more than four terms, retired in 2001, saying her work was done.

DIED. PETER MALKIN, 77, veteran Israeli Mossad agent who in 1960 captured Adolf Eichmann--the chief architect of the Holocaust and coiner of the term "final solution"--from a street outside Buenos Aires; of complications from an infection; in New York City. So repulsed that he wore gloves, Malkin approached Eichmann, then living under an assumed name, with the greeting "un momentito, senor" before wrestling him to the ground and into a waiting car. The agents later smuggled him to Israel, where he was convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. In a book he wrote about the capture, he recalled Eichmann's reaction when Malkin told him that his own nephew was among Eichmann's victims. The former Nazi, genuinely puzzled, replied: "Yes, but he was Jewish, wasn't he?"

DIED. PETER FOY, 79, go-to man for flying actors on Broadway and beyond; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas. With his patented contraptions of wire, pulleys and harnesses (which initially alarmed critics, who thought he was endangering cast members), he first sent Jean Arthur aloft in the 1950 Broadway production of Peter Pan, and later lifted everyone from Sally Field in TV's The Flying Nun to actors in Angels in America and The Lion King.

DIED. MAX FISHER, 96, low-profile philanthropist and diplomat; in Franklin, Mich. A leader in U.S. Jewish affairs and a prolific benefactor of Detroit's cultural and social programs, he was a trusted adviser on the Middle East to Presidents from Eisenhower to Nixon. His daughter Mary, an HIV-positive AIDS activist, moved audiences when she shared her experiences at Republican conventions in 1992 and 1996.