Milestones

RETIRING. Andre Agassi, 36, onetime wild child of tennis who shed his crazy mane but kept his zinging ground strokes and became one of only five men to have won all four Grand Slams (Wimbledon and the Australian, French and U.S. Opens); after the 2006 U.S. Open.

ELECTED. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 52, theologically liberal Episcopal bishop of Nevada; as Presiding Bishop of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church of the U.S.A., becoming the first woman to lead a province of the global Anglican Communion; in Columbus, Ohio. Citing her support of the 2003 consecration of openly gay New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson, conservatives predicted she would further alienate the U.S. church--which 30 years ago made history by ordaining women--from Anglicanism's more traditional branches.

CHARGED. Seven U.S. Marines and a Naval corpsman, from California's Camp Pendleton Marine base; with the kidnapping and murder of an unarmed Iraqi man who was pulled from his home and shot as troops sought insurgents in the city of Hamandiya; in Washington. The charges came amid an investigation into alleged murders at Haditha by other Marines--and in the same week that the Pentagon announced charges against four Army soldiers in the murder of three Iraqi detainees in Salahuddin province.

DIED. Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose still unsolved 1996 murder fueled massive media interest and myriad theories about the slaying, leading Patsy and her husband John to sue authors and news outlets that suggested they were the killers; of ovarian cancer; in Roswell, Ga.

DIED. Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder of the funk-pop band Kool & the Gang (once called the Jazziacs), whose monster hits of the '70s and '80s included Jungle Boogie, Joanna--which Smith wrote--and the now standard wedding anthem Celebration, which he co-wrote; after a long illness; in Maplewood, N.J.

DIED. E. Pierce Marshall, 67, best known for his as-yet-unresolved 11-year battle with his stepmother, ex-stripper Anna Nicole Smith, over the estate of his oil-tycoon father J. Howard Marshall, who died in 1995; after a severe infection; in Dallas. The elder Marshall married Smith in 1994, when he was 89 and she was 26.

DIED. Donald Reilly, 72, cartoonist for magazines including the Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker, for which he drew 16 covers; of cancer; in Norwalk, Conn. Reilly mocked the foibles of anxious yuppies and overwrought parents in edgy yet goofy pieces. In one, a woman standing with her young son near a museum's dinosaur skeleton warns him, "They got extinct because they didn't listen to their mommies."

DIED. Evelyn Dubrow, 95, relentless, pragmatic Washington lobbyist whose advocacy for garment workers over 40 years on Capitol Hill earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom; in Washington. Affection for Dubrow was such that she became the only person ever to be granted her own seat alongside the congressional doorkeepers outside House chambers.

DIED. Vincent Sherman, 99, gifted studio-era director and Lothario famous less for his films than for the luminous, gritty performances he elicited, especially from women; in Los Angeles. Known for his affairs with Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis, he juggled the egos of rivals Davis and Miriam Hopkins in Old Acquaintance and pressed a skeptical Ida Lupino to abandon makeup to play a pushy older sister in the bleak 1943 drama The Hard Way, which won Lupino accolades.

With reporting by Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Kathleen Kingsbury, Sarah Lilleyman, Clayton Neuman, Elisabeth Salemme