Milestones

By Val Castronovo, Tamala M. Edwards, Tam M. Gray, Daniel S. Levy and Alain L. Sanders

RETIRING. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, 71, from his New York Senate seat; in 2000; after four terms. The scholar-legislator served under four Presidents and had a major influence on welfare, Social Security, tax, transit and health-care policy.

INDICTED. EDWIN EDWARDS, 71, former Governor of Louisiana, in an alleged scheme to extort millions for awarding riverboat-casino licenses; in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards denies he did anything illegal.

CONVICTED. JACK KEVORKIAN, 70, on misdemeanor charges stemming from a confrontation with police outside a hospital where he was dropping off a body; in Royal Oak, Mich. Kevorkian was slapped with a $900 fine for the conviction, his first.

DIED. LARRY ELLIS, 70, the 1984 U.S. Olympic men's track coach who for 22 years led Princeton to a string of championships; of a pulmonary embolism; in Skillman, N.J. He was the first black Ivy League head coach.

DIED. BOB TROW, 72, Pittsburgh radio funnyman who went on to people Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for three decades as Robert Troll, Bob Dog and himself; of a heart attack; in New Alexandria, Pa.

DIED. HARRY WEESE, 83, the Chicago architect who designed Washington's imposing and functional Metro subway system and championed one of the city's most controversial markers, Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Manteno, Ill. His Chicago landmarks include the towering Time & Life Building and a restoration of the Field Museum.

DIED. BOB KANE, 83, creator of the comic-book icon Batman; in Los Angeles. Kane brought the character to life in 1939, inspired by the masked hero Zorro, a silent movie called The Bat and a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's batlike flying machine. The strength and creativity Kane bestowed on his superhero allowed Batman to leap from comics to a 1960s TV series to the movies (see Eulogy, below).