Milestones

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Daren Fonda, Ling Minhua, Belinda Luscombe, Ellin Martens, Benjamin Nugent, Gary Roberts and Julie Rawe

ORDERED SEPARATED. "JODIE" AND "MARY," seven-week-old conjoined twins; by the Court of Appeal; in London. Doctors want to detach Mary, born without a working heart or lungs, from Jodie, who they believe can live a nearly normal life. This will kill Mary, but unless separated, both girls will die. Their parents say the operation is against God's will. They may appeal further.

DEPARTING. JOEL KLEIN, 53, tenacious Assistant Attorney General who for four years headed the Justice Department's antitrust division; in Washington. Klein led the monopoly case against Microsoft, resulting in an order to break up the company, now under appeal.

DIED. THE REV. ELLWOOD ("Bud") KIESER, 71, six-time Emmy Award-winning Roman Catholic priest; of colon cancer; in Los Angeles. His morality-based drama series, Insight, which ran for 23 years, from 1960 to 1983, attracted such high-profile actors as Walter Matthau and Martin Sheen.

DIED. DOUGLAS JACOBSON, 74, World War II Marine hero who at the age of 19, in one of the greatest feats of the war, singlehandedly knocked out 16 Japanese hillside fortifications on Iwo Jima, for which he won the Medal of Honor; of congestive heart failure; in Port Charlotte, Fla.

DIED. CARL ROWAN, 75, crusading newsman, syndicated columnist and commentator once dubbed "the most visible black journalist in the country"; in Washington. He rose from poverty in Tennessee to become a penetrating reporter, focusing predominantly on issues of race relations. His forays into the public sector included stints as State Department spokesman under John Kennedy and as a delegate to the U.N.

DIED. PAULA YATES, 41, fizzy British TV personality, former wife of singer Sir Bob Geldof and companion of Australian rock star Michael Hutchence before his death; of undetermined causes; in London. Described by a friend as "a Holly Golightly who swore," she was on the cusp of a comeback after three years of depression, drinking and drug abuse following Hutchence's death in 1997.