Milestones

By Melissa August, Kate Novack, Julie Rawe and Aatish Taseer

WOUNDED. MICHAEL WEISSKOPF, 57, senior correspondent for TIME, and JAMES NACHTWEY, 55, TIME photographer, in a grenade attack as they were traveling with two soldiers in a humvee; in Baghdad. Weisskopf, a Washington-based correspondent on assignment in Iraq, picked up the grenade to throw it out of the vehicle, losing his right hand. All four men are in stable condition.

REVERSED. The first-degree murder conviction of LIONEL TATE, now 16, who at age 14 became one of the youngest juveniles to be sentenced to life in prison, for beating a 6-year-old playmate to death, prompting a national debate on prosecuting children as adults; in West Palm Beach, Fla. An appeals court ordered a new trial, arguing that Tate's competency to stand trial should have been evaluated.

CONVICTED. BILL JANKLOW, 64, Republican Congressman and former four-term Governor of South Dakota; of second-degree manslaughter for an August car wreck that killed a motorcyclist; in Flandreau, S.D. Faced with up to 11 years in prison, he announced his resignation from the House.

DIED. KEIKO, 27, the killer whale who starred in three Free Willy movies; of pneumonia; in the Taknes fjord, Norway. Keiko spent several years in captivity in Iceland after efforts to return him to the wild failed. He was released in 2002 but swam for the Norwegian coast, apparently seeking the company of humans.

DIED. ROBERT BARTLEY, 66, Pulitzer prizewinning editorial-page editor of the Wall Street Journal from 1972 to 2002; of cancer; in New York City. His incisive, often acerbic voice helped sharpen American conservatism for three decades, particularly through his advocacy of supply-side economics and robust defense spending.

DIED. PAUL SIMON, 75, deeply earnest former Democratic Senator from Illinois and one-time presidential candidate; of complications from heart surgery; in Springfield, Ill. With a uniform of horn-rimmed glasses and bow tie, and no college degree, he was an unlikely politician. But after making a name for himself as the corruption-busting editor-publisher of a weekly newspaper, he was elected to the Illinois state legislature in 1954 and went on to serve five terms in the House of Representatives and two in the U.S. Senate. He made an ill-fated run for the presidency in 1988, dropping out after winning only his home state's primary. As Senator, he revamped the federal student-loan program, fought for a balanced-budget amendment and worked to limit violence on television, maintaining all along that government "is not the enemy."

DIED. RUBEN GONZALEZ, 84, Cuban pianist who rose to international fame as a member of the Buena Vista Social Club band; of respiratory and kidney failure; in Havana. With a gutsy and playful musical style, he was a pioneer of the mambo and the cha-cha. But it wasn't until 1996, at age 77, after his only piano had been destroyed by woodworms, that he was invited to join a multi-generational group of Cuban musicians, whose Buena Vista Social Club album won a Grammy, sold some 8 million copies and was the subject of an Oscar-nominated film.