Milestones

SENTENCED. Andrew Fastow, 44, former chief financial officer of Enron; to six years in jail for his role in inflating profit figures, hiding billions of dollars in debt and enriching himself before the energy giant's 2001 collapse; in Houston. Fastow was set to serve up to 10 years after he had pleaded guilty in 2004, but Judge Kenneth Hoyt attributed the lenient sentence to his family's suffering and his cooperation in the prosecution of ex-CEO Kenneth Lay.

IN HIDING. Robert Redeker, 52, high school philosophy teacher; after receiving death threats over an opinion article he published in the French daily Le Figaro, calling the Prophet Muhammad a "pitiless warlord, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist." Redeker has left his home near Toulouse and is under police protection.

CHARGED. Colonel Alexander Sava, Russian army officer, along with three other officers; with espionage, by Georgian authorities; in Tbilisi. Georgia's Interior Minister accused the men of spying on the country's military, and claimed they were planning a "serious provocation." Russia called the charges unfounded and recalled its ambassador in protest. Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have steadily worsened since the 2004 election of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has pledged to move the country toward the West.

ACCUSED. Faisal Sheikh, Kamaluddin Ansari, and Ehtasham Siddiqui, of planting some of the bombs that exploded on seven suburban Bombay trains on July 11, killing almost 200; by chief of police A.N. Roy; in Bombay. Police said the attack was carried out by the three men, along with four other Indians and 11 Pakistanis, and claimed the plot was masterminded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, along with at least two Indian terror groups. Pakistani officials quickly denied any connection to the attacks, calling the charges "baseless."

DIED. El-Hachemi Guerrouabi, 68, prolific musician who reinvigorated the traditional, lute-based chaabi music of Algeria's casbahs and cafés; in Algiers. Weaving themes from traditional love songs with mystical Sufi texts, Guerrouabi's shortened, jazzy renditions of classical chaabi tunes played to massive crowds in Europe and the Arab world. During Algeria's turbulent 1990s, he fled into exile in Paris, but homesickness and ill health drove him to return in 2004; weakened by diabetes, he played his final concert last summer in Algiers.

DIED. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American jailed, amid post-World War II anti-Japanese prejudice, as the seductive, traitorous radio host Tokyo Rose; in Chicago. In fact, there was no Tokyo Rose—the name was given by U.S. troops to any English-speaking female on Radio Japan, the propaganda outlet where D'Aquino was forced to work after being stranded during a visit to Tokyo by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. With references to listeners as "our friends—I mean, our enemies" and off-air efforts to aid American POWs, she made clear her loyalty to the U.S. But in 1949, with testimony from witnesses who later said they were coerced, she was convicted of treason and jailed for six years. Her 1977 pardon by President Gerald Ford was, she said, a "vindication."

Numbers
70,003 Sellout crowd at the Superdome last Monday, to watch the first NFL football game to be played in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina 30,000 Estimated number of people who camped in the stadium on Aug. 29, 2005, hoping to find shelter from the storm

800,000 Number of people who remain homeless in Indonesia's central Java, following a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on May 27 40% Proportion of the estimated $88 million in donations needed to care for the refugees that has been procured so far by the United Nations

25% Percentage hike in Greece's GDP last week, after recalculating it to include income from prostitution, cigarette smuggling and money laundering $76 billion Estimated annual value of Greece's black market

$16,000 Amount of 3-year-old Jack Neal's successful eBay bid for a Barbie-pink Nissan 14 Number of years Neal, a Londoner, would have had to wait to drive the car legally in Britain. The seller agreed to cancel the purchase

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