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Person of the Week
NET GAIN? Joseph ("Sepp") Blatter won re-election as president of fifa, saying of his many detractors: "They have realized it is not easy to remove Sepp Blatter." That may be, but disentangling himself from the financial scandals that plague his organization will prove much more difficult

Noted
"There is a common enemy out there."
LORD ROBERTSON,
Secretary-General of nato, on why the alliance that was established to contain Russia now accepts this former foe as a junior partner

Prime Number
$2.7 billion is the sum Libya may pay families of victims of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Libya wants the U.S. to lift economic sanctions

Omen
Tobacco giant Philip Morris' "Think. Don't smoke" ad campaign, aimed at youth, actually makes teens want to light up, according to a recent U.S. study

Winners
EMINEM
Vulgar rap artist's album debuts at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts despite marketing snafu. Word-of-mouth works if the language is foul enough
LING ZHUO
First-ever Miss China named second runner-up in Miss Universe pageant, then attacks Miss Taiwan for claiming to be an "independent woman"
KIM DAE JUNG, JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI
Beleaguered leaders of Korea and Japan hold hands during World Cup ceremonies. Crowd loves it. Candlelight dinner is scheduled
Losers
LANCE BASS
Russians say they're not sure 'N Syncer is fit to be next space tourist. Music world disagrees, and backs plan to launch him into the void
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Norway's PM nabbed for unwittingly smuggling two huge ivory tusks. He says he packed them by mistake, thinking they were his dentures
JUSTINE HENIN
No. 5 seed tennis pro gets clobbered in first round of French Open by No. 180 seed Aniko Kapros, daughter of a traveling acrobat

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Milestones
By SARA RAJAN

DIED. MILDRED WIRT BENSON, 96, creator of the eponymous teenage sleuth of the Nancy Drew series, penned under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene; in Toledo, Ohio. Benson spent 58 years as a news-paperwoman and wrote more than 130 books, though none reached the heights of popularity achieved by the Drew series. Benson wrote 23 of the first 30 Drew stories, with the rest by hired writers.
DIED. HANSIE CRONJE, 32, former captain of South Africa's cricket team who was banned from the game for life in 2000 for his role in a match-fixing scandal, in a plane crash; in Western Cape province. Cronje admitted accepting more than $100,000 from gamblers but denied ever throwing a match.
DIED. MARIO LAGO, 90, Brazilian actor, samba composer, poet and political dissident; in Rio de Janeiro. Lago appeared in more than 30 telenovelas (Brazilian soap operas) and 20 films, and wrote more than 200 songs. A leftist, Lago was repeatedly imprisoned during Brazil's military regime from 1964 to 1986.
CLOSED. PUNCH, the English-language satirical magazine first published in 1841; in London. Punch was shut down once before, in 1992, due to declining sales. Four years later, it was revived by tycoon Mohamed al Fayed, owner of London's famed Harrods department store. But Fayed said he could no longer afford to keep the publication afloat, though its archives and cartoons will be maintained online.
BORN. To MARIANNE PEARL,the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a baby boy; in Paris. Pearl was killed more than four months ago by Islamic militants while reporting in Pakistan.
ARRESTED. LEE HONG SEOK, 54, Korea's assistant minister of culture and tourism, on bribery charges; in Seoul. Lee is accused of having received $13,800 from sports-lottery operator Tiger Pools International to secure a license in 2001. He is the first government official to be arrested in the scandal that has also implicated the youngest son of President Kim Dae Jung.
AWARDED.To GEOFF NYAROTA, 50, editor of Zimbabwe's independent newspaper the Daily News, the Golden Pen of Freedom prize, by the World Association of Newspapers, in recognition of his "outstanding service to the cause of press freedom in the face of constant persecution"; in Bruges, Belgium. Nyarota's paper has been subjected to severe restrictions under new media laws.
AWARDED. To PROFESSOR ANTHONY GIDDENS, 63, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences; in Oviedo, Spain. Giddens will be presented with £50,000 ($46,782) and a Joan Miró statue by Spain's Crown Prince Felipe, who is also the Prince of Asturias.
DEDICATED. To BOB HOPE, 99, evergreen comedian whose shows have entertained troops deployed in several wars from World War II to the Gulf War, a chapel at the National Cemetery; in Los Angeles. The consecration of the Bob Hope Veterans' Chapel was passed into law by President George W. Bush.