The graduate student charged in the car crash that killed Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist and all-around awesome guy David Halberstam was sentenced today to a maximum sentence of 30 days in the sheriff's work program, as part of a no-contest plea deal. [AP]

The grad student who was driving David Halberstam during the journalist's fatal accident will be charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. [AP]

• David Halberstam's Doonesbury appearance: He kissed Woodward and Bernstein's Guccis. [Slate]
  

• The rumor that Anderson Cooper showers in his underwear at the gym? Decidedly untrue. Anyway, who does that? That's crazy! The gym men would have been staring at him and pointing! [Towleroad]
  

• Shocker: Non-Sulzbergers distressed by Times management. [WSJ]
  

• The Onion's take on the Greatest Literary Breakup Of Our Time. [The Onion]
  

David Halberstam, who died yesterday in an auto accident at the age of 73, will be forever linked to the reporting he did as a young journalist in Vietnam. He was one of the first reporters to note the intractability of that conflict, as well as the corruption of U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government. For this he earned both the scorn of at least one administration and the Pulitzer Prize. He left the Times somewhat acrimoniously and began a full-time career as a nonfiction writer.

Yeltsin and Halberstam in one day. The former from heart failure, the latter from injuries resultant from an early morning car crash. Yeesh.