Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent...

...for The Sunday Times of London, died on Wednesday at age 56. She and a French photographer, Rémi Ochlik, were killed in a makeshift media center: 

The two journalists killed in the ravaged Syrian city of Homs approached a deadly world through different frames. But what drew them together -- in life and in death on Wednesday -- was their common drive to reach some of the world's most dangerous places and, once there, to bear witness.

You gotta admit, that eye patch was awesome! I wonder if she had as much trouble getting used to it as Kramer?