Mika Yamamoto, a 45-year-old video and photojournalist, was shot dead in Aleppo on 20 August while reporting on heavy fighting in the city for the Japan Press news agency.
The outcry over police involvement in the murder of a photo-journalist, Jose Luis Cabezas, in 1997, showed the politicians they must at least be seen to be trying.
Friedlander put together and paid for a photo album of 25 women luminaries -- including Evelyn Lauder, makeup artist Bobbi Brown and broadcast journalist Donna Hanover -- all of them wearing Carolee jewelry.