Slate senior writer Scott Shuger died Saturday, June 15, while scuba diving near his home in Los Angeles. He had been on Slate's staff since 1997. Though he may be best known as the founder of the "Today's Papers" feature, in which he summarized and analyzed the contents of five national newspapers every day, Shuger also wrote about topics ranging from the war on terrorism to Internet prostitution. Here are a few favorite examples of his work in Slate.

(Slate's founding editor Michael Kinsley remembered Shuger in a "Readme" column Sunday. Many Slate readers have posted their own memories of him in "The Fray.")

"Supreme Court Gridlock"
June 27, 1997: The debut of Today's Papers.

"The NYT page-ones a story that publishing giant HarperCollins is reacting to the slump in book sales by canceling completed books, including some already advertised in its catalogs. Among the casualties mentioned are a Jell-O cookbook and a book about celebrity pets."

"My Day in the Movement"
In 1970, Shuger—a college freshman at the University of Maryland—is seeking treatment for a broken ankle when he's unwittingly caught up in a campus protest.

"A huge crowd of students converged on our car as it pulled up. As I was ushered into the infirmary, this freshly radicalized mass parted like the Red Sea. Spying my crippled condition, the crowd began shouting in support, 'F*ck the Pigs!' I even heard shouts of 'Viva la Revolución'—a sure sign of outside agitators, since I never met anyone at Maryland who passed Spanish. I had been pegged as the first victim of campus fascism, the Che Guevara of College Park."

"Harvard-Yale Goes Into Overtime"
Today's Papers on the day after Election 2000.

"The papers all lead with a presidential election so close it's not over yet. They also report, however, that Republicans retain control of the House and Senate, that Hillary Clinton's win of a New York Senate seat was not even breathtakingly close, and that Mel Carnahan's win of a Missouri Senate seat was not even breathtaking."

"More Bang for the Buck"
Test-driving Viagra, sex toys, and instructional videos.

 "[My wife] Deb and I have what seems to us to be a perfectly fine amorous life, yet everywhere I turn the culture tells me—almost mocks me—you can do better! What would happen to our sex life, then, if Deb (who participated in this story because she loves me and because she has tenure) and I tried for the first time to make something happen to it?