What had been an incredible week for me of political drama and media novelty collapsed into indescribable sorrow for my friend Mary Katharine Ham. Late Saturday night, a mutual friend called to tell me that Jake Brewer, MKH’s husband and father of their two children — one of whom is still some weeks away from the delivery room — had been killed biking in a charity event to raise money to fight cancer. Jake, a key man in the White House information technology team, had been pedaling to encourage a friend battling cancer.