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engineer, was beheaded in Saudi Arabia by members of al-Qaeda. An employee of Lockheed Martin, Johnson worked on Apache helicopters. Kenneth Scroggs, another Lockheed Martin employee, was…
gymnast, found himself at the center of a controversy when Olympic judges erroneously awarded the gold medal in the all-around competition to him, when it should have gone to South Korean…
diplomat, in May became head of the World Bank, an international agency charged with overseeing development in third-world countries. Wolfowitz's many critics asserted that his failure to…
defrocked priest, was convicted in February by a Massachusetts jury on two counts of child rape and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child. A judge sentenced him to 12 to 15…
(Encyclopedia) Timothy, Saint, d. c.100, early Christian, addressee of two books of the New Testament. The son of a Greek father and a Jewish mother, he was the friend and companion of St. Paul. He…
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