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Thomas Green, 2001 News
proud polygamist, was found guilty on four counts of bigamy and failure to pay child support by a Utah jury in May. A fundamentalist Mormon, Green lives with his five wives and 29 children…Nkosi Johnson, 12, 2001 News
South African AIDS victim who devoted his short life to fighting discrimination against AIDS victims, died in June. Born with the disease, Johnson far exceeded his life expectancy. He gained…Casey Martin, 2001 News
disabled professional golfer, won the legal right to use a golf cart during competition. In May the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 in his favor, rejecting the PGA Tour's claim that using a…Dipendra, 29, 2001 News
crown prince of Nepal, went on a shooting rampage at the family's Kathmandu palace in June, wiping out nearly the entire royal family before turning his revolver on himself. Casualties included…Joseph Ellis, 2001 News
historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, admitted in June that he led his students at Mount Holyoke College to believe that he had served as a paratrooper in Vietnam, when in reality his…Andrea Pia Yates, 2001 News
Texas mother, was charged in June with capital murder in the deaths of her five children, who ranged in age from 6 months to 7 years. Yates reportedly suffered from postpartum depression.…Gary Condit, 53, 2001 News
Democratic congressman from California, found himself the center of a media frenzy during the summer after former Justice Department Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, 24, went missing from…Lori Berenson, 31, 2001 News
was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Peru after being found guilty in June by a civilian court of “terrorist collaboration” in a 1995 attempt by a Marxist terrorist group to take over the…Mamoru Takuma, 37, 2001 News
stabbed to death 8 children in an elementary school in Ikeda, Japan. Fifteen other students and 2 adults were wounded in the June massacre. The motive was not clear, but Takuma had a history of…President Alberto Fujimori, 2001 News
former spy chief of Peru, was captured in Venezuela in June after spending eight months in hiding. He was whisked to Peru, where he faces a laundry list of charges, including bribery, money…Trending
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