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And now, ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, step right up and meet the no-ring circus. For the first time in its history, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will present a new show to its audiences without three rings, or two -- or even one.
Crime has fallen across New York City for the 17th consecutive year, with subway crime down by more than 5 percent from last year and the number of recorded murders virtually certain to be the fewest in any single year since 1963, new Police Department statistics show. As of yesterday, there had been 537 killings in the city, according to the department's latest marking-period reports that are issued weekly. That is down from 566 in the same period last year. And it is down from 649 in all of 2001, when joblessness surged, anxiety from Sept. 11 was present and a budget crisis prompted a reduction in numbers of city police officers. In that year, some citizens and criminal justice experts predicted a bottoming out of the crime downturn as the police force took on new counterterrorism responsibilities.
Some New York Republican leaders are increasingly concerned that William F. Weld, a top Republican candidate for governor in 2006, could ultimately founder because of his past leadership of a bankrupt Kentucky college. Several party leaders, including some who are influential in vote-rich counties, said that they were troubled by new revelations about his 10 months as chief executive of Decker College.
If it seems like you are getting a lot of credit card solicitations, you are. Credit card companies sent out about six billion letters in the last year. But if you opened any, you may have noticed a dwindling number of zero-percent balance-transfer offers and more pitches for cash-back reward cards. Half of them are for reward cards.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 2005, covering December 31, 2005.
Eminem
Carrie Underwood
Various Artists
Bo Bice
Kenny Chesney
2005Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and educator (born 1932)[†]
Enrico Di Giuseppe was a celebrated American operatic tenor who had an active performance career from the late 1950s through the 1990s. He spent most of his career performing in New York City, juggling concurrent performance contracts with both the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1970s and 1980s. In the latter part of his career, he was active with the New York Grand Opera.
2005Phillip Whitehead, English screenwriter, producer, and politician (born 1937)[†]
Phillip Whitehead was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]