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June 30, 2012

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It’s a Goldman World

By N. R. Kleinfield

When the powerful financial services firm Goldman Sachs moved its headquarters to Battery Park City, it brought along a whole neighborhood, with plenty of amenities, and upended the old one.

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Revisionist History in Abuse Cases

By Ginia Bellafante

In the swirl of publicity over long-ago cases of abuse at Horace Mann and Poly Prep is an underlying strain that says times were different and that a certain kind of ignorance prevailed back then.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 27, 2012, covering June 30, 2012.

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    Album cover for Looking 4 Myself by Usher

    Looking 4 Myself

    Usher

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    Album cover for Clockwork Angels by Rush

    Clockwork Angels

    Rush

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    Album cover for 21 by Adele

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    Album cover for Punching Bag by Josh Turner

    Punching Bag

    Josh Turner

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    Album cover for + by Ed Sheeran

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    Ed Sheeran

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Notable Deaths

Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun

2012Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (born 1942)[†]

Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, was a British-Australian farmer, who is most noted because of the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was the rightful monarch of England instead of Queen Elizabeth II. From February 1960 until November 2002, he held the courtesy title Lord Mauchline.

Yitzhak Shamir

2012Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (born 1915)[†]

Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang.

Michael J. Ybarra

2012Michael J. Ybarra, American journalist and author (born 1966)[†]

Michael Jay Ybarra was an American journalist, author and adventurer whose non-fiction work appeared in various national publications. In 2004, his book about McCarthyism, Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt, won the D.B. Hardeman Prize. As the extreme sports correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Ybarra wrote articles about outdoor adventure, providing the genre with a wider audience than it typically receives.

Historical Context for June 30, 2012

In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]