Briefing

THE WEEK

THE U.S. EBOLA PATIENT DIED

Royals

Kansas City swept the Angels to reach baseball’s ALCS for the first time since 1985

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

Athletics

Oakland also lost to the Royals–and has lost every winner-take-all game under GM Billy Beane

‘American values are why this country’s support for Israel has been unwavering.’

JOSH EARNEST, White House spokesman, touting U.S. military aid to Israel after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said U.S. opposition to settlements is “against American values”

$4,000

Price of the new Reinast luxury toothbrush, which is being marketed to individuals “with an incredibly high net worth”

219.97 sec.

Average amount of time a customer waits in a drive-through line in 2014, 40 sec. more than in 2013

‘Sometimes they act by inaction.’

TED OLSON, conservative lawyer and gay-marriage supporter, defending the Supreme Court’s Oct. 6 decision to let stand lower-court rulings allowing same-sex marriage in five states but to avoid deciding the issue nationally, as advocates wanted

‘The training is just PowerPoint.’

DR. MOHAMMED BAH, director of a government hospital in Sierra Leone, describing the lack of resources for the nursing staff amid West Africa’s Ebola outbreak

‘WHAT MATTERS MOST IS YOUR FAMILY.’

MEG WHITMAN, Hewlett-Packard CEO, giving career advice to high school girls at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, after HP announced a split into two separate companies

1,033

Miles (1,662 km) that Iranian exile Reza Baluchi tried to travel in a $45,000 “hydropod”; he lasted less than a week at sea before being rescued

‘It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime.’

JENNIFER LAWRENCE, actor, to Vanity Fair, speaking for the first time about the nude photos of her and other celebrities that were taken from hacked accounts and leaked in August

Sources: Wall Street Journal; New York Times; ABC; Vanity Fair; AP; Gizmodo; ESPN; QSR Magazine