Briefing

THE WEEK

PROTESTERS SET FIRE TO KIEV

‘Republicans will not win again in my lifetime, for the presidency, unless they become a new GOP. ‘

RAND PAUL, Kentucky Senator, talking to Glenn Beck about his party’s need for “transformation”

3,000+

Approximate volume, in gallons, of crude oil spilled after a train derailed in Pennsylvania

$2,000

Bond a South Carolina woman had to post after being jailed for not returning a VHS tape she rented in 2005

‘Next Olympics I go to, I’m sure as heck not getting fifth.’

MIKAELA SHIFFRIN, U.S. Olympic skier, who fell short during the giant-slalom race in advance of her best event, the slalom, on Feb. 21

GOOD WEEK

Candy Crush

King, the game’s maker, saw profit soar 7,000% last year, according to its IPO filing

BAD WEEK

Coca-Cola

Stock price fell after lackluster quarterly earnings

‘I AM TIRED OF LYING BY OMISSION.’

ELLEN PAGE, actress, coming out as gay during a speech for the Human Rights Campaign

900 ft.

Width of an asteroid that whizzed by Earth at 27,000 m.p.h.

‘Welcome to 11:30, bitch!’

STEPHEN COLBERT, greeting Jimmy Fallon during Fallon’s debut as host of The Tonight Show

‘We want to make it clear … that we know how to take revenge.’

OMAR KHALID KHURASANI, spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, after the group took responsibility for killing 23 paramilitary soldiers; the move was a response to the government’s supposed execution of Taliban prisoners

Sources: The Blaze; CNN; New York Times (2); The Tonight Show