Briefing

THE WEEK

TYPHOON NEOGURI HIT JAPAN

Nole

The top-ranked tennis player (real name: Novak Djokovic) won his second Wimbledon championship

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

Neymar

The injured soccer star was out for Brazil’s 7-1 World Cup semifinal loss to Germany

‘It would have been really hypocritical for me to sit down and act like I was listening to their arguments.’

CHRIS CHRISTIE, New Jersey governor, explaining why he turned down a meeting with Sandy Hook Elementary parents after deciding to veto their gun-control proposal in favor of improving the state’s mental-health system

22

Riders stranded at least 20 ft. (6 m) aboveground when a Six Flags coaster near Los Angeles got snagged on a tree; it took rescuers two hours to get them down

38¢

Price per ounce (30 ml) for Budweiser and Bud Light at the new self-serve beer stations at Minnesota’s Target Field; that’s 8% lower than the national baseball-stadium average

‘It would be a serious case.’

ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, on allegations that a German man had been employed as a double agent for U.S. intelligence

‘Thinking one’s religious beliefs are substantially burdened … does not make it so.’

SONIA SOTOMAYOR, Supreme Court Justice, in a dissent suggesting that the court’s order exempting Wheaton College, an evangelical school, from a portion of Obamacare’s contraception regulations was an affront to women’s rights

‘IMAGINE AN IMAGE OF BUDDHA BEFORE [YOU] COMMIT SUCH A CRIME.’

THE DALAI LAMA, calling for Buddhists in Burma (also known as Myanmar) and Sri Lanka to end a recent spate of violence toward Muslim minorities

32,000

Number of missionaries slated to receive iPad Minis from the Mormon church in an attempt to streamline recruitment tactics

‘Does Hermione Granger prove that a witch really can have it all?’

J.K. ROWLING, writing as fictional gossip journalist Rita Skeeter for a new Harry Potter short story in which the lead characters are in their 30s

Sources: ESPN; New York Times; AP (2); CNN; Pottermore; Reuters; Star-Ledger