Verbatim

‘I don’t want to end my career this way.’

Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis star, who is awaiting word on a penalty after announcing March 7 that she’d failed a drug test at the Australian Open for taking meldonium, a heart drug that was recently banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency

Zootopia netted $75 million in its first weekend, topping Frozen

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

SeaWorld faced revived claims of whale mistreatment, thanks to a legal complaint

‘Millions of people look at that pretty picture of America he painted and they cannot find themselves in it.’

Former President Bill Clinton, saying President Barack Obama bears some of the blame for this “wacky election” because his descriptions of the economy do not align with the realities Americans know firsthand

$55 million

Amount a jury awarded sportscaster Erin Andrews in her lawsuit against two hotel companies and a stalker who secretly recorded a nude video of her through a peephole

$14 million

Value of LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s annual stock package, which he distributed to employees to boost morale after a bleak earnings report

‘I can be more presidential than anybody.’

Donald Trump, Republican presidential front runner, as he won primaries in Michigan and Mississippi on March 8

‘It is a breakthrough if it becomes reality.’

Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, on a preliminary deal struck between E.U. nations and Turkey to ease the migrant crisis

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Cats seized from a Texas woman’s cramped home

‘The authorities risk unlocking a Pandora’s box.’

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, warning of potential problems with the FBI’s demand that Apple unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino mass shooters

SOURCES: AP; BLOOMBERG; ORLANDO SENTINEL; AFP