Briefing

‘Why not tomorrow?’

1. WAJEHA AL-HAWAIDAR, Saudi feminist, after King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and run in local elections, but not until 2015

‘My brothers and many, many friends have been killed just because they did not like Muammar Gaddafi.’

2. SAMI ASSADI, whose two brothers’ remains were found in a mass grave in Libya; the grave contains the bones of some 1,200 prisoners killed by Gaddafi’s security forces in 1996

‘There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.’

3. ELIZABETH WARREN, Massachusetts Senate candidate, in a video that recently surfaced on the Web, in which she rebuts the argument that increasing taxes on the wealthy is class warfare

‘Members of Congress are playing with people’s lives, not just their own political careers.’

4. MARTIN BONIFANTI, a Pennsylvania fire chief, about aid to flood victims that was on hold until Congress struck a deal to fund the government through mid-November and keep money flowing to cash-strapped FEMA

‘You can indeed conduct effective diplomacy under the sound of a gun.’

5. RYAN CROCKER, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, on how the U.S. Foreign Service has evolved to focus on counterterrorism in the decade since 9/11 amid wars and conflict

6

Weight, in tons, of a dead NASA satellite–as big as a school bus–that fell out of orbit and plunged into the Pacific Ocean

69%

Percentage of Americans who say the loss of their local newspaper would not hinder their ability to find news

111%

Percentage increase since 2009 in the number of young people in France having unsafe sex, according to a recent study

13

Number of U.S. deaths from a listeria outbreak linked to Colorado cantaloupes; it is the deadliest listeria outbreak in more than a decade

Sources: PBS; BBC; CBS; New York Times; Princeton Alumni Weekly