Briefing

‘I had no intention to kill my girlfriend.’

OSCAR PISTORIUS, South African double-amputee Olympic runner, denying charges that he planned to murder model Reeva Steenkamp; he maintains that the fatal shooting was accidental

‘She was just a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore.’

HILARY MANTEL, British author, describing Kate Middleton during a recent speech that sparked impassioned debate about the royals

$100,000

Amount raised by a Marco Rubio PAC by offering water bottles to donors–a riff on the Republican Senator’s awkward sip during his State of the Union response

1 IN 70 MILLION

Odds of giving birth to two sets of identical twins, as 36-year-old Tressa Montalvo of Houston did on Valentine’s Day

GOOD WEEK

DISNEY

Hong Kong Disneyland turned a profit for the first time in seven years

BAD WEEK

NESTLÉ

Pasta products were recalled in Europe for containing horse meat

‘THOSE ARE ONLY FROM PEOPLE SMOKING MARIJUANA.’

CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN, Archbishop of New York, on rumors he’ll be tapped to succeed Pope Benedict XVI

$47.30

Price a Washington State man paid for his add-on-heavy Frappuccino, reportedly the costliest Starbucks drink ever

‘If you’re anywhere but the front row, it’s really hard to see on race day.’

DANICA PATRICK, who became the first woman to win the pole position at NASCAR’s Daytona 500, posting a qualifying lap of 196.434 m.p.h. (316.130 km/h)

‘There are still many martyrs under the rubble.’

MOHAMMED AL-KHATIB, an activist with Syria’s Aleppo Medical Center, after a government missile strike leveled several buildings, killing at least 20 people, including children

THE WEEK WE HUNTED FOR METEORITES

Sources: ABC; Vatican Insider; Reuters; Los Angeles Times; AP