Briefing

‘I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years, and I’m, I’m here, I’m free now.’

AMANDA BERRY, in a 911 call on May 6; Berry and two other women, who went missing in the early 2000s and were held in this house, were reunited with their families in Cleveland

‘She seems like a great housekeeper.’

MARIO BORGHEZIO, European Parliament member for Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League, on Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black government minister; the remark was widely derided as racist

‘We face a slow death here, or a fast death over there.’

HUSSAIN AYISH, one of dozens of Syrians leaving the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan for their war-torn home country

‘This is about turning 50 and looking at my children and wanting to be there for them.’

CHRIS CHRISTIE, New Jersey governor, revealing that he had gastric-band surgery in February to lose weight

CICADAS UNITE!

600 TO 1

Estimated ratio of cicadas to people on the U.S. East Coast, where the bugs will emerge by the billions this summer after spending 17 years underground

GOOD WEEK

Iron Lady

The South Korean President, a.k.a. Park Geun-hye, had a productive meeting with President Obama

BAD WEEK

Iron Man

The Marvel superhero, a.k.a. Tony Stark, had to fight another supervillain onscreen

‘I am one imperfect man saved by God’s grace.’

Mark Sanford, former South Carolina governor, who came back from a 2009 extramarital affair to win the special race for his state’s 1st Congressional District seat on May 7

4,378%

Increase in elective upper-arm plastic surgery among American women since 2000; in a survey, 31% said Michelle Obama’s arms are the ones they most admire

THE WEEK KIDNAP VICTIMS WERE FREED IN OHIO

Sources: New York Post; Radio 24; MSNBC; BBC; AP