Briefing

THE WEEK

THE U.S. DEBATED A SYRIA STRIKE

10 DAYS

Duration of America’s first inpatient program for Internet addiction, which launched at a hospital in Pennsylvania

‘This is an inadmissible and unacceptable violation of Brazilian sovereignty.’

LUIZ ALBERTO FIGUEIREDO, Foreign Minister of Brazil, on reports that the U.S. National Security Agency has spied on the e-mail, phone calls and text messages of President Dilma Rousseff (above)

Henrik Stenson

Won the Deutsche Bank golf championship

GOOD WEEK

BAD WEEK

Roger Federer

Got knocked out of the U.S. Open in the fourth round

‘I’m going to support the President’s call for action.’

JOHN BOEHNER, Republican Speaker of the House, backing President Obama’s push to authorize a military strike in Syria

‘Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.’

MALALA YOUSAFZAI, 16-year-old Pakistani education activist who survived a 2012 Taliban assassination attempt, presiding over the opening of Europe’s largest regional public library, in Birmingham, England

‘You’re never too old to chase your dream.’

DIANA NYAD, who at 64 became the first person ever to swim from Cuba to Florida (110 miles, or 177 km) without a shark cage

$3.25 million

Portion of the $3.5 million bonus that Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing will share with 10,000 of his employees

$10,000

Prize awarded to Brent the chimpanzee for winning a chimpanzee-art contest sponsored by the U.S. Humane Society

‘I’M NOT THERE TO BE A DIPLOMAT.’

DENNIS RODMAN, former NBA star, explaining that his second trip to North Korea this year is merely about his desire to “meet my friend Kim … and start a basketball league over there or something”

Sources: NBC News; CNN; ITV News; ABC News; AP