Time USA - 18.11.2019

(Tuis.) #1
6 Time November 18, 2019

For the Record

‘IT’S A


PRIVILEGE,


NOT A


BURDEN,


TO BE


FIGHTING


FOR THE


PEOPLE


BACK


HOME.’


SIYA KOLISI, the first black
captain of the South African
rugby team, after winning
the Rugby World Cup
against England on Nov. 

‘One of the things
we did was give them the
opportunity to actually
refill their refrigerator, ’cause
their house is still there.’

BILL JOHNSON, CEO of Pacific Gas and Electric, on Nov. 1, in
response to a question about low-income families being forced
to replace food after the utility shut off power for millions of
Californians in an effort to prevent wildfires

‘This is

exactly

the kind

of spill

we are

worried

about.’

JOYE BRAUN, organizer for the
Indigenous Environmental
Network, on Nov. 1, after
about 383,000 gallons of
oil leaked from the Keystone
Pipeline in North Dakota

‘IT FEELS


AMAZING TO


BE ON THE


OTHER SIDE


OF THE FENCE.’


TESS HARJO, one of 462 Oklahoma inmates released on Nov. 
as part of the largest one-day mass commutation of prison
sentences in U.S. history

‘I call it

being self-

p ar t n e re d.’

EMMA WATSON, actor, on
learning to be happy being
single, in a British Vogue
interview published Nov. 

$4.


million
Record prize money, claimed
by tennis player Ashleigh
Barty, for winning the WTA
Finals in Shenzhen, China

Orchestras
A Florida man was
arrested on charges
of stealing $30,
in instruments from
a youth orchestra

Soloists
A $320,000 violin was
returned to a soloist
with London’s Royal
Philharmonic after he
left it on a train

GOOD WEEK


BAD WEEK


40%


Year-over-year increase
in employee productivity
after Microsoft Japan
experimented with
a four-day workweek

101


Number of years a boat
was lodged in the rapids
above Niagara Falls; it was
knocked loose on Oct. 31 ILLUSTRATIONS BY BROWN BIRD DESIGN FOR TIME

SOURCES: CNN, AP, BRITISH VOGUE, NEW YORK TIMES, ABC7, 7 NEWS MIAMI, BBC

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