4 Time August 19, 2019
‘My dad was a little mad that the name wasn’t George.’
JENNA BUSH HAGER,
Today show co-host, recalling on Aug. 5 the joking reaction of her father,
former President George W. Bush, to the Aug. 2 birth of her third child and first son, Henry
‘The Boy Scouts don’t
protect children.’
STEWART EISENBERG,
a lawyer representing a man who filed a lawsuit
against the Boy Scouts of America on Aug. 6, alleging he
was sexually abused hundreds of times as a Boy Scout in Pennsylvania
in the 1970s; the Boy Scouts have said the organization responds
“aggressively and effectively to reports of sexual abuse”
‘To those who
want to use
xenophobia for
political goals,
we take the path
of fraternity.’
IVÁN DUQUE,
President of Colombia, announcing on Aug. 5 that
babies born to Venezuelan refugees in the country from
August 2015 to August 2021 would receive citizenship
‘These guys
are going to
die in the
streets like
cockroaches—
and that’s how
it should be.’
JAIR BOLSONARO,
President of Brazil, who
said in an Aug. 5 interview
that he wants to make it
easier for officers to shoot
alleged offenders without
being prosecuted
‘AT LEAST OUR DNA
IS OFFSITE NOW.’
NOVA SPIVACK,
co-founder of Arch Mission Foundation, which supplied human DNA samples carried by the privately funded
Israeli spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon in April; when his comments to Wired prompted specula-
tion that organic material on the craft could reproduce there, he clarified on Twitter on Aug. 6 that it could not
$23,
Amount of cash in a
shoebox that an Oregon
man accidentally put into
recycling; after the man
contacted the sorting
company, the shoebox—and
almost all the money—was
discovered at a Northern
California recycling plant
Trading cards
FBI issues
subpoenas in probe
of sports trading-
card fraud
Credit cards
Apple starts invite-
only rollout of its
new credit card
GOOD WEEK
BAD WEEK
For the Record
100 m.p.h.
Speed at which French jet-ski champion Franky Zapata
crossed the English Channel via hoverboard on Aug. 4