Time March 16–23, 2020
For the Record
‘I’m done
for the
season.’
SPIKE LEE,
filmmaker and basketball
fan, vowing on March
not to go back to a Knicks
game after getting into an
argument with officials at
New York City’s Madison
Square Garden; Lee has
spent almost $10 million on
Knicks tickets over 30 years
‘The absence of a judicial
remedy doesn’t render
Congress powerless.’
THOMAS B. GRIFFITH,
federal judge, in a Feb. 28 appeals court ruling that Congress
can’t use lawsuits to enforce subpoenas of Executive Branch
officials, and must use political tools instead
‘I kind of
dominated
the match
if I’m being
honest.’
HEAVEN FITCH,
high school wrestler, who on
Feb. 22 became the first girl
to win an individual North
Carolina state championship
in the sport, after beating
seven boys in her bracket
‘DO NOT
DEPORT YOUR
PEOPLE
AND YOUR
PROBLEMS.’
JACINDA ARDERN,
New Zealand Prime Minister, in a Feb. 28 joint news conference with
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, on that country’s policy of
deporting foreign-born criminal offenders
‘Compliments
on a woman’s
appearance
that some
men, including
me, might
have once
incorrectly
thought were
O.K. were
ne ve r O. K .’
CHRIS MATTHEWS, political
commentator, announcing
his abrupt retirement from
MSNBC’s Hardball on
March 2; he was accused
of making inappropriate
comments to women who
appeared on his show
25
Total number of
seasons of Judge Judy,
after it was revealed
March 2 that the
upcoming season of
the courtroom show
will be its last
Yogurt
A truck spilled more
than 30,000 lb. of
yogurt on a New
York State highway
Cheese
The World
Championship
Cheese Contest
kicked off in
Madison, Wis.
GOOD WEEK
BAD WEEK
$
MILLION
FCC fines potentially facing U.S.
wireless carriers for secretly
selling customers’ location data,
the agency announced on Feb.
SOURCES: THE GUARDIAN; AP; THE WASHINGTON POST; MSNBC;
THE NEW YORK TIMES; TECHCRUNCH; CNN; USA TODAY
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