Time_Asia-November_06_2017

For the Record

SOURCES: CNN MONEY; GOOD MORNING AMERICA; HENRY ALDRIDGE & SON; NEW YORK TIMES; REUTERS; HONG KONG FREE PRESS

‘I’m now the most humorous

person in the world.’

DAVID LETTERMAN, comedian, accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center

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BILL O’REILLY, former Fox News anchor,

after the New YorkTimes reported that

O’Reilly had settled a sexual-harassment

claim for $32 million last January and got

a new contract shortly after

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Number ofTwitter users

that KFC follows to rep-

resent the 11 herbs and

spices in its chicken,

including six men named

Herb and the five former

Spice Girls

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JEFF FLAKE,Republican Senator from Arizona, announcing he

won’t run for re-election in 2018 in an unusually candid speech

on the Senate floor denouncing President Trump’s “undigni-

fied” behavior and the “complicit” Republican Party leadership

238

Number ofproposals

for Amazon’s second

headquarters

submitted by

North American

cities and regions

‘This may

not be

the first

time we

go to jail.’

JOSHUA WONG,pro-democracy

activist, maintaining his

commitment to standing up to

communist suppression after

Hong Kong’s highest court

released him and fellow activist

Nathan Law on bail to appeal

their prison sentences for their

roles in organizing the 2014

pro-democracy protests

‘He risked

his life for our

country, why

can’t you

remember

his name?’

MYESHIA JOHNSON,widow of Army Sergeant La David Johnson,

who was killed in an ambush in Niger, confirming Representative

Frederica Wilson’s account of the condolence call from President Trump,

who tweeted that he said La David’s name “without hesitation”

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A stolen

mosaic from

one of Caligula’s

Lake Nemi ships

was returned

to Italy

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The French

President’s dog

interrupted a meet-

ing by urinating on

a fireplace in the

Élysée Palace

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letter dated April 13, 1912, the

day before theTitanichit an iceberg

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