“I turned to my dad and said, ‘Dad, we got the same score.’ He looked up and said,

“I turned to my dad and said, ‘Dad, we got the same score.’ He looked up and said, ‘Oh yeah.’ We started getting a little confused.”

American gymnast Nastia Liukin

After the Olympic all-around champion finished with the same score as China’s He Kexin in Monday night’s uneven bars final. Liukin was awarded the silver medal after He won the computerized tie-breaker.

“There has not been such an authoritative and intimate account of presidential decision making since the Nixon tapes and the Pentagon Papers.”

Alice Mayhew

The longtime editor of journalist Bob Woodward, on Woodward’s latest book, “The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008.”