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Good week for:

Getting even, after a Quebec man deposited a 20-ton boulder in the driveway of his ex-wife. During their 10-year marriage, explained Dany Lariviere, his ex-wife often complained that he didn’t give her “a big rock.”

Defending your brand, after clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch offered “a substantial payment” to the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore to stop wearing its clothes, saying that the show’s self-proclaimed Guidos and Guidettes “could cause significant damage to our image” as an “aspirational” brand.

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Betty White, after a poll found that the 89-year-old actress is the country’s most popular and most trusted celebrity. She topped Kate Middleton, Sandra Bullock, and Oprah Winfrey.

Bad week for:

Turning the other cheek, after Italian friars prayed that a thief who stole Bibles from their church be stricken with a plague of diarrhea. “We couldn’t put up with it any longer,” a friar said. “The Lord and the faithful will understand.”

The king and queen of Sweden, who were refused a table by a busy restaurant owner in Germany. The owner, Nadine Schellenberger, said she didn’t recognize King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia “without crowns and scepters.”

John Goldfinch, a British man who was fishing off a beach and felt a huge bite, only to see a scuba diver emerge with the hook between the legs. The diver’s girlfriend, Goldfinch said, helped him “remove my tackle from his tackle.”