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Monday, March 25, 2013

Cheat Sheet - A Killer New ‘Game of Thrones’

Today: Exclusive: Congressional Ethics Probe Adds to Michele Bachmann's Political Woes , Sandusky Gives Interview From Prison , Ex-NYT Columnist Anthony Lewis Dies
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

March 25, 2013
TV PREVIEW

Winter is coming in one week! Based on a 1,000-page novel, the third season of HBO's Game of Thrones, which premieres March 31, is the best yet—and the most complex. The Daily Beast's Jace Lacob sets the scene.

EXCLUSIVE

The Hindenburg. The Titanic. Michele Bachmann. Add the Office of Congressional Ethics to the long list of probes and lawsuits that may be the only enduring legacy of the representative's presidential face-plant. The Daily Beast's John Avlon exclusively reports.

Tales From Jail

The Today show previewed new interviews with disgraced former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky Monday morning. Sandusky, who is serving at least 30 years in prison after being convicted on 45 counts of child sex abuse, says that he's not sure if his mentor, Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, suspected that he was abusing children. He also said that the most damning evidence against him, testimony from another coach saying that he saw Sandusky in sexually charged conduct with a young boy in the locker room, misrepresented what was actually happening: they were merely "fooling around."

OBIT

Anthony Lewis, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times columnist, died Monday. His wife said he died from complications of renal and heart failure. He was 85. Lewis won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for the Washington Daily News and then won again in 1963 at The New York Times. He wrote the Times's "Abroad at Home" column from 1969 to 2001, while also teaching at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in addition to a stint lecturing at Harvard from 1974 until 1989. Lewis was the author of the famous nonfiction book Gideon's Trumpet as well as Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment and Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution, among others. He was also an expert on constitutional law.

DELL

Apparently Dell is worth more than $24 billion. Two rival proposals are now in the works that threaten Michael Dell's attempt to take the computer manufacturer private. Blackstone Group and investor Carl Icahn both have submitted takeover bids, each valued at more than the $13.65 a share offered by Michael Dell and the private equity group Silver Lake.


FATHER KNOWS BEST
Portman's Son: 'I'm Proud of My Dad'
Pens an op-ed in Yale Daily News.
Trojan Man
Bill Gates Searching for Super Condom
Foundation offers $100K prize.
ROYAL SOLDIER
Prince Harry to Visit U.S. Troops
No word yet if he plans to visit Las Vegas.
INJURY
Denny Hamlin Crashes at Auto Club 400
Hospitalized overnight.
TV
Candace Bushnell Defends 'Carrie Diaries'
And all things Carrie Bradshaw.
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