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March 31, 2012 | | OUSTER Keith Olbermann will celebrate unemployment by going on David Letterman on Tuesday night. Will it kick off a successful Glenn Beck-style postnetwork TV career, or be his first step toward obscurity? The Daily Beast’s Rebecca Dana examines whether Olbermann’s departure from Current TV will be his ruin or salvation. OVER? The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has declared "victory" over a year-long revolt, saying on Saturday that it will begin withdrawing the Army. This came after Assad agreed to a peace plan proposed by United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan. But Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdessi claimed that the military remain in opposition cities "in a state of self-defense and protecting civilians" and will only gradually pull out "once peace and security is restored." Meanwhile, activists say fresh violence claimed more lives in the country. JACKPOT! If you haven't bought a ticket, chances are you're not a $640 millionaire. The winning numbers are: 46, 23, 38, 4, 2, Mega Ball 23. Nobody knows who has those numbers yet, but at least three tickets were sold in Maryland's Baltimore County, Kansas, and Illinois matching the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history. The previous record was $390 million, which was split between two winners in 2007. POLL A new NBC News/Marist poll suggests that GOP candidate Mitt Romney will win the Wisconsin primary comfortably on Tuesday, as numbers show him with 40 percent of the support of likely Republican voters, while rival Rick Santorum sits at 33 percent. But President Obama, who carried Wisconsin by 14 points in 2008, will likely beat every GOP candidate if the election was today. Against Santorum, Obama leads 51 to 38 percent. Against Romney, Obama leads 52 to 35 percent. CRACKDOWN China arrested six people over the weekend and shut down at least 16 websites in a sweeping crackdown on Internet speech, especially on microblogs and social networking sites. The campaign was announced late Friday, and clamps down on rumors that former top government official Bo Xilai was dismissed in March because of a coup. The government said it was "cleaning up" the "harmful messages" about "military vehicles entering Beijing," as even comments sections were combed and shuttered. | | 
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