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November 29, 2012 | | NARROW WINDOW Mitt Romney’s lunch with Obama gives the defeated candidate one more opportunity to redefine his battered image. The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz on Romney’s stark choice—slip into a waiting car or face the microphones. SHOW YOURSELF Get ready to collect a cool $579.9 million. Powerball officials said early Thursday that two tickets matched all six winning numbers of 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and the Powerball of 6. The tickets were sold in Arizona and Missouri. Arizona officials said they didn’t know yet whether the tickets were sold to an individual or a group, but they said they will announce where the ticket was sold on Thursday. The last-minute lotto-frenzy inched the drawing up to $579.9 million on Wednesday—the second largest payout in U.S. history. On Wednesday, tickets were selling at 130,000 per minute. SPEEDY Egyptian leaders said on Wednesday that they are finishing the Constitution faster than expected after the crisis brought on by President Mohamed Morsi, who announced plans last week against all legal opposition to his power until the Constitution is complete. Morsi said he had issued the decree because he learned that the Supreme Constitutional Court—with judges appointed by former President Hosni Mubarak—was ready to strike down the current Assembly. But Morsi’s decree set off days of protests, with hundreds of thousands taking to Tahrir Square—the site of the 2011 uprising—on Tuesday. If the constitution is completed, it could moot the whole conflict—although it still will have been approved without the opposition. GET READY There should be an independent watchdog agency to regulate the press, Lord Justice Brian Leveson said in his highly anticipated report released on Thursday. Leveson insisted that tougher self-regulation is needed to "protet the freedom of the press" and an arbitration system should be set up to help victims. Leveson's report is the final word after his Parliament committee's investigation into press standards following the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Prime Minister David Cameron and deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will give separate statements following the report’s release, signaling that Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, is splitting with Cameron, who has been scrutinized by the Leveson Committee due to his close ties with former News International chief Rebekah Brooks. GROSS Submerging an Obama doll in fake urine may have been a bid for attention, but out of the limelight the former Fox News host’s been building an empire that goes beyond right-wing paranoia to TV network TheBlaze, a $100 million radio deal, and $10 bags of chocolate pecans, writes The Daily Beast’s Michael Moynihan. | | 
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