Cheat Sheet - Berezovsky's Final Triumph Over Putin

Today: Did Dennis Rodman Just Change the World? , Supreme Court to Take on Prop. 8 , U.S. Hands Over Bagram Prison March 25, 2013 Good vs. Evil 1. Berezovsky's Final Triumph Over Putin After Boris Berezovsky's death, Vladimir Putin has a problem—who will play the villain to make him look like a superhero? The Daily Beast's Peter Pomerantsev reports. Read it at The Daily Beast Renaissance Man 2. Did Dennis Rodman Just Change the World? Going to North Korea was the smartest move the famously eccentric former basketball star ever made. In Newsweek, Buzz Bissinger takes on America's latest renaissance man. Read it at Newsweek GET READY 3. Supreme Court to Take on Prop. 8 The Supreme Court will take the forefront in the same-sex marriage debate on Tuesday and Wednesday when it hears arguments on the constitutionality of California's controversial Proposition 8 and the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act. If the court strikes down DOMA, married gay couples will be allowed to receive federal benefits in states where same-sex marriage is legal, but it would still be legal for states to outlaw gay marriage—although that would change if Proposition 8 is declared unconstitutional. And things are getting personal: Chief Justice John Roberts's gay cousin, San Francisco resident Jean Podrasky, will attend Tuesday's hearing, and she said she "absolutely trust[s] he will go in the right direction." Meanwhile, in France, hundreds of thousands attended an anti–gay marriage rally in Paris, with dozens arrested as the police fired tear gas on the crowd. Read it at The Hill CONTROL 4. U.S. Hands Over Bagram Prison American forces on Monday handed over to Afghanistan control of Bagram Prison, the last facility that was under the U.S.'s thumb. Control over the facility, which was once located on an American Air Force base and has been called "Afghanistan's Guantánamo," has caused tension between the two countries as the U.S. prepares to fully withdraw forces from Afghanistan by 2014. The transfer had been delayed after the U.S. insisted certain inmates were too dangerous to be released. The jail has been renamed the Afghan National Detention Facility at Parwan, and an official transfer ceremony took place Monday. Read it at BBC News ESCALATION 5. West Aids Syrian Rebels With Arms The U.S. and its allies in the Middle East—including Turkey—have been secretly sending arms to the Syrian rebels with the help of the CIA, according to a report in Monday's New York Times. Meanwhile, the opposition forces closed in on the capital, Damascus, shelling less than a mile from Bashar al-Assad's presidential palace. The rebels' National Coalition rejected the resignation of their leader, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, who has stepped down out of frustration as the bloody civil war has continued. The report comes as U.S. officials have approached the Syrian situation with increased trepidation, especially as the evidence mounts that Assad's regime used chemical weapons in an attack last week. Read it at The New York Times Bailout EU Approves $10B Cyprus Rescue Announce "good bank" and "bad bank." TRAGEDY Mississippi Lawmaker Found Dead Suicide suspected. JUMP SHIP Report: Matt Lauer Considered ABC Before Curry left last year. SUPER-SWEET 16 Florida Gulf Coast Advances First time a 15 seed has made final 16. BOX OFFICE REPORT 'Croods' Hauls in $44.7M in Debut Wins the weekend. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Bush Speechwriter Defends Gay Marriage Daily Beast columnist David Frum, a former member of George W. Bush's White House, joined 'Face the Nation' Sunday to explain his support for same-sex marriage. Frum said that 'stable, two-parent households' are paramount for children, whether or not the parents are gay. More Videos The Silent Sodomy Case by Adam Winkler The Hunt for Dead Serial Killers by Christine Pelisek Here Be Dragons by Jace Lacob

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