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August 24, 2012 | | PUBLIC RELATIONS Nine weeks after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s conviction, ex-university president Graham Spanier remains untouched by the law. The Daily Beast’s Diane Dimond on the curious timing of Spanier’s recent media blitz. SCANDAL The USADA says it will strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France medals and ban him from cycling for life for doping. In a statement released Thursday night, Armstrong said he will not be fighting the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency through arbitration. In June, the USADA charged Armstrong for his involvement in a long-term doping conspiracy. Armstrong’s lawyers say they will pursue a lawsuit if the agency tries to take his titles. “I know who won those seven Tours,” Armstrong said. “My teammates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours.” SENTENCED After a long and often bizarre trial, Norway has sentenced its most notorious killer. Anders Breivik, who has admitted to murdering 77 people in attacks in Oslo and at a summer youth camp in the worst mass killing in the country since World War II, was found sane on Friday, and will serve a minimum of 21 years of "preventive detention." That time can be extended if authorities continue to find that Breivik, a right-wing extremist, is a danger to others. Breivik will be held in isolation at Ila Prison outside of Oslo, in quarters that include a separate exercise room, a computer, and a television. WEIRD Mitt Romney has managed to raise buckets of money by using a secretive project that mines Americans' personal data, tracking everything from their retail purchases to church attendance, the Associated Press reported on Friday. The firm the campaign has hired to do the mining, Buxton Co., once did marketing work for a former Romney colleague connected to Bain Capital, which the candidate defended in a Wall Street Journal editorial today. The project analyzes databases of consumer data that are usually bought and sold among corporate marketers, and include info on credit accounts, voter registration, family, charitable contributions, and property-tax records. OH BOY There goes discretion. Britain’s largest-circulation newspaper, The Sun, brought the three-day farce over the publication of the naked Prince Harry photos to an end and finally published the saucy shots of the romping royal. The Daily Beast’s Tom Sykes on why the Sun broke the British press omerta—and the latest news on the prince, including the reported $50,000 Las Vegas bill he rung up and whether Harry is facing up to his grandmother at Balmoral Castle. | | 
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