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 March 25, 2013 TV PREVIEW 1. A Killer New 'Game of Thrones' 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. Read it at The Daily Beast EXCLUSIVE 2. Bachmann Faces Ethics Probe 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. Read it at The Daily Beast Tales From Jail 3. Sandusky Gives Interview From Prison 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." Read it at USA Today OBIT 4. Ex-NYT Columnist Anthony Lewis Dies 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. Read it at The Boston Globe DELL 5. Who's Getting a 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. Read it at The New York Times 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. 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. Michele Bachmann's Most Outrageous Comments Never one to shy away from a tendentious (or just blatantly false) statement, the Tea Party Congresswoman has witnessed her fair share of controversy. From virulent anti-gay sentiment to borderline McCarthyism, watch Bachmann's worst. More Videos --> The Naive Generation by Caitlin Dickson The Real Reason Newspapers Are Dying by Megan McArdle What Amanda Knox Is Up to Now by Winston Ross , Barbie Latza Nadeau

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