Barack Obama lost the Pennsylvania Democratic primary by nearly 10 points to Hillary Clinton but still leads in nationwide polls, delegates, and the popular vote. Though a Clinton victory would still require a super-delegate deus ex machina, a persistent worry that Obama can’t “close the deal” with white, working class voter blocs has led some to fret over his chances in the general election. Then there’s the question, is the party eating itself? As daughter Jenna preps for her wedding, George W. Bush had a New Orleans rendezvous with Mexico’s Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Canada’s Stephen Harper, where they defended their support of free trade agreements and, consequently, angered many. Now that he’s definitely not a presidential candidate, Michael Bloomberg might buy the New York Times. Bill Gates’ Microsoft might not buy Yahoo! after all, perhaps because the dot-com wants too much money. Off to replace Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien will vacate his Late Night desk in 2009 for…SNL alum Jimmy Fallon. Back in the limelight after his very brief tenure as Harvard’s endowment head is Mohamed El-Erian, who will be managing a new fund at Pimco modestly called the Global Advantage Fund. Harvard got $100 million from David Rockefeller, Sr. and a trove of unpublished, sexually explicit memoirs and fiction from one of Norman Mailer’s mistresses. In a 60 Minutes interview airing this Sunday, no-longer-press-shy Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defends the 2000 ruling that gave the presidency to George W. Bush. Al Gore, meanwhile, may make a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth—despite the possibility that the climate crisis could soon be upstaged by a global food shortage that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has described as “tsunami-like.” Some blame the rising food prices, which have already sparked unrest in several countries, on the diversion of corn and sugarcane crops from food to "climate friendly" biofuel production. Lou Dobbs was hit with a wave of criticism for criticizing recent tourist Pope Benedict XVI. The pope of the music industry, Clive Davis—discoverer of Bruce, Whitney et. al.—steps down as CEO of Sony BMG Music Group as that industry continues its confusing digital evolution. And We Will Always Love You, Clive.
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