The Neverending Story... Continues

CALLING IT LIKE EVERYBODY SEES IT Obama (Photo: Getty Images) • Reach out and touch: Obama declares the nomination "within reach" after amassing a majority of pledged delegates and winning Oregon Tuesday. Clinton wins big in Kentucky, promises to stick it out until America understands that women can refuse to admit defeat just as gracelessly as men.

• Boy wonder: Hamilton Jordan, political campaign whiz-kid and right-hand man to president Jimmy Carter, has died. He was 63.

• Rupe's pick: Rupert Murdoch taps one of his own to take over at the Wall Street Journal. Robert Thomson, former editor of News Corp.'s Times of London, will be the paper's new managing editor.

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