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Clooney Announces Darfur Envoy - Politico

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Date: 
Feb 25, 2009
Author: 
Nia-Malika Henderson

Advocates for U.S. intervention in the Darfur conflict, angered by what they saw as Bush administration foot-dragging in a case of genocide, have pressed for stronger leadership from the White House for a long time.

 
So imagine their glee when leading man George Clooney, twice named People magazine’s sexiest man alive, announced this week that the administration would appoint a special envoy to tackle the issue.
 
“This is a phenomenal outcome, with the extraordinary series of crises that the new president has inherited, to have someone of Clooney’s stature and seriousness galvanize attention to this question on Darfur,” said John Prendergast, co-­chairman of the ENOUGH project, a campaign to end genocide.
 
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