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LOS ANGELES - George Clooney is still a fan of President Obama, and the feeling is mutual. The president called Clooney “a wonderful guy” and applauded his politics and character in a joint interview with First Lady Michelle Obama for Monday’s edition of “Entertainment Tonight.”
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Actor George Clooney (R) laughs while President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner in Washington April 28, 2012.
“He is a terrific advocate on behalf of the people of Darfur and the people of Sudan who’ve been brutalized for a long time,” President Obama told “ET” co-anchor Nancy O’Dell. Their working relationship on Sudan - and their friendship - started when Obama was a junior senator and Clooney, “who had traveled there, done documentaries there and was very well-informed, came to testify in Congress, and so we got to know each other,” the president said. As for whether Clooney has POTUS on speed-dial, Obama demurred, saying the activist actor is conservative when it comes to his using his line into the White House. “And he’s also sensitive to the fact that, you know, that if he’s around a lot than somehow it’ll be tagged as ‘Obama hanging out with Hollywood stars’ and that’s not who he is,” Obama added. For her part, the First Lady took a more aesthetic tack on her husband’s
Rosie O’Donnell suffers heart attack, gets stent Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Rosie O’Donnell says she suffered a heart attack last week and is “lucky to be here.” The 50-year-old comedian detailed the experience on her blog Monday, saying sudden nausea, aches and other symptoms pushed her to do an online search for “women’s heart attack symptoms.” She took a few aspirin and went to a cardiologist the next day. She says an artery was 99 percent blocked and a stent was inserted. O’Donnell writes in a kind of verse on her blog. She says: “Know the symptoms ladies/ listen to the voice inside/ the one we all so easily ignore.” The comedian recently hosted “The Rosie Show” on the Oprah Winfrey Network. It was canceled in March.
A-list friend, pronouncing him “cute” twice during the sit-down discussion with O’Dell. Michelle Obama said she’s suspicious of a “conspiracy” afoot in the Oval Office, as each time Clooney comes by for a presidential têteà-tête, the First Lady’s schedule happens to be booked. “I’m gonna explore that a little more,” she said. Clooney opened his home in Studio City, Calif. for a wildly successful Obama fund-raiser on May 10 and will stump for the president again at two events for American expats in Geneva, Switzerland on August 27.
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Cookies sellers doing transaction with buyer in one of market before the Eid celebration. The surge in prices of basic necessities during the Eid celebration is estimated to trigger inflation rate in Denpasar up to 2 percent. Prof. Dr. I Made Kembar Sri Budhi, a lecturer of the Udayana University, judged the inflation rate happened because of psychological influence of the traders.
Eid triggers inflation rate up to 2 percent Bali Post
DENPASAR - The surge in prices of basic necessities during the Eid celebration is estimated to trigger inflation rate in Denpasar up to 2 percent. Prof. Dr. I Made Kembar Sri Budhi, a lecturer of the Udayana University, judged the inflation rate happened because of psychological influence of the traders. “Although it is not significant, the increase in the price of goods will certainly kindle inflation. I think the inflation of this month will reach 2 percent,” said Prof. Dr. I Made Kembar Sri Budhi. Other than psychological factor, the disrup-
tion of food distribution during the celebration of the Eid 1433 H, said Sri Budhi, also had an impact on the price stability leading to inflation. To that end, the government should attempt to control the prices in coordination with related agencies.
Similar opinion was also revealed by the Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Gde Suarsa. During celebration of the Eid, the prices of some basic needs in the market had increased. Though they were not too significant, they would still be perceived by the public. Even, they were also ascertained to affect the inflation rate in July. “We cannot predict the effect of price increases on the inflation in Denpasar. Surely, there is an influence on the inflation rate,” he said.
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KABUL — Militants fired rockets into a U.S. base in Afghanistan and damaged the plane of the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff while he was on a visit, but the general was not near the aircraft, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military coalition said Tuesday. The attack on the plane of U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey represented yet another propaganda coup for the Taliban after they claimed to have shot down a U.S. helicopter last week. It also followed a string of disturbing killings of U.S. military trainers by their Afghan partners or militants dressed in Afghan uniforms. Two maintenance workers were slightly injured by shrapnel from the two rockets that were fired into Bagram Air Field outside Kabul on Monday night, coalition spokesman Jamie Graybeal said. Dempsey “was nowhere near” the plane when the rockets hit near where the aircraft was parked, Graybeal said. The spokesman added that Dempsey had finished his mission in Afghanistan and had left by Tuesday morning, though it was unclear what plane he flew out on or how badly the targeted plane was damaged. Dempsey was in Afghanistan to discuss the state of the war after a particularly deadly few weeks for Americans in the more than 10-year-old Afghan war.