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MADISON – Aaron Rodgers has faced some of the most ferocious defensive linemen the National Football League has ever unleashed on professional football fields. The Green Bay Packers quarterback has passed his way to the top of his game, becoming among the most accurate, respected and highest paid players in NFL history. Now, Rodgers is taking on a much more brutal enemy: The murderous warlords of the Democratic Republic of Congo in command of a civil conflict that has claimed more than 3 million lives. Green Bay’s QB has signed up as a celebrity front man for Raise Hope for...

(Note: In full house session last week, the Committee on International Relations presented a report on the genocide crisis in Sudan. The committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Bush to impose additional sanctions on Sudanese leaders. -TR)Transcript from the session: Committee on International Relations U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515-0128John Prendergast Special Advisor to the President of the International Crisis Group "Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur: A New Front Opens in Sudan's Bloody War" May 6, 2004 House Committee on International Relations Thank you, Mr Chairman, for the invitation to testify at this hearing, and for the Committee's unflagging...

.....The ICC documents obtained by TIME show a significant portion of this new investigation is based on data from the Satellite Sentinel Project, a network of private spy satellites and analysts organized by George Clooney in partnership with John Prendergast's Enough Project. The satellites have been snapping pictures of northern Sudan since December of last year. "We are the antigenocide paparazzi," Clooney told TIME then.

When staying at George Clooney's Italian villa you might end up in the lake - without your clothes on! Access Hollywood caught up with the actor at the premiere of this latest movie, "The Ides of March," where he told us that his Lake Como palazzo has a long history of inspiring distinguished newscasters to take a dip in the pristine waters. ... "George said, 'Walter Conkrite was here, when Conkrite was here he jumped in the lake! And he did it on the second night. Now, we're here on the first night, we're having wine, we're having a beautiful...