Academy awarding-winning actor George Clooney (C) takes his seat alongside Senator Barack Obama (R)(D-IL) and Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) at a Washington news conference, April 27, 2006 about the Darfur region of Sudan. Clooney and his father, journalist Nick Clooney, have just returned from a week-long trip to southern Sudan and eastern Chad where they met with dozens of individuals affected by the crisis and documented the brutal and worsening conflict in Sudan?s Darfur region. REUTERS/Jason Reed