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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Amal Clooney in media spotlight during Athens museum visit

Lawyer and wife of George Clooney is in Greece to advise government on how to retrieve Parthenon marbles from UKIn its relatively short life, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens has welcomed celebrities through its doors with some regularity. Some may go unnoticed. But that was not the case on Wednesday when Amal Clooney, the human rights lawyer and wife of George Clooney, attempted the same passage.It was like Moses parting the sea, said David Hill, an Australian campaigner who was next to her in a group at the centre of a media circus. There were five security guys, us in the middle, Professor Norman Palmer leading us through like a rugby league prop, and a thousand media people swooping in. Never before have I seen anything like it. Continue reading...


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