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Friday, January 20, 2017

In time of troubles, Davos organizers send in the clown

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — With an ear-piercing whistle, a professional clown in the crowd startles to order a conference room full of some of the world's elite thinkers, writers and religious minds. The Lebanese-born, curly-haired artist in baggy green trousers and with a frequent raspy laugh made her debut this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a special invitee more accustomed to entertaining refugees than livening up serious thought-fests. Choucair, a clown and storyteller, has often worked with refugee children in places like the Greek island of Lesbos.


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