That's right, the reigning "Sexiest Man Alive" (according to one US magazine) was in Beijing over the weekend trying to persuade unnamed Chinese officials to help put a stop to the ongoing violence in Sudan's Darfur region (China is a major trade partner of Sudan — oil — and has been opposed to forcing UN peacekeepers on the African nation). Clooney is traveling with a posse, let's call them Clooney's Four: Actor Don Cheadle, Kenyan Olympian Tegla Loroupe, American speed skater and Olympic gold medal winner Joey Cheek and David Pressman, a human rights lawyer and former aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Some called this a "secret mission," the low-profile no doubt an effort to stave off the relentless swarms of paparazzi and groupies that tend to follow human rights lawyers like Pressman around. more ›