Clooney Puckers Up for a Cause!

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• Rich lips: George Clooney sells a kiss at an AIDS benefit for $350,000. And it wasn't even to a dude.

• Danger, falling standards: Working Women magazine has named Wal-Mart the "Best Company for Multicultural Women," despite the fact that the pork rinds and hot box-hawking megastore is being sued by two million women for discrimination.

• Sixty-niners: Over the last seven months, the U.S. has welcomed a whopping 69 of the thousands of Iraqis who flee their war-torn country each day.

• Sacre bleu!: Former French president Jacques Chirac will face some tough questions about his no longer secret $40M bank account. He's also losing his legal immunity.

• Nightmare on the Island: A millionaire couple in Long Island have been indicted on federal slavery charges. Strom Thurmond connection to follow.

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