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...found herself caught in a downpour with her arms full of parcels and her umbrella blown out. Suddenly a man appeared from behind her and offered to share his umbrella. It was Clooney. He was by himself (no minders) and as soon as he heard her Australian accent, said how much he liked it Down Under. While he escorted her back to her hotel, she had quite a good conversation with him. She told us he was just a regular, really nice guy. Sue Barrell, Brisbane, Queensland...
...country, empowering women and peasants, providing micro-credit loans to farmers, and delivering drinking water and latrines to the rural poor. Today, many live simple lives eating rice and beans for breakfast, speaking a Spanish that drops the s at the end of words, a signature of a Nicaraguan accent. A group of several dozen of them gather each week to discuss social justice issues at the Casa Ben Linder, the Managua meeting house named after the only U.S. citizen killed by contras in the 1980s...
Best way for a guy to get your attention: Get a passport and pick up an accent...
...Before a reporter, Connolly speaks like a suave, practiced politician, the descendant of a well-connected political family. But once the interview is done, Connolly’s Boston accent slips out, a reminder of his roots and love for the area...
...place at 4:30 on the afternoon of February 10, while 15 visitors strolled around three floors of the vine-covered villa, which houses one of the world's most impressive private collections of European art. The masked thieves, including one who witnesses said spoke German with a Slavic accent, ordered the museum staff at gunpoint to lie down on the floor. They then stripped the wall of the downstairs salon of four paintings, estimated at $160 million. The heist took less than three minutes and nobody was hurt...