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| Angelina Jolie in Washington |
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Wednesday, Hollywood Star Angelina Jolie put in a full day's work in her role as a United Nations goodwill ambassador in Washington. After attending a Congressional briefing organized by the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Jolie joined Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) at the Kennedy Center, where the three were speakers at the coalition's benefit dinner, which raised $1.3 million.
Jolie, who occasionally took notes during the session, noted that her newly adopted daughter is an AIDS orphan, and told the group that she was there "to learn more about what I can do. I'm really trying to understand what we've done and haven't done and why."
Afterwards, she told PEOPLE that what most impressed her about the two-hour meeting was "how honest everybody was. ... I was really excited about the idea of working on a vaccine and how close they were and the chances of that. At the end of the day, this has been a wonderful event to learn so many things."
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