<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3486dc79-4da4-40d6-a2fd-604f104f56a3/4C393A9E-169B-404B-A186-EA2A34E8E933/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5370690.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5370690.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5370690.stm"><DIV class="sh"> Cellist named UN peace messenger </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5370690.stm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="416" valign="top"><FONT size="2"> <TABLE width="203" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV> <IMG width="203" vspace="0" hspace="0" height="152" border="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42117000/jpg/_42117628_yoyo_203getty_b.jpg" alt="Yo-Yo%20Ma%20performs%20at%20the%20ceremony" /> <DIV class="cap">Yo-Yo Ma is one of the world's most celebrated cellists</DIV> </DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><B>Virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma has been appointed a messenger of peace by United Nations chief Kofi Annan at a ceremony in New York.</B> </FONT><P> <FONT size="2">The Chinese-American musician joins other peace messengers including Michael Douglas and Luciano Pavarotti. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Peace messengers from the fields of arts, literature, music and sports are chosen to promote the UN's work. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The cellist, 50, trained at the Juilliard school in New York and recorded more than 50 albums. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The appointment was made during a ceremony to mark the International Day of Peace, during which the classical star played for the audience. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">It was the final time Mr Annan would ring the peace bell in the UN's Japanese garden, a major part of the annual service, before he retires at the end of the year. </FONT></P><P> </P><P> <FONT size="2"> </FONT> <BR /><BR clear="all" /> </P><DIV class="mvtb"><TABLE width="416" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD width="213"><A target="Mailer" class="epl" href="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/email/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5370690.stm"> <IMG width="17" vspace="0" hspace="3" height="11" border="0" align="left" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/email.gif" alt="" /> E-mail this to a friend </A></TD><TD width="203"><A target="Printer" class="epl" href="http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5370690.stm"> <IMG width="17" vspace="0" hspace="3" height="11" border="0" align="left" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/print.gif" alt="" /> Printable version </A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV class="mvtb"> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4C393A9E-169B-404B-A186-EA2A34E8E933/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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