The Examiner Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin December 15, 2006 06:01 PM

President Bush was upstaged Thursday by an American actor-cum-African tribal chief.

The president and Mrs. Bush participated in the White House Summit on malaria, but the talk was all about the emcee -- Isaiah Washington, one of the stars of the immensely popular ABC drama "Grey's Anatomy." The actor's connection to Africa, where malaria is particularly devastating, is beyond reproach: Visiting his relatives on the continent earlier this year, he was inducted into the Mende tribe as a tribal chief.

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