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It's tough for some celebrity activists to be taken seriously and particularly tough when they are comedians best known for goofy expressions. But Jim Carrey couldn't have been more straight-faced at a press conference in New York City when he urged the U.N. Security Council to ban arms shipments to Burma, where the government crackdown is anything but funny.

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