– A leading Kazakh writer has nominated actor Sacha Baron Cohen for a national award for popularizing Kazakhstan. Novelist Sapabek Asip called on the Kazakh Club of Art Patrons to give Cohen its annual award, according to a letter published by the Vremya newspaper this week. Cohen’s fictional Kazakh character, Borat, “has managed to spark an immense interest of the whole world in Kazakhstan–something our authorities could not do,” Asip wrote.
– Shackled to a spinning gyroscope and hovering 40 feet above Times Square, magician David Blaine managed to free himself Thursday about 2:15 p.m., bringing an end to his latest stunt. A dehydrated and weakened Blaine, who had been inside the gyroscope for 52 hours, jumped to a wooden platform.
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