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...award for Best Acceptance Speech goes, ex aequo, to two Cambridge grads. Baron Cohen simultaneously raised the bar for gross-out verbal art and the hackles of NBC censors when he said that, in making Borat, "I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America... I refer of course to the anus and testicles of my costar Ken Davitian. Ken, when I was in that scene and I... saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, I better win a bloody award for this." He then described, in awesome olfactory detail...
...suit local ingredients. If this isn't sensory stimulation enough, floor-to-ceiling windows offer sweeping views of the Hong Kong island skyline and Victoria Harbour - a body of water that has partially inspired the interior design. Over 7,000 black river stones cascade around a driftwood-style bar, and ripples run across the terrazzo flooring at the restaurant's entrance. Reservations can be made on tel: (852) 2313 2323, which is also the number to dial for Spoon. Torn? You could always flip a coin...
...Dilo, a beer bar where Ostravak's pals ran up his cellphone credit while he was in the men's room, I guzzled lager with a man who, by his own account is a communist-era spy turned post-communist shady dealer and private eye. "You're looking for Ostravak? I know him," he nodded knowingly before he shook his head. "You reporters have no clue...
...volunteered he studied spying with ?Volodya? Putin (an affectionate nickname for the Russian President who earned his stripes in the KGB) and Sasha Lebed (another prominent Russian politician) in the old Soviet days, leaned over to give me the plot. Ostravak is a drinking buddy of his from another bar, a real writer who pens the diary based on stories he hears in pubs. "I promised not to tell his name. I give you some hints, or even better I'll arrange for you to meet...
...That explanation will eventually come out, most probably at his State Bar hearing in May, but for many people, a mere explanation won't be enough to repair the damage they believe he's done to this city, to this university and to its students. "This whole time, it just seemed a little ridiculous that he was pushing on with a case with so little evidence," says senior Alexander Danielides. "But I'm not surprised [that he's removing himself from the case.] I think it's something that should have happened a long time ago. And I think...