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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...your start by burying yourself alive in a translucent coffin in 1999. How'd you come up with the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: TIME Talks to David Blaine | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it. Which is really in the tradition of Houdini, who was an escape artist but who was really doing things: training hard, keeping a serious regimen. For the coffin, I read about an Indian fakir who was buried alive for a month. I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. I got a coffin in Brooklyn and I started practicing sleeping in it. I stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: TIME Talks to David Blaine | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...money. Because dotcom companies were throwing money around right, left and center and because we couldn't afford to do that we thought very hard about what we applied our money to. For example, that picture with the two of us and a bookie pretending to be in a coffin, which was very tongue-in-cheek, was the front page of the Sunday Times business section three days before we launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betting on a Market | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...Brown seized the momentum by claiming the decisive doubles point. Comprehensive 8-6 victories at No. 1 and No. 2 consigned Harvard’s doubles aspirations to oblivion; a slender 9-7 Bears win at No. 3 provided the final nail in the coffin...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bulldogs, Bears Serve Crimson Pair of Late-Season Losses | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...southern Iraqi city of Basra. Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites massed in three districts of Baghdad, including Sadr City - the notoriously dangerous slum and stronghold of Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army - to protest the offensive in Basra. One group of demonstrators in Khadamiya district carried a coffin with a photo of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's face and an American flag pasted to the side, as they called for the downfall of Maliki's government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Trembles as Basra Bleeds | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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