Word: habana
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...sense South Africa's springboks may fulfil their promise gloriously in this year's Rugby World Cup. At the Parc des Princes in Paris on Sept. 9, they trounced Samoa by the withering score of 59-7. Their star black player, Bryan Habana, scored four tries, fueling hopes that the team might triumph over England on Sept. 14 and ultimately make it to the final...
...trabajo?, dice Seinuk, ?siempre ha estado relacionado con ampliar el horizonte?. Cuando lleg? a Estados Unidos proveniente de Cuba, justo despu?s que Castro tomara el poder, Seinuk tra?a un poco m?s de $20 en su bolsillo, "mi regla de dibujo y mi diploma de la universidad de La Habana?. Los recuerdos de aquellos d?as lo mantienen comprometido con las m?s diversas causas en su ciudad adoptiva de Nueva York y en otros lugares, desde investigaci?n sobre la par?lisis cerebral hasta esfuerzos en la pol?tica entre Cuba y Estados Unidos. "Llegu? a un pa?s que me ha dado la bienvenida?, dice...
...surprised last week to see a photo of the Majority Leader smoking one of Cuba's best-a Hoyo de Monterrey double corona, which generally costs about $25 when purchased overseas and is not available in this country. The cigar's label clearly states that it was made in "Habana." The photo was taken in Jerusalem on July 28, 2003, during a meeting between DeLay and the Republican Jewish Coalition at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem...
...Inspired in part by the music they made, I put my fledgling career as a jazz saxophonist on hold and headed with my girlfriend to experience Havana firsthand. Before long I was playing with El Septeto Tipico de la Habana, a talented and remarkably underpaid group of musicians who played weeknights at la Casa de Amistad (The House of Friendship). The casa was a mansion that had been nationalized to become a cultural institute and was now hosting Puerto Rican socialists on solidarity junkets, Cuban black marketeers and bureaucrats, and the occasional stray tourist...
...Habana Vieja, an architectural treasury of crumbling Spanish colonial mansions and palaces, is all anyone needs to fill half a day and requires only comfortable shoes and a wad of George Washingtons. While no one openly begs here and Cubans are almost universally polite, they're also hungry. If you ask directions or take a picture of an old woman in flowered headdress smoking a cigar, be prepared to fork over a dollar...