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The oldest section of Havana is the city’s most spectacular, even if restoration work and gleaming coats of pastel colonial colors (plus a stern police presence on every corner) are leaving parts of it with a slightly more sanitized feel than the weathered working class neighborhoods that extend along the water and inland.
A culture so stern would drive most people into the tie-dyed bosom of salesman, even if he didn't look like Viggo Mortensen.
They even play melodies from loudspeakers just as Celebration did until the influence of Michael and Jane Eisner and Robert A.M. Stern put a stop to it.
Besides, the British have Paddington Bear and the Yanks created the stern Smokey (a suitable symbol of American authoritarianism).
The National Basketball Association is back in business . NBA Commissioner David Stern, representing the owners, and union chief Billy Hunter, representing the players, struck a deal one day before the league was expected to cancel the rest of the season.