Many foreign tourists stay in that hotel so every morning from five o' clock, I would read English in front of the hotel and a lot of foreign visitors from USA, from Europe, they came.

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Cut to four years later and Batista, 41, is sitting in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in New York City looking through a presentation, in English, his dark hair combed back and wearing an expensive suit, a tightly knotted red tie and dress leather shoes.

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He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

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The hotel is a converted English-style mansion, initially built in 1932 as a family home for toffee tycoon Sir David Duncan.

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