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...Back in law school, people always said he was a formal guy,” he says. “There is still the formality—he’s a gentleman’s gentleman and traditional. But he’s more politically adept.” Scherer says this latter quality has become apparent in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings this week...
...This southern city is rapidly becoming the wealthy, cosmopolitan face of India (even if the infrastructure and road system struggle to cope) and is blessed with scores of decent restaurants as a result, from swanky gourmet venues to trendy holes-in-the-wall. Its upwardly-mobile population is also adept at sniffing out good food and value?something that makes many restaurateurs use Bangalore as a testing ground for new concepts...
...This southern city is rapidly becoming the wealthy, cosmopolitan face of India (even if the infrastructure and road system struggle to cope) and is blessed with scores of decent restaurants as a result, from swanky gourmet venues to trendy holes-in-the-wall. Its upwardly-mobile population is also adept at sniffing out good food and value - something that makes many restaurateurs use Bangalore as a testing ground for new concepts. One such prototype is Infini-tea, tel: (91-80) 5114 8810, a restaurant-cum-tea room marketed as the first of its kind in India. Gaurav Saria, the chef...
...Burling's coterie of young surfers expanded and diversified - it took in numerous girls, for one thing - and in 1994 the Australian established the Tonga Surfriders Association, which now boasts more than 30 active members. As a surfer, Burling lacked champion qualities, but he was technically sound and adept at imparting what he knew about staying on a wave to these wide-eyed pioneers. "I don't know what I've done right, but I've just explained simple technique and the kids have taken it from there," says Burling. "With video, too, it's great these days...
Bruce Hoffman, a Rand Corp. analyst, warns against dismissing such adherents as "kooks or country bumpkins. These people are very adept at using weapons and explosives." The movement would be more dangerous, he says, if an effective leader were to arise. J. Gordon Melton, of Santa Barbara, Calif., an expert on marginal U.S. religions, agrees. "It's not a huge movement, and it's a fairly disorganized movement," he says. "But it doesn't take that many people with guns to do the damage." --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Barbara Dolan/Chicago and Mary Wormley/Los Angeles