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...happened in a delivery room in Palm Beach, Florida: DONALD TRUMP'S transformation from a self-promoting symbol of '80s excess to a self-promoting symbol of '90s sensitivity. The financially straitened mogul stood by his girlfriend MARLA MAPLES' side throughout the birth of their love child, Tiffany Ariana.He even cut the umbilical cord. Twenty minutes later he was on the phone with reporters talking about the baby...
...with a sign that says PSYCHIC READING AND PALMISTRY, has been watching me each day as I walk past her to the subway in this Brooklyn neighborhood. When I finally stop at her table, she tightens her head scarf and gives me a big smile. "How much for a palm reading?" I ask. "We will talk about money later, darling," she says, grabbing my hand with delight. Behind her is a shop full of Indian paraphernalia - a Ganesha idol, incense sticks and OM signs, along with Tibetan scrolls of the Buddha. It strikes me that an American psychic...
...entering a difficult period in your relationships," she says, looking at my palm. "Why?" I ask, and she points to a line on my hand: "Your love line is weak in the period ahead." "That, in India, is the destiny line," I say. "It's the love line, darling." "Are you arguing with someone from India? It's the destiny line." Only then does Julia look up and realize: this is one trouble-making Indian she's got in front...
...coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city. From their center in the East Village, where there are more places to have your palm read than to check your e-mail, they have radiated all over New York, which teems with "Eastern" medicinal and future-telling establishments of every kind, ranging from the dubious (reiki, scented-candle therapy, acupuncture) to the bogus (palmistry, psychic reading.) Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer...
...dresser" (a role in which his tasks included wiping sweat from her sometimes-naked body) and later as her designer. But mostly, by his telling, he functioned as her doormat. And, occasionally, her garbage can (one of his chores was allowing his sister to spit cough drops into his palm). "I find no excuse for Madonna's grossly unfair treatment of me," he acknowledges. She jilts him repeatedly - summoning him to New York and then reneging on her offer of a place to stay, or forcing him to eat half the cost of a set of paintings he purchased...