Word: seers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During a year away from Harvard, Lamba, having just finished her first year, visited the seer in her birthplace who had counseled her mother 20 years earlier...
Lamba says the experience convinced her that medicine is "the noblest profession," and after listening to the seer, she knew even more assuredly that it was the right path...
Proud came my chieftains-- the stalwart Gore, the tiny Reich, wealth-sated Rubin--and took their seats around the counsel table-- Heavy-laden with soft drinks and those butter cookies the White House kitchen does so well-- that we might implore the all-knowing seer Dick Morris to divine for us what sacrifice--of cattle, oxen or welfare babies-- Might best propitiate the god of polls and focus groups, lighthearted Hermes, ruler of nations...
...dinner last week, one of my house tutors read my palm. Paul Ma-chemistry tutor, volleyball player and seer extraordinaire--recently took a course at MIT on the "science" of palmistry; his reading was therefore perhaps more authentic (if the word applies at all) than that of a woman outside Faneuil Hall last summer, who told me that I would be married and pregnant by the end of my 18th year. And he was perhaps little less authentic than the New Delhi mendicant who five year ago divulged that I would earn royal honors for my humanitarian work...
...future for Diana only in good deeds, however, is to ignore her other genius: the ability to surprise. Only a beclouded seer would limit her future to charitable work or any other single strand of activity. As she adjusts to the single life, she may explore options, possibly even commercial ones. Who knows--in health, fashion or, like Jackie Onassis, in publishing? Diana's siren song is, Stay Tuned...