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...Gardena, has an important phone call, he swivels his chair to face the northeastern corner of his office. He has permanently sealed one of his office doors and put all his books in the southeastern corner. It's not tidiness. It's the instructions of "intercultural consultant" Angi Ma Wong, a practitioner of feng shui, the Chinese tradition that says success is largely a matter of orienting your surroundings...
Feng shui has not only arrived; it has burrowed deep into American society. A decade ago, its followers were mostly Asian Americans, New Age junkies and flaky Hollywood or fashion types. Now bureaucrats and bottom-line-driven businessmen are embracing it. Ma Wong's clients include 65 real estate developers as well as Universal Studios and Coty Beauty, the fragrance concern. Real estate tycoon Donald Trump uses feng shui, as does the brokerage house Merrill Lynch...
...time when Eliot residents are coming to expect more from their House website, Wong laments, resources are scarce. "Perhaps this should be a paid position. It has to be more formalized, either in the House, or the University as a whole," Wong says. "Who pays for this? For maintenance? The House? The College...
...Wong's problems are not unique to Eliot...
...some digerati--including Wong--are glad that Houses are given the opportunity to express their personal style on their own websites, without centralized direction...