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...pretty good at it. In the years since Hax left Harvard she has become the new Anne Landers to a society colored by “Sex and the City.” Americans under 30 are increasingly turning to the Harvard alum and heralded advice columnist for all of their love, family and other needs...
Time Magazine recently named Hax the best advice columnist in the country for her successful Washington Post column, “Tell Me About It.” Since she started in the advice business four years ago, Hax has developed a vast following of confused gen-Xers across the nation who read her syndicated column or catch her online chat sessions. Hax’s wisdom has become so popular she recently published a book, Tell Me About It: Lying, Sulking, Getting Fat and 56 Other Things Not To Do While Looking for Love...
...career in law, but her knack for grammar landed her a job in journalism. Soon she was editing for The Army Times, the media outlet for the armed forces. That led to a gig news editing at The Washington Post. There, while casually talking to superior about an advice columnist who neither of them liked, Hax blurted out, “What you really need is a snotty 30-year-old writing the column.” They both turned to each other and inspiration struck. “It was just one of those moments...
...international news scene five years ago, Western journalists were quick to sing its praises. “Al-Jazeera is not only the biggest media phenomenon to hit the Arab world since the advent of television, it is the biggest political phenomenon,” wrote New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last February, marking what was probably the first time Friedman said something positive about Arabs or the Arab world. Both CNN and ABC have signed deals with Al-Jazeera, giving them rights to re-broadcast al-Jazeera footage. CNN has even secured the rights to interview al-Jazeera...
This year, he will receive the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden. The award has sometimes been called the “Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.” Avnery currently serves as a columnist for Ma-ariv, Israel’s second largest newspaper...