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...understandable that Carolyn Hax, who writes "Tell Me About It," a syndicated Washington Post advice column for people under 30, has become the rage among readers within and well beyond that age group. Faced with the immemorial conundrums of love gone awry or astray, friendships and families come undone or the regular frustrations of living in a world with other people in it, Hax manages to offer advice that is simple, bracing and smart. To a displaced Alabaman letter writer tired of jokes deprecating the South, she recommends a laugh followed by the remark: "A redneck joke--how unique...
...Hax is a master of the art of telling it like it is. For instance: "Sometimes a guy prefers a couchful of football to spending the day out with you. Is that always so wrong?" Unlike Dr. Laura, Hax is only mean when it's absolutely necessary, but then it can be delicious. When an 18-year-old writes that her ex-boyfriend has taken up with some "slut," Hax fires back a lesson about name calling: "I'd go to the beach, but I have to answer some slut who wants my advice. Like how that felt? ... Accept that...
...think of myself as a Radcliffe student, and I don't take advantage of Radcliffe," says Carolyn H. Hax '88. She, like many other female undergraduates, says she feels that associating with the all-women Radcliffe community is somehow an admission of weakness or inferiority in the overall Harvard community...
...hitting six different life-sized targets in the two-second finals, Major Renzo Morigi of the Fascist militia won the pistol shooting championship for Italy, with Heinrich Hax of Germany second...