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Recommended for self and his KatherineChelsey for readers lookdotted past - he has dated ing for something Gensel 19 girls, all who were named Katherine. amusing and different or as a study The ingenuity and break. It will disfun in the book comes not tract and entertain from the storyline, although without coming it is laugh-out-loud funny across as mindless. and has some poignant Grade B+ The second of "An Abundance of moments that any good three published YA novel needs, but from Katherines" novels by bestsellthe math and word games ing young adult - what Colin thinks defines (YA) author John Green turns the him - woven into the story in various traditional bildungsroman (comingconversations, memories and even of-age) on its head, offering a raw, footnotes. Daniel Biss, mathematimatter-of-fact perspective in the form cian and friend of Green, contributes of washed-up child prodigy Colin all the math (don't worry, it's not Singleton. essential to the plot that you underIn "An Abundance of Katherines," stand the math; I know I didn't) in the Colin is a whiz at math, word games form of footnotes as Colin attempts and memorization and was even feato align love and relationships into a tured on the book's fictional Kid's TV mathematical theorem. He thinks discovering the key to this theorem will game show, but now that he has been freshly cut off from high school and put him in the footnotes of history as his longtime girlfriend, Katherine, he something more than a burnout and takes on the summer with an aim to solve his Katherine problem. make himself meaningful. Green also includes some handy Colin and his trusty - but not entire- historical footnotes that add color ly archetypal - sidekick Hassan take and context to the boy's journey to the road, where the book begins across the country. to meander between Colin's search Published in 2006, "An Abundance Book Review of Katherines" was a runner-up for the Printz Award in young adult literature, as well as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults in 2007. The paperback is available in a special edition for $3.99. If you'd like to suggest a book for Chelsey Gensel to review she can be reached at pulcre.puella@gmail.com an (abundance) of) katherines PRINZ AWARD. WINNING AUTHOR OF LOOKING FOR ALASKA john green Goodness is contagious Check out Forest Gate & University Pines Apartments $1475 Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 Answers n ExperCom AggieLife Page 6 — Solution time: 25 mins. m Answers To Today's Crossword Puzzle! King Crossword — hy do people do nice things for other people? I remember once having a scintillating conversation with a former roommate about why people are good. What possesses a person to do good? Is there always an ulterior motive? Do people only do good to suck up to authorities? Do people only do good to receive the praise of others? Do people only do good to feel happy inside? Is it possible to do good and be good for the sake of goodness alone, without caring about the consequences? What does good even mean? Can good be W for Spring Semester nO • Fully Furnished • Utilities Included • Private Bedrooms • Great Parking & Location • Wireless Internet & TV 454 N 400 E forestgatemanagers@live.com 435-752-1516 Receive $100 off rent if you sign up for next school year by 02/07/10! 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At the risk of sounding pathetically sappy, even though the weather was atrociously wet and windy, I was warm and fuzzy inside. Logan equaled a weirdish bubble of comfort. Many Fridays ago, as I walked across campus with a friend, a random guy smiled a bright toothy one at me and enthusiastically complimented my jacket. And glasses. And galoshes. And cheekbones. He was wildly over the top, causing me to goofishly grin in return and thank him for his verbal barrage of staggering niceness. But then I noticed the badge on his shirt, which read: Free Compliments. This student was mindlessly strewing and spewing compliments to anyone and everyone in his line of vision. As soon as he was done with me, he moved onto my friend's shorts. After he was done with her, he called out to another passing student's remarkable eyes. Somehow my compliments seemed diminished, knowing that he was giving away these pearly comments to anyone and everyone. But then again, I have since decided that anyone who chooses to spend his time in a stationary spot on a busy sidewalk on a Friday afternoon to add more smiles into the world is to be plainly and purely admired. His actions were genuinely generating sincere smiles from the hordes of students gloomily traveling from class to class. He was ridiculous and he was excessive, but he rocked my socks off and changed my so-so day into one that was extraordinary. Nice words can do wonders for a person suffering from the pits. Let me warm your heart with a fuzzy story. I like to call this story: The Pizza That Just Keeps Giving. It goes like this. Just outside of the LDS Institute building, pizza was being sold for lunch. Two slices of pizza could be purchased for a buck. Not shabby. And when my friend and I chipped in some more quarters to buy an additional pair, I was informed that they were selling entire pizzas for a dollar to get rid of the blasted things. For the love of everything good and holy, I bought an entire pizza. After my friend and I ate as much as we could, we still had about half a pizza left. I decided I would save it for dinner that night. But as I rode my bicycle off toward the Writing Lab, I decided that my good fortune ought to be shared with someone less fortunate. I sighted a student that looked like he could use a hearty lunch and relinquished my half-pizza to his possession. He was corn- pletely taken aback by the unexpected offering of food. I felt happy, he felt happy, and I swear I could hear cheery blue birds singing "Zippity Doo Dah" in the heavens above. Man, the high one gets from giving is magnificent. I parked my bike by the Writing Lab and started working on my desperately due assignment, whistling all the while, when lo and behold, the lucky victim of my pizza approached me with a jolly "hello." He told me that he ate my pizza, and after he ate my pizza, he bought another pizza for a dollar and proceeded to give it to another stranger. Doesn't that make you smile? Doesn't it make you want to believe that a whole domino chain of pizza was bought and shared? (No pun intended.) Doesn't this instance give you hope in the goodness of mankind? But, sure, so what, big whoop. It's relatively easy to be good to strangers. The great paradox of human nature is that it is not so easy to be good to the people that are closest to us -- the ones we supposedly love the most. It's plumb difficult. We are always hardest on those we know and love most. And this is my cue to burst into maudlin song: "What the world needs now, is love sweet love; it's the only thing that there's just too little of ..." Melissa Condie is a senior majoring in music education. Her column will appear here weekly. Contact her at m.condie@ aggiemaiL usu.edu Witness payoffs alleged in Northwestern investigation By GEORGIA GARVEY chicago tribune (M CT) CHICAGO - Two witnesses in an investigation by Northwestern University journalism students 435.753.4870 • 45 North Main (Next to Persian Peacock & across from Tabernacle) told investigators they were paid, prosecutors alleged Tuesday. The witnesses, Tony Drakes and Michael Lane, told investigators with the state's attorney's office that they were given money in the hopes that their statements that would help free Anthony McKinney, convicted of the shotgun-slaying of a guard in 1982, prosecutors said in court filings Tuesday. "This evidence shows that Tony Drakes gave his video statement upon the understanding that he would receive cash if he gave the answers that inculpated himself and that Drakes promptly used the money to purchase crack cocaine," the filing reads. Professor David Protess of the university's Medill School of Journalism called the latest filing by the state "so filled with factual errors that if my students had done this kind of reporting or investigating, I would have given them an F." Protess, director of the Innocence Project, acknowledged cab fare was paid but denied it was in exchange for Drakes' statement implicating himself in the killing. In Lane's case, Protess said he could not discuss any off-the-record interviews, even to refute their existence. The document also argues the students acted as investigators, not reporters, and as such aren't afforded protection from turning over their notes or off-the-record interviews. The court filings Tuesday were part of a series of hearings aimed at determining whether or not Northwestern will have to give the Cook County state's attorney's office material like students' grades and off-the-record interviews. The students' efforts have won a new day in court for McKinney of Harvey, Ill., and prosecutors say they are seeking the information in preparation for that event. |