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! 1 W i Sponsored by: MSC OPAS Three Decades of Performing Arts Friday & Saturday Nights! January 24 & 25 at 7:30 PM Rudder Auditorium Call 845-1234 or logon to www.MSCOPAS.org STUDENT TICKETS AS LOW AS $31 LAST CHANCE TO WIN $1,000 The Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship BUSINESS IDEA COMPETITION Open to all Texas A&M University Students 20 IDEAS WILL WIN $1,000 CASH Applications Must be Submitted by February 7 mgmt. tamu. edu/cnve/ideas Thanks to our Sponsors The F O U N D A T I D N OFF ON 4 Friday, January 24, 2003 AGGIE LIFI NATION THE BATTALIO THE BATT^ "Confessions of a Shopaholic: A Novel" Sophia Kinsella Random House With her credit cards at their max and her bank accounts sitting on empty, 20-something Becky Bloomwood is super trendy, possesses the season’s hottest fashions, lives in a hip flat in the heart of London and is always buying her friends the most fabulous gifts. Offered a large line of credit from a London bank soon after graduating from college, Becky realizes that shopping can be quite addictive and at times rather therapeutic. Ironically, Bloomwood works for a financial magazine writing articles about topics that not only does she not like, but she actually doesn’t really understand. If she is down about a relationship gone badly or a Visa bill she can't pay, a great new coat, cashmere sweater, pointy-toed pair of boots and some monogrammed luggage is sure to ease her worries. Or does it? Any woman who has irrationally purchased some fabulous shirt or new pair of shoes can relate well to Becky. Unlike Becky, however, most women usually realize they can neither afford the purchase, nor do they have anything to wear with it. In fact, it may be helpful to look up the exchange rate for dollars and pounds to comprehend just how much Becky is really spending. Sophie Kinsella, through her fictional char acter Becky, will make readers want to manage their money better and help this poor girl man age hers as well. There are 310 pages of Becky dodging lenders and becoming friends with her banker in the most hilarious of ways. “Confessions of a Shopaholic” is laugh-out-loud funny and has a delightful British twist. In short, this is a novel that will leave readers begging for more. / 1 t f —Laura Young "Getting Over It" Anna Maxted Harper Collins “Getting over it” can be difficult for anybod including Helen Bradshaw. “Getting Over It.” h Anna Maxted. takes a look at the life of Hek who, by her standards, is not living a dreami A lowly job as an assistant editor of a teen map zine, a cat with bowel troubles and a less-tb perfect love life are just the beginning of Helen problems. When a phone call breaks the news tin her father has died of a massive heart attad doesn't look like things could get any worsefu Helen. With her father gone, things are turns upside down as her mother attempts suicide ar; Helen is left with the weight of the loss. Butw: the bad comes the good, as Helen approache'. new phase in her life as well as a chance at love Maxted introduces a character that is note: interesting, but also someone any woman in he 20s can relate to. Taking place in Lond.- “Getting Over It” has the making of anode “Bridget Jones’ Diary,” but w ith a darker skk Helen, just like Bridget Jones, has her quid which give the story its humorous side. Butthre< in the death of her father and a best friend caup in an abusive love triangle “Getting Over It”ci also be intriguing, as well as addictive. “Getting Over It” is a great read with mar implausible situations. Helen can’t seem to get' together, but that is what makes the story so belio able. Helen is a young woman who just hast! found what she is looking for in life, which is prob ably something any young woman can relate to. n n -Kelcey Rmc JFAIH J /II N XJ /%L IL Y W E H IS JE M*. 1) 1 TST«i 7-El even Albertson's Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. Blockbuster Inc. Bridgestone/Firestone The Container Store Crate & Barrel Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foley’s Garden Ridge H-E-B Helzberg Diamonds IKEA JCPenney Kohl's Department Stores Kroger Food Stores Mervyn's Neiman Marcus Office Depot PETsMART Sam's Club Sears, Roebuck & Co. Target Stores Walgreen Co. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Zale Corporation ALL MAJORS Welcome For more information: www.crstamu.org Mel evei OAK BRO McDonald’s ( first quarterly Thursday — a back in the la 2002. The loss and write-offs the burger giai dented slump consumer we food, a crowd' ket and its o\ service. McDonald’ 1955 and has 1 ed since 1965. 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