"The Kite Runner"By Khaled Hosseini

Everyone has done something he or she regrets - it's a part of life. Some of those things are minor, some are life-altering . but how often does fate offer a chance to atone for the sins of one's past?

In his first novel, "The Kite Runner," Afghan author Khaled Hosseini shows us that even the most painful of memories and the most unspeakable acts are not beyond redemption.

Around the world child obesity is expected to rise, according to an Associated Press article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Monday. This means that almost half of the children in the United States will be overweight by 2010.While this seems of no consequence to college-aged adults, the article also stated that most children carry obesity problems into adulthood. Obesity in adulthood leads to several chronic diseases, including diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular disease.

Sorority sisterhood means having a family you do not have to love, said an author of The New York Times bestselling book about the secrets of sororities Monday at the Kelly Alumni Center.Alexandra Robbins, author of "Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities," told an audience filled mostly with sorority members that her book is not anti-Greek but just "a fly-on-the-wall look inside sorority life."

When I decided to come to Texas for school, I knew that I would be surrounded by Texans and their overwhelming sense of state pride, and I haven't been wrong.The fact that Texas was its own country and that its citizens can vote every so many years whether they want to stay in the Union are among the many reasons I have been told that Texas is better than my state.

And I will admit that there is a lot of reasons that Texans should be proud.

When John Townes Van Zandt walked into the theater at the Museum of Modern Art Friday, all eyes were magnetically drawn to the lanky man on the stage, nearly indistinguishable in appearance from his legendary father.Van Zandt's father, Fort Worth-born songwriter Townes Van Zandt, is the subject of director Margaret Brown's new documentary "Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt."

The film follows Van Zandt from his well-to-do birth in south Fort Worth, through his long recording career, and finally to his death of heart failure in 1997.

While most country legends are either dead or recording with Rick Rubin, Bobby Bare has returned with a collection of songs that's easily better than anything else out of Nashville this year.Bare first grabbed the spotlight with tunes like the Grammy-winning "Detroit City," and in 1973, with a collection of tunes penned by Playboy cartoonist-turned-children's author, Shel Silverstein, called "Bobby Bare Sings Lullabies, Legends, and Lies." A maverick in the early '60s Nashville scene, Bare sang quirky songs with snappy countrypolitan arrangements, making him something of a bohemian Eddy Arn

Imagine waking up day after day, looking in the mirror and seeing a person who is not like everyone else for the simple reason that he or she does not have any hair.In a world so consumed with outward appearance and model and movie star-quality beauty, a child suffering from medical hair loss is like a small fish trying to survive in shark-infested waters.

But there is hope and a way of helping. Locks of Love is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children 18 years old or younger suffering from long-term medical hair loss.

With a starting staff that racked up 38 strikeouts against Florida Atlantic this weekend, TCU head baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle is justifiably confident in his top three pitchers. Now he's just looking for one more.

"The challenge now is we got to find that fourth guy," Schlossnagle said. "I'll match our starting pitching up with anybody in the country."

He'll send senior right-hander Shawn Ferguson to the mound tonight with an eye on solidifying that final spot in the rotation against the Oklahoma Sooners.