School standard as insurance for public risks Alexander Gurin Date of publication: September 12, 2000 From the editor . We begin to discuss the school and university standards, but we give the floor not only to the whales and sharks of reformism, but also to those who suffer pain and joy from their activities - schoolchildren and former schoolchildren, students and parents: direct and indirect victims . Only adults know how and what to teach a child - this is their prerogative.

Candide - Leonida, from Copenhagen I foresee, Leonid, your grin about the desire to get a cheese board. For a real cheese board is intended, strictly speaking, for serving different varieties of cheese - of course, as a dessert. And you know very well that in my hometown I eat one single variety of cheese and not at all for dessert, but for breakfast, with morning coffee. Of course, on my convenient, because I can easily cut the cheese, but I do not serve at all.

What and where to watch Collection Video News Towards the release of the Canadian drama "The Five Senses" and the Korean erotic film "The Lie" In theory, the Canadian "Five Senses" by Jeremy Podeswa and the South Korean "The Lie" by Sung-Woo Young should have opened at the domestic box office at the same time. A beautiful picture was emerging - but it didn’t work out, for reasons more of a technical than ideological nature - “Lies” will appear ten days later.

The gorilla's sign vocabulary is 500 words long. Alex the parrot knows the names of more than a hundred different objects, distinguishes seven colors and five varieties of shape. In addition, Alex can count to six and speaks meaningful phrases. Gorilla Michael loves to listen to Luciano Pavarotti and refuses to go for a walk when his concert is broadcast on TV. Hoku the dolphin was grieving after the death of his fellow dolphin Kiko.

The cover contains a monstrous amount of meaningless information in a few lines. They mention “European intellectuals” - as far as I know, the newest subspecies of humanity, which completely lacks characteristic features - or (at most) it boils down to the fact that an intellectual differs from an ordinary animal in that he not only eats, sleeps and copulates, but also reads different books .

Uncomfortable posture of the conductor The Russian National Orchestra opened the season Mikhail Fikhtengolts Date of publication: September 12, 2000 There was something suspicious about the fact that the Russian National Orchestra was opening its anniversary season with solid hits. In a previous note, I already spoke about this, but I turned out to be wrong, underestimating the conductor’s foresight.

Fresh. Just fresh Andrey Borzenko Date of publication: September 12, 2000 I was too lazy to go there. The hassle at the embassy, ​​documents, fees, tickets, travel... A month away from home, TV and PC. Like any difficult person, I measured it seven times before cutting off all escape routes and deciding: I’m going. And I went. I went to Taizé. Hardly many people know what it is, and I knew very little. I knew that there was such a place in the southeast of France, not far from Lyon.

There are other Muslims Vitaly Portnikov Date of publication: September 12, 2000 On the eve of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Yugoslavia, the arrest of the leader of the Sandzak Coalition, opposition candidate for deputy of the federal parliament, Rasim Ljajic, again attracted the attention of observers to the problems of the future development of Yugoslav statehood.

Russian Magazine / Net-culture / Seine www.russ.ru/netcult/nevod/20000912.html Seine: issue 92 Nastic Gryzunova Date of publication: September 12, 2000 Review of current online events and publications Portion of change On Monday, the public was informed of the death of Bayan Shiryanov . As a consolation, it is suggested not to forget about the existence of Kirill Vorobyov.

Cinema-4: collectible video news Anton Dolin Date of publication: September 12, 2000 False feeling What and where to watch On this page you can learn about Gorbushka's new video releases - not screen copies of new blockbusters, but films released in tiny editions (in the absence of a licensed analogue) of European, Asian and "independent" American cinema, festival films and films of so-called "cult" directors.

What and where to watch Anton Dolin Date of publication: September 11, 2000 False feeling Collection Video News This column does not talk about all new or box-office films, but exclusively about those that, in the opinion of the column’s author, should be seen. In other words, only good or at least interesting films are annotated here. WEEK 11.09-17.09 NEW FILMS: "Five Senses" Lyrical drama, Canadian production.