Ten films of the current week X Otya is really about American cinema, and not about its best sides, the "American pie" has nothing to do with it.

I now have a scooter. I also have all sorts of books. Some of them are good and some bad. Usually I read quite a few books. This is probably bad. Probably, a person should do some business, for example, to repair bicycles. Or treat dogs. But I don't have a bicycle. And instead of a dog I have a cat, and it does not need to be treated yet. Therefore, I have a lot of time. And I read books. Recently, a strange thing has happened in my life.

Nazaruyu karbovantsev hundred... Igor Galkin Publication date: July 10, 2001 In 1990, as a result of the typical teenage euphoria of our political elite, the institution of presidential power was introduced on Russian soil. Like any teenager, an innocent habit with age can acquire the character of considerable dignity, or perhaps the character of a mental complex that progresses into mania.

Hunger 41 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: July 10, 2001 There are many gaps in my practical knowledge of life. And not all of them are annoying. Well, for example, I have never gone to McDonald's. While I was in the States, during the day I ate for nothing in the university canteen, and in the evenings local Slavists - not the greatest patriots of America - took me to Japanese or Mexican restaurants.

The center cannot hold Terry Eagleton The Guardian All more or less famous English writers were marginal. But each in his own way. The great novelists of the 19th century were on the margins in a social sense: George Eliot was the daughter of a village bailiff, Thomas Hardy was the son of a mason, and Dickens’s own father was a criminal. Jane Austen alone came from a seedy noble family.

Russia needs a "leisure class" Kirill Yakimets Publication date: July 10, 2001 The Russian nobility is a unique social class. Severe state necessity collided with equally harsh natural conditions, resulting in the emancipation of “service people” from the state machine. The nobles, conceived as a class of civil servants, formed a leisure class that unfairly enjoyed the privileges of serfdom . But justice is the consolation of the loser.

Cinema-45: Pie for Men Diary of Bridget Jones (Premiere) . A fashionable film, based on the bestseller of the same name, the "symbol of faith" of modern feminists. Alas, according to the recognition of lovers of the book, the film adaptation was not a success in everything. The heroine is stupid, and the ideas are more primitive - although initially the idea to imagine in the form of a diary the inner world of a modern woman for thirty does not shine with originality.

We are witnessing another bout of debate about the death penalty. We “observe” because the gentlemen making decisions are not too interested in the opinion of the “population”. elegantly put it last year As the chairman of the Duma Committee on Legislation , Pavel Krasheninnikov, , “from a legal point of view, everything is clear, obligations must be fulfilled.

“Let’s try here,” or the Church and modern culture Part one Hieromonk Gregory (V.M. Lurie) Publication date: July 10, 2001 It will be a dark night after long battles. The battleship will burn and go under water. They will sail across the seas on endless waves Peakless caps to distant native shores. A lone sailor failed to drown. He continues to swim to the region where there are many birches. Everyone fell asleep a long time ago, kilometers deep. No one. Nothing. He was left alone.

New Russian nobles Mikhail Tulsky Publication date: July 10, 2001 Before the revolution of 1917 in Russia, out of a population of 170 million, there were 1.3 million hereditary and 0.7 million personal nobles (personal nobility was not inherited). After the revolution, the Polish part of the Russian nobility (and Poles predominated among the nobles of Belarus and part of Ukraine) automatically ended up abroad, and most of the Russian nobles moved even further.

With a nose Sergey Soloukh Publication date: July 10, 2001 Parallel to the big world, in which big people and big things live, there is a small world with small people and small things.