My birthday happened to me, and naturally, they gave me all kinds of different books - and purely serious, in a fist with thickness, and simply unusual and funny, that is, almost non -classified. It happens that you read this and try to understand: is it a joke and the author is foolish here or the author is mortally serious, although more than one venerable stereotype destroys me along the way?

Sleepy mind Old and new. Issue 22 Sergey Kuznetsov Publication date: August 14, 2003 Before starting this article, I must make an official statement. Since I have already given explanations on this topic five times, I considered it my duty to do it once and for all. My readers know me as a fairly honest person. When I'm wrong, I admit it honestly.

"Cultural man" and the technique of salvation Isaac Rozovsky Publication date: August 14, 2003 In the materials that served as the basis for this discussion , we proposed one of the possible technologies for combating suicide terrorists. To launch this technology, several conditions are required. One of them is the recognition of a suicide bomber and his inspirers (a “human projectile” in our terminology) as an unconventional weapon.

Another fun evening with Joe From moralizing conversations Publication date: August 14, 2003 The Edinburgh Fringe, the festival that accompanies and “envelops” the Edinburgh Theater Festival itself, got off to a scandalous start this year: 22-year-old James Stevens, a Cambridge graduate, staged his own musical about Stalin, An Evening with Joe .

Motives we don't know Alexander Gurin Publication date: August 14, 2003 In the soul of almost every first-year neophyte there lives the hope that after finishing the five-year race for knowledge, he will work in his specialty. Optimism decreases from session to session, and somewhere in the middle of training, what psychologists call a third-year crisis occurs.

Georgian-Abkhaz deadlock Sergey Markedonov Publication date: August 14, 2003 On August 14, 1992, one of the most acute interethnic conflicts in the Caucasus - the Georgian-Abkhazian - resulted in a full-scale war that lasted 14 months. The Georgian-Abkhaz confrontation took place in parallel with the civil war in Yugoslavia. Analysts have the opportunity not only for comparative analysis, but also for borrowing words and phrases from a very specific vocabulary of interethnic confrontations.