Topic of the meeting (from 11/19/03): New political division √ before and after the elections Lately there has been a lot of talk about the struggle between various factions in the administration, the results of which supposedly determine the political agenda, while, intentionally or not, losing sight of the most important factor - the president.

Do we need charisma in school? Konstantin Polivanov Publication date: December 3, 2003 Articles and materials concerning issues of school education, its modernization, priorities and problems, not to mention endless discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of the Unified State Exam, appear today in all publications with enviable consistency.

In essence, we have before us a fascinating detective story ” once formulated by Descartes that tells how the “ cogito ergo sum led people to the modern crisis of rationalism and to the alienation of man from the world he created. This is a dramatic story, the main character of which - Mrs. Reason 1 - begins with parricide, and then, after a three-century period of hope and disappointment, comes to an understanding of her own powerlessness and, ultimately, to suicide. But first things first.

First Dmitry Desyateryk Publication date: December 3, 2003 This news, of course, is top-notch, regardless of its details: the Museum of Modern Art is opening in Kiev. What had been discussed for many years as highly desirable, but unlikely, began to take on the parameters of what actually exists. Recently, at the Kiev Central House of Artists, the exhibition “First Collection” was presented, which should become the basis for the future museum collection.

From the steppe to the Internet - one click Victor Zakharchenko Publication date: December 3, 2003 Few countries in the world officially celebrate Internet Day. Most often, it becomes the initiative of a group of enthusiasts who celebrate their holiday without much fanfare. Sometimes they manage to find a sponsor who, for the sake of advertising, is willing to allocate money for holding a “national” holiday. Such “red days” do not stay on the calendar for long.

Interpretation of life Yuri Revich Publication date: December 3, 2003 When computers appeared (even the first ones, relay-lamp ones, which consumed hundreds of kilowatts and were scheduled to fail every 8-16 hours), humanity was confused. It still, for more than fifty years, has not been able to come up with an established name for a new direction of activity of intelligent life - it was “cybernetics”, then “computer science”, then “applied mathematics”... D.A.

Even a modest experience of zapping foreign news TV channels and scrolling through the Internet pages of foreign press gives rise to a feeling of fictitiousness of what is happening, as modern pop philosophy discusses. The metaphor of the matrix and the ephemerality of the surrounding reality has become fashionable and prevalent in political analytics, which finds it extremely relevant especially when describing the current Russian elections.

The same historical exhibition by the will of chance was opened at the time, to put it mildly, very updating its subject. However, here any time in time with the actions of the General Prosecutor's Office is random. The exhibition of this kind cannot be implemented quickly, it is planned and prepared somewhere in a year and requires a considerable intellectual contribution. In this case, this contribution is obvious, and the exhibition was clearly clearly a success.