On the evening of January 31, 1998, two hundred professors and graduate students gathered at the University of California, Santa Cruz to discuss an alarming news. “The ghost wanders around the desert of American intellectual life,” the host announced, “the ghost of left -wing conservatism.” The conference, to which such authorities as Judith Batler, Wandy Brown, Jonathan Arak and Paul A.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has repeatedly stated, at least since July 2005, that he is opposed to holding a gay pride parade in the Russian capital. I was perplexed how it was possible to ban its holding without violating the federal law “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets” No. 54-FZ of June 19, 2004 .

The "caricature scandal" in ominous-punitive form put two opposition for display. On the one hand, the scandal was launched "with two hands" - the rabid Islamic fundamentalists with barbaric rage responded to a provocation, taught by the "book people" of the West. Somehow our Russian, Russian, the answer to the "caricature question" looked completely different.

By the way about introverts: they are not talking. Noticeable? From LJ introvert. If you are bothering you, the noise and abundance of mobile phones in the world around you. If you do not understand the charms of Chinese rituals of courtship of a different sex, the pleasure of talking about the weather and the tendency to take pictures against the backdrop of cathedrals with a happy smile on your face ...

Not so long ago, a declassified report of the IRAQI Perspectives Project (created by the United Stolk Armed Forces) can hardly recall a scientific study, although it was conceived by this. Rather, it is more appropriate to talk about a pre -prepared necrogue for a person who, as claimed, did not allow America to sleep calmly - that is, of course, for Saddam Hussein.

It would be nice to formalize near political processes. Transfer them to the level of market tests, say, in the genre of Forex certificates. There are also full of different parameters - technical, all sorts of numbers, semantic, etc. In political science, factors are changing in a completely market way, just as diverse: the number of new houses in the USA is important, then information about six birds of bird flu somewhere in Asia, then someone's ambiguous statement.

Kronos Quartet Different composers formulate their creative tasks differently. Opinions are hesitated in the range from “invent” (extract from their own (under) consciousness) to “hear” (extract the existing from the world). Modern music in self -description is inclined to the second option (and how it really happens, it is not for us to judge and the secret of this is great).

A group of right -wing “declaums” 1 , possibly spurred by fear of bird flu, made a disappointing diagnosis to France: this country is an organism, which is on the verge of life and death and in need of urgent treatment. Recent events only strengthened pessimism: confirming the impression that all our public institutions are in limbo, they forced us to believe that the patient was even worse than it seemed.

On the morning of March 11, 2004, during peak hours, ten bombs exploded at the four railway stations of Madrid. Almost 200 Spaniards died, and about two thousand were injured. The next day, it seemed to many that Spain concentrated his strength to firmly express the protest against terror: mass demonstrations swept throughout the country, and posters appeared on the streets condemning “killers” and “monster”. But this mood did not last long.