Remember - fifteen years ago, worrying and proud, stood on the scene of Kodak, in Beverly Hills, two friends - Matt Damon and Ben Affleck - and looked at the Oscars he had just been handed over for the best script (“Clever Will Hunting”) as ten -year -old teenagers at the women's bust, accidentally in their hands, say, they say, they say, they say, they say, they say What is cool, but what to do with it?

“How young we were” is the theme of our meditation, which has its own support 1990s and three books - Terekhov, Rubanov and Elizarov. The authors were born, respectively, in 1966, 1969 and 1973, so they perfectly remembered this strange time of public and personal mutations. Still, there are more personal ones, because it is not a matter of the writer to master the abstract vocabulary of sociologists. And is there such a science, sociology?

Another meeting of the Public Council for the Development of Education under the Ministry of Education and Science was held. The audience discussed the results of monitoring the effectiveness of universities. The first caused a flurry of indignation (many the best Russian universities were recognized as ineffective).