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Aurora Liiceanu writes a short essay about the luck. She attempts to illustrate as easy and clear as possible the psychology of a fortunate person. The commentator uses some examples in order to make this story more consistent and interesting, suggesting that Romanians wish to be prosperous by good fortune.
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Sever Voinescu considers that totalitarianism is still one of the biggest problems for a democracy, because uses all the advantages of it (such as free media, free speech) but for some a non-democratic goals. This is why the portrait of a dictator can change and can be more pleasant for audience, but the political threat is the same.
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Ioana Popescu uses terms as destiny, fate and fortune trying to establish some of the distinctiveness for Romanians. The author analyses the background and the customs of the Romanian people, with the purpose of a good and accurate psychosomatic illustration.
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Daniel Dăianu writes a commentary about the recent book of Pavel Câmpeanu, “Societatea sincretică” (The Synergetic Society). This interpretation is an ideological one, but very meticulous and qualified. The author tries to analyze the main aspects of the book and their possible impacts in a society who takes them for granted.
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Andrei Pleşu writes an essay about “the working class” in Romania. He suggests that nobody (either intellectuals or political power) is interested in such a subject and in such ordinary people. The exception was a very interesting TV show, made by H. R. Patapievici on Cultural TV Channel.
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Cristian Ghinea considers that the corruption is a serious and persistent problem in most Central and Eastern European countries. Although the EU accession process has had a major impact on anti-corruption policy in candidate states, major areas of concern remain, making it imperative that the EU devise ways of strengthening its own anti-corruption framework if it is to be prepared to combat corruption in an enlarged Union.
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The article explores the laws in the seeming movement of the moon and which aspects of this need special consideration while interpreting ethnoastronomy. The examples used refer to the Estonian geographical latitude 58-60 degrees north. The classical worldview originates mainly from the area of 40 degrees latitude. If we consider the three main economic regions of the world - Europe, the USA and Japan-China - all these remain roughly on the latitude of the Mediterranean region. Since most science and pedagogical theories originate in these regions, the one-sidedness of textbooks is quite understandable. There are no long-term changes in the movement of the moon. The precession of the orbit (the node shift) and the repetition of eclipses (the Saros) fall into a cycle of less than 20 years. Secular changes (such as the precession of the axis of the earth) do not influence the seeming movement of the moon. On greater latitudes (55 to 70 degrees) the moon's axis is usually perpendicular to the horizon. Thus, the full moon is always seen in the same position and figures seen on its surface should be stabile. The uniqueness of northern folklore, its astronomical aspects included, has enchanted researchers for more than a century.
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