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...accurately and succinctly portrayed the quandary faced by a good number of Asian fathers who are torn between career and family [April 16]. The dilemma is accentuated when both husband and wife are working. But there are ways to circumvent this problem. For a start, technology has allowed employers to be more flexible about when and where employees work. By cutting time spent traveling and sitting in dreary meetings, dads and moms can share more time with their children. And perhaps couples should resist the tendency to form nuclear families and go back to living in good old extended families...
...military solution will only increase the tally: more than 65,000 civilians killed and half a million people left homeless. Without isolating Velupillai Prabhakaran's L.T.T.E. politically and diplomatically, there can be no hope of defeating the outfit. And without finding a just and lasting solution to the problem of Tamil identity and victimization, Sri Lanka will never enjoy peace. Srinivasan Balakrishnan, Jamshedpur, India...
...rest of the world are able to be supportive of their own country without being stupidly patriotic. You can certainly find thousands of faults with France, but there are still a million reasons to stay here, one of the best places to live in the world. Maybe the real problem is that France simply has too many ungrateful inhabitants. Arnaud Gavard, PARIS...
...emigration wave you reported is not worse in France than in most other countries. Of course, there are problems - I myself am an expatriate - but the article's generalizations and overall spirit were biased. You had better investigate the extreme-right speeches of the conservatives' idol, Nicolas Sarkozy, instead of presenting him as a center-right guy. He is France's main problem. There are many French like me who will never go back if he is elected President. Romain Koszul, Cambridge, MASSACHUSETTS...
...military solution will only increase the tally: more than 65,000 civilians killed and half a million people left homeless. Without isolating Velupillai Prabhakaran's L.T.T.E. politically and diplomatically, there can be no hope of defeating the outfit. And without finding a just and lasting solution to the problem of Tamil identity and victimization, Sri Lanka will never enjoy peace. Srinivasan Balakrishnan, JAMSHEDPUR, INDIA...