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...feel about women tennis players earning the same salary as men? -Candyce Pecot, Los Angeles I don't have much opinion about that. I totally agree that women and men are the same in all areas of life, but my opinion is that, well, if we are the same, then women should have to play best-of-five sets [instead of best-of-three] if they want to earn the same amount of money...
...cads" because they must demonstrate aggression and stoicism to be considered "man enough"? We should concentrate on breaking down such stereotypes and the belief in inherently male hardheadedness. Let us raise children and promote the positive attributes regardless of gender: intelligence, strength, sensitivity, humility and compassion. Brendan Parent, Los Angeles...
...crisis will hamper achievement by girls. But education is not a zero-sum game. Boys and girls thrive under different conditions, and it's time we accommodate the learning styles of both. In a global competition for talent, we cannot afford to handicap any of our children. Adam Habib, Los Angeles...
...never been trained to taste the dirt; it’s an old tradition I was paying deference to,” he said during a phone interview last month from Los Angeles. “I’m sure there are more nuances that can be discerned...
Chinese officials have repeatedly demanded that the Olympics not be politicized. But Olympic history--from the horrors of Munich in 1972 to the boycotts of the Games in Montreal, Moscow and Los Angeles--suggests that's a forlorn hope. "The Olympics are about human nature," says Bao Tong, a former adviser to Zhao Ziyang, the reformist Communist Party General Secretary at the time of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. "You cannot separate the Olympics from human rights." You might suppose that the Chinese government would have thought of that before it entered its bid to host the games...