Such a war (specifically the hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees) will be felt throughout Europe for many years to come and one way or another, we will pay for it. CLAUDIA ROYSTONLondon SW19. ONE MUST welcome your leading article (5 March) on the need for reform of buying and selling houses, but shoring up a basically unsound system with rules and regulations is unlikely to provide a solution There is a straightforward way of putting things to rights. Terrorists are military units which mercilessly attack innocent civilians outside their own country (or foreigners within it) to draw attention to their cause. The KLA are defending their homes and families against an internal aggressor and trying to fight their way back to the semblance of democracy they enjoyed under Tito.
And spare a thought for the teenager for whom privacy, in your own bedroom, is the most important thing in the world. Are British young people more materialistic? Parents do face brand-name pressure, to be sure - which tends to be all the sharper among those on low incomes. But not all children are acquisitive monsters; not all so lack sensitivity for their parents' feelings or their families circumstances that they insist they cannot live without Nike or Diesel. Conversation about young people's tastes goes on incessantly - but the most important thing is that, in families and in society at large, we ensure it is not one-sided: that children's aspirations and judgements are sought and carefully weighed..
The life-size granite sculpture `Wounded Elephant', by Ronald Rae, which was installed yesterday in Regent's Park, London Photograph: David Rose A 9x12 print of this photograph can be ordered on 0171-293 2534. REFERRING to the Kosovan Liberation Army as "shady" ("Cook plea falls on deaf ears as Serb police blitz villages", 6 March) lends credence to the Serb notion that they are a terrorist group. You do not have to fondly recollect Blue Peter of old to believe that programming for children should - as for adults - offer a rich mix. Wall- to-wall cartoons, the potential result of ghettoisation on children's channels with low budgets, bore them. An academic study by Sonia Livingstone suggests British teenagers do live a rather different life from their contemporaries elsewhere in Europe.
