The following is a brief roundup of selected local newspaper editorials Wednesday: UNITED DAILY NEWS: The Unreachable Love: inspiration from domestic violence 'The Unreachable Love' is a documentary funded by a group of lawyers that records the stories of four women facing violence at home who finally decide their futures after being torn between the bonds of marriage and respect for themselves. The four women come from different backgrounds, but they have shared the same experience of being brutalized. The violence in their marriage has turned what should be a loving relationship between a husband and wife into an 'unreachable love.' The recent domestic violence case involving ex-legislator Wang Hsueh-feng and her husband Wang Tsou-liang has once again highlighted the fact that not only menial workers but also those with strong educational backgrounds will brutalize their spouses. This is because the nature of such violence stems from the desire for 'power' and 'control, ' with one spouse hoping to bend the other's behavior and spirit to his or her will and gain dominance. For outsiders, the most wrenching part of the process is to see those guilty of violence seeking forgiveness after their actions only to later repeat violent acts again. In fact, domestic violence has never disappeared because of forgiveness. Those women should realize that tolerance will not bring changes and that the perpetrators need professional counseling to improve the management of their emotions and their propensity to bully others. LIBERTY TIMES: Overseas expatriate affairs truce means across-the-board surrender Control Yuan President Wang Chien-shien said Monday that if the Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission not only serves Taiwanese expatriates but also mainland Chinese expatriates, it will conquer them with love and service, which he said will bring enormous benefits with little costs. Wang's words have not uttered on a whim. On the same day, President Ma Ying-jeou stressed that the two sides should help each other and not let people from other countries witness the two sides of the Taiwan Strait extend their civil war overseas. The remarks by Wang and Ma underscored the fact that they have not been unequivocal in their national identification. They are not clear that relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are state-to-state relations and that they are numb to every attempt by China to annihilate the Republic of China. Over the past year, President Ma has advocated a diplomatic truce and overseas expatriate affairs truce, which we believe will further facilitate China's squeezing of Taiwan's maneuvering space in the international community and its united front strategy against Taiwan expatriates overseas. The best word to describe such a policy is capitulation. APPLE DAILY: What is he thinking? Central Election Commission Chairman Lai Hau-min said recently that absentee voting will be inevitable. We believe that such a measure will benefit the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC), which wants to see the pro-unification KMT stay in power forever. In Taiwan's previous presidential elections, China has tried to manipulate the voting behavior of Taiwanese businessmen operating in China, including through intimidation by telling them that if they vote in favor of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, their businesses in China will be affected. In such an environment, how can such voters cast absentee ballots? U.S. military personnel and businessmen stationed overseas can vote using absentee ballots because they will not be intimidated or persuaded by the government they reside in to support specific candidates. But in China, the free will of Taiwanese businessmen to exercise their right to vote will be affected, and their absentee ballots will be opened and censored. This is why absentee voting should not be allowed by any means. We wonder why Lai cannot see this self-evident fact. CHINA TIMES: What should be reviewed are not just NTU medical students Hung Lan, a noted neuroscience professor at National Central University, recently criticized medical students at National Taiwan University for sleeping, eating, and making calls on their cell phones in the classrooms. She said they were not serious in studying and showed no respect for teachers. We have noticed that today's college students have become more self-centered, and we believe that this can be attributed to aimless and stressful studying since they were young, so that when they enter college, they often feel liberated. It is known that medical students are burdened with a heavy professional course load, so they often do not pay much attention to general educational courses, not to mention the fact that the general education classes have nothing to do with their medical license exams. If the general education courses in colleges are to be reviewed, so too should high school education. Those who want to study medicine in Taiwan's colleges often do not take history or other humanities subjects after their second year in high school. This is in stark contrast to other countries, where medical education is only offered after students have completed college. It is not fair to target only the medical students at NTU. Others at other schools should be targeted, as well, and whether a teacher should target students without regard for their 'face' is also worth discussing. By Lilian Wu) 