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The candidates for the Republican leadership are conveying a preoccupation not with solving the nation's problems but with protecting themselves individually and devouring each other.
Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.
As a result, a large body of literature has grown up around the problem of finding optimal strategies for playing the game but "the preoccupation with new and improved strategies has sometimes distracted from the main point: explaining animal cooperation" [ 7 ] . Recent publications have concentrated on how special conditions such as kin selection [ 3 ] , iterated interactions [ 8 ] , spatial structuring [ 9 ] or indirect reciprocity through reputation [ 10 ] can escape the paradox and lead to evolution of cooperation.
It has a weekly medical advice column, of which the last two subjects have been pancreatitis and optical neuritis, and an occasional books column that, this week, discussed a book titled The Immortal Body , an anthology of erotic letters, in a review that began, "Sexuality, sensuality, passion, and pleasure have always been the main preoccupation of young Cuban writers."
Harris' detractors reply that beauty is "superficial" and conveys a "harmful preoccupation with exterior appearances over intelligence and content of character."