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The writer, Roger Thurow, reflects on one East German couple's "decade of blind luck, of East-West rivalry, of booms and busts, of capitalism devouring communism, of communists devouring cheeseburgers."
Perhaps the polar bodies function to somehow enforce some maternal or family interest, nipping in the bud some sibling rivalry that would otherwise suppress the family's fitness.
Blue episodes, Monday , 4 p.m to 1:30 a.m., and George Clooney's last ER on NBC, Thursday at 10 p.m.) Monday is President's Day, and the History Channel takes a look at the formative traumas in Abe Lincoln's life (8 p.m.), followed by Chris Matthews' documentary on the rivalry between Kennedy and Nixon (10 p.m.).
There is a similar schizoid aspect to the reaction of some of our friends to U.S. policies toward the Asian financial crisis and the nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan.
Book discussion groups are regularly described as scenes of rivalry and hostility--of fights over which books to read and who gets to talk the most.