Monitor: With Enemies Like These

With Enemies Like These ...

Since their debut in 1940, cat-and-mouse combatants Tom and Jerry seemed as classic a pair of adversaries as David and Goliath -- only more violent. Yet in their first feature film, which is being released this week, the two put aside their traditional enmity and actually become partners. This is just one more example of a dismaying recent phenomenon: beautiful antagonisms turning into friendships.

RUSSIA VS. THE U.S.: A few years ago, our differences with the Russians poised us on the edge of Armageddon; now we only wish that we could give them more money. Just as the cold war was...

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