Insights into Ms Boling's personal life are given far less prominence than those of her rival's relationship with Patrick Bowring.
Rivalling the relationship with Pakistan for complexity and potential for misunderstanding is that with the US.
The rivals, whose relationship has strained over Luis Suarez's ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra, meet over the weekend of 28 January.
I don't think that it's ever going to rival human relationships, because we're so complex and we're so far away from building that type of AI".
Canada, Bombardier's success notwithstanding, long ago started seeing Mexico as a rival in its relationship with the United States, rather than a partner.
Although she is initially devoted to Cherry, Ginger comes to see her as a rival as their relationship with the Motherwells becomes increasingly consuming and sexually freighted.
The Jets are not likely to let a similar matter go as quickly, though, because the teams are fierce division rivals, and the relationship between Jets Coach Eric Mangini and Patriots Coach Bill Belichick has grown frostier since Mangini became the Jets' coach last year.
And like the two characters, Mr. Iger and Mr. Jobs, who is also chief executive of Apple Computer, are friendly and sometimes cautious rivals, but that relationship could change substantially.
Originally Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader, had formed an alliance with the British to help protect his people against tribal rivals, but the relationship proved tenuous when the population of colonists, and hence the pillaging of land and resources, swelled.
At its best, this makes for much entertainingly abrasive drama as the rivals' love-hate relationship provokes sparky interaction at pre-race meetings (another flag wave to Senna) and social gatherings alike.
