Only two things were wrong with John C. Bogle's response to the end of the contest that compared the results of mutual fund portfolios managed by five investment advisers with the Vanguard Index 500 fund ("The Winner Is...Indexing," Letters, July 30).
Thirty years of mutual distaste has now burst forth upon the streets in the form of an election contest.
Church reform now became a contest for dominance between the priestly and the royal powers as they struggled to replace the Carolingian vision of mutual collaboration in which the church was entrusted to the monarchy for safekeeping.
We need a contest, we tilt toward underdogs, we admire candidates who know their stuff and we consider accessibility a mark of mutual respect -- and so we've welcomed your opposition with open arms.
There was a clear fight winner in 39 of 42 contests; three contests with continuous mutual male courtship were excluded.
Several more hours of mutual pummeling followed.
"Americans invented the diplomacy of mutual interests.
It is a system of mutual dependency.
