In accepting a flawed description of two historically competing philosophies — Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian — David Leonhardt's review of "Land of Promise," by Michael Lind (May 27), shares Lind's obliviousness of the reality of class power in American history.
"This consortium represents an unprecedented partnership between historically competing news organisations, and promises to deliver a breadth and vibrancy in national and local coverage no one can match," said Wood, who will advise the group.
The question, therefore, is: Where does President Obama stand between these two historically competing extremes in US foreign policy; the John Quincy Adam's axiom that America "goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy", and the traditional or contemporary inclination to say: "Why not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy?
Governments have historically competed against one another to host the big companies by offering them the lowest possible taxes on profits.
A multibranded company like ours, which has grown by acquisitions, is more difficult because we have done hostile acquisitions, but even more importantly, we have acquired companies that have historically competed with one another.
"All of us at the outset were surprised that we were even engaged in these discussions with people we historically compete against," said John Broder, the Washington editor of The New York Times and a spokesman for the larger consortium of news organizations.
Vue has historically competed on price by offering a tiered service to address different market segments, and it beats Sling TV on the technical front by offering support for more simultaneous streams and a cloud-based DVR.
"Career services departments have historically competed, but we recognised that if several top schools collaborated, we could give recruiters a critical mass of students," said Fiona Sandford, executive director for careers and global business at London Business School, which hosted the Asian recruiting event last month.
Aggregate Knowledge historically competed directly with Strands, Loomia, Directed Edge and others, but it has recently moved away from powering product recommendations for e-commerce vendors to a more general technology proposition for the online display ad industry as a whole.
Yesterday, Jets fans and others rooting for the Dolphins were richly rewarded as they did something the Jets couldn't manage — they defeated the Patriots 38-13, an historic event that would certainly have received greater media coverage were there not a host of historically compelling competing stories, such as the final game at Yankee Stadium.
The same is true of advocacy groups and other cancer organizations who have historically been competing for relatively limited resources (cancer research funds).
