Even as changing times broadened the sport's base of paying customers from America's Eastern Seaboard, across North America and on to the other side of the Pacific, moving the business ahead has always been about one smart, overriding strategy--keeping the cartel going by squashing the competition in its tracks.
By recruiting outside advisers from far and wide, Mr Blair has broadened the base of his government, not only in terms of the policies they produce, but also in terms of the reciprocal loyalty he commands.