Long Straight Highway (redux)

Great Gladwell article up over at The New Yorker about David vs. Goliath. Gladwell articles follow a particular pattern that goes like this:
Example A: (The pressing basketball team as David)
Thesis: (David can’t fight Goliath by his own rules)
Example B: (Lawrence of Arabia as David)
Thesis elaboration
Example A cont: (History of basketball team)
Example C: (Doug Lenat [...]