To return to the disability adjudication example, early discussions about administering that program considered using a local “social network” approach modeled on local draftboards.

Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.

The many attempts made to evade the operation of the conscriptive laws in France during the revolutionary war, induced the authorities to frame and enact a set of regulations for the guidance of those concerned in examining conscripts, embracing almost every point on which a doubt or difference of opinion can exist.

Prejudice, in fact, is not so much the great intellectual sin as a thing which we may call, to coin a word, “postjudice,” not the bias before the fair trial, but the bias that remains afterwards.