We were scrunged up at a small table, at least those of us not dropping folders.

Along with soft drinks and toothpaste, bodegas and delis carry items like an African bleaching cream used to lighten the skin, a malted milk beverage called Nestle Milo that is popular in West Africa, and cans of egusi, melon seeds that are the base of a pungent soup laden with vegetables.

Postconstitutional politics does not, itself, mirror, even conceptually, the unanimitarian idealization of the veil-of-ignorance construction.

Once he'd spotted one operative, others came clear to him: in trees, behind logs, even staring out in one uncareful moment from the cottage itself.