High Standards on a Low Setting

“He was a classic paper-clip counter, correct-department-code-numbers-for-the-copying-machine maintainer, and one who generally focused on pennies, policies, and those blank ‘spirit of the law’ spaces in between the lines of all written procedures — but only so long as ‘spirit of the law’ was interpreted and applies by a committee of first-century Talmudic scholars, all of …