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2013-03-05T19:18:08-05:00 2013-05-05T05:12:01-04:00 Jill Shaw
Ruddock http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-shaw-ruddock/ What is
it about human nature that we want to think the worst and
believe someone is guilty until proven innocent? We can't help
ourselves as we obsessively watch and track with eager
anticipation every detail as to how the good and the great fall
from grace. Do we as human beings begrudge meteoric success or
is it simply the reversibility that satisfies our sense of
symmetry? The faster they rise, the more self satisfied we are
when they fall.  The verdict of this trial in Pretoria will
ultimately reveal more