Time and again, I’d ask Clevelanders–a proud breed beaten down by decades of lake-effect snow, economic degradation, population decline, and gridiron disasters worthy of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland to tell me what was still top-notch about their hometown. It didn’t matter if I was talking to a CEO or a homeless man, a bar owner or a barfly. The inevitable reply: “We’ve got a world-class symphony orchestra…”
Tag: 06.10
Where Witchcraft Trials Are Thriving
“By some estimates, about 40 percent of the cases in the Central African [Republic’s] court system are witchcraft prosecutions. (Drug offenses in the U.S., by contrast, account for just 12 percent of arrests.)” And though there is no actual evidence in such cases, most lawyers and lawmakers, in the country support keeping anti-witchcraft laws, even as they acknowledge that such laws are unfair.