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Special session may lay groundwork for January
A twist of Shakespeare's King Macbeth oration offers the best description of the activity surrounding tax reform in the upcoming special session: "a tale

Contest Crazy 8/15
Hello Everyone! On this Day August 15th....... 1057: In events later used by William Shakespeare in one of his greatest tragedies, the Scottish king Macbeth is killed by Malcolm Canmore, the son of King Duncan I, whom Macbeth had murdered 17 years before. 1534: Saint Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuits, a Roman Catholic order of men, in Paris, France. 1935: American humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when their plane crashes in Alaska. 1939: The film version of The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy, ...

Lusting for more wiki action
Here's a topic that promises to spur some online conversations: Nancy Pearl and her Book Lust empire is one of the newest wiki sites on Wetpaint. The beloved Seattle librarian is the subject of what Seattle start-up Wetpaint calls "a community for people who love books." The wiki is apparently a team effort by Wetpaint and Pearl's publisher, Sasquatch Books, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports. I like the feature that lets you "post a question for Nancy." So what does she think it takes to be well-read? A large dose of Shakespeare (King Lear, Hamlet, or MacBeth), some Herman Melville (Moby Dick), the poems of Walt Whitman, The Apology by Plato, and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. For a different kind of book lover, there's an entire wiki devoted to the DaVinci Code.


Macbeth
SYDNEY -- Baz Luhrmann set the bar high for maverick adaptations of Shakespeare, but fellow Aussie director Geoffrey Wright takes a game leap at it with his postmodern rendering of "Macbeth."...

Rose has another winner brewing
"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble.'' (From Macbeth, by William Shakespeare) As Russ Rose huddles over his pot in his cave in Rec Hall, he continues to brew up his latest concoction.

Sam Worthington in Macbeth / supplied
ROMPER Stomper director Geoffrey Wright is certain his film adaption of Shakespeare's classic Macbeth will offend some people.

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The last word on Tom Cruise: "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; Signifying nothing." ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 5, sc. 5.