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Macbeth

Written by Roman Polanski and Kenneth Tynan

Directed by Roman Polanski

UK, 1971

Following the success of Rosemary’s Baby in 1968, and prior to what is arguably still his greatest film, Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski made three curious filmmaking choices. One was the international coproduction and rarely discussed What? (1972), one was the racing documentary Weekend of a Champion (1972), and the third, which actually came before these two, was Macbeth (1971). It is obviously not that a Shakespearean adaptation in itself is unusual, but rather that it so seemingly diverted from the films that were garnering the young Polanski his worldwide acclaim: taut thrillers like The Knife in the Water (1962), Repulsion (1965), Cul-De-Sac (1966), and Rosemary’s Baby. Yet in Macbeth, there are a number of characteristic Polanski touches — in story and style — harkening back to these previous works and in many ways pointing toward those to come.

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Call it the ultimate back-to-school pep talk. Students returning to classes at the Georgia Institute of Technology got a rock solid bit of inspiration from one of their own this week, when sophomore mechanical engineering student Nicholas Selby stepped up to speak to the school's incoming freshmen. Wearing a black mortarboard hat and traditional academic robe, Selby, 19, took to the stage at the school's opening convocation on Sunday with Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathrustra (also known as the opening theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey) soaring in the background, to deliver a stirring speech that has since gone viral on YouTube,...

You'll never look at college-level speeches the same way after you watch the gloriousness that is Georgia Tech sophomore Nick Selby's speech at the school's freshman convocation this past Sunday. Set to the tune of Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra (a.k.a. the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey), Selby practically pounds as his chest as he motivationally screams about the school's "tradition of excellence."...

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A new crime-busting warehouse is helping officers spot crime trends as they develop in real time. Ibm's Crime Information Warehouse (Ciw) is a lean, mean data-mining machine that puts all the little pieces of the puzzle together to help police anywhere connect crimes, spot trends, and crack cases faster, sometimes even before new crimes happen.

Police departments excel at capturing information, but there's no efficient structure for dealing with where all that crime data goes afterwards. Critical case information ends up sitting in pockets across many departments and it's left to officers to tirelessly track it down. That's less time spent doing what they were trained to do--solve the crimes.

That's where the Ciw steps in. The software solution currently being applied in Richmond,...