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But when she's on, Byatt's writing "leaps and pirouettes, shimmies and shivers" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ) and has an "aura of extravagant ingenuity" (David Barber, the Boston Globe ). A few find the tales a bit too similar--there is a theme throughout of the conflict between the warm southern temperament and the cold northern one--but most deem the sameness unimportant when the writing is so superb.
You can argue that Microsoft has stepped across the line on this one--but surely by only a few inches.
There are a few Democrats around who began life as moderate Republicans--Californian former Rep. and Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta is one--but for most (including Panetta), the switch was made at least two decades ago.
And I'm sure it's not as bad as Return of the Jedi , which was the weakest one--but I still liked it and saw it a dozen times.
I know you're not supposed to say this out loud--at least not on a respectable Web site like this one--but I think the Internet has a way of bringing out the worst in people rather than the best.