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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.
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.
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.
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.
You can argue that Microsoft has stepped across the line on this one--but surely by only a few inches.