As for those outside the charmed circle of college fandom, good luck navigating by the stars of March Madness.

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To some extent, those beyond the charmed circle of European governments may well think that she should indeed exert more influence.

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He won a scholarship to Cambridge, gained a first in law and was admitted to the charmed circle of barristers (who in Britain work in the higher courts).

ECONOMIST: Gareth Williams

Many thought that the real reason was that she was an outsider, a brainbox with a provincial background, not a member of the charmed circle of reformers in Warsaw.

ECONOMIST: Poland's shaky government

When the early modernist message crackled across Europe like an electric charge, Aalto was quick to enter the charmed circle that included Le Corbusier, the historian Siegfried Giedion, and artists like Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi and Fernand Leger, whose organic abstractions were soon to influence his own use of form.

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The film cried out for someone outside the charmed Macca circle to have a say on an output which just emphasised what better songwriters both John Lennon and George Harrison proved themselves to be after the Beatles.

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