And in the US, Ben Mezrich's Bringing Down the House, the true-life story of a circle of fast-living MIT students, has spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
He sees his country imbedded in what he calls the "Indian Ocean Rim," a semi-circle of fast-emerging economies from Singapore to India to his own Kenya.
As Count Almaviva's personal man servant - and also friend - Figaro is the kind of guy one expects to find in the immediate circle of a fast living celebrity-type nobleman.
There is a risk that America's virtuous circle of high investment, faster productivity growth, and rising profits and share prices could turn vicious.
The circle of survivors is shrinking fast, another reason why she feels it is important to protect what is left of the memory of camp life.
From there, the madness spread through the debate: a great circle of abuse spun around fast enough to fling all sense away.
As the collateral blood flow paths via the circle of Willis are relatively fast and have shown to not result in a measurable delayed arrival of the magnetically labeled blood bolus in a previous ASL-MRI study using multiple time intervals [ 25], this should be adequate.
Yitta Mandelbaum has found herself in a fast-widening circle of Orthodox Jewish women who have chosen atypical careers without trading in their strict religious practices.
Their fast start and circle of supporters, Mr. Granat acknowledged, have raised questions among "cynical people" about whether Walden has an agenda.
We just wrote about the fast growth of Circle Of Moms, a social network for mothers, has seen in the past year.
I still try to explain to them the context of what circle I'm fast in, but it's hard to make a seven- and eight-year-old understand that.
