It was hanging on a wire from the wooden door post - placed there last week, a neighbour said - as a charm to ward off the evil eye.

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The charm offensive paid off: Catherine Brune, Allstate's technology chief, says HP is now "winning more and more" software business from Allstate, some related consulting business--and even personal computer sales.

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Now that charm has worn off.

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There's a jaunty score by Randy Newman, and Clooney, as always, has charm to burn, but here, he's off his game.

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Still headed to court, of course, on the (off?) chance that the third time will be the charm.

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The factory would have no such inner charm were it not for the outer solidity that the prince found so off-putting.

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Pop off the antenna, collapse it, and screw it into the attached charm -- "geeky" doesn't even begin to describe it.

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Best had the looks and charm to match his talent, a combination that meant he lived his life on and off the field under a permanent media spotlight.

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Still, this portrait of the artist as a crazy mixed-up kid has scruffy charm and self-lacerating wit, especially in its satire of the theatre, from school workshops to Off Broadway.

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Preying on young literary fans, paying off rent boys, picking up lads as young as fifteen Wilde is stripped of his charm.

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