"He is a man made of glass, " says one posting on Sina.com.

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Alistair Darling, Mr Brown's chancellor of the exchequer, looked a harried man as he made what is usually a grip-and-grin sprint to the House of Commons, brandishing the budget in Gladstone's red box.

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Clearly Mr. Noer is not a strong man, or he would not have made such comments.

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He is the classic self-made man, having started 40 years ago when a building boom led to a shortage of window frames.

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Certainly McLeish's measured style is more in keeping with a man who trained as an accountant before he made it as a footballer.

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"His legacy lives on, he is a fantastic human being, " Ferguson said of one-club man Giggs, who made his debut against Everton on March 2, 1991.

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