One British source told me that the man in the chair, the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, doesn't have a plan and doesn't have a way to get there.

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And we will all be smiling because of the man who used to sit in the empty chair at the table.

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The winner: a successful attempt by a man who then threw a chair in the air and jumped around his apartment.

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But the sneering at the man chosen to chair the inquiry is comprehensible only in the context of Lord Hutton's failure to deliver what Mr Blair's opponents had hoped for.

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After fifty more minutes, the man at the desk sat back in his chair.

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Up ahead, at the apex of a switchback, I see a young man sitting alone in a folding chair, miles from anywhere.

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The man had to help me into my flip-flops and guide me down the bleachers before I collapsed in a chair.

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