He would never get his high five, never get to share a celebration with his fellow runners.

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Mr Obama dearly wants the Senate to ratify his new START treaty with Russia, but as he prepared to jet out again for high diplomacy in Europe, the Republicans indicated that he would not get that in the lame-duck session, if at all.

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Hillis, who has lived in Weona for 66 years, said he would have never thought the water could get that high.

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When he threw at Ebbets, he would get an extra ticket to the games, and he often brought along a friend from high school, Sandy Koufax.

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Republicans sought to raise expectations impossibly high, by predicting that he would get a 15% post-convention bounce in the polls.

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He was last seen on the High Street at 14:20 GMT, which would not have allowed enough time to get there for kick-off.

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