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It will be one of the enduring sporting images of our times: the thin, pained face, neck arched back, head swivelling as if avoiding flies, white-gloves fists pumping, ponytail bobbing tauntingly at the runners trailed behind her, as those lean-muscled stick-legs drive her on towards a finishing line that seems to be an unreachably long way away for the vast majority of humanity.
8) In the cases of politically disfavored individuals, the King's courts had often set unreachably high bail and imposed unpayable fines for comparatively minor offenses which, under the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, warranted bail before conviction, and for which the legally proper punishments were fines.
One hallway gets smaller as you go, until finally you stand trapped and hunched; a Garden of Exile contains olive trees hidden in huge concrete planters with only the treetops visible, unreachably far overhead.
 
 
 
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