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"I'm not sure he's a lame duck yet," Garret Martin, professor of international relations at American University, told AFP.

The painting showed an old man in cracked spectacles standing beside a lame horse, in the midst of a homestead that had burned to the ground, so that only the smoking ruins remained.

“Allow me to present my colleague, Dr. Lumley,” he would announce to a lame horse or a colicky calf.

Suzuki agreed to a one-year contract, which puts him in the uncomfortable position of being a lame duck before he manages his first game.

The sooner Republicans wake up and treat him like the rabid, lame duck he is, the better off they — and the country — will be.