Intelligence officials say Deutch believes it is in the best interest of the CIA not to have a "lame duck" in office while Lake is undergoing Senate confirmation.

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But the duck that sank last weekend on Lake Hamilton, outside Hot Springs in Arkansas, disappeared in less than a minute.

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We first met five years ago when I found him sitting regally on a bench having just swooped there from his usual home of Duck Island in the park's lake.

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