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Eventually, catchers who can still hit retire to first base, a position for the fat, the stiff, the lame, and the halt.
The United States dampened criticism of Netanyahu's refusal to halt an inflammatory Jewish settlement in Arab East Jerusalem, and stepped up pressure on Arafat to crack down on Islamic extremists.
The cover story explains the race controversy in Decatur, Ill.: The expulsion of six black students (for fighting at a football game) that has outraged Jesse Jackson is viewed as an attempt to halt the white flight that has undercut the city's tax base.
The Guardian of London said in an editorial that Russia's allowing a "token" visit by a representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to the embattled republic "will do nothing to halt the gut-wrenching mayhem in Chechnya, where there remains no prospect of a ceasefire or even of a de-escalation."
Yet the passage of the resolution had no visible effect on Omar, nor did it halt the flow of Pakistani military assistance to the Taliban.