Word: commissioners
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The following day Adams said that Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator and a hard man, with an impeccable reputation with the top command of the I.R.A., would become the liaison between the I.R.A. and the international commission that is to arrange the disarming of Northern Ireland's paramilitary...
But first, on Sept. 19, he will make the holy trek. He will seek salvation in Las Vegas. The fallen former heavyweight champ is scheduled to ask the Nevada Athletic Commission to reinstate his boxing license. It's the fight of his life, not counting his 1992 rape conviction, and...
It might not be a bad bet. It is boxing, after all, which is nearly as dirty a sport as politics. If Tyson was allowed to fight despite a rape conviction, how long can the commission ban him for mere biting and carrying on? Just put him in the ring...
"I want to hear what he did in the past year to rehabilitate himself, and I want him to reassure me [biting and other bad behavior] won't happen again," said commission chairman Elias Ghanem.
The Federal Election Commission is probably the least-feared watchdog agency in Washington, which is why inside the Beltway its nickname is the "Failure to Enforce Commission." That explains why the hottest guessing game in town is figuring out how this nearly toothless body managed to do what volumes of...