It is time for a root and branch shake-up of the EU, a new across-the-board settlement, plugging its democratic deficit but also stepping up practical cooperation in areas such as countering terrorism, thrashed out in the interests of all of its 28 members.
Under the Board's settlement agreement with Third Point, three Third Point nominees — Daniel S. Loeb, Harry J. Wilson, and Michael J. Wolf — will join the Yahoo!
However, the company is facing civil suits from passengers and crew members who have refused compensation — about 20 percent of those on board — though settlements are still being reached in Italy and abroad.
That will happen only if the board approves the settlement; advisers are not authorized to replace directors.
The Orange board approved the settlement by a 5-to-2 vote at a closed session in August.
Earlier this year, Fallsburg had threatened to condemn the buildings because of fire-safety and other building-code violations, but the condominium board reached a settlement with the town under which it agreed to address the problems, Mr. Vegliante said.
In February, the board announced a settlement with the company, American Medical Response, which agreed to change its blogging and Internet policy, which had barred employees from making disparaging remarks against the company or its supervisors.
Douglas A. Kellner, a Manhattan Democrat who is a member of the elections board, praised the settlement, saying it corrects a problem that had the effect of disenfranchising thousands of voters over the last 40 years.
And on Monday, several hours after the Conflicts of Interest Board announced its settlement with Ms. Keaney, the chancellor of New York City schools, Joel I. Klein, announced that Ms. Keaney had been appointed executive director of external affairs for the city's Department of Education.
Brian Gilvary, BP's chief financial officer, said in a conference call with analysts that the board weighed the settlement struck with the government against the prospect of a much wider criminal indictment that would have involved more people in the company.
The plaintiffs' lawyers said that Take-Two would make a charitable donation to the video game industry's ratings board under the settlement and argued that there was no way to know beforehand that so few people would apply for compensation under the settlement.
