These squabbles could now be overcome if, as British officials were hinting in mid-week, diplomacy pulls off a settlement that satisfies all 19 of the alliance's members.
"It is absolutely right that a new and fair settlement for Scotland should be accompanied by a settlement that applies to all parts of the UK".
Labour would, however, still "press hard the government hard on the terms on which we leave the EU in order to achieve a settlement that benefits us all".
Fairfield remains "willing to work towards a settlement that will help all victims of the Madoff fraud move beyond this disaster," he went on, adding that Fairfield Greenwich principals themselves lost more than $70 million in the Madoff fraud.
By filing the complaint, Mr. Galvin also broke ranks with other state and national securities regulators, including Mr. Spitzer, who have been trying to cobble together a settlement that would cover all big Wall Street firms.
The letter, signed by Gary G. Lynch, the general counsel of First Boston, said Massachusetts regulators were threatening to undermine the efforts of the Securities and Exchange Commission to come up with a broader settlement that would cover all of the big Wall Street firms.
"For me, this is a fair settlement that permits us all, personally and professionally, to be future-oriented with confidence," Williams said in a statement released by the university.
A16 BUSINESS DAY C1-12 FiRejectsctStatete's Demand Credit Suisse First Boston, facing a civil charge in Massachusetts over its stock research, rejected the state's demand for a settlement, saying that regulators were threatening to undermine the efforts of the Securities and Exchange Commission to come up with a broader settlement that would cover all of the big Wall Street firms.
And even if Ms. Rice and the president manage to achieve the sort of Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement that has eluded all previous administrations over the last 60 years and tame the North Korean communist regime, it is doubtful that these would be enough to counter what most people see as the administration's failures in Iraq.
"It is absolutely right that a new and fair settlement for Scotland should be accompanied by a new and fair settlement that applies to all parts of our United Kingdom.
