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By ASHLEY PARKERand JONATHAN MARTIN
WASHINGTON The Senateon Thursday approved the mostsignificant overhaul of the na-tions immigration laws in a gen-eration with broad support gen-erated by a sense among leadingRepublicans that the party need-ed to join with Democrats to re-move a wedge between Repub-licans and Hispanic voters.
The strong 68-to-32 vote in theoften polarized Senate tossed theissue into the House, where theRepublican leadership has saidthat it will not take up the Senatemeasure and is instead focusedon much narrower legislationthat would not provide a path tocitizenship for the 11 million un-authorized immigrants in thecountry. Party leaders hope thatthe Senate action will put pres-sure on the House.
Leading up to the final votes,which the senators cast at theirdesks to mark the import of themoment, members of the biparti-san Gang of Eight, who drafted
the framework of the legislation,took to the Senate floor to make a final argument for the measure.Among them was Senator MarcoRubio, Republican of Florida,who is one of his partys leadingHispanic voices. When Mr. Rubiofinished, the other senators in thegroup surrounded him on thefloor, patting him on the back andoffering words of encourage-ment. Good job, one said. Improud of you, another offered.
The future will show whethervoters in Republican presidential
SENATE, 68 TOPASSES OVER
FOR IMMIGRRARE BIPARTISAN EFFOR
Issue Goes to the House,Which Will Look at
a Narrower Bill
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By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
The economy is the victim of a little misunderstanding, FederalReserve officials said on Thurs-day, telling investors who havesent borrowing costs soaring thatthey are misguided in believing
the Feds stimulus campaign isabout to wane.The message, delivered in
three separate but similarspeeches, reflects the Feds frus-tration with a broad rise in in-terest rates that began in Mayand accelerated after remarkslast week by the Feds chairman,Ben S. Bernanke.
I dont want to be too cuteabout a serious matter, DennisP. Lockhart, president of the Fed-eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta,said in Marietta, Ga., but tomake an analogy, it seems to methe chairman said well use thepatch and use it flexibly andsome in the markets reacted as if he said cold turkey.
The speeches, including one byWilliam C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork and one of Mr. Bernankesclosest allies, appeared to makean impression, helped along byupbeat domestic economic data and an easing of concerns aboutChinese financial conditions.Stocks rose modestly, ending upfor the third day in a row, whileinterest rates ticked downward,inverting the recent pattern.
On Wall Street, the broadStandard & Poors 500-stock in-dex had risen for most of the firstfive months of the year, bringing
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FED OFFICIALS TRYTO EASE CONCERN
OF STIMULUS ENDMOVE TO CALM MARKETS
Shares Rally on VowsThat Economic Data
Will Guide Policy
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By J. DAVID GOODMANand MICHAEL BARBARO
The Bloomberg administrationimmediately came out swingingon Thursday against a pair of bills approved by the City Councilintended to oversee or curtail thePolice Department, vowing toveto the measures and to do whatit could to ensure that at least oneof the vetoes would stand.
In separate appearances, May-or Michael R. Bloomberg and hispolice commissioner, RaymondW. Kelly, sought to portray thebills one aimed at increasingoversight of the Police Depart-ment and the other at expandingthe ability to sue over racial pro-filing by officers as divisivetools that would undermine thepolices efforts to get guns off thestreets and continue to lower themurder rate.
The threat of lawsuits, the cityfears, could end the departmentsbroad use of stop-and-frisk meas-ures, the crime-fighting tool mostclosely associated with theBloomberg administration.
Behind the scenes, the mayorsoffice was already strategizinghow to undo the profiling bill.
Aides to the mayor whomade little attempt to hide theirfury over the two bills, which areknown together as the Communi-ty Safety Act conceded therewas little chance of derailing theinspector general bill, whichpassed by a sizable margin. Butthey are determined to scuttlethe profiling legislation; it drew
Mayors Office Moves to Undo
Bill Aimed at Police Profiling
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Raymond W. Kelly, the New York police commissioner.
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Antagonists over same-sexmarriage prepare to resumestate-by-state battles. Page A16.
Whats Next
President Obama suggested that frus-tration with China and Russia for appar-
ently helping Edward J. Snowden, wholeaked government secrets, evade ex-tradition was not worth hurting rela-tions with those countries. PAGE A6
INTERNATIONAL A4-11
Obama Plays Down Snowden
President Mohamed Morsi moved topreserve order and confront opponentswho are planning mass protests callingfor his ouster this weekend. PAGE A9
A Show of Power in Egypt
NASAs Voyager 1 spacecraft, launchedin 1977, is finally near the edge of the so-lar system, but it turns out that figuringout where that border lies is trickierthan scientists thought. PAGE A19
NATIONAL A12-19
Going, Going, Not Quite Gone
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Bos-ton Marathon bombing suspect, was in-dicted on 30 counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction. PAGE A12
Charges Filed in Bombing Case
The Obama administration plans to sus-pend trade privileges for Bangladesh
over concerns about factory safety andlabor rights. PAGE B1
BUSINESS DAY B1-9
Trade Pressure on Bangladesh
A symbol of the Metropolitan Museumof Art, its colorful metal admission tagsthat many visitors wore with pride, willbe dropped as of Monday. PAGE C21
WEEKEND C1-28
The Met Sheds Its Buttons
The Port Authority Bus Terminal inMahattan could soon see its most signif-icant overhaul since the late 1970s, whenit was expanded to keep pace with rider-ship, the authority announced. PAGE A21
NEW YORK A21-25
Plan to Spruce Up Bus Hub
Paul Krugman PAGE A27EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
DAKAR, Senegal BarackObama had been a United Statessenator for just weeks in early2005 when Oprah Winfrey offeredto carry a message for him toNelson Mandela, the iconic SouthAfrican leader.
Mr. Obama disappeared into a back room in Ms. Winfreys tele-vision studio to write the note,but he was gone so long that hisspokesman, Robert Gibbs,popped his head in after half anhour.
Youve got to give me sometime here, Mr. Obama, pen inhand, told Mr. Gibbs, who re-called the moment recently. Icant just wing a note to NelsonMandela.
Mr. Obama had been hoping tohave his first face-to-face meet-ing as president with the ailing94-year-old leader during a three-country, weeklong trip to Africa that began on Wednesday. ButMr. Mandela was hospitalized onJune 8 for a chronic lung in-fection, and on Thursday he re-mained in critical but stable con-dition.
A meeting between Mr. Man-dela and Mr. Obama would havebeen rich with symbolism andsymmetry for people on both con-
tinents: two men from different
generations who made history asthe first black presidents of na-tions with deep racial divides.Both embraced a cool pragma-tism in their attempt to be post-racial leaders, and both have in-spired as well as disappointedmany supporters.
Mr. Mandela has long been a beacon for Mr. Obama, who re-counted again on Thursday howthe revolution unleashed by Mr.Mandela a world away had in-spired his own activism. Friendsof Mr. Obama say that for himand many of his contemporaries,the fight against apartheid wasthe equivalent of the civil rightsmovement of an earlier genera-tion.
My first act of political activ-ism was when I was at OccidentalCollege, Mr. Obama said Thurs-day at a news conference here inDakar, referring to a brief speechhe gave at the time. I got in-volved in the anti-apartheidmovement back in 1979-80 be-cause I was inspired by what was
In Mandela, Obama Found a Beacon Who Inspired From Afar
DAVID KATZ
Barack Obama met Nelson Mandela in Washington in 2005.
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By SIMON ROMERO
RIO DE JANEIRO One poli-tician was elected to Brazils Con-gress while under investigationfor murder after having an ad-versary killed with a chain saw.Another is wanted by Interpol af-ter being found guilty of divertingmore than $10 million from a pub-lic road project to offshore bankaccounts.
And Brazils highest court, theSupreme Federal Tribunal, con-victed another congressman of having poor female constituents,who could not afford more chil-dren, surgically sterilized in ex-change for their votes.
Across the nation, protesterskeep taking to the streets by thethousands, venting their anger ata broad range of politicians andproblems, including high taxesand deplorable public services.But a special ire has been re-served for Congress and its pen-chant for sheltering dozens of generously paid legislators whohave been charged and some-times even convicted of crimeslike money laundering, bribery,drug trafficking, kidnapping andmurder.
Congress is without a doubtthe most despised institution inBrazil, said Maurcio Santoro, a political scientist. A good deal of this hatred is related to the fact
that Congress has a tradition of preventing its own members con-victed of crimes from ever goingto jail.
Almost 200 legislators, or a third of Brazils Congress, arefacing charges in trials overseenby the Supreme Federal Tribunal,according to documents compiledby Congresso em Foco, a promi-nent watchdog group. Thecharges range from siphoning off public funds to far more seriousclaims of employing slave laboron a cattle estate or ordering thekidnapping of three Roman Cath-olic priests as part of a land dis-pute in the Amazon.
Scholars of Brazils judicial
Public Rage Catching Up With Brazils Congress
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A protester faced off against the police before a soccer match in Fortaleza, Brazil, on Thursday.
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President Obama visited a sitein Senegal where slaves were ledonto ships for America. Page A4.
The President in Africa
A lawsuit said Jon Corzine failed to dili-gently supervise MF Global. PAGE B1
Suit Faults Corzine in Failure
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The Nets have agreed to a deal that willbring them the Celtics Kevin Garnett
and Paul Pierce, a trade that could maketheNets a title contender and Boston a rebuilding team. PAGE B12
SPORTSFRIDAY B12-18
Nets to Acquire Celtics Stars
By ADAM LIPTAK
WASHINGTON Viewed inisolation, the Supreme Courtterm that just ended had ele-ments of modesty. The court de-clined to do away with affirma-tive action, gave Congress an-other shot at salvaging the Vot-ing Rights Act and refused to finda constitutional right to same-sexmarriage.
But glancing at an end-of termsnapshot can be misleading. Themore meaningful way to look atthe court is as a movie, one star-
ring Chief Justice John G. Rob-erts Jr. as a canny strategist witha tough side, and his eyes on thehorizon. He is just 58 and is likelyto lead the court for another twodecades or more.
Chief Justice Roberts hasproved adept at persuading thecourts more liberal justices to
join compromise opinions, allow-ing him to cite their concessionsyears later as the basis for close-ly divided and deeply polarizingconservative victories.
His patient and methodical ap-proach has allowed him to estab-lish a robustly conservativerecord while ranking second onlyto Justice Anthony Kennedy asthe justice most frequently in themajority.
This court takes the longview, said Kannon K. Shanmu-gam, a lawyer with Williams &Connolly in Washington. It pro-ceeds in incremental steps.
On Tuesday, when the courtstruck down a part of the VotingRights Act, Chief Justice Robertsharvested seeds he had plantedfour years before. In his 2009
Steady MoveTo the Right
Roberts Pulls Court Along Step by Step
NEWS ANALYSIS
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The N.F.L. player Aaron Hernandez isaccused in one killing and is being in-vestigated in two others. PAGE B12
Player Linked to 2 More Deaths