By ASHLEY PARKER and JONATHAN MARTIN

WASHINGTON — The Senateon Thursday approved the mostsignificant overhaul of the na-tion’s 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 draftedthe framework of the legislation,took to the Senate floor to make afinal argument for the measure.Among them was Senator MarcoRubio, Republican of Florida,who is one of his party’s 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. “I’mproud of you,” another offered.

The future will show whethervoters in Republican presidential

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By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

The economy is the victim of alittle misunderstanding, FederalReserve officials said on Thurs-day, telling investors who havesent borrowing costs soaring thatthey are misguided in believingthe Fed’s stimulus campaign isabout to wane.

The message, delivered inthree separate but similarspeeches, reflects the Fed’s frus-tration with a broad rise in in-terest rates that began in Mayand accelerated after remarkslast week by the Fed’s chairman,Ben S. Bernanke.

“I don’t 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 we’ll use thepatch — and use it flexibly — andsome in the markets reacted as ifhe said ‘cold turkey.’”

The speeches, including one byWilliam C. Dudley, president ofthe Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork and one of Mr. Bernanke’sclosest allies, appeared to makean impression, helped along byupbeat domestic economic dataand 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 & Poor’s 500-stock in-dex had risen for most of the firstfive months of the year, bringing

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By J. DAVID GOODMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO

The Bloomberg administrationimmediately came out swingingon Thursday against a pair ofbills 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 thepolice’s efforts to get guns off thestreets and continue to lower themurder rate.

The threat of lawsuits, the cityfears, could end the department’sbroad use of stop-and-frisk meas-ures, the crime-fighting tool mostclosely associated with theBloomberg administration.

Behind the scenes, the mayor’soffice 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

Mayor’s Office Moves to Undo

Bill Aimed at Police Profiling

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Raymond W. Kelly, the NewYork police commissioner.

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Antagonists over same-sexmarriage prepare to resumestate-by-state battles. Page A16.

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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

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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

NASA’s 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

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Going, Going, Not Quite Gone

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Bos-ton Marathon bombing suspect, was in-dicted on 30 counts, including use of aweapon of mass destruction. PAGE A12

Charges Filed in Bombing Case

The Obama administration plans to sus-pend trade privileges for Bangladeshover 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

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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 aback room in Ms. Winfrey’s tele-vision studio to write the note,but he was gone so long that hisspokesman, Robert Gibbs,popped his head in after half anhour.

“You’ve got to give me sometime here,” Mr. Obama, pen inhand, told Mr. Gibbs, who re-called the moment recently. “Ican’t 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 Africathat 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 differentgenerations 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 abeacon 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 Brazil’s 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 Brazil’s highest court, theSupreme Federal Tribunal, con-victed another congressman ofhaving 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 ofgenerously 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 Maurício Santoro, apolitical scientist. “A good deal ofthis hatred is related to the fact

that Congress has a tradition ofpreventing its own members con-victed of crimes from ever goingto jail.”

Almost 200 legislators, or athird of Brazil’s 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 offpublic 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 Brazil’s judicial

Public Rage Catching Up With Brazil’s 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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The President in Africa

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The Nets have agreed to a deal that willbring them the Celtics’ Kevin Garnettand Paul Pierce, a trade that could makethe Nets a title contender and Boston arebuilding team. PAGE B12

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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 thecourt’s more liberal justices tojoin 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 Move

To 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

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